Caption contest?

I don't think this link works. At least it doesn't for me.

"Dewey B" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I don't think this link works. At least it doesn't for me.

It does if you paste the end in the line belolw onto the link.

It is the top-left photo in this link:
http://criterium.ledauphine.com/criterium05/index.php

The previous link shows a "..." instead of an underscore.

Jim Flom said:

"Dewey B" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I don't think this link works. At least it doesn't for me.

It does if you paste the end in the line belolw onto the link.

Dewey B said:

I don't think this link works. At least it doesn't for me.

And which of them is saying that?

You know it's bedtime when the big hand touches the little hand.

Is that a roll of certs in your pocket....

When team doctors become more important.....

Steven L. Sheffield said:

Samuel Dumoulin (of AG2R) & Vincent Lavenu (team director of AG2R) after the
finish of yesterday's stage in the Dauphine Libere ...

http://www.criterium.ledauphine.com/criterium05/uploads/illustrations/actual
ite_217.jpg

David Ferguson said:

You know it's bedtime when the big hand touches the little hand.

Trivia question: how many times per day does this happen?

Stewart Fleming said:

David Ferguson said:

You know it's bedtime when the big hand touches the little hand.

Trivia question: how many times per day does this happen?

Hopefully you realize that the big hand and little hand being referred
to are of the persons in the picture, not the hands on a clock.

But if you go noon to noon and count both noon the hands cross each
other 23 times.

D

Stewart Fleming said:

David Ferguson said:

You know it's bedtime when the big hand touches the little hand.

Trivia question: how many times per day does this happen?

24

Me said:

Stewart Fleming said:

David Ferguson said:

You know it's bedtime when the big hand touches the little hand.

Trivia question: how many times per day does this happen?

24

Start at an hour (any hour, 12 is handy), the hands "touching"
(pointing to the same spot on the dial), go around all the rest of the
numbers twice (24hr day), back to the same time, it's 25 times. Some
clocks, that's three hands "touching".

IME, if the hands do actually touch, you need to straighten the bent
one so they don't snag and stop progress. Then the clock will show
correct time more than twice a day.
--Tom "waiting for something important to do" Paterson

Quoted message said:

Me said:

Stewart Fleming said:

David Ferguson wrote:
> You know it's bedtime when the big hand touches the little hand.

Trivia question: how many times per day does this happen?

24

Start at an hour (any hour, 12 is handy), the hands "touching"
(pointing to the same spot on the dial), go around all the rest of the
numbers twice (24hr day), back to the same time, it's 25 times. Some
clocks, that's three hands "touching".

IME, if the hands do actually touch, you need to straighten the bent
one so they don't snag and stop progress. Then the clock will show
correct time more than twice a day.
--Tom "waiting for something important to do" Paterson

No, you are mistaken. In the 11th hour they do not touch because that
time is 12:00. So if you count both starting points it is 23 times.

If it were as simple as what you are stating then there would be no
point in asking the question. That 11th hour is what makes the
question tricky and worth asking.

12:00 Noon
1:06 pm
2:12 pm
3:17 pm
4:23 pm
5:28 pm
6:33 pm
7:39 pm
8:44 pm
9:50 pm
10:55 pp
12:00 Midnight
1:06 am
2:12 am
3:17 am
4:23 am
5:28 am
6:33 am
7:39 am
8:44 am
9:50 am
10:55 am
12:00 Noon

That's 23.

D

David Ferguson said:

No, you are mistaken. In the 11th hour they do not touch because that
time is 12:00. So if you count both starting points it is 23 times.

If it were as simple as what you are stating then there would be no
point in asking the question. That 11th hour is what makes the
question tricky and worth asking.

12:00 Noon
1:06 pm
2:12 pm
3:17 pm
4:23 pm
5:28 pm
6:33 pm
7:39 pm
8:44 pm
9:50 pm
10:55 pp
12:00 Midnight
1:06 am
2:12 am
3:17 am
4:23 am
5:28 am
6:33 am
7:39 am
8:44 am
9:50 am
10:55 am
12:00 Noon

That's 23.

D

OK, fine, but you're the one with the date of 11 on your watch. Or 12,
if you did it twice to double check...

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

Curtis L. Russell said:

David Ferguson said:

No, you are mistaken. In the 11th hour they do not touch because that
time is 12:00. So if you count both starting points it is 23 times.

If it were as simple as what you are stating then there would be no
point in asking the question. That 11th hour is what makes the
question tricky and worth asking.

12:00 Noon
1:06 pm
2:12 pm
3:17 pm
4:23 pm
5:28 pm
6:33 pm
7:39 pm
8:44 pm
9:50 pm
10:55 pp
12:00 Midnight
1:06 am
2:12 am
3:17 am
4:23 am
5:28 am
6:33 am
7:39 am
8:44 am
9:50 am
10:55 am
12:00 Noon

That's 23.

D

OK, fine, but you're the one with the date of 11 on your watch. Or 12,
if you did it twice to double check...

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

Lol, I don't need to check. It's an old IQ test question that gets
asked all of the time. I'm guilty of being one of those people who
actually enjoys aptitude, personality and IQ tests.

Questions are often repeated from test to test, like-

Ten people can paint 60 houses in 120 days, so five people can paint
30 houses in?

D

David Ferguson said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

No, you are mistaken. In the 11th hour they do not touch because that
time is 12:00. So if you count both starting points it is 23 times.

Quoted message said:

Lol, I don't need to check. It's an old IQ test question that gets
asked all of the time. I'm guilty of being one of those people who
actually enjoys aptitude, personality and IQ tests.

You fail. You can't count both the starting and ending 12:00. If
12:00 am on Monday belongs to Monday, then the next 12:00 am belongs
to Tuesday. Ask how many times it happens in two days, and the answer
should be twice as many times as it happens in one day (i.e. 44
and 22). This is only true if you count either starting 12:00 or
ending 12:00, but not both.

Ben
hates IQ tests as a short-bus rider should

Quoted message said:

Questions are often repeated from test to test, like-

Ten people can paint 60 houses in 120 days, so five people can paint
30 houses in?

If it takes 10 people and 2 days to paint a single house, the painting
company isn't going to last very long.

email hidden said:

David Ferguson said:

Quoted message said:

>No, you are mistaken. In the 11th hour they do not touch because that
>time is 12:00. So if you count both starting points it is 23 times.

Quoted message said:

Lol, I don't need to check. It's an old IQ test question that gets
asked all of the time. I'm guilty of being one of those people who
actually enjoys aptitude, personality and IQ tests.

You fail. You can't count both the starting and ending 12:00. If
12:00 am on Monday belongs to Monday, then the next 12:00 am belongs
to Tuesday. Ask how many times it happens in two days, and the answer
should be twice as many times as it happens in one day (i.e. 44
and 22). This is only true if you count either starting 12:00 or
ending 12:00, but not both.

Ben
hates IQ tests as a short-bus rider should

Quoted message said:

Questions are often repeated from test to test, like-

Ten people can paint 60 houses in 120 days, so five people can paint
30 houses in?

If it takes 10 people and 2 days to paint a single house, the painting
company isn't going to last very long.

I qualified my statement in the original reply, saying IF you count
both noons. And if you don't count both noons it would be 22. I didn't
think I needed to do the math for that one. The point being that it's
not 25 (or even 24 if you don't count both noons).

What you may find interesting is that the debate about 12:00 rages on
as it can be argued that it belongs to neither AM or PM. The terms 12
Noon or 12 Midnight are used to avoid confusions. So saying "12 AM
belongs to Tuesday" creates confusion.
Some people call 12AM Noon.

And I suppose one 12 Midnight would belong to one day and the next
would belong to another but I wonder which day 12 Midnight belongs to.
The day that is ending or the day that is starting.

12 Noon, is that morning or afternoon...... or just noon for a
fraction of a second. By the time you said it it would be afternoon,
unless you started to say it before 12 noon to time it just right.

See what you started.

D

In article <[email hidden]>,

Quoted post said:

Ben
hates IQ tests as a short-bus rider should

As long as you weren't wearing a hockey helmet on that bus...

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Questions are often repeated from test to test, like-

Ten people can paint 60 houses in 120 days, so five people can paint
30 houses in?

If it takes 10 people and 2 days to paint a single house, the painting
company isn't going to last very long.

So does that make you a Keynesian, or not?!?!?

--
tanx,
Howard

Butter is love.

remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

Quoted message said:

Ask how many times it happens in two days, and the answer
should be twice as many times as it happens in one day

The French think something happening in a week is 8 days from now but
something happening in two weeks is 15 days from now.

Quoted message said:

hates IQ tests as a short-bus rider should

Ouch.

David Ferguson said:

Hopefully you realize that the big hand and little hand being referred
to are of the persons in the picture, not the hands on a clock.

Yes, I guessed that.

Quoted message said:

But if you go noon to noon and count both noon the hands cross each
other 23 times.

Now the followup - at what exact times?

Howard Kveck said:

Quoted message said:

If it takes 10 people and 2 days to paint a single house, the painting
company isn't going to last very long.

So does that make you a Keynesian, or not?!?!?

In the long run, we are all Keynesians.

Stewart Fleming said:

Now the followup - at what exact times?

http://mathforum.org/pom/sols1.96.html
Assignment 3, solve for a=0.

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