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(Message started by: gotit on May 9^th, 2008, 2:26am)

Title: The Job
Post by gotit on May 9^th, 2008, 2:26am

There was a vaccancy for a post in a company and many people applied for it. There were ten questions in the exam and two people, Tim and Tom, answered 9 out of 10 correctly. All others answered less than 9. However the company people selected Tom for the job without conducting any sort of tie break. Why?

Title: Re: The Job
Post by towr on May 9^th, 2008, 3:05am

[hide]The first question was "What is your name?", and that's the one Tim got wrong, he wrote Tom by mistake.[/hide]

Title: Re: The Job
Post by gotit on May 9^th, 2008, 4:11am

Nope. No spelling mistakes.

Title: Re: The Job
Post by Grimbal on May 9^th, 2008, 6:31am

On question 10 Tom answered [hide]"I don't know"[/hide], Tim answered [hide]"Neither do I"[/hide].

Title: Re: The Job
Post by denis on May 9^th, 2008, 6:44am

Tim arrived late at the test. Punctuality is important in this job.

Title: Re: The Job
Post by gotit on May 9^th, 2008, 7:06am

on 05/09/08 at 06:31:11, Grimbal wrote:

On question 10 Tom answered [hide]"I don't know"[/hide], Tim answered [hide]"Neither do I"[/hide].

You got it. In fact, I was quite sure that you would solve this riddle since the answer was a funny one.

Title: Re: The Job
Post by Iceman on May 9^th, 2008, 7:10am

The company's name is Tom & Jerry or Tomlington.

Or Tom's answers were richer. He cares about details.

Or Tom's handwriting is beautiful.

Or it is a matter of time so Tim answered a year later.

Or they are Siamese twins.

Or Tom answered the last and the most important 10th question. Tim didn't.

Or Tom has connections. Poor Tim.

Or there were two Tom's.

Or Tom is older than Tim. The company rules clearly suggest age before beauty.

Or this isn't tennis so there was no tie break.

Or Tim is misanthrope.

Title: Re: The Job
Post by iono on May 9^th, 2008, 7:08pm

I heard this one in joke form before.

Title: Re: The Job
Post by gotit on May 9^th, 2008, 9:53pm

on 05/09/08 at 19:08:03, iono wrote:

I heard this one in joke form before.

Me too.