| Author | Message | ||
| Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
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I suppose I really shouldn't expect others to think as strangely as I, but I did respond to a co-worker with the title statement when he asked for a technical solution. I did relent and provide the requested solution afterwards (but first I had to explain why I had brought up monkeys in the first place, which pretty much sucked all the fun out of it). Anyhow, I don't think they'll even let us have monkeys here, and I'm not about to ask anyone, either. So what possible question could prompt me to say something as silly as that? | ||
| Dref (Dref)
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Strange thinking is one of my fortes, so I'll give it a shot. Do you work mainly with computers? Is typing relevant here? | ||
| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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Was he hoping to write the complete works of Shakespeare? | ||
| Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
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By Dref (Dref) on Monday, January 31, 2005 - 08:05 pm: Strange thinking is one of my fortes, so I'll give it a shot. Cool beans. Do you work mainly with computers? Yup. Is typing relevant here? Nope. ================================================ By Simon Downham (Beroean) on Monday, January 31, 2005 - 08:18 pm: Was he hoping to write the complete works of Shakespeare? Nope (I have a feeling Dref was headed the same direction...). | ||
| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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Monkey = a furry mammal? Monkey = a code/symbol for something else? Monkey = something else? | ||
| Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
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By Simon Downham (Beroean) on Monday, January 31, 2005 - 08:27 pm: Monkey = a furry mammal? Yes--with a tail, too (otherwise it'd be an ape). Monkey = a code/symbol for something else? Nope. Monkey = something else? Nope. | ||
| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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with a tail, too (otherwise it'd be an ape). But would it be an ape if the tail had ben amputated? Was the query to do with comnputering then? | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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But would it be an ape if the tail had ben amputated? No. Then it would be an ap. Are there any peanuts involved in this puzzle? | ||
| Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
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By Simon Downham (Beroean) on Monday, January 31, 2005 - 08:37 pm: with a tail, too (otherwise it'd be an ape). But would it be an ape if the tail had ben amputated? Don't know--I would think not, but then I have little patience with the "tree falls in the forest" bit, too.  Was the query to do with comnputering then? Indeed it was. | ||
| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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Was the query to do with: programming? Software? Hardware? Other? | ||
| Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
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By David Burn (Woubit) on Monday, January 31, 2005 - 08:39 pm: But would it be an ape if the tail had ben amputated? No. Then it would be an ap. But if a person claiming such had a speech impediment would it become a snake? Are there any peanuts involved in this puzzle? Nope. | ||
| Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
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By Simon Downham (Beroean) on Monday, January 31, 2005 - 08:42 pm: Was the query to do with: programming? Yesish-to-yes. Software? Yesish. Hardware? No. Other? er....kinda. | ||
| Dref (Dref)
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Was the work debugging? | ||
| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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was the query indirectly related to software? | ||
| Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
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By Dref (Dref) on Monday, January 31, 2005 - 08:45 pm: Was the work debugging? No (although an interesting image for that process...) ================================================ By Simon Downham (Beroean) on Monday, January 31, 2005 - 08:45 pm: was the query indirectly related to software? You could say that, or it could be argued that it was directly related. It's sort of a particular area of programming with relevant specific software, but it isn't really necessary to know exactly to solve the puzzle. | ||
| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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was the work dechickening? | ||
| Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
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By Simon Downham (Beroean) on Monday, January 31, 2005 - 08:53 pm: was the work dechickening? No, although there was this duck wearing rollerblades... | ||
| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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Your colleague exclaimed "there's a duck shooting down here on rollerblades, how can we catch him" and you retorted, "use a monkey!" ? Was your reference of monkey drawn from the LPTF? Or something else we need to discover? | ||
| Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
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By Simon Downham (Beroean) on Monday, January 31, 2005 - 09:06 pm: Your colleague exclaimed "there's a duck shooting down here on rollerblades, how can we catch him" and you retorted, "use a monkey!" ? No, that's a different puzzle, in fact. Was your reference of monkey drawn from the LPTF? No. Or something else we need to discover? Definitely--at the least there's a lurking F/A or two out there... | ||
| Alizon (Alizon)
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Did the using of a monkey refer to some dull and/or repetitive work even a monkey could perform? | ||
| Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
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By Alizon (Alizon) on Monday, January 31, 2005 - 09:36 pm: Did the using of a monkey refer to some dull and/or repetitive work even a monkey could perform? No, it was more in the nature of an obscure pop-culture reference, I suppose. | ||
| Arjun (Jun)
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Any programming/computer lingo involved? Did he ask you how he should move from one tree (directory structure) to another? |
