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Can you spell Alex?

Started by bonanova, Nov 05 2007 10:51 PM

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#11 Taidaishar

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Posted 06 November 2007 - 06:46 PM

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I checked that, it was right... i think...?

Countdown until UR slaps his forehead ...
9.... 8.... 7.... 6.... 5.... 4.... 3.... 2.... 1 ....

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#12 bonanova

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Posted 06 November 2007 - 09:18 PM

Is it that incorrectly is supposed to be incorrect? If not, I don't get it either.

Maybe this will point to the answer.
Alex's first version of the note was less subtle:

One of the words on this paper
is misspelled. Which one?

PRECEDE ... RHYTHM
DELICACY ... SEPARATE
PARALLEL ... DECEIVE

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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
- Bertrand Russell

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#13 Taidaishar

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Posted 06 November 2007 - 10:32 PM

Is it that incorrectly is supposed to be incorrect? If not, I don't get it either.
Maybe this will point to the answer.
Alex's first version of the note was less subtle:

One of the words on this paper
is misspelled. Which one?

PRECEDE ... RHYTHM
DELICACY ... SEPARATE
PARALLEL ... DECEIVE
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misspelled

Oh, is this one of those cheap riddle question puzzle doohickeys?

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#14 bonanova

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Posted 06 November 2007 - 11:44 PM

Oh, is this one of those cheap riddle question puzzle doohickeys?
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One word is spelled incorrectly. As in one word is spelled I-N-C-O-R-R-E-C-T-L-Y? That word is incorrectly.

Yeah ... Alex scraped the bottom for this one. :blush:

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#15 tshurtz

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Posted 10 November 2007 - 03:41 AM

Would it be
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One? properly spelled None?

Just one possibility I suppose.
Score a point for originality.
Nice one!

unfortunately that would make the statement false if it were ment to be none then it would read that they were all correct however their would be one wrong

much like the canibals that catch a man and tell him if he says something true they will boil him and if says something false they will burn him. and he says "you will burn me" forcing them to let him go because it is niether false or true. eccept at the point they let him go it is a false statement so they then could recapture him and burn him thus making it true again necessitating boiling
ohhhh nooo
they sould just do both