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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: thermidorthelobster on May 28, 2007, 12:38:23
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This is one of those "can you explain the situation" riddles. By careful questioning you are trying to reveal the set of circumstances which leads to the situation I've described. You can ask any question which I can answer yes/no/irrelevant.
I warn you, this took me 2 days of driving across Iceland to guess correctly. Please don't use Google. Obviously there are many possible answers but the idea is to guess the one in my head. If anybody already knows this one then PM me to confirm the answer and you can join in the answering.
If everybody loses the will to live I'll reveal the answer...
A woman walks into a restaurant. Half way through the meal, she gets up, runs out of the restaurant and is run over by a bus. Why?
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Is that why does she run out of the restaurant OR why half way through OR why is she run over by a bus?
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The whole thing. The idea is to deduce a (vaguely plausible) set of circumstances which explains what's happening. There are lots, of course, and you're supposed to guess the one in my head 8)
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Because she walked infront of the bus whilst it was moving. The fact of the meal is irrelivant. :D :D
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was the restaurant a buffet car on a train?
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She walks in to meet her boy friend for a meal, who tells her he's breaking up with her because he's gay, shes so distraught she runs as fast as she can out of the resturant in tears not thinking what she doing she runs into the road to hear the screech of brakes, as she turns a bus smashes into her.......
Im wrong but still :lol:
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Ok, there was a green man in the restaurant, he got up, his trousers dropped, she ran out and got ran over by the bus, i.e. never cross the road while the green mans flashing ;) lol
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Sod your riddle i'm off to watch a dvd ,can't get my head round it
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She's a bus driver on her break. Half way through her meal she realises that she didn't apply the parking brake when parking her bus. Leaps and makes for her bus to apply the brake properly, only for it to mow her down?
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A woman walks into a restaurant. Half way through the meal, she gets up, runs out of the restaurant and is run over by a bus. Why?
Because she saw Gordon Ramseys handsome face which put her off her meal then she got run over by a steam powered bus which she didn't hear it coming?
:lol:
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Because she walked infront of the bus whilst it was moving. The fact of the meal is irrelivant. :D :D
Well, yeah, but why did she do that?
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She's a bus driver on her break. Half way through her meal she realises that she didn't apply the parking brake when parking her bus. Leaps and makes for her bus to apply the brake properly, only for it to mow her down?
Nice idea, but... no.
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Because she saw Gordon Ramseys handsome face which put her off her meal then she got run over by a steam powered bus which she didn't hear it coming?
:lol:
Er... no...
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Because she walked infront of the bus whilst it was moving. The fact of the meal is irrelivant. :D :D
Well, yeah, but why did she do that?
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Because she was a mentalist?
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Because she walked infront of the bus whilst it was moving. The fact of the meal is irrelivant. :D :D
Well, yeah, but why did she do that?
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Because she was a mentalist?
She might have been, but that's not relevant :P
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She was a sensible woman, and had just been handed the several thousand pound bill for a sandwich in london...
it's the only thing that makes sense, since there's sod all buses outside of the capital ;)
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She was a sensible woman, and had just been handed the several thousand pound bill for a sandwich in london...
Actually, it's relevant that the restaurant wasn't in London, but Southampton.
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Because she walked infront of the bus whilst it was moving. The fact of the meal is irrelivant. :D :D
Well, yeah, but why did she do that?
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Because she was a mentalist?
She might have been, but that's not relevant :P
It would be relevant to her! but then again if she was a mentalist, what she did would have seemed normal to her anyway, but not to us!
But hey, I don't care, coz I'm drinking beer. She was a silly sod to run in front of a bus! If she had run into a giant motorised marshmallow, she would be here to tell us why she ran outside.
My brain hurts!
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My brain hurts!
i bet the beer dont help :roll: :lol:
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My brain hurts!
i bet the beer dont help :roll: :lol:
Of course it helps, crazy fool! It numbs the pain and makes my world go fluffy!
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She was a sensible woman, and had just been handed the several thousand pound bill for a sandwich in london...
Actually, it's relevant that the restaurant wasn't in London, but Southampton.
That explains everything, she tasted the water and ran out into the street to upchuck ;)
Either that or she couldn't stomach being in southampton any longer ;) the place is so dull even the busses are depressed (they're the blue line)
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A woman walks into a restaurant. Half way through the meal, she gets up, runs out of the restaurant and is run over by a bus. Why?
she is blind and hears the fire alarm and runs out on the street "splat" :twisted: :twisted:
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She was possesed by Demons?
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a fortune teller once told her she'd die outside a restauraunt in southhampton. she remembered this halfway though the meal and ran as fast as she could away from the restauraunt, so she wouldn't die. But she does and the fortune teller finally gets something right.
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No fire alarm, no demons, no fortune teller. It's a complex story and asking questions will help :D
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The restaurant was on a cruise ship, she was blind and having a meal with her friend but not going on the cruise herself.. the ships horn blew and she realised it was about to sail, so she legged it off the ship , the ships horn blew again and she didn't hear the bus coming ?
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No, BUT, a cruise ship IS involved somewhere in the story.
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Please tell me the answer *Bangs last nail into gallows* i have lost the will to live *throws rope over gallows* aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrggggggghhhhhh :lol:
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she was late to catch the red jet so ran out of the restaurant and was half way across the street when she noticed it had left early again and was so distraught at missing it she didn't notice the bus ? am i close ? :D
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red jet... possibility or the QM2?
R
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Was she perhaps due on a ship of some description?
A As a passenger
B As one of the crew (including hairdressers, etc on cruise ships)
C As the captain?
Is she blind
Is she deaf
Does it matter that it's a woman?
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i cant take it anymore (http://www.websmileys.com/sm/violent/sterb243.gif)
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LOL @ Beast!!
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No fire alarm, no demons, no fortune teller. It's a complex story and asking questions will help :D
Sorry, I'm sticking with the theory of demonic possesion and she was being chased by an old and a young priest armed with a cross. Seems logical to me.
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She'd heard Big Brother was back on TV...
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she was late to catch the red jet so ran out of the restaurant and was half way across the street when she noticed it had left early again and was so distraught at missing it she didn't notice the bus ? am i close ? :D
Nope... not even close.
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Was she perhaps due on a ship of some description?
A As a passenger
B As one of the crew (including hairdressers, etc on cruise ships)
C As the captain?
Is she blind
Is she deaf
Does it matter that it's a woman?
She had been a passenger on a ship. She is not blind or deaf. The story is built around a woman but you could reverse it and make her a man.
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was she sane?
...Old?
...Simple?
...Blond?
...In financial debt due to buying a cruise ship ticket?
...wearing pink?
...a driver?
...daft?
am I close with any of these?
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was she sane?
...Old?
...Simple?
...Blond?
...In financial debt due to buying a cruise ship ticket?
...wearing pink?
...a driver?
...daft?
am I close with any of these?
She was sane. The rest are false or irrelevant.
I'll give you a clue... she had been married.
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she was having lunch, and remembered how she had been told she had syphilis which had given her dementia. She also remembered that she had a cruse ship ticket, went to cross the road, to the port enterance and due to the dementia kicking in, she forgot how roads work.
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Nope...
If I were you I'd be trying to establish what she was doing in the restaurant, and what had happened on her holiday. Things like what she ate might have a bearing on it too. :twisted:
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was it fish. i hate fish. if i had got served a plain fish dinner, i'd jump infront of a bus
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It wasn't, no. But it's not entirely unrelated to fish.
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i cant take it anymore (http://www.websmileys.com/sm/violent/sterb243.gif)
Like Beast5680, i too have lost the will to live
:?
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She was being chased by Goblins with big pointy sticks?
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No... If people are getting bored already then you're gonna be chewing your own arms off by the time we get to an answer :lol:
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was there a power cut ?? :?
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was the restaurant on the cruise ship, and on the tannoy someone said, if you look to the right you can see a school of fish. being the keen fisherwoman, she ran out of the place, got hit in the face by a boy wielding a toy bus, and fell into the sea, where she drowned?
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No power cut, and the restaurant wasn't on the cruise ship.
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Elves on tame unicorns with sharpened quava fruit?
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Either when the meal was served crispy wontons had been ordered and they were not crispy enough....or she was asked to decide the Cheese n Onion or Salt n Vinegar crisp conundrum...... :lol: :lol:
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What she ate IS relevant. But it wasn't wontons or crisps, and no elves were involved.
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Because she walked infront of the bus whilst it was moving. The fact of the meal is irrelivant. :D :D
Well, yeah, but why did she do that?
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Because she was a mentalist?
She might have been, but that's not relevant :P
......." she had an ill elephant" whats all that about
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HOLD ON, LET ME GET SOMETHING STRAIGHT HERE. YOU ON YOUR OWN GUESSED THE ANSWER IN TWO DAYS.
THIS THREAD HAS BEEN GOING LONGER THEN 2 DAYS WITH OVER 6000 MEMBERS ON HERE AND WE STILL HAVE NOT GUESSED IT?!
either thermidor you are a genious, or we are all <EDIT> stupid!!!
Rob
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Yebbut in 2 days I asked a whole lot of questions, and I didn't have to wait 3 hours for an answer... Believe me, you have a long way to go yet!
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ok, question:
is this a never ending story where you can make up waht you want and it depends on how you interpret it?
like a shaggy dog story... i guess.
R
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No, one member has already PMd me to confirm the answer. (But he didn't guess, he'd heard it before.)
You need to find out what she was eating, and what happened on the cruise ship.
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Were chickens or wheel barrows involved... :lol: 8)
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Was she
just back from a country where they drive on the right hand side of the road ?
eating an ice cream ?
dashing back to the cruise ship before it sailed ?
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Were chickens or wheel barrows involved...
No... I can't imagine where you were going with that one!
No to the ice cream, driving on the right or dashing back to the ship.
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Was she eating seafood of some description?
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did the food she was eating contain trace's of nuts which sent her into a fit she ran out of the resturaunt to find a chemis and not seeing the bus was splatted :twisted:
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was she a passenger on the cruise ship at the same time as she was eating or was the cruise ship thing ended before she even started her meal?
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She is on a cruise ship, and is eating something that has been laced with magic mushrooms, when she saw pirates coming into the dining area, and ran out and was hit by a bus that she imagined was there, because she was so bonged out?
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ok ive lost the will to live now whats the blooomming answer?????????? :wink:
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Was she eating seafood of some description?
Yes. And that's quite important.
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did the food she was eating contain trace's of nuts which sent her into a fit she ran out of the resturaunt to find a chemis and not seeing the bus was splatted :twisted:
No... it's much more complicated than that...
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was she a passenger on the cruise ship at the same time as she was eating or was the cruise ship thing ended before she even started her meal?
The cruise ship thing was finished by the time she had the meal.
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She is on a cruise ship, and is eating something that has been laced with magic mushrooms, when she saw pirates coming into the dining area, and ran out and was hit by a bus that she imagined was there, because she was so bonged out?
Nice idea but... no.
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ok ive lost the will to live now whats the blooomming answer?????????? :wink:
Patience, patience 8)
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was she eating puffa fish - for some stupid reason?
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Did/Had she:
1. Have an allergic reaction to the sea food?
2. Been hideously ill on board the cruise ship?
3. Run from the restuarant to be sick, leant over the gutter and the bus hit her on the head, thus producing a pavement pizza, not only with carrots but tomato topping too?
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I think I've worked it out...
she met thermidor the lobster on a cruise ship, at which point he posed a riddle for her to solve, and finally, after a fortnight of none descript answers and hints she thought "oh well, bus, hello, splat" :D
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was she eating puffa fish - for some stupid reason?
No.
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Did/Had she:
1. Have an allergic reaction to the sea food?
2. Been hideously ill on board the cruise ship?
3. Run from the restuarant to be sick, leant over the gutter and the bus hit her on the head, thus producing a pavement pizza, not only with carrots but tomato topping too?
None of those, no...
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I think I've worked it out...
she met thermidor the lobster on a cruise ship, at which point he posed a riddle for her to solve, and finally, after a fortnight of none descript answers and hints she thought "oh well, bus, hello, splat" :D
As plausible as that might be... nope.
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She was served a fish finger butty but the kitchin staff omitted to butter the bread and put ketchup on it...distraught she ran out and tripped over a wheel barrow and fell under a bus
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Seen these before, we used to do them in the pub, pose a seemingly easy riddle and keep people guessing for ages, before telling them there is no real answer, seen lots on forums just to see how many posts they can get!
Boring.
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Seen these before, we used to do them in the pub, pose a seemingly easy riddle and keep people guessing for ages, before telling them there is no real answer, seen lots on forums just to see how many posts they can get!
Boring.
As I said above, there is an answer to this, and one member has already PM'd me with the correct answer. Boring maybe, but not fraudulent.
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was she eating fish, or was the fish to do with something else?
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Not fish, but related to seafood.
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related to sea food ?
which I'm thinking is either troy mclure, or possibly tom hanks in splash :?
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It doesn't involve 'sleeping with the fishes' does it? I mean, that is just gross, stinky and slightly illegal! :shock:
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"you really love fish don't you? "
"nah, I just say that to get them into bed"
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i heard bout ur motor daz... i also heard you got a nicer one to play with!! hehe :lol:
in relation to this EXPLETIVE ****** DELETED i ask this:
is it:
crab
lobster
mussls
shelfsh of some kind?
shrimp... er....
octopus
does it even matter in relation to this story?
Rob
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My cat's breath smells of cat food.
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Your wussiness had better come in handy
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My mother has gone completly handstand, doctor! Bring the electric slug saw! She needs open foot surgery!
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is it:
crab
lobster
mussls
shelfsh of some kind?
shrimp... er....
octopus
does it even matter in relation to this story?
It's absolutely crucial to the plot, as it happens. And it's not any of the above. But it is seafood related. :twisted:
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She married a lobster ?!?!?!
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she married thermidor!!
did you think this up while driving through africa???
R
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does a sea food allergy feature ?
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I think I've got it sussed.
The lady was thermidoor's long lost rich auntie, who he has just discovered he's the sole person named in her will...
And he's just taken a job as a bus driver...
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does a sea food allergy feature ?
Nope.
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Some of the posts in this thread have been very funny :lol:
Datalas..obviously a Simpsons viewer :wink:
I dont have a clue what is going on with this silly seafood eating suicide victim
It's all very odd
:)
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Were underwater goats with snorkles and flippers involved?
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was it sea-weed or some other watery plant?
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No goats were involved in the making of this riddle. And it wasn't seaweed. Think airborne...
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The restaurant she was eating in was attacked by Major Winters from the 101st AIRBORNE 506th PIR. She hated the noise of gunfire from the .45 Thompson and M1 Garand, so she ran out the restaurant in the blackout and was hit by Mr Jones driving the X80 on the way to the docks!!!
Am I close? :?
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Oh, wrong airborne,
Has the Booby Bird got anything to do with it, ie, Booby Trap??
Seriously
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No. Sorry.
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She was attacked by a flying Norweigan blue parrott (which hadn't been nailed to its perch) and in an attempt to escape accidentally ran in front of a bus which had a tnk of shell fish on it?
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was she committing suicide ?
I've always thought that was a very shellfish act...
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haha @ datalas :lol: :lol:
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was she committing suicide ?
Yes, she intended to run in front of the bus.
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:-o I was right ?!?!
Damn, I was only in it for the joke :oops:
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I know, she was in the restaurant and got a case of crabs, then she ran out to catch a bus to lake canistan ?
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have we got the answer to this yet :?
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No, I'm beginning to think you guys aren't really committed to this riddle :D
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well some of us have nearly lost the wil to live now :wink:
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I'm asuming actual flying fish ie: (http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/ocean/images/01_dioramas/features/11_dolphin/flying_fish.jpg) were involved somehow
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OK, I'm going to give you a big clue.
She was eating ALBATROSS SOUP.
Does it all make sense now?
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not really. im getting the urge to do a google search. but i probably wont... yet
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If this has anything to do with the rhyme of the ancient mariner I'm going to be disappointed :)
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Was she eating albatross soup because the resteraunt was out of choc ices? :lol:
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Spitting Feathers????
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No, she was eating albatross soup because that's what she'd ordered.
No puns were involved in the making of this riddle either 8)
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Would I be right in thinking the soup didn't taste the way she expected it to?
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You would indeed be right...
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No, I'm beginning to think you guys aren't really committed to this riddle :D
you'll probably find that some of us have been committed as a result of this riddle!
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Ah ha, I know the answer then, although I'll admit to hearing it before. Guessing from the questions asked so far would be nigh on impossible :)
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i i think i know the answer now but it was told in a different way to thermidor ](*,)
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Sorry, I cracked and had to look up the answer, good luck to anyone still trying to work it out you're going to need it.
Do we get another if this ever finishes??
Gav
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Do we get another if this ever finishes??
I don't think so; I don't want to park up at the shows and find my car's been keyed :lol:
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Do we get another if this ever finishes??
I don't think so; I don't want to park up at the shows and find my car's been keyed :lol:
your assuming there will be enough left of it to key then :lol: :lol: :lol:
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You're right Thermidor, I bloody hate this
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Think Ihave cracked it.. you have a pm
Hope I am right
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CaptainColourful got it right... what about everybody else?
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i still dont know. but TBH honest i gave up long ago, but i still dont want to search it... (also right in the middle of my a levels, got a 4 hour exam tomorrow and a 6 and a half hour exam on friday) :shock: :?
R
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I'm still convinced goblins are involved somewhere along the line!
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Did she find something in the soup that may have been lost on the cruise?
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Did she find something in the soup that may have been lost on the cruise?
Told you! There was a goblin in her soup!
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No goblins!
Jamin - in a very figurative sense, yes. But probably not in the way you think.
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Was the lady dining alone?
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Indeed she was.
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Was she meant to be dining with someone or did some one not show up??
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No.
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Thermidor, speculative PM sent!
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Where was the bus going and who was driving it?
Where did the incident between the bus and the lady happen and where upon the bus did she hit?
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Where was the bus going and who was driving it?
Where did the incident between the bus and the lady happen and where upon the bus did she hit?
Sorry littlepow, I can only answer yes, no or irrelevant.
Luckily however, this is all irrelevant.
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Thermidor, speculative PM sent!
Jamin, you're along the right sort of lines, eerily so in some respects, but not quite there yet :wink:
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Thermidor, speculative PM sent!
Jamin, you're along the right sort of lines, eerily so in some respects, but not quite there yet :wink:
Hmmmmm :? now im stuck!
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She found a tiger in her soup?
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She found a tiger in her soup?
Better than finding one in her tank I suppose...
Although, why hasn't anyone considered that as a solution to the poacher problem, just put the tigers and lions in tanks... A bit of abalative armour is bound to help
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iam gunna shoot my self :shock: well maybe the computer :lol: wats the b......dy answer its doing my head in :x i hate it :wink:
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So im told ... albatross are extremely bad luck if you see one whilst at sea, fortelling your impending death.
Has this anything to do with it?
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So im told ... albatross are extremely bad luck if you see one whilst at sea, fortelling your impending death.
Has this anything to do with it?
As I said a while ago, if this is the rhyme of the ancient mariner, I'm going to kill someone
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Nothing to do with superstitions, or ancient mariners, luckily
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So im told ... albatross are extremely bad luck if you see one whilst at sea, fortelling your impending death.
This is nothing to do with the riddle, but it's just made me think of the way I want to die (after a long and fruitful life of course) - I want an albatross to fall on me. Think of the irony.
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OK, time for a quick recap.
A woman's sitting in a restaurant in Southampton. She orders the albatross soup. Part-way through eating it, she runs out of the restaurant and deliberately runs in front of a bus, which kills her.
A cruise ship is involved in the story somewhere. In fact, she had been a passenger on a cruise ship. She was a married woman.
If I were you I'd be establishing why her marriage is relevant. You're getting definitely closer now.
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did she go on the cruise with her husband only for the ship to sink marooning them and several other passengers on a desert island?
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probably not beast beasue how would she run in front of a bus whilst marooned on an island?! :lol:
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The ship did sink, yes. But they weren't marooned on an island.
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Was she married to the albatross ? and somewhat distraught about finding her husband in a soup.
Hang on a minute ... where the hell do you get Albatross Soup in southampton? do you know some restaurants I don't ?
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Did she eat her husband thinking it was an albatross as she was halucinating from the heat of the sun and lack of water!!!
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OK, time for a quick recap.
A woman's sitting in a restaurant in Southampton. She orders the albatross soup. Part-way through eating it, she runs out of the restaurant and deliberately runs in front of a bus, which kills her.
A cruise ship is involved in the story somewhere. In fact, she had been a passenger on a cruise ship. She was a married woman.
If I were you I'd be establishing why her marriage is relevant. You're getting definitely closer now.
Boat sank, woman and husband left bobbing about in the sea. Albatros lands on husbands head and flys off with him, never to be seen again.
Woman finds leg tag for the same albatross in her soup.
Thuse runs out into the road to be run over by a bus, which is late. So she stands there for 30 mins and is then hit by 3 of them (sods law bit, that and the trains we cancelled due to a blade of grass near the lines!)
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Littlepow: no, sorry.
Did she eat her husband thinking it was an albatross as she was halucinating from the heat of the sun and lack of water!!!
Ah, you're getting close now. She did eat her husband, and she did think he was albatross. But there's more to it than that.
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HE cut his body parts off and fed them to her, telling her it was albatross!! Then when she tasted real albatross she realised it was infact her darling husband George she had been eating???
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if that's the answer, I think I might just have to demote thermidoor to the rank of "keeper of the pointless riddles" :D
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this is getting boring now.yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
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Diggerdog, you're very close now... 8)
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:shock: I was taking the <edit>!!!
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HE cut his body parts off and fed them to her, telling her it was albatross!! Then when she tasted real albatross she realised it was infact her darling husband George she had been eating???
you're very close now... 8)
Eh?
I dont know if i want to know the answer now!
Sounds a bit like a cheap horror film script to me :shock:
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when we gun'na get the flipping answer then!!!!!!!!WELL........COME ON THEN SPIT IT OUT............... :roll: