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(Message started by: Roy on Jul 24^th, 2006, 1:35am)

Title: In the same hospital
Post by Roy on Jul 24^th, 2006, 1:35am

Two children born in the same hospital, in the same hour, day,
and year, have the same mother and father, but are not twins.

Why not?

Title: Re: In the same hospital
Post by BNC on Jul 24^th, 2006, 3:06am

They're [hide]part of a triplet[/hide].

Title: Re: In the same hospital
Post by Roy on Jul 24^th, 2006, 3:40am

Bingo, or you could just think that it's a really, REALLY, strange coinsidence.

Title: Re: In the same hospital
Post by towr on Jul 24^th, 2006, 4:26am

Alternative solution: [hide]time travel[/hide] :P

Title: Re: In the same hospital
Post by BNC on Jul 24^th, 2006, 11:00am

Another far-fetched idea:
[hide]
A couple was having problems getting pregnant, so they got help from a surrogate mother. A little after that, the wife got pregnant naturally. At a certain time, the serogate mother got in labour, and from the excitement, so did the wife. It turned out that both woman gave birth at the same day and time, to two kids who had identical genetic parents, but wee not twins.
[/hide]

Title: Re: In the same hospital
Post by cchris on Jul 24^th, 2006, 4:30pm

[hide]Take any two triplets and they're twins, even if they're part of a triplet. Looking at just two wouldn't matter. If you saw the two and asked them "Are you two twins?", most likely they'd say "yes" instead of "no, we're triplets."[/hide]

Title: Re: In the same hospital
Post by Roy on Jul 24^th, 2006, 4:56pm

1. that might depend on how old they are,

2.

Title: Re: In the same hospital
Post by Death on Aug 10^th, 2006, 3:16pm

To Roy: You are aware of how babies are made right? to have 2 babies born of the same father at the same time without being twins is one thing, but of the same MOTHER??? you might have a few problems (not counting the whole seragate mother thing - Kudos for that by the way BNC - or the time travel thing)

Title: Re: In the same hospital
Post by william11141 on Jan 6^th, 2007, 5:16pm

He said they were born in the same hour, doenst mean same time. I could be 7:45 for one and 7:47 for the other.

Title: Re: In the same hospital
Post by hiyathere on Jan 6^th, 2007, 5:23pm

one of them are dead.

Title: Re: In the same hospital
Post by Locke64 on Jan 6^th, 2007, 5:37pm

'same day' could mean same day of the week, or same date, which could be different actual 'day's. For example, January 6, 2007 and January 13, 2007 both fall on a Saturday, even though they are not the same date, or January 6 and December 6 fall on the same date.
Also, 'same hour' could be more literally defined as to include, say, 3:00PM Jan 6 and 3:00PM Jan 7.
Therefore, my conclusion is:
[hide]One was born early in the year, and one was born at the end of the year. Both were born on the same day of the week/date of the month they were born in and hour of the day they were born on.[/hide]

Title: Re: In the same hospital
Post by cchris on Jan 19^th, 2007, 8:20pm

I'm afraid "in the same hour" isn't too arguable.

Title: Re: In the same hospital
Post by Grimbal on Feb 6^th, 2007, 2:27am

They are not twins, they are cancer. You see, the riddle is dated July 24.

Title: Re: In the same hospital
Post by jollytall on Feb 6^th, 2007, 3:45am

If ONLY "Two children..." were borned, then they are twins AND cancers. Being cancer alone would not exclude being twins too.

Title: Re: In the same hospital
Post by cchris on Feb 6^th, 2007, 2:08pm

[confused]Huh?[/confused]

Title: Re: In the same hospital
Post by UNKNOWN on Feb 6^th, 2007, 6:34pm

[retarded]Huh?[/retarded]
jk
well, the answer is already out... we always argue too much lol

Title: Re: In the same hospital
Post by Icarus on Feb 6^th, 2007, 6:37pm

on 02/06/07 at 14:08:12, cchris wrote:

[confused]Huh?[/confused]

The zodiac sign.

Title: Re: In the same hospital
Post by UNKNOWN on Feb 6^th, 2007, 6:43pm

the English Zodiac mind u... id rather be a rooster than have cancer

Title: Re: In the same hospital
Post by UNKNOWN on Feb 6^th, 2007, 6:45pm

oh yea... if they were born the same hour and same day etc. then they are still considered twins might not be the kind of twins people think about, but the other kind forgot their names where the twins have no connection