lateral thinking anyone

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  • beowolf
    beowolf Member Posts: 88
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    great lateral thinking guys :D

    why is it ,that in New York city, it is absolutely impossible to take a photo of a man with a wooden leg ?
  • dorcas
    dorcas Member Posts: 3,516
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Don't know the answer to that one beowolf. what about this one

    The maker doesn’t want it; the buyer won’t use it; and the user doesn’t even see it. What is it?
  • dorcas
    dorcas Member Posts: 3,516
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    collywobble wrote:
    cos you need a camera :wink:

    Lynn x

    Ha Ha Lynn...it was so obvious....once you'd said it!

    Iris x
  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    dorcas wrote:
    Don't know the answer to that one beowolf. what about this one

    The maker doesn’t want it; the buyer won’t use it; and the user doesn’t even see it. What is it?

    Is it a coffin :?:

    Here's another one:

    If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it?
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  • beowolf
    beowolf Member Posts: 88
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    just off to work.... I'll be thinking about that one all day joanlawson :D

    what can you put into a barrel of water to make it lighter?
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • stlucia
    stlucia Member Posts: 392
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Wow I LOVE these!!!!! Do you think that left handers are better at these than right handers due to the left brain action?!! (Oh and that's not a puzzle!)
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,026
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    beowolf wrote:
    just off to work.... I'll be thinking about that one all day joanlawson :D

    what can you put into a barrel of water to make it lighter?

    A waterproof torch?? :lol:
  • carola
    carola Member Posts: 786
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

    I am rubbish at these. I haven't solved ANY of them so far.

    Keep them coming as I am determined to answer one :lol:

    Carol
  • cebeem
    cebeem Bots Posts: 472
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    dreamdaisy wrote:
    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

    I know it will be so obvious when you put the answer: I do not have enough flexibility in my thinking. :cry: DD

    Flexibility of thought!! hey hey!!!! I love that theory!!!! :wink: CB
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    stlucia, you are right. Left brain thinking is logic-based, so sciences and maths etc. Right brain is the artistic stuff, writing, reading, art, sculpture. Some things, eg music, overlap, both sides are used. I am basically right-brained, hence my frustration at not being able to get the hang of these. Frog, I reckon you're on the right track with the torch in the barrel. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • stlucia
    stlucia Member Posts: 392
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    dreamdaisy wrote:
    stlucia, you are right. Left brain thinking is logic-based, so sciences and maths etc. Right brain is the artistic stuff, writing, reading, art, sculpture. Some things, eg music, overlap, both sides are used. I am basically right-brained, hence my frustration at not being able to get the hang of these. Frog, I reckon you're on the right track with the torch in the barrel. DD

    That's really interesting...so I'm left handed....but I can do logic stuff but also I am quite right brained...I might look this up!
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    The brain has two hemispheres, one left and one right. If you are right handed the LH is in charge, if you are left handed, the RH. Some people are strongly to one side, ie left-eyed, left-eared, left handed, left footed, all controlled by the RH. Others are strongly the other way, so the LH is in control. Some vary: I am right-eyed, right handed and right footed, but left eared - this is known as cross-laterality as both hemispheres are playing a part, but I can write with my left hand - and do so for my left-handed pupils. I hate, however, using my right ear for the phone - it feels all wrong!

    The Catholic church spent many years tormenting left-handed people, trying to get them writing with their right hands. Their 'reasoning' (and I use that word quite loosely) was that the left being the 'sinister' side of the body the wrong forces were in control. But if right handed, the sinister part of the brain is in control.

    The majority of people are right handed, which is why left handed children get such a bum deal when being taught how to write: left handers need a diferent set of skills, a different guide to letter formation. Just look at Barack Obama and Prince William writing. An absolute disgrace to the teaching profession, the two of them.
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • stlucia
    stlucia Member Posts: 392
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    dreamdaisy wrote:
    The majority of people are right handed, which is why left handed children get such a bum deal when being taught how to write: left handers need a diferent set of skills, a different guide to letter formation. Just look at Barack Obama and Prince William writing. An absolute disgrace to the teaching profession, the two of them.

    Apart from the children who get me or you teaching them with our left hands!
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    It's not rocket science is it? I know that many people have no degree of ampidextrousness (?) but that does not excuse the complete inability to teach left handers. My heart sinks when I hear that dread phrase 'school handwriting policy'. It usually means that letters such as g and j and y cannot be joined to others. Joined zeds are based on the printed form and end up looking like the tops of castles (can't remember the right word for those bits!) Aaaaaaaaargh! Lefties naturally want to write from right to left - no wonder they struggle sometimes. They are having to write 'into' the body, not away from it - hence the fact that lefty children often sit on one foot to raise their bodies to try and give them more room. I'd better stop - I've hijacked a thread! My apologies to all the odd thinkers out there! DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • cebeem
    cebeem Bots Posts: 472
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    joanlawson wrote:
    dorcas wrote:
    Don't know the answer to that one beowolf. what about this one

    The maker doesn’t want it; the buyer won’t use it; and the user doesn’t even see it. What is it?

    Is it a coffin :?:

    Here's another one:

    If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it?

    Ah! think I know the answer ....but I can't tell you!!!! CB :|
  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Correct, CB, because it is a secret :D


    what can you put into a barrel of water to make it lighter?

    The answer is a hole.

    I drift forever with the current
    down these long canals they've made
    Tame, yet wild, I run elusive
    Multitasking to your aid.
    Before I came, the world was darker
    Colder, sometimes, rougher, true
    But though I might make living easy,
    I'm good at killing people too.
    What am I?
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  • dorcas
    dorcas Member Posts: 3,516
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Electricity?



    What is greater than God... more evil than the devil... the poor have it... the rich need it... and if you eat it you will die?
  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Correct, Dorcas. I think I know the answer to yours, but I will wait to see if anyone else guesses it.
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  • oneday
    oneday Member Posts: 1,434
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    joanlawson wrote:
    A man enters a bar and asks for a glass of water. The bartender draws a gun and shoots into the ceiling. The man thanks him and walks out. Why?

    dont know what it means my brain is like...cos..i thought its raining outside and hole in roof would let refreshing rain in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • oneday
    oneday Member Posts: 1,434
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    ninakang wrote:
    Ah, bless yer little cotton socks, CB and Toni!

    The answer is that they were looking for a MAN and the rest of the poker players were all WIMMEN.

    Nx :D

    PS - don't know the shovels one!

    i am relieved, i thought the name badge too, but felt, narrh thats a muppet answer! :D
  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    oneday wrote:
    joanlawson wrote:
    A man enters a bar and asks for a glass of water. The bartender draws a gun and shoots into the ceiling. The man thanks him and walks out. Why?

    dont know what it means my brain is like...cos..i thought its raining outside and hole in roof would let refreshing rain in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    He had hiccups and the bartender thought to scare him out of them.
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  • beowolf
    beowolf Member Posts: 88
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    hi dorcas

    is the answer to that one....nothing ?

    a man rushes to the hospital with his son who has been badly injured. The boy is being prepared for surgery but the doctor says ,I cannot operate on this boy for he is my son .

    how is this possible?
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    beowolf wrote:
    hi dorcas

    is the answer to that one....nothing ?

    a man rushes to the hospital with his son who has been badly injured. The boy is being prepared for surgery but the doctor says ,I cannot operate on this boy for he is my son .

    how is this possible?

    his mother
    val
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Either you're googling these valval, or you are very left-brained! Are you good at maths, science, logic puzzles etc? I was actually going to put 'the surgeon's a woman' but you beat me to it! DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben

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