That would be cool. We must know someone who could sell it for us.

A nut to crack:

A man is sitting in a bar feeling rather poor. He sees the man next to him pull a wad of 100 dollar bills out of his wallet.
He turns to the rich man and says to him,
"I have an amazing talent; I know almost every song that has ever existed."
The rich man laughs.
The poor man says, "I am willing to bet you all the money you have in your wallet that I can sing a genuine song with a lady's name of your choice in it."
The rich man laughs again and says, "OK, how about my daughter's name, Joanna Armstrong-Miller?"
The rich man goes home poor. The poor man goes home rich.

What song did he sing?

Happy Birthday, dear

Happy Birthday to youUUUUUUUUU!

Had you already heard that, or did it just come to you? Thought it might be an oldie, but I'm easily stumped on things like that.

I am familiar with that song, yes.







*chuckle*

To answer your question, I did just "figure it out"; I had never heard that mental nut before. I like it, thanks!

Why you, you...

(who you calling a you you?)

;)

By the way, hanging out with me is to suffer these kinds of attempts at humor on a regular basis; to deliberately respond to an unintended alternate meaning (some would say deliberate misinterpretation, but not in a hostile way) as a way of displaying my cleverness.

You've been warned.

Oh, I'm good with that. I'm constantly displaying my cleverness. :D

Not me. I usually get it caught on the edge of my pocket or something and drop it, or when I show it, it's upside down or something.

I gather it's still entertaining. :eyebrow:

Like a clown? Entertaining like a clown?

Decapitate me and all becomes equal. Then truncate me and I become second. Cut me front and back and I become two less than I started.

What am I?

III

Roman numeral three

Nope.

Is it some kind of insignia a military person of one kind or another might wear on their sleeve or hat?

(Sorry, not good on military terms)

A hobo?

No. And no worries, either am I, and for that, I salute you! Major Depressive! (Please to refer to my general update thread if this makes no sense!) ;)

No, but thanks for reminding me I have a hobo trunk thawing for dinner. :yum:

HINT: BigV was on the right track.

[shame] I looked it up [/shame]
I wouldn't have worked it out.

No shame in looking it up if you're not pretending you guessed it, silly girl. ;)

The letter 'M'?

Nossir.

This is a good puzzle. I don't have the answer yet, but it's percolating in my head. :D

It's called being intellectually lazy :blush:

So, by extension, since I am actively working on this puzzle, but not solving it, I am not lazy. But my failure means that I'm intellectually inadequate?

Who exactly are you calling stupid?

Still thinking about this one.

Let me know when y'all want to cry uncle.

give me a moment to think about this

It has to do with words, not symbols, but I'm stumped at how ALL can contain EQUAL and then become second...

(I cheated.) Unless I missed something in the explanation, I don't think ALL is relevant. I also got hung up on that, which contributed to me looking it up.

The puzzle again, for convenience:

Decapitate me and all becomes equal. Then truncate me and I become second. Cut me front and back and I become two less than I started.

What am I?



The official answer from braingle.com:

The word Seven.

seven
even (equal)
eve (2nd person, according to the Bible)
v (Roman numeral five; two less than seven)

Ahh, I'd figured out the steps, but not the starting point, and had gone down the same blind alley as HM. Nice.

that was good! Thank you im. I liked that one, though I was unable to figure it out.

More, please.

Try this one:

A man worked for a high-security institution, and one day he went in to work only to find that he could not log in to his computer terminal. His password wouldn't work. Then he remembered that the passwords are reset every month for security purposes. So he went to his boss and they had this conversation:
Man-"Hey boss, my password is out of date."
Boss-"Yes, that's right. The password is different, but if you listen carefully you should be able to figure out the new one: It has the same amount of letters as your old password, but only four of the letters are the same."
Man: "Thanks boss."
With that, he went and correctly logged into his station.
What was the new password?
BONUS: What was his old password?

The new password is "different"

i forfeit the bonus

I liked this too. Disappointed I didn't get a bit closer.

'out of date'

You're right, UT and Rhianne.

New one:

Joesph walked Chuck, a potential new employee, through his company. He briefly went over the safety precautions of a couple machines used, their uses, and regular day-to-day activity. Joseph was very impressed with Chuck's qualifications and knowledge on the workings of his business. Chuck was applying for a position in shipping. Joseph took him by the wall with a single dollar hung up. He proudly explained that it was the first dollar he ever made almost 20 years ago, when the business first started. Finally Joseph brought the man outside and showed him his parking spot. Chuck thanked Joseph for the tour, but then directed Joseph to put his hands over his head.

What happened?

aw crap! :D :D

You know this one too?

ARGHHHH.

I don't know which ones are well known or easy or hard...

Is Joseph a counterfeiter, and the machines are all printing presses, and the dollar was the first bogus bill he printed?

Yes.

I'll try to find trickier ones. They're all tricky to me.

;)

You are on your way to visit your Grandma, who lives at the end of the valley. It's her birthday, and you want to give her the cakes you've made.

Between your house and her house, you have to cross 7 bridges, and as it goes in the land of make believe, there is a troll under every bridge! Each troll, quite rightly, insists that you pay a troll toll. Before you can cross their bridge, you have to give them half of the cakes you are carrying, but as they are kind trolls, they each give you back a single cake.

How many cakes do you have to leave home with to make sure that you arrive at Grandma's with exactly 2 cakes?

Another one:

A palindrome is a word that reads the same when spelled backwards (eg rotavator).
How could the following word be considered a palindrome?

FOOTSTOOL

2 CAKES

Yes. :D

and I didn't even cheat. I started thinking I'd go backwards from the last troll... and then oh, duh.

What's funny is I would've been stumped for hours. My mind isn't even remotely logical. :)

FOOTSTOO╘



...that's probably wrong

I know this one but I'm not gonna give an answer. My parents sprung this one on me a couple of months ago. It'd feel like cheating.

Top Management?

Wish I'd had the chance on the logic ones :(
But I am willing to admit I cannot think outside the box.

When written in morse code?

..-. --- --- - ... - --- --- .-..

DING!