Question of the day

[Wanderer]

Here’s a quick one, which novel rather predictably ends with...

‘.....live foam or a sage Tahiti cat’?

 

[zagatoes30]

The one that starts with 'Tacit, I hate gas (aroma of evil).....' maybe

 

[Wanderer]

The one that starts with 'Tacit, I hate gas (aroma of evil).....' maybe

Yep, but the title is a palindrome too, well two palindromes actually...

 

[JonW]

I sometimes worry I waste too much time being distracted and doing pointless stuff (like browsing on this forum, etc...)

Then I read about people who wrote a palindromic novel where the title is a palindrome (or two), and the first “sentence” of the book and the last “sentence” are also palindromes.

This leads me to think everything in my life is fine and I’ve got nothing to worry about!

 

[zagatoes30]

Ok as it's the Ryder Cup this weekend let's see if we have any Golf nerds on here.

Whose figure adorns the Ryder Cup?

 

[midlifecrisis]

Sue?

 

[zagatoes30]

Sue?

Very good but I'm not feeling charitable today so incorrect

 

[MarkMas]

Europa?

 

[Wanderer]

I sometimes worry I waste too much time being distracted and doing pointless stuff (like browsing on this forum, etc...)

Then I read about people who wrote a palindromic novel where the title is a palindrome (or two), and the first “sentence” of the book and the last “sentence” are also palindromes.

This leads me to think everything in my life is fine and I’ve got nothing to worry about!

The whole novel is a palindrome, think it was 39,000 words long.

 

[midlifecrisis]

Tiger... Am i a stuck record..

 

[zagatoes30]

No, it was a person

 

[zagatoes30]

Looks good no golf nerds, clue time

Although his likeness attended the first Ryder Cup he didn't

 

[zagatoes30]

The silence is deafening but as Europe have now won the Ryder Cup I best put you out of your misery

The figure on the cup is Abe Mitchell, he was going to be the first captain but unfortunately had to withdraw due appendicitis.

As no correct answers, I am going to award the baton to MLC purely as Sue had me giggling all day

 

[midlifecrisis]

Not Tiger or Sue then, and I was referring to Mr Woods... Lol
Give me a moment to think of a stinker...

 

[midlifecrisis]

Here's the question

Imagine you have a 1.2kg cucumber that is 99% water, how much would it weigh if you reduced its water content to 98%.

 

[MarkMas]

Half?

Doesn't seem intuitively right, but my maths says:

start with a 1.2kg cucumber
99% water, so 1.188 kg of water
1% left, so 0.012 kg not-water

reducing water to 98%, leaves same amount of not-water
0.012 kg of not-water is 2% of the cucumber
so 1% of the cucumber is 0.006 kg
so 100% of the cucumber weighs 0.6 kg

 

[CatmanV2]

<virtual coconut>

C

 

[Oliver6796]

I make it 1.188 kg

 

[daverichardson]

Where is the Vicar in this question?

 

[zagatoes30]

Oops wrong room, I seem to have walked in to a Maths lecture by mistake