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Death
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Round the corner
« on: Apr 17th, 2007, 3:50pm » |
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Ok, I'm pretty sure that the uberpuzzlers out there will get this one in no time so if you could, as ever, only leave cryptic clues that would be great 
A man pushes his car around a corner and gets paid £200 for it. Why?
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Re: Round the corner
« Reply #1 on: Apr 17th, 2007, 5:08pm » |
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Was there a hotel not too far from the corner?
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Re: Round the corner
« Reply #2 on: Apr 17th, 2007, 8:44pm » |
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The junkyards in England are more generous than those in America?
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Re: Round the corner
« Reply #3 on: Apr 17th, 2007, 9:00pm » |
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The car was owned by a certain Parker and has a brother.
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Re: Round the corner
« Reply #4 on: Apr 17th, 2007, 11:16pm » |
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cm'on guys! You're going in circles!
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How about supercalifragilisticexpialidociouspuzzler [Towr, 2007]
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Re: Round the corner
« Reply #5 on: Apr 18th, 2007, 1:48am » |
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He'd have gotten more if he had stopped at the corner..
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Re: Round the corner
« Reply #6 on: Apr 18th, 2007, 1:25pm » |
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Yep you guys have pretty much got the idea (and love the clues). Except possibly Icarus... 
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Re: Round the corner
« Reply #7 on: Apr 18th, 2007, 6:09pm » |
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Getting twice the amount of money (i.e. $400) if the person in question got lucky and stopped on the corner rather than just passing it - is that a regional thing, or would those Parkers agree with towr?
I dont have the resources to check right now, but I always wondered...
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Re: Round the corner
« Reply #8 on: Apr 18th, 2007, 6:35pm » |
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It's not an official rule, but it is a well-known and widely practiced variant.
(And no, I didn't have the answer when I posted before. I will say in my defense that I didn't really try to find one.)
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Re: Round the corner
« Reply #9 on: Apr 19th, 2007, 12:08am » |
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on Apr 17th, 2007, 3:50pm, Death wrote:| A man pushes his car around a corner and gets paid £200 for it. Why? |
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Why? Because he was waiting at the traffic lights and a bloke comes up to the driver's window and says, "Hey, mate, I'll give you £200 if you push your car around the corner." 
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Re: Round the corner
« Reply #10 on: Apr 19th, 2007, 1:48am » |
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Sir Col, it would have been a better deal if I could have pushed my wheelbarrow around the corner - or better yet, my thimble. A car seems tough to push around a corner by myself. But for £200, I guess I'd try.
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Re: Round the corner
« Reply #11 on: Apr 19th, 2007, 2:15am » |
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It could be the car broke down, it is blocking the whole traffic, and someone tries to motivate you to move it out of the way.
Or maybe it is just one of these silly bets you do when you are drunk. Maybe a police officer is standing outside of the parking lot and your friends want to see what he thinks of someone who pushes his car claiming he is too drunk to drive.
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Re: Round the corner
« Reply #12 on: Apr 19th, 2007, 2:55am » |
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He owns a cab, and this particular passenger is a midget who is agoraphobic and also scared of the sound the car produces.
Or his car was blocking an entire cross section, and one of the delayed drivers was a Nigerian king Bombata.
A loan shark was recruiting him, so he tested him to see how strong and resourceful he really is.
Hic car was out of gas, but since a husband wants to give him £200 to drive his car over his wife, well..
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Re: Round the corner
« Reply #13 on: Apr 19th, 2007, 9:00am » |
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Perhaps he's in a race: in a battle to the finishing line he pushes his car (to the limit) around the corner and is caught on film by a photographer who agrees to pay him £200 for the action shot.
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Re: Round the corner
« Reply #14 on: Apr 19th, 2007, 9:32am » |
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on Apr 19th, 2007, 9:00am, Sir Col wrote:
I don't know about that; if his car is pushing through the corner he's more likely to end up nose-first into the wall than in an action shot.
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Re: Round the corner
« Reply #15 on: Apr 19th, 2007, 10:00am » |
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Re: Round the corner
« Reply #16 on: Apr 20th, 2007, 5:59pm » |
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Got it. as soon as i raed the riddle, Parker is suposed to be a clue, and another one [/hide] houses [hide].
oh, and the awnser[/hide] monopoly, pushed his car, to S.James place, and there were 2 houses there, and he had to pay 200 dollars rent.[hide]
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Re: Round the corner
« Reply #17 on: Apr 20th, 2007, 7:27pm » |
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Easier than that, tiber13. It says he gets paid £200, not that he has to pay. The corner he pushed his car around is "GO".
Unfortunately, he stopped on "Taxes" and had to pay it all back. 
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