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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 2 1 2 Re: Trickt test #141720 04/15/05 07:16 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta 10/11. The one I got wrong was the one about how many outs there are an innings. Wouldn't it depend on the relative skill of the batsman and the bowler? It could be anywhere from 0 to 6. Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Trickt test #141721 04/15/05 10:31 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 how many outs there are an innings Ahem. It wasn't "how many outs there are an innings", it was "how many outs there are an inning'. Note the singular form. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re:inning/innings #141722 04/15/05 12:01 PM Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 500 Northern Ontario, Canada E Elizabeth Creith addict Elizabeth Creith addict E Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 500 Northern Ontario, Canada I'm a spinnner, and the yarn that is initially spun from the fibre is called a singles, not a single. Two singles (the plural and singular are the same, like "sheep"; is this a wool thing maybe?) twisted together makes a two-ply yarn - three is three-ply, etc. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Trickt test #141723 04/15/05 12:14 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta I did notice the lack of an 's' but assumed it was a typo. Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Trickt test #141724 04/15/05 10:41 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 11/11 here but I also got the "only three people" comment - they should change that. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Trickt test #141725 04/15/05 11:04 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 assumed it was a typo Well, irregardless of whether or not, etc., Where do you get 0 to 6? Isn't it more like 0 to 10? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter write our own #141726 05/05/05 02:27 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,893 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,893 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA Me too, 11 for 11. ...and, in spite of all our sterling perfection, it _still_ says "Only 3 people have ever scored this high..." They left out some other rusty old saws: 12) On its maiden flight from London to Washington, DC, a giant new Airbus with 830 people on board crashes into the Atlantic Ocean. Where do they bury the survivors? -- [Don't Know? London? Washington? Paris? At sea? Somewhere else?] 13) A train leaves from New York City and heads West at 100 miles an hour, and simultaneously on the same track another train heads East from San Francisco at 60 mph, Assume the two cities are exactly 3,200 miles apart, and there are no stops or delays along the way. How far apart will the trains be when they meet? --[Don't know? 2,000 miles? 1,200 miles? 0 miles? 20 hours?] 14) A barn is aligned perfectly North and South, and a rooster is perched exactly at the top of the roof facing East. It lays an egg on the peak. The wind is blowing from the West at 10 mph. Down which side of the roof will the egg roll (*)? --[Don't Know? South Side? East Side? West Side? All around the town?] *Now be serious, and don't go distracting yourself by making silly Chinese Restaurant puns! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Trickt test #141727 05/05/05 03:57 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 48 Central Ohio S Saranita newbie Saranita newbie S Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 48 Central Ohio 10 out of 11 I protest on the apple question that it's unclear, but if someone else says I knew from the title I was being "trickt" and should have known not to go with the obvious answer, I guess I couldn't in good conscience argue with their contrary and argumentative self. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: write our own #141728 05/05/05 10:11 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 14) A barn is aligned perfectly North and South, and a rooster is perched exactly at the top of the roof facing East. It lays an egg on the peak. The wind is blowing from the West at 10 mph. Down which side of the roof will the egg roll (*)? --[Don't Know? South Side? East Side? West Side? All around the town?] Make it a peacock and you might get more suckers. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter I know I said it, but... #141729 05/15/05 07:13 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,893 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,893 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA Even so. As I recall, what's supposed to hatch out of a rooster egg is a cockatrice. A.k.a. Basilisk, last heard from within the Chamber of Secrets deep below Hogwarts... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 2 1 2 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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