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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke
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To: Henry Volquardsen who wrote (8918)3/12/1999 12:25:00 AM
From: Yorikke  Read Replies (2) of 62549
 
Always nice to see things at work...

..if the answer isn't right just change the question. Works every time!!

I suggest you consider a career in politics. You are sure to make a great elected official.

The ship is 60. that was a fact. It was not a question. Who cares what the answer is when the ship is 67.5? By then the ship is going to have to retire anyway!

"A ship is twice as old as its boiler was when the ship was as old as the boiler is. If the ship is, say, 60 yrs old, how old is the boiler?"

x=2y
x=y
x=60
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3x=3y+60

x=y+20

60=y+20 As that's the ships age.
y=40

Of course I'll accept your answer if it means you are going to feel bad if you got a wrong one. Maybe we are both right. Hell we are all right! Lets drag the damn ship to court for even thinking about playing such a sad game on the boiler.

To suggest that a ship would get another boiler after the first boiler had done such a good job is really not quite ship shape. One wonders if the ship even compensated the first boiler or simply exploited it for its own purposes.

Henry....i got so carried away I lost track of who said what...ahh well so you are right after all...and we both are too....I feel so much better now..
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