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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke
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To: Henry Volquardsen who wrote (8918)3/11/1999 12:45:00 PM
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I believe the riddle was "The ship is twice as old as the boiler was when the ship was as old as the boiler is."

The ship is 60. The boiler has to be 45, because when the ship was 45 the boiler was 30 which is half as old as the ship is.
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