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Benny
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2 men in a desert
« on: Jun 17th, 2009, 12:33pm » |
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Two men are in a desert. They both have packs on. One of the guys is dead. The guy who is alive has his pack open, the guy who is dead has his pack closed. What's in the pack?
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Re: 2 men in a desert
« Reply #1 on: Jun 17th, 2009, 12:55pm » |
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Might be water, might be a parachute.
But given that the canonical answer is the latter, why a desert?
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Re: 2 men in a desert
« Reply #2 on: Jun 18th, 2009, 2:50am » |
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A gun. (Hey, they gotta eat, and there's only two of them) 
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Re: 2 men in a desert
« Reply #3 on: Jun 18th, 2009, 6:20am » |
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Could also be his lunch. The one who is alive is happily having his lunch. Dead men don't eat lunch.
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Re: 2 men in a desert
« Reply #4 on: Jun 20th, 2009, 6:24am » |
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on Jun 18th, 2009, 6:20am, Grimbal wrote:| Could also be his lunch. The one who is alive is happily having his lunch. Dead men don't eat lunch. |
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 For God's sake, show some respect for the deads.
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Re: 2 men in a desert
« Reply #5 on: Jun 25th, 2009, 4:17am » |
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on Jun 18th, 2009, 2:50am, JiNbOtAk wrote:| A gun. (Hey, they gotta eat, and there's only two of them) |
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The first solution that popped into my mind. But I think the parachute solution makes more sense. Although ... why would anyone parachute in the middle of the desert ... Perhaps because it's better than in the city? 
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Re: 2 men in a desert
« Reply #6 on: Jun 25th, 2009, 4:25am » |
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on Jun 25th, 2009, 4:17am, chronodekar wrote:
why would anyone parachute in the middle of the desert ... Perhaps because it's better than in the city? |
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They might have landed in a desert after jumping from a plane (which had some technical failure). The dead one wasn't able to open his pack of parachute.
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