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(Message started by: Noke Lieu on Mar 17^th, 2004, 6:27pm)

Title: Holy tobacco!
Post by Noke Lieu on Mar 17^th, 2004, 6:27pm

A favourite of mine from Batman. In that its about the only one I remember
Predictably, it’s courtesy of The Riddler….

Two men in a rubber boat. Apart from that, the only thing they have is a full packet of cigarettes. How do they smoke?

Title: Re: Holy tobacco!
Post by SWF on Mar 18^th, 2004, 7:44pm

Knowing that the Riddler is fond of bad puns, I can guess a couple solutions:

1. [hide]Take out some cigarettes, making the pack a little lighter. Use the lighter to light the cigarettes.[/hide]

2. [hide]Take out two cigarettes that make a match. Use the match to light the cigarettes.[/hide]

Title: Re: Holy tobacco!
Post by kellys on Mar 21^st, 2004, 4:17pm

1. [hide]Not very well[/hide]
2. [hide]Get out of the boat, walk over to the store, and buy a lighter[/hide]

Title: Re: Holy tobacco!
Post by DeMark on Mar 22^nd, 2004, 2:17am

Isn't The Riddler Eduard Nigma? E.Nigma? :P Well, this is E.Nigma to me...

Title: Re: Holy tobacco!
Post by Noke Lieu on Mar 22^nd, 2004, 9:59pm

SWF, bingo. The official one (from TV) was the first. You even got my "I'm clever"-answer.
Will scratch my head for some more...

KellyS, why get out of the boat? And how are they going to buy something without money? They have no reputation, nothing to trade with (except a fine rubber boat, hardly used) :P

There's one (not from Mr E.Nygma):

Why are there no aspirins in the jungle?

Title: Re: Holy tobacco!
Post by KenYonRuKu on Mar 29^th, 2004, 5:52pm

Because the Parrots ate 'em all...

(KenYonRuKu groans loudly, echoing everyone else who witnessed the joke.. :P)

Title: Re: Holy tobacco!
Post by DeMark on Mar 30^th, 2004, 10:56am

Why is six afraid of seven?

(this is a vell known one... just remembered it and posted it...)

Title: Re: Holy tobacco!
Post by Cathos on Mar 30^th, 2004, 1:04pm

'cause 7-8-9, silly!

Title: Re: Holy tobacco!
Post by pedronunezmd on Jun 15^th, 2004, 5:40pm

Quote:

Why are there no aspirins in the jungle? Because the Parrots ate 'em all...

At the risk of sounding lame, can someone please explain that joke?

Title: Re: Holy tobacco!
Post by Noke Lieu on Jun 15^th, 2004, 7:26pm

At the risk of sounding lame, I shall explain... ::)

aspirin. often usd to treat minor troubles. So too is Paracetamol. parrots-etamol. parrots eat em-ol.
Parrots eat 'em all.

What's green, sits in a bath tub and whistles?
the answer lies at this site (as do a few riddles, some here, some new....)
Have a look (http://riddler.batbad.com/riddles/index.html)

Title: Re: Holy tobacco!
Post by pedronunezmd on Jun 16^th, 2004, 6:54am

LOL, sorry about the poor grammar in my last post. Now I know I really did sound lame. :-/

Title: Re: Holy tobacco!
Post by Leonid Broukhis on Jun 17^th, 2004, 8:49pm

on 06/15/04 at 19:26:07, Noke Lieu wrote:

At the risk of sounding lame, I shall explain... ::)

aspirin. often usd to treat minor troubles. So too is Paracetamol. parrots-etamol. parrots eat em-ol.
Parrots eat 'em all.

That is nice, but acetaminophen (this is the generic name) has many brand names, and they may differ by country.

Title: Re: Holy tobacco!
Post by Grimbal on Jun 18^th, 2004, 5:30am

Actually, paracetamol is also a generic name, not a brand. Maybe it depends on the country, which generic name is used.

see http://www.vanigroup.com/Paracetamol.htm

Title: Re: Holy tobacco!
Post by evergreena3 on Jun 18^th, 2004, 6:04am

Not to be too picky, but Acetaminophen is Tylenol, not aspirin.

They commonly advertise against each other, noting that they are not the same product, have different benefits and risks, etc.

Title: Re: Holy tobacco!
Post by towr on Jun 18^th, 2004, 6:42am

on 06/18/04 at 06:04:52, evergreena3 wrote:

Not to be too picky, but Acetaminophen is Tylenol, not aspirin.

I don't think anyone was suggesting it was, they were suggesting it was paracetamol, which it is (see grimbals link).. Tylenol is one of the many synonyms

Title: Re: Holy tobacco!
Post by evergreena3 on Jun 18^th, 2004, 12:48pm

Towr,

According to Noke Lieu, the riddle was, "Why are there no aspirins in the jungle?"
Right?

Title: Re: Holy tobacco!
Post by Leonid Broukhis on Jun 18^th, 2004, 5:43pm

on 06/18/04 at 05:30:40, Grimbal wrote:

Actually, paracetamol is also a generic name, not a brand. Maybe it depends on the country, which generic name is used.

see http://www.vanigroup.com/Paracetamol.htm

It might depend on the country or rather on the way an IUPAC name is converted to a trivial name. My understanding is that Paracetamol is a pre-IUPAC trivial name, and Acetaminophen is an IUPAC-derived one.
Some time in the 1970's there was a switchover in the USSR, when quite a few drugs were renamed, e.g. Pyramidone (also some kind of widely used analgesic, that's why I remember it despite being very young at the time) was renamed to Amidopyrine.

Title: Re: Holy tobacco!
Post by towr on Jun 19^th, 2004, 3:49am

on 06/18/04 at 12:48:51, evergreena3 wrote:

According to Noke Lieu, the riddle was, "Why are there no aspirins in the jungle?"

Yes, apparently paracetamol is prefered instead of aspirin. No one claims they're the same..