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(Message started by: Cathos on Apr 14^th, 2004, 3:14pm)

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by Cathos on Apr 14^th, 2004, 3:14pm

Does he take an elevator home?

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by alien on Apr 14^th, 2004, 3:20pm

no. he lives in his house.

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by Icarus on Apr 14^th, 2004, 7:27pm

My guess is the answer is still the same:

Is Joe short?

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by alien on Apr 15^th, 2004, 1:42am

actually he is tall. ;)

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by John_Gaughan on Apr 15^th, 2004, 6:23am

Joe has a skin condition and needs the umbrella to keep direct sunlight off of him. I used to know a woman with this problem.

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by towr on Apr 15^th, 2004, 7:26am

That would be using the umbrella as a parasol..

Maybe he uses it for protection (there's shop somewhere in England where you can custom made umbrellas with all sorts of gadgets in them, though they've stopped putting hidden swords in, since that got people killed)

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by alien on Apr 15^th, 2004, 9:15am

no to both.

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by evergreena3 on Apr 15^th, 2004, 9:41am

Three guesses, with two subguesses on the first.

1) Joe is a weatherman.

a) He knows it will rain before he heads back home, so he carrys one to be prepared.

b) Joe is also a lousy weatherman. He predicted rain for that day, even though every other weatherman laughed and predicted sunshine. Being obstinant, Joe still carrys that fool umbrella with him. Those who see him pity him, for he simply cannot admit it when he is wrong.

~~~~

2) Joe sells umbrellas, and he is showing off his wares.

~~~~~

3) Joe is moving. He has ALL of his worldly goods with him.

EverGreenA3

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by alien on Apr 15^th, 2004, 10:02am

Quote:

a) He knows it will rain before he heads back home, so he carrys one to be prepared.

not a bad answer but i hadn't that in mind. ;D

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by Icarus on Apr 15^th, 2004, 3:41pm

Is Joe human?

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by raven on Apr 15^th, 2004, 7:11pm

A few ideas for Joe and his umbrella…

Joe is crazy... :o
Joe’s surname is Poppins, his mother is Mary...
Joe is going to a dancing performance with Gene Kelly...
Joe uses it to beat off street urchins begging for coppers...
Joe is a street urchin and stole the umbrella to sell for a loaf of stale bread...
Joe is going to feed the pigeons in the park, or walk on the coast... (beware of overhead seagulls!)
Joe is a kid and intends to float the umbrella ‘upside down’ down the river...
Joe is returning the umbrella to someone...
Joe is returning home with the umbrella from someone’s...
Joe lives in the same town as I do… “If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes!”

...the, the, the, tha, that's all folks! ;D

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by raven on Apr 18^th, 2004, 3:44am

Darn, because if Joe wasn't human, he would have to take his umbrella with him if he was a jellyfish

;)

Is Joe an insurance salesman, and the umbrella his coverage plan?

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by raven on Apr 18^th, 2004, 3:50am

Can you tell I'm on a thin line here?

Or maybe Joe is... is he a performing entertainer who rides a unicycle on a tight wire and uses the umbrella as a balancing prop?

8)

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by raven on Apr 18^th, 2004, 3:55am

...okay, the last post for tonight. It's 4:00 AM my time.

Did Joe break or lose his cane, so is using the umbrella for a walking stick?

:-/

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by alien on Apr 18^th, 2004, 8:26am

Quote:

Is Joe an insurance salesman, and the umbrella his coverage plan?

it's not the right answer but you are witty. ;D

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by Speaker on Apr 18^th, 2004, 10:33pm

Boy, I thought I was on the right track, but no luck. Anyway, I figured that umbrella meant "Shadow" in French or Italian or something. But, as close as I could get was Ombra. But, there are several other languages in which it might work. So, I figured that Joe was out in the sun with his shadow. But, that did not work for the languages that I can check. :-[

So, I figure it is for latin. Is Joe's real name Josuphusicus?

Wait. Is Joe's dog named Umbrella? ? ? Here boy, good boy.

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by raven on Apr 18^th, 2004, 10:47pm

Hmmn, I like the dog answer... but I just drug another possibility from the depths of my brain.

Is Joe a photographer? 8)

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by raven on Apr 18^th, 2004, 10:50pm

Is Joe's umbrella a parachute?

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by alien on Apr 19^th, 2004, 3:09am

Quote:

Is Joe's dog named Umbrella? ? ?

no.

Quote:

Is Joe a photographer?

nope.

the answer is simple.

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by Cathos on Apr 19^th, 2004, 12:46pm

It was raining when he left, so he used his umbrella, when he came back, it cleared up, but he still has his umrella with him.

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by raven on Apr 19^th, 2004, 12:57pm

Umbrella, my precious...

Joe has umbrella envy.

Joe is taking his umbrella to get it repaired.

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by evergreena3 on Apr 19^th, 2004, 1:34pm

I just had a thought about this one...

Is joe, perhaps, [hide] drinking a tropical beverage, perhaps out of a coconut shell [/hide], which would explain the umbrella?

EverGreenA3

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by Kazn on Apr 22^nd, 2004, 3:50pm

Is he is about to go to Seattle?
Or did it just rain?

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by grimbal on May 2^nd, 2004, 8:53am

Joe always keeps an umbrella in his car. Or at his office. Yesterday, it was raining, so he took it back home.

Or Joe IS an umbrella and Umbrella is the name of the owner. You have never seen an umbrella go out by itself, have you?

Title: Re: Umbrella
Post by JafJoe on Aug 12^th, 2004, 2:22pm

Is it Joe on the right in this picture (http://www.gardeners.com/sell.asp?ProdGroupID=10245)?