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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: On the QT who wrote (33763)4/5/1999 9:58:00 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I add another puzzle, with an air of international business. A sailor buys a beer for $.05 US (very old story) in Detroit, and pays for it with a Washington (U.S. dollar). Owing to the $.05 difference in bid and ask in foreign exchange rates, the $US is worth $1.05 Canadian (, so the Bartender gives him a $C (a Loonie) in change. The sailor walks across the bridge to Canada and buys a $.05 C beer and pays with the Loonie. Owing to a $.05 bid and ask difference, the Loonie is worth $1.05 U.S. in Windsor, and the barkeep gives him a Washington in change. The sailor, sensing he is on to a good cheap drunk walks back across the bridge to his original bar and buys another beer with his Loonie and gets a Washington in change --- usw. He ends up drunk as a skunk with his original U.S. dollar bill, is arrested by the Shore Patrol and severely beaten.

Problem: Who paid for the beer?

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