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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
Fly, you stole my firsties!

*taps a blasting rod irritably against her leg*

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
*stands in a circle of candles* Bah! You don't show up at the end of the last thread, and here you come pouncing into this one! I saw the new thread as soon as it was posted, but you still got here first! That's you being on my side? *tap tap tap* Flyvote, Flyvote, Flyvote... *shakes head* You disappoint me.

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Originally posted by RiverIsMyGoddess:
The answer I had was similar, ask each one how the other would respond.

There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is 5'10" and he wears size 13 sneakers. He has a wife and 2 kids. What does he weigh?

~jimi

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*considers* Yeah, okay, joining forces sounds good. Would be silly of me to pass up that offer over a firstie poaching.

Now what? We go bust ghosts or something?

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Originally posted by FlyVote:
Gotta leave the vampires alone. I'm married to one.

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Originally posted by FlyVote:
Gotta leave the vampires alone. I'm married to one.

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Wubba-huh?
*isn't sure she wants to know*
*but kinda does*

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
Aw, naw, you can't dance around it like that! No fair! Does she drink blood? I won't think it's overly weird if she drinks blood. You have no idea what varied and unusual people I've come across in my life.

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*edit* Okay, but until you tell me different, I'm just gonna assume your wife likes blood.

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
Well that's not really a vampire then, is it?

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Originally posted by RiverIsMyGoddess:
I've also been accused of being an energy vampire, taking from people until they just don't have the will to do any thing while I am refreshed on their strife. Yeah, I know that sounds f*cked up, but that's how it is.

As for other vampiric qualities, she could be pale, nocturnal, have an aversion to garlic or crosses or silver, or any of a number of other stereotypical vampiric qualities.

I am leaving for the day. The highest amount of change possible without having change for a dollar is $1.19, and it's 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies. Y'all have a good day.

~jimi

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Originally posted by RiverIsMyGoddess:
I've also been accused of being an energy vampire, taking from people until they just don't have the will to do any thing while I am refreshed on their strife. Yeah, I know that sounds f*cked up, but that's how it is.

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As for other vampiric qualities, she could be pale, nocturnal, have an aversion to garlic or crosses or silver, or any of a number of other stereotypical vampiric qualities.

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
*glare* Thought you were supposed to be on my side?

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My banter got killed by too many oversensitive boys. Sorry.
I just finished Grave Peril, about to start on Summer Knight. The joys of being unemployed

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Originally asked by RiverIsMyGoddess: You are walking down a road and you encounter a fork in the road, and you do not know the correct way to go. There are two men standing at the junction and both know the correct road. One man always lies, and the other man always tells the truth, but you do not know who is the liar and who is the one who tells the truth. You can only ask each man one question, but it must be the same question for both. What is the question that would allow you to get the information necessary to choose the correct path?

Answered by PR: The question that needs to be asked is, I think, "If I were to ask if this road leads to where I want to go, would you tell me 'yes'?"

Response by RIMG: The answer I had was similar, ask each one how the other would respond.

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Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:

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Originally asked by RiverIsMyGoddess: You are walking down a road and you encounter a fork in the road, and you do not know the correct way to go. There are two men standing at the junction and both know the correct road. One man always lies, and the other man always tells the truth, but you do not know who is the liar and who is the one who tells the truth. You can only ask each man one question, but it must be the same question for both. What is the question that would allow you to get the information necessary to choose the correct path?

Answered by PR: The question that needs to be asked is, I think, "If I were to ask if this road leads to where I want to go, would you tell me 'yes'?"

Response by RIMG: The answer I had was similar, ask each one how the other would respond.

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*blink, blink*
Um. Asking each man about their own path wouldn't provide for the logical conclusion that asking about how their counter-part would respond provides; regardless of which man is on which road, their answers will be the same and no conclusion can be drawn. You need to elicit a different response from each in order to reason through the scenarios.

However, instead of sorting through all the IFs, THENs, and THEREFOREs, my question would be this:

"Can I borrow your f**king map?"

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...You see?

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Dear one!

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*HEART!*

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
No, see, if you ask the liar "If I asked you if this was the road I needed to take to get to such-and-such, would you say yes?" it would trap him. If the answer was 'no' then he would have said 'yes' to the direct question, which means he would be forced to say 'no' to whether he would say yes, because he would lie about it. So you take that no and it's a 'no, this is not the road to take.' Works the same if the answer was yes and he would have said no but then has to lie about what he would have said, so you get a 'yes, this is the road to take.' then you ask the other guy, the truthful one, about the other road and get the opposite answer, whichever way it goes, and you take whatever road you got a 'yes' to. You wouldn't get a yes to both because the truthful one would answer, um, truthfully.

...You see?


Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
A troll's hair is still pointy, even when it's wearing a hat.

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