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(Message started by: BenVitale on Jun 29^th, 2009, 12:48am)

Title: a man visiting a convent
Post by BenVitale on Jun 29^th, 2009, 12:48am

A man came to visit at a convent while the superior mother was out of town. He left before she returned, and was careful to leave nothing behind. The nuns said nothing about his visit, so how did the superior mother figure out that a man had been there?

Title: Re: a man visiting a convent
Post by towr on Jun 29^th, 2009, 1:16am

[hide]All the nuns with red eyes killed themselves after N days, where N is the number of red-eyed nuns[/hide] :P

Title: Re: a man visiting a convent
Post by cheesepuff on Jun 29^th, 2009, 2:39am

The toilet seat was left up. What a travesty in a convent.

Title: Re: a man visiting a convent
Post by Grimbal on Jun 29^th, 2009, 2:40am

The multiple pregnancies were somehow suspicious. But I guess that goes against "he left nothing behind".

What about: the superior mother left the covent to see that man but there she was told that he was at the covent.

Or: The man is the postman. He comes every day and the superior mother knows that. He didn't deliver any mail, but came anyway to see if there is any mail to pick up.

Title: Re: a man visiting a convent
Post by towr on Jun 29^th, 2009, 3:18am

He left nothing behind, [hide]he instead stole everything that wasn't nailed down[/hide]

Title: Re: a man visiting a convent
Post by cheesepuff on Jun 29^th, 2009, 4:52am

on 06/29/09 at 03:18:50, towr wrote:

He left nothing behind, [hide]he instead stole everything that wasn't nailed down[/hide]

Yeah, but then it could also be a woman...

Title: Re: a man visiting a convent
Post by towr on Jun 29^th, 2009, 5:06am

Yes, well, that's true for every solution so far; even the one with pregnancies (there is, after all, such a thing as artificial insemination).

Title: Re: a man visiting a convent
Post by chronodekar on Jun 30^th, 2009, 2:56am

I hope there is a decent answer to this question. I must be off at the moment or something. All I can think about are perverted answers... :'(

Seriously, the toilet-seat answer is the best one so far, IMO.

-chronodekar

Title: Re: a man visiting a convent
Post by towr on Jun 30^th, 2009, 3:22am

A toilet seat might be up for other reasons. For example it might just have been cleaned, and left up. Or maybe some of the nuns prefer to hover rather than sit.

Title: Re: a man visiting a convent
Post by cheesepuff on Jun 30^th, 2009, 6:56pm

on 06/30/09 at 03:22:29, towr wrote:

Or maybe some of the nuns prefer to hover rather than sit.

I am laughing

Title: Re: a man visiting a convent
Post by chronodekar on Jul 1^st, 2009, 10:02pm

The "hovering" idea is simply ridiculous ! But really funny. ;D Perhaps the nuns received 'enlightenment' ? ;)

I just thought of something, the question states that "he left nothing behind", right? That obviously indicates that he MUST have taken something. Now what could he have possibly taken that only a man would take?

[hide]My guess is that the nuns might have spare male-clothes (pants, shirts, underwear, it could be anything) that were donated to them, and our visitor, deciding that they obviously wouldn't use them, decided to help himself. (He 'borrowed' the clothes)[/hide]

What do you think ?

-chronodekar

Title: Re: a man visiting a convent
Post by towr on Jul 2^nd, 2009, 12:17am

on 07/01/09 at 22:02:52, chronodekar wrote:

The "hovering" idea is simply ridiculous ! But really funny. ;D

I don't see why it's so ridiculous. Perhaps you don't understand what I mean. I'm not suggesting they float in the air like a blimp; I'm only suggesting they don't sit down, keeping some distance between their bottom and the seat. It's what some people do (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061111183755AA2i30L).

Besides, it might not be a western style toilet in the first place, maybe it's one of those squat-toilets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squat_toilet).

Title: Re: a man visiting a convent
Post by cheesepuff on Jul 2^nd, 2009, 8:08am

I can proudly say that after a year or so, I have never used a squatter in Taiwan. Thankfully.

Title: Re: a man visiting a convent
Post by Noke Lieu on Jul 2^nd, 2009, 9:14pm

surely that's true by definition?
usign squatters to do something you means they're paying rent, hence they're not squatters.

Though that assumes you own the squat, I suppose.

Title: Re: a man visiting a convent
Post by cheesepuff on Jul 2^nd, 2009, 11:34pm

?

I meant never out in public. Most bathrooms in homes are sitters.

Title: Re: a man visiting a convent
Post by Noke Lieu on Jul 3^rd, 2009, 12:34am

c'mon... think about it.
At least use google, or wiki...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatter

Title: Re: a man visiting a convent
Post by cheesepuff on Jul 3^rd, 2009, 6:13am

Ah. Wasn't thinking about that.

They.... they have an international symbol for squatters...?

Title: Re: a man visiting a convent
Post by chronodekar on Jul 3^rd, 2009, 6:19am

on 07/02/09 at 00:17:52, towr wrote:

I'm not suggesting they float in the air like a blimp; I'm only suggesting they don't sit down, keeping some distance between their bottom and the seat.

THIS makes better sense.

But as to how the mother found out that there was a man there, ... well I was talking to my brother about this one and this is his suggestion:
[hide]It was a priest who came. He took a mass so the alter-room was actually clean for a change. That is what tipped the mother off.[/hide]

Any thoughts ? :-/

-chronodekar

Title: Re: a man visiting a convent
Post by towr on Jul 3^rd, 2009, 7:11am

Could be. It could also be a regular occurrence. In which case it would be more likely to be mentioned that it didn't happen then if it did.

Title: Re: a man visiting a convent
Post by Death on Apr 27^th, 2010, 1:14am

This is a slight varient on the man taking the spare men's clothes:

The nuns took in, fed and clothed someone who was starving and needed their help. It was just luck that the Superior Mother was out at the time and it wasn't a rare occurence so no one thought to mention it.

Title: Re: a man visiting a convent
Post by mikeseo on May 27^th, 2010, 3:43am

[hide]had the Superior Mother been watching a Pope visit to her convent on the news from her hospital bed in another town where she was having an opertation? [/hide]

Title: Re: a man visiting a convent
Post by Grimbal on May 27^th, 2010, 8:43am

Maybe the man was the gardener. He came as planned to collect the dead leaves.