Riddle. . .What can you put in a bucket that makes it lighter? Don't click into the thread till you want the answer

[episodic]

A hole.

 

[Shadowknight]

Duh.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Older than.. yeah.

 

[iluvtruenos]

Hydrogen.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: iluvtruenos
Hydrogen.

Adding hydrogen would make it heavier.

 

[Finns14]

Antimatter FTW

BTW this is like the oldest/most common riddle ever

 

[Shadowknight]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: iluvtruenos
Hydrogen.

Adding hydrogen would make it heavier.

Seeing as how it's a gas, it wouldn't even stay in the bucket in the first place, assuming being in a planet with a non-hydrogen based atmosphere.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: Shadowknight

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: iluvtruenos
Hydrogen.

Adding hydrogen would make it heavier.

Seeing as how it's a gas, it wouldn't even stay in the bucket in the first place, assuming being in a planet with a non-hydrogen based atmosphere.

Assuming that it would stay in the bucket, then hydrogen would indeed be heavier than a vacuum.

 

[The Green Bean]

How can you put a hole in a bucket?

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: The Green Bean
How can you put a hole in a bucket?

with a saw? with a drill?


Here's another one:

What gets wetter as it dries?

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: The Green Bean
How can you put a hole in a bucket?

with a saw? with a drill?


Here's another one:

What gets wetter as it dries?

That's how you MAKE a hole in a bucket.

 

[hypn0tik]

h@x

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Lonyo

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: The Green Bean
How can you put a hole in a bucket?

with a saw? with a drill?


Here's another one:

What gets wetter as it dries?

That's how you MAKE a hole in a bucket.

why are people in internet forums so anal about grammar? you know what he meant so leave it at that...

 

[iluvtruenos]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: iluvtruenos
Hydrogen.

Adding hydrogen would make it heavier.

Not on Earth, which is assumed when given the constraints of the problem.

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Silly me, I thought the answer was "a candle". That would make the bucket lighter. The answer to the other really old riddle is "a towel".

 

[olds]

Considering the average intelligence of OT, shouldn't this be in the Highly Technical Forum?
Could a Mod move it, please?

 

[boggsie]

Originally posted by: episodic
Riddle. . .What can you put in a bucket that makes it lighter?
A hole.

turn bucket over

fill with helium

 

[biff 24 2000]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Considering the average intelligence of OT, shouldn't this be in the Highly Technical Forum?
Could a Mod move it, please?

LOL

 

[imported_fictionised]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Lonyo

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: The Green Bean
How can you put a hole in a bucket?

with a saw? with a drill?


Here's another one:

What gets wetter as it dries?

That's how you MAKE a hole in a bucket.

why are people in internet forums so anal about grammar? you know what he meant so leave it at that...

He picked up on it because it wasn't solving the problem- there's a very large difference. Why are people so poor at grammar?

But again, 'putting' a hole in a bucket is simply putting empty space into a bucket, and hence, does not solve the problem of making it lighter.

 

[doma]

ha how would it be a towel

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: doma
ha how would it be a towel

it gets wet as it dries you off

 

[her209]

I would argue that it ceases to fulfull the definition of a bucket once it has a hole in it.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: fictionised

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Lonyo

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: The Green Bean
How can you put a hole in a bucket?

with a saw? with a drill?


Here's another one:

What gets wetter as it dries?

That's how you MAKE a hole in a bucket.

why are people in internet forums so anal about grammar? you know what he meant so leave it at that...

He picked up on it because it wasn't solving the problem- there's a very large difference. Why are people so poor at grammar?

But again, 'putting' a hole in a bucket is simply putting empty space into a bucket, and hence, does not solve the problem of making it lighter.

i think you people just enjoy being grammar nazi @ssholes.
you know what he is talking about, so leave it at that, no need to go into extreme detail over something so simple.

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: pontifex

i think you people just enjoy being grammar nazi @ssholes.
you know what he is talking about, so leave it at that, no need to go into extreme detail over something so simple.

Text?

 

[Mucho]

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