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jenniegurl
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Decapitated
« on: Jun 26th, 2005, 8:34am » |
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A man is crowned king; shortly afterwards he is captured by enemy forces and chopped in two. Why?
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Re: Decapitated
« Reply #1 on: Jun 26th, 2005, 9:10am » |
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The opposing tribe were cannibals?
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jenniegurl
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Re: Decapitated
« Reply #2 on: Jun 26th, 2005, 9:12am » |
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no, good guess though....tbeing the savages they were, they could just throw him in the bonfire and hack him off piece by piece or gouge his flesh out to eat. lol not in half. and why was he just crowned king and all that?
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Re: Decapitated
« Reply #3 on: Jun 26th, 2005, 10:28am » |
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I suppose he was chopped in two because they wanted him dead, and didn't want to leave the job half done. He was probably declared king after they'd done the same to his father.
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Wikipedia, Google, Mathworld, Integer sequence DB
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jenniegurl
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Re: Decapitated
« Reply #4 on: Jun 26th, 2005, 3:58pm » |
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that's kinda close....hint hidden: | the king was black, enemy forces were red |
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Noke Lieu
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Re: Decapitated
« Reply #5 on: Jun 26th, 2005, 6:59pm » |
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Close the window....
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a shade of wit and the art of farce.
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Re: Decapitated
« Reply #6 on: Jun 27th, 2005, 3:20am » |
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checkers ?
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Re: Decapitated
« Reply #7 on: Jun 27th, 2005, 5:46am » |
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ants, or a deck of cards?
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mmm
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Re: Decapitated
« Reply #8 on: Jun 27th, 2005, 2:11pm » |
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yes, checkers.
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Re: Decapitated
« Reply #9 on: Jun 27th, 2005, 6:51pm » |
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And draughts (just incase noone got my reference)
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