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Conference dypss1::brain_bogglers

Title:Brain Bogglers
Notice:BRAIN_BOGGLERS is, like, back in business, totally
Moderator:BUSY::SLAB
Created:Mon Jul 13 1987
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1441
Total number of notes:13981

1437.0. "Seven wives......" by 38240::NUTTER () Wed Apr 16 1997 18:28

    
    
    On my way to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives, every wife had 
    seven sacks, every sack had seven cats every cat had seven kittens,
    how many people were going to St. Ives??
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1437.1Or did I miss a new trick wording?VMSNET::L_GULICKLew GulickThu Apr 17 1997 03:467
	-one-

As it has always been.  Unless you walk fast, overtook them going in
the same direction, and used "met" to mean "was introduced to."


1437.24446::OSMANEric Osman, dtn 226-7122Thu Apr 17 1997 18:165
    
    I don't see why "met" needs to mean "was introduced to" in order for
    the walking-fast case to apply.
    
    /Eric
1437.3BUSY::SLABErotic NightmaresThu Apr 17 1997 19:134
    
    	Yeah, you could have been walking slowly and they could have caught
    	up to you.
    
1437.4quite trueVMSNET::L_GULICKLew GulickThu Apr 17 1997 19:145
True, and the point is that the question is actually somewhat 
ambiguous.  Fuzzy language instead of fuzzy logic.

Lew
1437.5PENUTS::DDESMAISONSperson BThu Apr 17 1997 20:387
  Not to mention that the original wasn't "how many people" - it
  was "how many".  El grande difference.  

  "Kits, cats, sacks, and wives - how many were going to St. Ives?"
  

1437.6RHETT::MOOREThu Apr 17 1997 22:033
    re .5 --
    
    Who says cats aren't people? :)
1437.7BUSY::SLABFUBARThu Apr 17 1997 22:073
    
    	A show of hands will suffice, I assume?