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(Message started by: alien on Feb 3rd, 2006, 1:32pm)
Title: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by alien on Feb 3rd, 2006, 1:32pm

MARK AND JOHN ARE WATCHING ON TV DAVID COPPERFIELD'S SHOW, WHERE HE MAKES THE STATUE OF LIBERTYY DISAPPEAR. JOHN ASKS MARK TO LEND HIM 1000$. MARK SAYS: 'IF YOU CAN TELL ME HOW COULD ONE MAKE STATUE OF LIBERTY DISAPPEAR WITHOUT TOUCHING IT WITH ANYTHING OR USING SPECIAL EFFECTS, I WILL LEND YOU THE MONEY.' WHAT ANSWER CAN JOHN THINK OF SO THAT MARK LENDS HIM THE MONEY?
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by towr on Feb 3rd, 2006, 1:57pm
Maybe shouting work ?!?
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by Icarus on Feb 3rd, 2006, 3:00pm
turn off all the lights.
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by alien on Feb 4th, 2006, 4:51am
No to both.  8)
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by Grimbal on Feb 4th, 2006, 9:10am
Get the French and the US into a diplomatic accident, so that the US can only send the statue back to where it comes from.
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by ChunkTug on Feb 4th, 2006, 1:22pm
Do we want an illusion or actual disappearance?
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by alien on Feb 4th, 2006, 2:22pm

on 02/04/06 at 13:22:18, ChunkTug wrote:
Do we want an illusion or actual disappearance?

[hide]The latter.[/hide]  ;)
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by Ownage on Feb 4th, 2006, 2:31pm
If i remove you, I'll get state of liberty :)
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by alien on Feb 4th, 2006, 3:50pm
Your assumption is witty, but if I'm gone, the question is still there.
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by BNC on Feb 4th, 2006, 3:57pm
[hide]cloase your eyes, or look away[/hide]? (Similar to Icarus's answer, but not identical)
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by alien on Feb 4th, 2006, 4:38pm
Nope.  8)
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by Padzok on Feb 5th, 2006, 1:56pm

If it's made of marzipan, wait for someone to eat it.

If it's made of ice, wait for sun to melt it.

If it is the actual Statue of Liberty in the harbour in New York, then wait a few thousand years for the wind and the rain to wear it down.

If Mark & John are talking apes, then they can just wait for the tide to come in.  ;)
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by alien on Feb 5th, 2006, 2:20pm

on 02/05/06 at 13:56:49, Padzok wrote:
If it's made of ice, wait for sun to melt it.

You got it.  :P
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by Noke Lieu on Feb 5th, 2006, 4:22pm
fair enough.
But then, that's A Statue of Liberty.

[annecdote]
As an aside- I had a Kiwi [hide]New Zealander[/hide] friend (hey, it happens) who amused himself for a while by standing on the shore near aforementioned statue and asking "statue? Statue, bro? Statue?"  
Maybe you have to be a kiwi to find it genuinely funny. I found it mildly amusing.
[/annecdote]
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by william11141 on Jan 6th, 2007, 9:00pm

 I dont get it, how is the Statue of liberty made of ice?
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by towr on Jan 7th, 2007, 9:21am

on 01/06/07 at 21:00:26, william11141 wrote:
 I dont get it, how is the Statue of liberty made of ice?
An ice sculptor might have made it.
Btu as Noke said, it would be A statue of liberty, not THE statue of liberty.
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by Iceman on Jan 7th, 2007, 10:12am
Alien is a blimp.
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by william11141 on Jan 7th, 2007, 10:26am
Oh, I get it
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by Icarus on Jan 7th, 2007, 8:08pm

on 01/07/07 at 10:12:27, Iceman wrote:
Alien is a blimp.


You shouldn't be so hard on him. Poor fellow had his membership and record just suddenly ripped away from him. How would you feel if that happened to you, Mr Iceman with your 1000 posts that mysteriously can't be found? ;)
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by Iceman on Jan 8th, 2007, 1:30am
Only Icecalibur knows the answer to that, not Smarties. So you better pray that the same thing does not happen to me, for then my third nick will be.. Beholder. And I will give you dirty looks with all of my hundred eyes.   >:(  :P
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by jollytall on Jan 13th, 2007, 12:00am
I don't think the correct ("a" correct) answer has been said so-far, even if the late alien confirmed one.

Assuming "A" statue of liberty would had been made of ice, once it is melted, it is not made disappear, but it is ruined, spoiled, destroyed, etc. Disappear to me implicitely includes that the object still exists but cannot be seen, the whereabout of it is unknown. Of course we use disappear many times when we do not see the object, while it might have been destroyed already. But once we know it is gone for good, we do not call it disappear anymore. And here the solution is based on the destruction scenario, thus incorrect.

But there is the only answer I would think correct, although I don't know a proper English word for that. In Hungarian we would call "sehogy", meaning nohow (just like Where? - Nowhere!, Who? - Nobody!, etc.) Because that is the only true and honest answer. Even David touches the object or uses other special effects to make it disappear.
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by Grimbal on Jan 15th, 2007, 4:11am
nuke it.
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by thecow135 on Jan 15th, 2007, 6:59pm
its stillt here... its a cocaroack statue of liberty agagagaga
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by hiyathere on Jan 16th, 2007, 3:34pm

on 01/15/07 at 04:11:42, Grimbal wrote:
nuke it.


Nuke the Statue, and you blow up half of New York.
:P
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by towr on Jan 17th, 2007, 2:13am

on 01/16/07 at 15:34:02, hiyathere wrote:
Nuke the Statue, and you blow up half of New York.
:P
And a few millenia later the planet'll be overrun by apes.
Title: Re: STATUE OF LIBERTY
Post by CowsRUs on Feb 7th, 2007, 8:11pm
I say, Nuke a statue of liberty made of ice and wait the THE statue of liberty to melt ;D of course biobombing works if its near cows :P


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