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(Message started by: Iceman on Jan 20^th, 2007, 7:41am)

Title: Coke returns
Post by Iceman on Jan 20^th, 2007, 7:41am

A man is relaxing in his home, watching a movie. He is thirsty, so he goes to the kitchen, and returns to the living room with a glass and a beer can. There he pours the beer in the glass, drinks the whole glass in a gulp, and puts it back on the table. After half an hour, during the ads, he is thirsty again, so he takes the glass, tosses it in the sink, and pours himself another glass, this time Coke. When he returns to the living room, he sits on the sofa, holding on to the glass, sipping Coke. So when he drinks the glass, he realizes that one thing is missing, because of his habit. From the information that was given, can you deduce what is missing?

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by hiyathere on Jan 20^th, 2007, 7:43am

[hide]alcohol?[/hide]
[hide]ice?[/hide]
[hide]Coke's gone flat?[/hide]

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Jan 20^th, 2007, 7:46am

[hide]The can?[/hide]

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by Icarus on Jan 20^th, 2007, 7:50am

His wife? ;)

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by Iceman on Jan 20^th, 2007, 8:05am

on 01/20/07 at 07:43:58, hiyathere wrote:

[hide]alcohol?[/hide]
[hide]ice?[/hide]
[hide]Coke's gone flat?[/hide]

Nah.

on 01/20/07 at 07:46:45, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:

[hide]The can?[/hide]

No. That would be a bit to weird habit. ;) And I never said that he put the can somewhere else.

on 01/20/07 at 07:50:10, Icarus wrote:

His wife? ;)

Nope. ;)

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by denis on Jan 20^th, 2007, 9:06am

[hide]he left the TV remote in the kitchen[/hide]

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by Iceman on Jan 20^th, 2007, 9:11am

To have the remote control in the living room is everyone's habit, I suppose, so nothing special about that. ;)

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by raven on Jan 20^th, 2007, 9:28am

It sounds like he brings the beverage container (can for the beer, bottle for the coke), with him. So he pours a glass, the glass may be small and he keeps the container near by to top it off, or empty the container, after he drinks the glass down some.

To answer the riddle directly, he left the rest of the coke in the kitchen.

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by Iceman on Jan 20^th, 2007, 9:52am

on 01/20/07 at 09:28:17, raven wrote:

It sounds like he brings the beverage container

No.

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by denis on Jan 20^th, 2007, 11:15am

His habit is [hide]to drink beer mixed with Coke. What was missing the second time was beer in his glass. The first time he returned from the kichen, he had already poured some coke in his glass to which he added beer.[/hide]

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by Iceman on Jan 20^th, 2007, 11:36am

If that is his habit, he would not forget about it just like that. No, we need something else here.. ;)

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by kiochi on Jan 20^th, 2007, 11:45am

His habit is [hide] to drink his glass in one gulp, but he forgot his funnel [/hide]

Or, his habit is [hide] a cocaine addiction... after putting some coke in his mouth, he realised that he forgot the straw with which to snort the rest of it. [/hide]

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by Iceman on Jan 20^th, 2007, 11:58am

No funnel. No cocaine either. Use information I gave in the riddle, because the answer is not that disconnected from it. It certainly is not connected to drugs, rather something else.. ;)

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by raven on Jan 20^th, 2007, 1:09pm

From the scenario given, I can guess that either his habit is tossing the glass in the sink which then eventually leads to him missing something, or which seems more likely, something to do with the beer can(s) which are absent with the drinking of Coke^TM...

So I will say that every time he has a drink he adds the can to the ever growing sculpture by his lounge chair--no, scratch that--I will say that he is watching a beer-a-thon and inside the bottom of every beer can is the possibility of a winning number. When he chugged the last beer to see the number, he got a little too tipsy and decided to sip on a Coke^TM for a while instead, but now he was missing this hour's number drawing since he had no can of beer to look inside of....

Sound far fetched? ;D

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by raven on Jan 20^th, 2007, 1:20pm

Okay, final answer...for a little while at least

The man had gotten into the habit of holding onto his drink glass until it was completely empty...the reason he learned to do this is because his table is very rickety and a little touch sends it careening too and fro, but it is has great sentimental value to him so he would never get rid of it. What was missing is the coaster he always uses whenever he places a glass onto his heirloom table, it stuck to the bottom of the beer glass and made its way into the sink...which he didn't notice until he finally finishes sipping on his glass of soda.

That's certainly a winner.... 8)

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by Iceman on Jan 20^th, 2007, 1:33pm

on 01/20/07 at 13:20:07, raven wrote:

The man had gotten into the habit of holding onto his drink glass until it was completely empty...the reason he learned to do this is because his table is very rickety and a little touch sends it careening too and fro, but it is has great sentimental value to him so he would never get rid of it. What was missing is the coaster he always uses whenever he places a glass onto his heirloom table, it stuck to the bottom of the beer glass and made its way into the sink...which he didn't notice until he finally finishes sipping on his glass of soda.

[i]That's certainly a winner.... 8)

Yes! Still, I am not sure if [hide]coaster[/hide] is the right word. But if it is that thing you [hide]put a glass[/hide] on, I suppose the coaster will do just fine. ;)

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by raven on Jan 20^th, 2007, 1:42pm

One common definition...
Coaster: a covering (plate or mat) that protects the surface of a table (i.e., from the condensation on a cold glass or bottle).

:D

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by raven on Jan 20^th, 2007, 5:41pm

Hey Iceman, what do you call a coaster?

Just curious...

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by Iceman on Jan 21^st, 2007, 5:44am

on 01/20/07 at 17:41:26, raven wrote:

Hey Iceman, what do you call a coaster?

Podmetac or podlozak. Anyway, coaster is the right word. I doubt no more. ;)

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by cchris on Jan 21^st, 2007, 11:09am

I would've said alcohol, since he drank beer before...

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by Grimbal on Jan 23^rd, 2007, 4:58am

I know, the answer was found already, never mind.

Obviously he took a coke because there is no beer. His habit is to drink beer. He usually puts the coke at the back of the beer in the fridge. When he saw that what he was sipping was not beer but a coke, he realized he ran out of beer.

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by hiyathere on Jan 24^th, 2007, 4:41am

Hmmmm...

If he drinks that much beer, how can he tell the difference?

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by Iceman on Jan 24^th, 2007, 9:32am

on 01/24/07 at 04:41:06, hiyathere wrote:

Hmmmm...

If he drinks that much beer, how can he tell the difference?

I think you are running backwards on this one. ;D

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Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by cchris on Jan 24^th, 2007, 11:34am

Trust me, I drink enough beer to know when I'm not drinking one. In fact, after you drink enough, you can tell very tiny differences. I can tell how old my beer is. Well, more like if it's fresh or if its old.

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by Grimbal on Jan 25^th, 2007, 6:25am

on 01/24/07 at 04:41:06, hiyathere wrote:

If he drinks that much beer, how can he tell the difference?

He needed a beer in the first place because he started to become aware of his environment. Since he didn't get any alcohol, this awareness remained. He started wondering "why this beer is not working".

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by hiyathere on Jan 25^th, 2007, 10:03am

What I mean is, he's probably drunk after that much beer in a row. When you're drunk, your senses dull.

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by cchris on Jan 25^th, 2007, 8:24pm

Well, hopefully not one beer, but I know what you mean. I mixed what I thought was a little bit of rum with coke, it tasted like plain coke one night...the next day it tasted more like 75% rum 25% coke.

Title: Re: Coke returns
Post by JP05 on Jan 25^th, 2007, 8:46pm

I guess this is why it so easy to keep drinking, especially drinks that seem strong at first. To me after the forth or fifth beer they are almost like water. Next thing you know, BANG, there goes a 12 pack.