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Grimbal
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Big hole, small hole, no hole
« on: Apr 5th, 2006, 3:24am » |
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I made a small hole near a big hole and there was no more hole.
What happened?
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Grimbal
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Re: Big hole, small hole, no hole
« Reply #2 on: Apr 5th, 2006, 6:32am » |
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No.
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Re: Big hole, small hole, no hole
« Reply #3 on: Apr 6th, 2006, 8:04am » |
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You cut a small channel (small hole) into the side of a volcano (big hole), causing an eruption that took off the side of the volcano and sealed the opening (no more hole).
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Noke Lieu
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Re: Big hole, small hole, no hole
« Reply #4 on: Apr 6th, 2006, 5:51pm » |
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you made an 8
or a B
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Re: Big hole, small hole, no hole
« Reply #5 on: Apr 8th, 2006, 4:40pm » |
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on Apr 5th, 2006, 3:24am, Grimbal wrote:I made a small hole near a big hole and there was no more hole.
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Are you a cop? Or is your name "Homer"?
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Re: Big hole, small hole, no hole
« Reply #6 on: Apr 10th, 2006, 2:05pm » |
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I don't understand all of the above, but none of it has a connection with my solution. Or maybe a very remote connection with evergreen's.
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Re: Big hole, small hole, no hole
« Reply #7 on: Apr 10th, 2006, 4:25pm » |
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Cops and Homer Simpson are both known for their affection for donuts. However the new hole tends to be bigger than the original hole, so my suggestion doesn't fit all that well.
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Re: Big hole, small hole, no hole
« Reply #8 on: Apr 11th, 2006, 4:26am » |
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on Apr 10th, 2006, 4:25pm, Icarus wrote:| Cops and Homer Simpson are both known for their affection for donuts. However the new hole tends to be bigger than the original hole, so my suggestion doesn't fit all that well. |
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If it was a donut-shpaed baloon it might work.
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Noke Lieu
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Re: Big hole, small hole, no hole
« Reply #9 on: Apr 11th, 2006, 8:00pm » |
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taking that balloon idea in the other direction
(I feel there still will be a hole if you burst one. Let me go and find a kid with one. I'll get back to you)
(actually, my bike tyre had a puntcure... still plenty of hole there)
What if it's a thin walled vacuum chamber? That would be a hole in the atmosphere. Then the hole in the chamber removes that hole. Suppose there'd still be the hole in the chamber though.
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Re: Big hole, small hole, no hole
« Reply #10 on: Apr 12th, 2006, 2:27pm » |
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Well, that it was.
My idea was:
The balloon burst.
What you end up with is a few pieces of rubber.
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Re: Big hole, small hole, no hole
« Reply #11 on: May 3rd, 2006, 8:01pm » |
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did you pop a bubble?
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Re: Big hole, small hole, no hole
« Reply #12 on: May 10th, 2006, 12:46am » |
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A bubble could also work.
My solution can be seen by selecting the orange-brown area 2 posts above this one.
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Re: Big hole, small hole, no hole
« Reply #13 on: Jun 5th, 2006, 9:18pm » |
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Darn, I had this one pegged as a rather nice graphological puzzle, where the answer was in the puzzle (three times!)
Hole -> HoPe
A little contrived, perhaps, given it has to be capital. But I liked the way each "hole" referred to a different thing.
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