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Four-cornered cow inheritance
While travelling down a road in a socialist country you meet a group of four young men and women sitting in the front porch of their house, with a lively cattle ranch adjoining.
"Our father died, ...
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What language am I learning?
I arrive at the location I've agreed with my European friend, who is teaching me their native language. Today we're learning some history of their country.
But to aid in my learning, I've been banned ...
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Hero Worms and The Minotaur
And so, Wormeus had a great time, eating every apple in sight, surviving several close calls with the Pink Lady Stickotaurs, respawning after the occasional horribly squishy death, exploring different ...
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A silly silly question
Grandpa and I went on a nice camping trip away from it all for hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, kayaking you name it.
After a rather adventurous yet successful day we were walking back to the tent ...
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Where is Jimmy's father? [duplicate]
(It's an old soviet math problem, no tricks or anything here)
Jimmy is 21 years younger than his mother.
Six years from now, Jimmy's mother will be five times as old as Jimmy.
Where is Jimmy's ...
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Who drinks beer while running anyway?
A variant (I don't have the book in front of me, so this is a paraphrase) of this puzzle was in the book Brainteasers and Mindbenders, by Robert Hamilton. It has stuck in my mind since I read it in ...
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The devil virus [duplicate]
A somewhat easy puzzle for those familiar with Linux.
The Devil has found a way to make a Linux virus that, once executed on the right Linux machine, will break every single computer in the world ...
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James Bond : No Access
James Bond, while working on a top-secret case for many weeks in deep enemy territory, finally collected and stored lots of critical files on his tight-security Linux system. Even though the system ...
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Jump over a bottle? [closed]
A friend of mine challenged me to jump over a bottle on the floor. I'm good at jumping over obstacles so I accepted. But then I realized that I couldn't do it!
Why? Explain!
Notes: I'm not ...
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A man walks into a bar [closed]
He asks for a glass of water. The bartender pulls out a shotgun and points it at him. The man says, thank you and leaves. Why did he thank him??
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