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That would be the classic story with a hole. He's a midget. When it rains, he can use his umbrella to hit the 15 button. Otherwise, he can only reach up to the 7 button.
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SnowFire has part of it right--he's a midget--and that is one of the correct answers now that I think of it. Knowing that he's a midget, does anyone else want to guess the other correct answer(s)?
Hey! Now the have Christmas caps! 
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When other people use the lift with him?Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
"I don't believe in giving scripting languages because the only additional power they give users is the power to create bugs." - Mike Breitkreutz, FiraxisComment
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When there are other people in the elevator too, he asks them to push the right button."In some of its more lunatic aspects, political correctness is merely ridiculous. But in the thinking behind it, there is something more sinister which is shown by the fact that already there are certain areas and topics where freedom of speech, in the sense of the right to open and frank discussion, is being gradually but significantly eroded." -- Judge Neil DenisonComment
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Hey, you're learning fast!Originally posted by mrmitchell
That's one answer, Tau. 
(Sorry about it, but being called Zero seems somewhat... negative. Okay, that didn't make much sense, numerically, but you know what I mean.)
Now, let's have a new riddle:
You have nine glasses standing in a line, like this:
uUUUUUuuu
where the glasses represented by "u" are empty, while the glasses represented by "U" contain beer. Now, your goal is to make the glasses in the line alternate between empty and full. But you may only move two glasses!
How is it done?Comment
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Pour the contents of the third glass to the eight glass and put it back.
Drink contents of fifth glass (or otherwise dispose of them) and put it back."In some of its more lunatic aspects, political correctness is merely ridiculous. But in the thinking behind it, there is something more sinister which is shown by the fact that already there are certain areas and topics where freedom of speech, in the sense of the right to open and frank discussion, is being gradually but significantly eroded." -- Judge Neil DenisonComment
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Empty the third cup into the eighth cup, and return it the third position:Originally posted by Zero-Tau
Now, let's have a new riddle:
You have nine glasses standing in a line, like this:
uUUUUUuuu
where the glasses represented by "u" are empty, while the glasses represented by "U" contain beer. Now, your goal is to make the glasses in the line alternate between empty and full. But you may only move two glasses!
How is it done?
uUuUUUuUu
Pour/drink the fifth cup:
uUuUuUuUu
Edit: I guess I was too slow.
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Immortal and Ignorance got the other answer i was thinking of right--
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Not a brain teaser, but I found this funny and didn't want to start a new thread....
What is the optimum way of shoelacing?
Answer can be found at http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993136One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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Shopkeepers cash register is broken and he is using a calculator to add the values.
A customer buys 4 items for total of 8,19 dollars.
After he has taken the money shopkeeper realises that he had multiplied the prices instead of adding them.
Being a honest man, he quickly calculates the total again and is about to stop the customer from leaving, but to his surprise, the sum of the prices is exactly the same: 8,19
What were the prices of the items bought?"In some of its more lunatic aspects, political correctness is merely ridiculous. But in the thinking behind it, there is something more sinister which is shown by the fact that already there are certain areas and topics where freedom of speech, in the sense of the right to open and frank discussion, is being gradually but significantly eroded." -- Judge Neil DenisonComment
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*bump*"In some of its more lunatic aspects, political correctness is merely ridiculous. But in the thinking behind it, there is something more sinister which is shown by the fact that already there are certain areas and topics where freedom of speech, in the sense of the right to open and frank discussion, is being gradually but significantly eroded." -- Judge Neil DenisonComment
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0.84 , 1.00 , 2.60 , 3.75 or
1.04 , 1.25 , 1.40 , 4.50
I wrote a program to check all these values.
If you allow rounding, there a dozens of valid combinations.I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).Comment
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That is correct.
Bonus points for finding both sets of possible values
"In some of its more lunatic aspects, political correctness is merely ridiculous. But in the thinking behind it, there is something more sinister which is shown by the fact that already there are certain areas and topics where freedom of speech, in the sense of the right to open and frank discussion, is being gradually but significantly eroded." -- Judge Neil DenisonComment
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Well, I have no brain-teasers, so I'll leave it up for grabs to whoever does have one.I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).Comment
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