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Since it's an electric train, it produces zero smoke, however since I also took a train weekly 2 hours for a girl I was 'seeing' on the weekends for about 8 months I will also say there is smoke always (smoking car before dining car yuck).....even without a smoking car you'd have the baggage guys with a bong in the caboose/last car hiding. Train life is interesting I'd say the least....on the ones I rode, I'd say this should some possible interaction come up....you have about 1-2 empty cars usually to get it out of the way. Only once did I have a train guy come back and break me up saying 'This is a matter of National security....you realize I can have you and her removed and arrested at the next stop...'
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we went back to our seat and put a blanket over us....yeah it was bad since I was on my way to see another women I was spending the weekend with....😉

In the case of tabacco and more smokers, smoke would go a little northwest I'd imagine....otherwise without an equipment failure there is no smoke not considering friction smoke somewhere from me on the train.
 
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Since it's an electric train, it produces zero smoke, however since I also took a train weekly 2 hours for a girl I was 'seeing' on the weekends for about 8 months I will also say there is smoke always (smoking car before dining car yuck).....even without a smoking car you'd have the baggage guys with a bong in the caboose/last car hiding. Train life is interesting I'd say the least....on the ones I rode, I'd say this should some possible interaction come up....you have about 1-2 empty cars usually to get it out of the way. Only once did I have a train guy come back and break me up saying 'This is a matter of National security....you realize I can have you and her removed and arrested at the next stop...'
rolleye.gif
we went back to our seat and put a blanket over us....yeah it was bad since I was on my way to see another women I was spending the weekend with....😉

In the case of tabacco and more smokers, smoke would go a little northwest I'd imagine....otherwise without an equipment failure there is no smoke not considering friction smoke somewhere from me on the train.
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Does the word overkill come to mind...but yes, an electric train doesn't produce smoke (in the typical sense 😛)

 
Originally posted by: dnetmhz
Originally posted by: MegaloManiaK
Originally posted by: dnetmhz
A horse is tied to a 15 ft. rope and there is a bail of hay 25 ft. away from him. Yet the horse is able to eat from the bail of hay. How is this possible ?
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The rope is tied off between the horse and the hay.
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That's not the answer I was given, but that is what I first thought also and it works
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Alternately, another solution that while the rope's radius is 15, the diameter is in fact 30. So, if the horse is at the extreme end of the circle, the hay can be located 25 feet away but still be within reach.
 
I'm not sure if this has been posted before.
Be warned: I do not have the answer to this riddle, a friend of mine told it to me:
A scream in a storm,
weightless yet anchored,
a habitat for the living,
a coffin for the dead,
splinters,
and a perfection of the land and sea,
a ruin for evolution.
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It got me 😕
 
When you buy me, you don't need me.
When you need me, you don't want me.
When you use me, you don't know it.

What am I?
 
you are standing outside of a room with a single lightbulb inside. there are 3 switches outside. One of the switches controls the light in the room. The other two don't do anything. The door to the room is closed. you must figure out which turns the light on. You can flick the switches on and off as much as you like. When you are done flicking the switches you can go inside the room and inspect the light.

how?
 
Originally posted by: Rayden
you are standing outside of a room with a single lightbulb inside. there are 3 switches outside. One of the switches controls the light in the room. The other two don't do anything. The door to the room is closed. you must figure out which turns the light on. You can flick the switches on and off as much as you like. When you are done flicking the switches you can go inside the room and inspect the light.

how?
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Actually, the correct riddle is with 4 switches.

 
Originally posted by: Rayden
you are standing outside of a room with a single lightbulb inside. there are 3 switches outside. One of the switches controls the light in the room. The other two don't do anything. The door to the room is closed. you must figure out which turns the light on. You can flick the switches on and off as much as you like. When you are done flicking the switches you can go inside the room and inspect the light.

how?
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Look through the window? Look under the door crack?
 
Originally posted by: tk149
Originally posted by: Rayden
you are standing outside of a room with a single lightbulb inside. there are 3 switches outside. One of the switches controls the light in the room. The other two don't do anything. The door to the room is closed. you must figure out which turns the light on. You can flick the switches on and off as much as you like. When you are done flicking the switches you can go inside the room and inspect the light.

how?
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Look through the window? Look under the door crack?
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no cheating. and once you go in the room you can't leave to flip the switches again.
 
Originally posted by: Rayden
you are standing outside of a room with a single lightbulb inside. there are 3 switches outside. One of the switches controls the light in the room. The other two don't do anything. The door to the room is closed. you must figure out which turns the light on. You can flick the switches on and off as much as you like. When you are done flicking the switches you can go inside the room and inspect the light.

how?
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Turn them all on.
 
Originally posted by: Rayden
Originally posted by: tk149
Originally posted by: Rayden
you are standing outside of a room with a single lightbulb inside. there are 3 switches outside. One of the switches controls the light in the room. The other two don't do anything. The door to the room is closed. you must figure out which turns the light on. You can flick the switches on and off as much as you like. When you are done flicking the switches you can go inside the room and inspect the light.

how?
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Look through the window? Look under the door crack?
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no cheating. and once you go in the room you can't leave to flip the switches again.
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It involves seeing which is hot or something. with 3 you turn one on for a few minutes, turn it off and a different one on, then go it. if it is off and cold.. third switch. off and hot, first. on, second.
 
Originally posted by: oLLie
I'm not sure if this has been posted before.
Be warned: I do not have the answer to this riddle, a friend of mine told it to me:
A scream in a storm,
weightless yet anchored,
a habitat for the living,
a coffin for the dead,
splinters,
and a perfection of the land and sea,
a ruin for evolution.
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It got me 😕
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A boat?
in a storm, it rocks back and forth
it floats in water, but it has an anchor to drop
people live in them
the Norse sent their dead out to sea on them
made of wood?
...?

Maybe it's a tree?
Wind whistles through them
driftwood floats, roots anchor it
you build houses with it
you build coffins with it
wood splinters
....?
 
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