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Just to lower the tone . . . . .
. . . . Mel Brook’s Masterpiece Blazing Saddles – I can speak along every line, sing every song and laugh at every joke before it comes . . . . . . you’d have to love either me or the film deeply to survive.
Oh and the Blues Brothers – John Belushi making googly eyes at Fisher in the storm drain has me hooting every time. The SWAT team “Hup! Hup! Hup!” ing their way up to the Cook County assessor’s office. and the car crashes – even now I know they’re coming (and I know every one of them) they still leave me open-mouthed.
What’s incredible watching it now is how slow its pace seems in comparison to recent action films.
@mrs_teapot wrote:
Ha ha!… correct Eve
I googled this:
Paul is 20 years old in 1980, but only 15 years old in 1985. How is this possible?
I thought OK… simply not possible till I read the answer….simple :D
Don’t google :D
Is 1985 an address? Two different ‘Paul’s?
@mrs_teapot wrote:
. . . . I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you. . . . . .
Quote of the century for me.
During the riots last year, my daughter and her friends had to take refuge in one of their offices in London and I went to pick her up. Unfortunately when I said going to get her made me feel “like Liam fukin Neeson”, she just said, “not quite dad!”
Is Le Penne living in the pasta?
@rogue trader wrote:
im not bothered,she was like an albatross,round my neck.
Good job she buzzard off then
@sceptical guy wrote:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
I know what you have said is true jen…. but I still get confused thinking it through :D
:idea: hehe
you’re right to be confused, Mrs T
Jen didn’t get it right, at least not in the arithmetic.
Each customer paid £10. They recevied back £1 as part of their over-payment. That means that each customer ended up paying £9 for the meal. The puzzle remains, so that certy is rightly confused.
Jen will have to explain it more clearly, as she has added aritmetical confusion to create a linguistic puzzle all of her own lol
no offence meant, Jen. Biut over to you, mah dear
You are right to be confused Mrs T, not about Jen’s answer, but about the original question.
Permit me to suck the joy out of the thread by explaining.
It asks about a pound which is not actually missing. A bit like asking what happened to the inches which would have made me 6 ft tall, you can add in any other factors and repeat the question as often as you like, but nothing’s actually missing.
See J’s calculation – they paid out £27 which is £9 x 3.
£25 for the meal. One third of £25 is £8 6s 8d, or eight and one third pounds (at least it was when this puzzle was invented).
£2 went to the waiter. That is the end of it.
The figure of £29 is only arrived at by adding in the waiter’s ‘tip’ twice.
So Jen is right and so are you because the question is meant to confuse.
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@panda12 wrote:
So she went to see her friend, Canny Stan.
At least she thought he was a friend, but he turned out to be a right bustard
@jen_jen wrote:
@wordsworth60 wrote:
For a writer to be even mentioned in the same span as Waugh and Swift is praise indeed!
Well done Coathanger! 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
It’s only praise if the comparison is flattering…
It’s relative. A writer can compare unfavourably to Swift and Waugh and still be a First Division,even if not a Premier League writer Now if Sceptical had mentioned, say Katie Price, You’d be looking way down the rankings. Bearing in mind that coathanger doesn’t show pretensions to be even a semi-professional writer, I stand by my observation.
For a writer to be even mentioned in the same span as Waugh and Swift is praise indeed!
Well done Coathanger! 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
