irongambit Posted August 1, 2006 Report Posted August 1, 2006 How about the Earth? Billions of moving parts if you just count the Chinese and Indian human population. They may not all help in the telling of time, but they are moving pieces none the less.
cornerstone Posted August 1, 2006 Author Report Posted August 1, 2006 Ooh, good question!! I won't answer it - it would be cheating (it's one of the questions on the cards here). But I can say that by 'timepiece' it just means an object we use for time-keeping.
irongambit Posted August 1, 2006 Report Posted August 1, 2006 Thanks for helping with the boundaries.... Then I would have to say an Hourglass...lots of grains of sand.
cornerstone Posted August 1, 2006 Author Report Posted August 1, 2006 (edited) Thanks for helping with the boundaries.... Then I would have to say an Hourglass...lots of grains of sand. Well, I'll let Melvin call it, but it looks good, and it sounds good! The Amazing Dave, the famous magician, claims that when he is in the far north, he can point his car north on an ordinary road, drive it for one mile, and without turning around, end up one mile south of where he started. How does he do it? :sorcerer: EDIT:spelling Edited August 1, 2006 by cornerstone
irongambit Posted August 1, 2006 Report Posted August 1, 2006 Is there a lot of driving (besides Santa's sleigh) at the north pole?
cornerstone Posted August 1, 2006 Author Report Posted August 1, 2006 Is there a lot of driving (besides Santa's sleigh) at the north pole? But then has he travelled a full mile, if he was pointed north and then drove over the pole?
melvin.x Posted August 1, 2006 Report Posted August 1, 2006 Of course hourglass is CORRECT ! Now we can go on as usual... Thank you Cornerstone !
melvin.x Posted August 1, 2006 Report Posted August 1, 2006 The Amazing Dave, the famous magician, claims that when he is in the far north, he can point his car north on an ordinary road, drive it for one mile, and without turning around, end up one mile south of where he started. How does he do it? He pionts his car north, uses the reverse gear ( hope this is the word for it ) drives a mile and then drives forward again. And no - I do not have the same cards...
cornerstone Posted August 1, 2006 Author Report Posted August 1, 2006 He points his car north, uses the reverse gear ( hope this is the word for it ) drives a mile and then drives forward again. I don't even think he needs to drive forward again - he just reverses! WINNER!! By the way this is an open game - nobody is hijacking it by asking questions, it's just a laugh. Go for it! Personally I'm quite pleased to be using these board game cards that have sat in a cupboard for five years! There is a town in Australia where 5% of all the people living in the town have ex-directory phone numbers. If you selected 100 names at random from the town's phone directory, on average, how many of these people selected would have ex-directory phone numbers?
irongambit Posted August 1, 2006 Report Posted August 1, 2006 I'm assuming that ex-directory means an unlisted number. If that's the correct assumption, then 0 would have ex-directory numbers if you randomly pulled them from the directory
cornerstone Posted August 1, 2006 Author Report Posted August 1, 2006 I'm assuming that ex-directory means an unlisted number. If that's the correct assumption, then 0 would have ex-directory numbers if you randomly pulled them from the directory Too, too sharp!! WINNER!! Mel N Colly stared though the soot-smeared window on the 26th floor of the office tower. Overcome with depression he slid the window open and jumped through it. It was a sheer drop outside the building to the ground. Miraculously after he landed he was completely unhurt. Since there was nothing to cushion his fall or slow his descent, how could he have survived?
irongambit Posted August 1, 2006 Report Posted August 1, 2006 Was Mel a depressed window washer who jumped INTO the building?
KB Posted August 1, 2006 Report Posted August 1, 2006 Was Mel a depressed window washer who jumped INTO the building? Damn, damn, damn I spent ages looking at all the angles...........................but one Ken
jonthebhoy Posted August 1, 2006 Report Posted August 1, 2006 Finish the famous saying (word for word) and tell us who said it: "I have nothing to offer but..................." JTB
Pugwash Posted August 1, 2006 Report Posted August 1, 2006 "I have nothing to offer but..................." blood, toil, tears and sweat. One of the finest speechwriters of the ... um, ever, Sir Winston Churchill.
jonthebhoy Posted August 1, 2006 Report Posted August 1, 2006 blood, toil, tears and sweat. One of the finest speechwriters of the ... um, ever, Sir Winston Churchill. To the comma. Well done Puggie. JTB
Pugwash Posted August 1, 2006 Report Posted August 1, 2006 To the comma. Well done Puggie. Even though the man was a Tory, an unforgivabl;e crime usually, you pretty much have to acknowledge he's one of the all-time finest politicians. Honest, well-spoken and drunk, he makes todays spun mouthpieces look like rank amateurs. You don't win the Nobel Prize for literature by being stupid, for instance, and as an orator he is possibly without equal in the last century.
jonthebhoy Posted August 1, 2006 Report Posted August 1, 2006 Even though the man was a Tory, an unforgivabl;e crime usually, you pretty much have to acknowledge he's one of the all-time finest politicians. Honest, well-spoken and drunk, he makes todays spun mouthpieces look like rank amateurs. You don't win the Nobel Prize for literature by being stupid, for instance, and as an orator he is possibly without equal in the last century. Agreed on every single point! How many memorable speeches have Blurr and Boosh made? JTB
Pugwash Posted August 1, 2006 Report Posted August 1, 2006 How many memorable speeches have Blurr and Boosh made? Bush has made a few very memorable speeches: "There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once -- shame on -- shame on you. You fool me, you can't get fooled again." "You're working hard to put food on your family." "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." No-one will be forgetting them in a hurry.
cornerstone Posted August 1, 2006 Author Report Posted August 1, 2006 Yes - let's keep our politicians DRUNK!! CONGRATS @ irongambit; of course he was a window washer and jumped into the building. This is easy.... When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?
Guest overboosted Posted August 1, 2006 Report Posted August 1, 2006 What is the next letter in this series? E L O R _
Pugwash Posted August 1, 2006 Report Posted August 1, 2006 What is the next letter in this series? E L O R _ X
Guest overboosted Posted August 1, 2006 Report Posted August 1, 2006 X correct ROLEX scramble letters into alphabetical order E L O R X
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