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I just made that up to annoy TheCube.

It/he/she traveled back in time to warn us that in the future, it/he/she would need to come back in time to warn us about something.

They traveled backwards in time to warn us that time travel was going to cause the end of the world * gender unspecific, quantity unspecific, and generally considered bad English

What happens in Scotland? Well... it rains

The final flight of the Arctic Circle of Logician's return home was finally uneventful. Warm thoughts as they neared Miami International Airport inspired one last quick challenge from one of the few logicians not asleep: "Let's define the hierarchy of suits as Diamonds < Clubs < Hearts < Spades < Diamonds and that of the ranks as Ace < 2 < 3 ... < Queen < King < Ace. I'll pick a card at random (suit and rank) and you must guess it. If your guess is either correct or one greater or less than my card in suit or rank correct in suit and one greater or less in rank or correct in rank and one greater or less in suit, I'll respond 'Hot' otherwise I'll say, 'Cold'. What is the fewest number of guesses that guarantees you can determine my card?" EDIT

And so it remains a team effort. But your arrangement wins by one test, I believe. Your 13th test distinguishes the last pair, so no 14th test, agreed. My 13th test distinguishes my only pair, so no 14th test. Unfortunately, my 12th test touches 3, so it takes two more to find which one for sure. This is why your solution ending in 3 pairs is better than mine, ending in a trio and a pair. Good job, Y-san. Hontoo ni utsukushii desu!

Err...desolee, mon capitaine... Edit: And I don't think you need the 13th test either? You don't need to get a 'hot' to figure out which it is, you can assume the last group is 'hot' by the process of elimination.

??? I understood your phone....

It was good while it lasted... and I did enjoy myself... buhjiiiiaaaa.....!!! Long live the Brotherhood!!! *Slips from the ledge and falls awaaay ....joining Cube in the haunting industry*

Itheshe traveled back in time to warn us that the One-Up-Me posted before me would get One-Upped... *Oh, look...it did... **btw, I would like to introduce you to Itheshe, a gender-confused alien...from Smiley Kingdom...

The gender-neutral 3rd person pronoun traveled back in time to warn us of the dangers of trying to pat your head & rub your stomach at the same time - but the gender-neutral 3rd person pronoun was too late. The Muppets had already warned us, & when we ignored their wisdom an entire generation of children were confounded & confuzzled, creating a cascade of ignorance resulting in Twilight fans & Believers.

Or beakers of acid/base we test with litmus paper...or glasses of pepsi/coke we taste test...but not beakers of acid/base that we taste test... (sorry, couldn't resist ;P)

1. You can't loot trophies. =P 2. I was out sick yesterday. Stress-related illnesses.

OOH, smart move. (i know who TheCube's going to be attacking next...) :P

Single-letter changes, anagrams permitted, letter counts given. Enjoy! 1. goes with cotton or vermouth 3 2. close by 4 3. talk like a horse 5 4. swinging joint 6 5. done in from a platform 6 6. beware, Will Robinson! 6 7. made mad 7 8. made mad 7 [oops. Pure anagram here, no letters change.] 9. make amicable 6 10. mini bomb 6 7 11. eats sauce also 6 12. homes to radishes and roses 6 13. caught unawares 6 14. dweebs 5 15. lairs of lions, foxes and iniquity 4 16. finis 3

It/he/she traveled back in time to warn us not to try and create a non-gender specific word for the 3rd person singular in the English language. It/he/she said that the sages of the future tried to contrive such a word by taking the first two letters each of HE, SHe, IT. Confusion reigned as everybody thought it said "he's hit"

Well, if there were infante parallel universes, where different events happen. Then it could be said that the world will end, in some of them, this year.

It/he/she traveled back in time to warn us, we still wouldn't beleive him/her and still lynched him/her thinking he/she was a mafia.

I take offense at that remark

And I can't do math, either. :blink:

What most people don't realize is the Mayan calendar is ... cyclical! When you get to the end, you go back to the beginning. So when the Mayan long-count & galactic day calendars coincide to "end" on Dec 21 2012, it's like New Year's Eve for the next 5126 years. (So we should throw one heck of a party, yes? ) Thalia, just to clarify: The Mayan calendar didn't have to take into account leap years. It's actually more specific than the Gregorian calendar (that most of the world uses) which has to have leap years. So saying the Mayan calendar was "wrong" because it didn't have leap years is incorrect. It was the people doing the math to calculate the end of the long-count cycle who didn't take into account leap years & the adjustments made to our calendar cycle over time. Of course, there's also the thought that the original start date of the cycle could have been mis-interpreted, and we may have already passed the into the new cycle ... as much as a decade or possibly even a century ago. Or that it's actually next year or two years away from now. *shrug* At any rate, I'm sure enough that the world isn't ending just because I have to buy a new calendar. I do that every year anyway. (Now, world ending because some idiot decides it'd be a grand idea to declare nuclear war - I can see that happening anytime.)

What happens in the US tends to get spread around the world, making us look like fools.

What happens in mafia? Well, people kill, spy, block, RID, save, etc...but still, a goodie dies, a baddie gets lynched the next day...& ultimately, the Indies win...

What happen in desperation, after I push this big red button? ** Last known quote from Phaze **

what happens in this grassy knoll stays in this grassy knoll, until it becomes industrial waste. then you can talk about it to other people.

What happens in Fight Club?

What happens in quantum statistical thermodynamics stays in quantum statistical thermodynamics...b/c no one else cares.

What happens inside of my head at time I just don't know.

What happens in One Up Me is what I am doing right freakin' now!!!

Yes. The path is long but filled with deliciousness ... I will totally kung-fu cows for their tasty beefness. Ahem. Anyhow, moving on. In preparation for my upcoming "business" trip - What happens in ... (& btw, saying 'Vegas stays in Vegas' DOES NOT COUNT! )

Looks like it's going back to tiger_lily. Aha, I knew there was a reason my relatives seldom eat beef...;P

Tiger_lily is a force to be reckoned with, because in China, since she knows the secret of the cows, obviously she taught them. So it is confirmed; T_L is one of the master foodies who know kung-fu... *can you teach me, btw...?