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alien2
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The housepainter is at the beginning of painting a room in red, when he asks his boss to give him the rise. He replies: 'If you paint these walls in red by using the least paint & w/o leaving the room, I will give you the rise.'
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Re: Painter
« Reply #1 on: May 17th, 2007, 10:00am » |
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Is the painter a psychopath? Because I have one idea for an answer which would require no paint at all 
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Re: Painter
« Reply #2 on: May 17th, 2007, 10:50am » |
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on May 17th, 2007, 10:00am, towr wrote:| Is the painter a psychopath? Because I have one idea for an answer which would require no paint at all |
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Towr, I like your idea, which is a bloody cool one... 
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Re: Painter
« Reply #3 on: May 17th, 2007, 10:54am » |
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There is everything he needs in the room to paint the walls, bucket of paint included. 
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Re: Painter
« Reply #4 on: May 17th, 2007, 11:00am » |
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why did the boss have to emphasize 'without leaving the room'?
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Re: Painter
« Reply #5 on: May 17th, 2007, 11:07am » |
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If he waits for the sunset, the walls might be red, but you couldn't say he painted them.
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Re: Painter
« Reply #6 on: May 17th, 2007, 11:13am » |
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Thinning down the paint with solvant should help to use less. Of course how red that leaves the walls is another matter (it might end up pink).
I suppose he could paint himself red, or wear red clothes, and then paint the room (while) in red.
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Re: Painter
« Reply #7 on: May 17th, 2007, 11:47am » |
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He painted the words "these walls" in small letters on one of the walls using just a little bit of red paint and thus fullfilled his contract.
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Re: Painter
« Reply #8 on: May 17th, 2007, 11:52am » |
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or, he may be playing Lego with his boss.
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Re: Painter
« Reply #9 on: May 17th, 2007, 1:05pm » |
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Huh?
on May 17th, 2007, 11:47am, denis wrote:| He painted the words "these walls" in small letters on one of the walls using just a little bit of red paint and thus fullfilled his contract. |
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Nice try Denis, but not what I'm looking for.
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Re: Painter
« Reply #10 on: May 17th, 2007, 5:37pm » |
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He could always use the Mr. Bean approach.
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Re: Painter
« Reply #11 on: May 17th, 2007, 6:36pm » |
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I missed that episode. What is it about?
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Re: Painter
« Reply #12 on: May 17th, 2007, 9:24pm » |
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He painted his house using a bucket of paint, and also some cherry bombs.. 
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Re: Painter
« Reply #13 on: May 18th, 2007, 7:19am » |
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There was no firework in the room.
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Re: Painter
« Reply #14 on: May 19th, 2007, 8:53am » |
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The painter takes out his cellphone and orders 20 gallons of ketchup for delivery.
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Re: Painter
« Reply #15 on: May 19th, 2007, 11:57am » |
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No phone either.
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Re: Painter
« Reply #16 on: May 19th, 2007, 8:28pm » |
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He puts up red wall paper. No paint required! (unfortunately, the walls are not really painted red).
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Re: Painter
« Reply #17 on: May 20th, 2007, 10:15am » |
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No paper. He must use paint.
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Re: Painter
« Reply #18 on: May 20th, 2007, 10:22am » |
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Is the type of room he is painting (bedroom, bathroom, kitchen ... ) significant in this scenario?
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Re: Painter
« Reply #19 on: May 20th, 2007, 11:23am » |
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Not really.
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Re: Painter
« Reply #20 on: May 20th, 2007, 1:58pm » |
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What about towr's first idea: he paints the room with his own blood?
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Re: Painter
« Reply #21 on: May 20th, 2007, 2:51pm » |
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Paint has to be used, not blood. He is not that desperate for rise to cut himself.
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Re: Painter
« Reply #22 on: May 20th, 2007, 3:02pm » |
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OK. To properly paint a rough wall, you'll first need to put plaster on. So he just puts a thick layer of plaster, actually that thick that the room size is, say, just enough to operate a brush of paint. That should minimize the paint.
Or more extreme: fill the room with plaster, drill a small hole in the wall where there was a door, and cover the inside with a very fine layer of paint.
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Re: Painter
« Reply #23 on: May 20th, 2007, 4:29pm » |
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...........nope.
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Re: Painter
« Reply #24 on: May 20th, 2007, 5:20pm » |
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Paint the lightbulb in the center of the room red
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