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(Message started by: Death on Apr 17^th, 2007, 3:50pm)

Title: Round the corner
Post by Death on Apr 17^th, 2007, 3:50pm

Ok, I'm pretty sure that the uberpuzzlers out there will get this one in no time so if you could, as ever, only leave cryptic clues that would be great ;D

A man pushes his car around a corner and gets paid £200 for it. Why?

Title: Re: Round the corner
Post by denis on Apr 17^th, 2007, 5:08pm

Was there a hotel not too far from the corner?

Title: Re: Round the corner
Post by Icarus on Apr 17^th, 2007, 8:44pm

The junkyards in England are more generous than those in America?

Title: Re: Round the corner
Post by denis on Apr 17^th, 2007, 9:00pm

The car was owned by a certain Parker and has a brother.

Title: Re: Round the corner
Post by BNC on Apr 17^th, 2007, 11:16pm

cm'on guys! You're going in circles!

Title: Re: Round the corner
Post by towr on Apr 18^th, 2007, 1:48am

He'd have gotten more if he had stopped at the corner..

Title: Re: Round the corner
Post by Death on Apr 18^th, 2007, 1:25pm

Yep you guys have pretty much got the idea (and love the clues). Except possibly Icarus... ;)

Title: Re: Round the corner
Post by Archae on Apr 18^th, 2007, 6:09pm

Getting twice the amount of money (i.e. $400) if the person in question got lucky and stopped on the corner rather than just passing it - is that a regional thing, or would those Parkers agree with towr?
I dont have the resources to check right now, but I always wondered...

Title: Re: Round the corner
Post by Icarus on Apr 18^th, 2007, 6:35pm

It's not an official rule, but it is a well-known and widely practiced variant.

(And no, I didn't have the answer when I posted before. I will say in my defense that I didn't really try to find one.)

Title: Re: Round the corner
Post by Sir Col on Apr 19^th, 2007, 12:08am

on 04/17/07 at 15:50:09, Death wrote:

A man pushes his car around a corner and gets paid £200 for it. Why?

Why? Because he was waiting at the traffic lights and a bloke comes up to the driver's window and says, "Hey, mate, I'll give you £200 if you push your car around the corner." ::)

Title: Re: Round the corner
Post by Archae on Apr 19^th, 2007, 1:48am

Sir Col, it would have been a better deal if I could have pushed my wheelbarrow around the corner - or better yet, my thimble. A car seems tough to push around a corner by myself. But for £200, I guess I'd try.

Title: Re: Round the corner
Post by Grimbal on Apr 19^th, 2007, 2:15am

It could be the car broke down, it is blocking the whole traffic, and someone tries to motivate you to move it out of the way.

Or maybe it is just one of these silly bets you do when you are drunk. Maybe a police officer is standing outside of the parking lot and your friends want to see what he thinks of someone who pushes his car claiming he is too drunk to drive.

Title: Re: Round the corner
Post by Iceman on Apr 19^th, 2007, 2:55am

He owns a cab, and this particular passenger is a midget who is agoraphobic and also scared of the sound the car produces.

Or his car was blocking an entire cross section, and one of the delayed drivers was a Nigerian king Bombata.

A loan shark was recruiting him, so he tested him to see how strong and resourceful he really is.

Hic car was out of gas, but since a husband wants to give him £200 to drive his car over his wife, well..

Title: Re: Round the corner
Post by Sir Col on Apr 19^th, 2007, 9:00am

Perhaps he's in a race: in a battle to the finishing line he pushes his car (to the limit) around the corner and is caught on film by a photographer who agrees to pay him £200 for the action shot.

Title: Re: Round the corner
Post by SMQ on Apr 19^th, 2007, 9:32am

on 04/19/07 at 09:00:35, Sir Col wrote:

Perhaps he's in a race

I don't know about that; if his car is pushing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understeer) through the corner he's more likely to end up nose-first into the wall than in an action shot. ;D

--SMQ

Title: Re: Round the corner
Post by Iceman on Apr 19^th, 2007, 10:00am

Somehow, I feel the touch of Death. ;D

Title: Re: Round the corner
Post by tiber13 on Apr 20^th, 2007, 5:59pm

Got it. as soon as i raed the riddle, Parker is suposed to be a clue, and another one [hide][/hide] houses [hide][/hide].
oh, and the awnser[hide][/hide] monopoly, pushed his car, to S.James place, and there were 2 houses there, and he had to pay 200 dollars rent.[hide][/hide]

Title: Re: Round the corner
Post by Icarus on Apr 20^th, 2007, 7:27pm

Easier than that, tiber13. It says he gets paid £200, not that he has to pay. The corner he pushed his car around is "GO".

Unfortunately, he stopped on "Taxes" and had to pay it all back. :'(