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ladyslupe13
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Elevator Ride
« on: May 19th, 2006, 3:21pm » |
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Here's the riddle:
A man lives at the hundredth floor of a hotel and rides the elevator to the first floor every morning, crosses the street to go to work, comes back at night, and only rides the elevator up to the fiftieth floor and walks the other fifty flights.
WHY?
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Icarus
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Re: Elevator Ride
« Reply #1 on: May 19th, 2006, 7:20pm » |
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Because he's too stupid to bring an umbrella. 
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Re: Elevator Ride
« Reply #2 on: May 19th, 2006, 8:05pm » |
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er...not even, sorry, mate.
Try that one again.
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Icarus
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Re: Elevator Ride
« Reply #3 on: May 19th, 2006, 8:08pm » |
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No - I am correct. Think about it.
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Re: Elevator Ride
« Reply #4 on: May 19th, 2006, 8:19pm » |
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You're new here, ladyslupe13, so let me explain something. Icarus has a unique way of giving an answer to a riddle without actually giving the answer to the riddle. It's one of the reasons I come here. Now, I'm assuming your original answer was the very common | hidden: | | The man was a midget and is able to reach the button for the first floor in the elevator every morning, but is only able to reach the 15th button when he comes back home. The way Icarus was hinting at was this riddle has been asked many times, usually with the man having an umbrella so he could reach the hundreth floor on the elevator. |
Am I making any sense here?
Well, either way, welcome to the forums! 
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Re: Elevator Ride
« Reply #5 on: Jan 6th, 2007, 5:31pm » |
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Darn.. someone answered the riddle before I got here! Oh well, that's life.. 
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Re: Elevator Ride
« Reply #6 on: Jan 6th, 2007, 5:32pm » |
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P.S., Read my summary, I made it up myself
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Re: Elevator Ride
« Reply #7 on: Jan 6th, 2007, 5:32pm » |
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on May 19th, 2006, 8:19pm, Bamaboys wrote:You're new here, ladyslupe13, so let me explain something. Icarus has a unique way of giving an answer to a riddle without actually giving the answer to the riddle. It's one of the reasons I come here. Now, I'm assuming your original answer was the very common | hidden: | | The man was a midget and is able to reach the button for the first floor in the elevator every morning, but is only able to reach the 15th button when he comes back home. The way Icarus was hinting at was this riddle has been asked many times, usually with the man having an umbrella so he could reach the hundreth floor on the elevator. |
Am I making any sense here?
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Barnabas, it's the 50th floor, not the 15th.
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Re: Elevator Ride
« Reply #8 on: Jan 7th, 2007, 7:32pm » |
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I never claimed it was either one - look at who you are quoting...
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Re: Elevator Ride
« Reply #9 on: Jan 18th, 2007, 10:52am » |
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Whoops. *modifys last post*
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Re: Elevator Ride
« Reply #10 on: Jan 19th, 2007, 8:12pm » |
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Even so, this is an extremely common riddle, and it doesn't matter what floor he rode to, the point is that he didn't press the button for his floor.
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Re: Elevator Ride
« Reply #11 on: Jan 20th, 2007, 7:55am » |
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Another version:
A man lives with his wife at the hundredth floor. He is employed and she is housewife. So when he returns from work, he enters the elevator, and then calls her on the cellular phone. Why ?
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Re: Elevator Ride
« Reply #12 on: Jan 20th, 2007, 8:54am » |
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Because he's one of those gormless twits who can't stand to spend 10 seconds straight without doing something, so he calls and interrupts everyone under the sun to entertain himself. 
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Re: Elevator Ride
« Reply #13 on: Jan 20th, 2007, 9:37am » |
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He is a chauvinist and expects a cold beer, a warm meal and a dialed in television when he walks in the door. If he called any sooner the beer would be room temperature, the meal would be tepid and the tv, well...that's besides the point. Originally his wife tried to guess when he would be home from when he got off work, but since it's his regular habit to stop by one of several gentlemens clubs on his way home, it became problematic to know when he would actually arrive.
What a jerk!
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Re: Elevator Ride
« Reply #14 on: Jan 20th, 2007, 10:42am » |
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Both of you are kidding, right? 
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Re: Elevator Ride
« Reply #15 on: Jan 20th, 2007, 1:32pm » |
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Kidding! This was not the answer you were looking for?
Maybe you were thinking...The man and his wife are both midgets and by calling her to come push the elevator call-button on the 100th floor, it saves him having to walk up 50 flights of steps and also allows him to avoid the necessity of carrying an umbrella or similar awkward stick.
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Re: Elevator Ride
« Reply #16 on: Jan 20th, 2007, 1:35pm » |
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on Jan 20th, 2007, 1:32pm, raven wrote:Kidding! This was not the answer you were looking for?
Maybe you were thinking...The man and his wife are both midgets and by calling her to come push the elevator call-button on the 100th floor, it saves him having to walk up 50 flights of steps and also allows him to avoid the necessity of carrying an umbrella or similar awkward stick.
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Yes. That is the intended answer. And somehow, it sounds all so familiar.........
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Re: Elevator Ride
« Reply #17 on: Jan 20th, 2007, 1:45pm » |
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Maybe a little...
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Re: Elevator Ride
« Reply #18 on: Feb 6th, 2007, 6:32pm » |
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im tired of these dumb riddles with dumb replies... liek this one... 
and anyways its iceman i expected sumthing as dumb as this... jk
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Re: Elevator Ride
« Reply #19 on: Feb 7th, 2007, 5:59am » |
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Noone's making you read these!
And BTW, please stop posting insults.
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Re: Elevator Ride
« Reply #20 on: Feb 7th, 2007, 6:12am » |
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on May 19th, 2006, 3:21pm, ladyslupe13 wrote:A man lives at the hundredth floor of a hotel and rides the elevator to the first floor every morning, crosses the street to go to work, comes back at night, and only rides the elevator up to the fiftieth floor and walks the other fifty flights.
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Elevator is the name of a horse. It can go down 100 floors, but can go up only 50.
on Jan 20th, 2007, 7:55am, Iceman wrote:| A man lives with his wife at the hundredth floor. He is employed and she is housewife. So when he returns from work, he enters the elevator, and then calls her on the cellular phone. Why? |
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Because there are no public phones in elevators, duh!
Any others?
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Re: Elevator Ride
« Reply #21 on: Feb 7th, 2007, 7:12pm » |
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So if it is too difficult to find "trust" then I suggest that we first find the trust that we will find the trust!
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cuz everybody noe that the game dont stop try to make it to the top fo ur ass get popped
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