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Post by Spike-X on Sept 25, 2016 16:46:02 GMT -5
I stand well and truly corrected. I could have sworn I heard/read that many years ago.
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Post by berkley on Sept 25, 2016 19:29:04 GMT -5
Don't Know What To Do has a Spector-style production, and was written by Bacharach. Be My Baby has a Bacharach-style backing production, and was originally produced and co-written by Spector. You got it! I thought that was so clever when I listened to the album. She basically switched around the musical styles of the original versions. Very cool! I'll have to listen again and see if I can catch that. Great question and well done Spike, I am impressed! [edit:] Yeah, I can hear it now that I know what to listen for but I doubt I ever would have been quick enough to catch it on my own. |
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Post by Wild Card on Sept 27, 2016 8:30:17 GMT -5
Eek!! So that's the answer?! That's actually really neat. I never would've guessed! Now I'm going to go listen again and see if I can hear it. I'm not much of a music connoisseur, but still! Thank you  So how does this thread work? Will the one who guessed correctly post a riddle now? Sorry, I love riddles, even ones I can't guess! |
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Post by the4thpip on Sept 28, 2016 8:39:20 GMT -5
Eek!! So that's the answer?! That's actually really neat. I never would've guessed! Now I'm going to go listen again and see if I can hear it. I'm not much of a music connoisseur, but still! Thank you So how does this thread work? Will the one who guessed correctly post a riddle now? Sorry, I love riddles, even ones I can't guess! I would suggest whoever can come up with a good riddle post it. While taking care not to have more than 2 or 3 unsolved ones at once. |
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Post by the4thpip on Sept 28, 2016 8:41:53 GMT -5
I stand well and truly corrected. I could have sworn I heard/read that many years ago. You may well have, I have seen the faulty info online myself. But I did some extended reading on the Drinkard/Houston/Warwick clan. Singer Judy Clay, though, was a foster child in the Drinkard family (Cissy Houston's maiden name was Drinkard). Always loved this novelty song by Judy Clay and Billy Very. (not a riddle entry) |
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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 28, 2016 11:38:23 GMT -5
I would suggest whoever can come up with a good riddle post it. While taking care not to have more than 2 or 3 unsolved ones at once. OK, here's the current Puzzler from Car Talk. I don't know the answer yet; it will be posted on Monday. I apologize to non-USA readers for starting with a baseball question. I could post last week's Puzzler too if you'd like an automotive puzzle. We could also try Will Shortz' weekly challenge from NPR's Morning Edition Sunday. "There are two rookie baseball players, Bluto and Popeye, who started the season on opening day and made a wager as to which one would have the best batting average at the end of the season. Well, the last day of the season arrives, and not much is going to change--especially considering that neither one of them is in the starting lineup. Bluto says, "Hey, Popeye, what did you bat for the first half of the year?" Popeye answers, "I batted .250." And Bluto responds, "Well, I got you there. I batted .300." How about after the All-Star break?" Proudly, Popeye pipes up, "I batted .375." Bluto says, "Pretty good, but I batted .400. Fork over the 20 bucks that we bet." The bat boy, Dougie, saunters over and says, "Don't pay the 20 bucks, Popeye. I think you won." The question is this: How could Popeye have won?" |
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Post by Wild Card on Sept 28, 2016 15:16:29 GMT -5
I would suggest whoever can come up with a good riddle post it. While taking care not to have more than 2 or 3 unsolved ones at once. OK, here's the current Puzzler from Car Talk. I don't know the answer yet; it will be posted on Monday. I apologize to non-USA readers for starting with a baseball question. I could post last week's Puzzler too if you'd like an automotive puzzle. We could also try Will Shortz' weekly challenge from NPR's Morning Edition Sunday. "There are two rookie baseball players, Bluto and Popeye, who started the season on opening day and made a wager as to which one would have the best batting average at the end of the season. Well, the last day of the season arrives, and not much is going to change--especially considering that neither one of them is in the starting lineup. Bluto says, "Hey, Popeye, what did you bat for the first half of the year?" Popeye answers, "I batted .250." And Bluto responds, "Well, I got you there. I batted .300." How about after the All-Star break?" Proudly, Popeye pipes up, "I batted .375." Bluto says, "Pretty good, but I batted .400. Fork over the 20 bucks that we bet." The bat boy, Dougie, saunters over and says, "Don't pay the 20 bucks, Popeye. I think you won." The question is this: How could Popeye have won?" I know nothing about baseball, but I'm gonna take a stab at it before I go to bed for work tonight: I have an idea on how Popeye could've won, but it'll hard to explain. Hang with me. I think it's possible for Bluto had already added his up in the second answer. So like, there's two halves to the season. And Popeye hit .250 in the first half and then .375 in the second but total that's .625. But Bluto hit .300 in the first half, and when asked what he did after the break, he just gave his total which was .400, when in reality he only hit .100 for the second half. So Popeye won because .625 is his actual total. I'm probably super off, I'm sorry. I don't anything about baseball. Are there even two halves to a season?? And what's an All-Star break, I'm assuming it's the break between the two halves, but there might not even be a halves! Google did not help me. That or I didn't Google right. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 28, 2016 21:13:57 GMT -5
I would suggest whoever can come up with a good riddle post it. While taking care not to have more than 2 or 3 unsolved ones at once. OK, here's the current Puzzler from Car Talk. I don't know the answer yet; it will be posted on Monday. I apologize to non-USA readers for starting with a baseball question. I could post last week's Puzzler too if you'd like an automotive puzzle. We could also try Will Shortz' weekly challenge from NPR's Morning Edition Sunday. "There are two rookie baseball players, Bluto and Popeye, who started the season on opening day and made a wager as to which one would have the best batting average at the end of the season. Well, the last day of the season arrives, and not much is going to change--especially considering that neither one of them is in the starting lineup. Bluto says, "Hey, Popeye, what did you bat for the first half of the year?" Popeye answers, "I batted .250." And Bluto responds, "Well, I got you there. I batted .300." How about after the All-Star break?" Proudly, Popeye pipes up, "I batted .375." Bluto says, "Pretty good, but I batted .400. Fork over the 20 bucks that we bet." The bat boy, Dougie, saunters over and says, "Don't pay the 20 bucks, Popeye. I think you won." The question is this: How could Popeye have won?" The answer is mathematical revolving on weighted averages. This example shows Popeye winning the total season contest Popeye Bluto ab h avg ab h avg 1st half 4 1 .250 10 3 .300 2nd half 104 39 .375 10 4 .400 total 108 40 .370 20 7 .350 In case the formatting I posted gets screwed up Bluto bats 10 times in each half, 3 hits in the first and 4 hits in the 2nd. His total is 20 at bats with 7 hits and a .350 average Popeye only bats 4 times in the 1st with 1 hit. But in the 2nd half he gets 104 at bats with 49 hits for a .375 average. His total is 108 at bats with 40 hits for a .370 average which is 20 points better than Bluto. Moral of the story is that you don't add up averages, you add up the components of the averages If I come up with a good riddle I'll post one, otherwise anyone else is free to do so |
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Post by berkley on Sept 28, 2016 21:36:17 GMT -5
How are we meant to know how many at-bats each guy had - did they give that info in the question or are we supposed to figure it out from knowing that Popeye had the higher average over the whole season?
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Post by Wild Card on Sept 29, 2016 4:07:09 GMT -5
How are we meant to know how many at-bats each guy had - did they give that info in the question or are we supposed to figure it out from knowing that Popeye had the higher average over the whole season? Good question. I'm not meaning an offense to anyone, but how are we supposed to know that? I've never been good math, but I'm super confused. Maybe it's just baseball knowledge? |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 29, 2016 4:27:51 GMT -5
How are we meant to know how many at-bats each guy had - did they give that info in the question or are we supposed to figure it out from knowing that Popeye had the higher average over the whole season? Good question. I'm not meaning an offense to anyone, but how are we supposed to know that? I've never been good math, but I'm super confused. Maybe it's just baseball knowledge? It's a mathematical problem that I just worked out. I could have used many different numbers of at bats for any of them. But the key thing was to make sure Popeye's 2nd half at bats was much much higher than Bluto's first half at bats since between those two, Popeye had the higher batting average. Therefore I'm making the impact of Popeye's higher average huge when you total them all up It goes back to what I said was the moral of the story |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 29, 2016 4:31:37 GMT -5
OK I got a puzzle and it's mathematical in nature "Shudder" I have this really big cage I filled up the cage with chickens and rabbits because that's the type of guy I am There are 72 heads and 200 feet How many chickens are in the cage and how many rabbits?   |
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Post by berkley on Sept 29, 2016 9:48:55 GMT -5
Good question. I'm not meaning an offense to anyone, but how are we supposed to know that? I've never been good math, but I'm super confused. Maybe it's just baseball knowledge? It's a mathematical problem that I just worked out. I could have used many different numbers of at bats for any of them. But the key thing was to make sure Popeye's 2nd half at bats was much much higher than Bluto's first half at bats since between those two, Popeye had the higher batting average. Therefore I'm making the impact of Popeye's higher average huge when you total them all up It goes back to what I said was the moral of the story OK, thanks, I get it now (finally - duh). On the chickens and rabbits I make it {Spoiler: Click to show}
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 29, 2016 9:53:44 GMT -5
It's a mathematical problem that I just worked out. I could have used many different numbers of at bats for any of them. But the key thing was to make sure Popeye's 2nd half at bats was much much higher than Bluto's first half at bats since between those two, Popeye had the higher batting average. Therefore I'm making the impact of Popeye's higher average huge when you total them all up It goes back to what I said was the moral of the story OK, thanks, I get it now (finally - duh). On the chickens and rabbits I make it {Spoiler: Click to show}
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Post by Dizzy D on Sept 29, 2016 10:27:21 GMT -5
Ah, the chickens and rabbits I also was able to get so I'll show my workings x=number of rabbits
y= number of chickens
Assuming we don't have any headless chickens:
x+y=72
Assuming no crippled rabbits
4*x+2*y=200
x+y=72 so 2x+2y=144
4x+2y-2x-2y=200-144
2x=56
x=28
y=72-28=44
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