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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Mince on May 03, 2007, 09:38:10 PM
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A man walks one mile south, then one mile east, then one mile north, and ends up where he started. Where did he start?
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North Pole.
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Good. Where else might he have started?
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South Pole.
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No, that won't work.
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Chipping Sodbury?
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The Bermuda triangle?
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These, strangely, are less likely.
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A man walks one mile south, then one mile east, then one mile north, and ends up where he started. Where did he start?
I've no idea. I'm just very proud I've mastered this quoting thing.
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Good. Where else might he have started?
Quite right, Tarks. You got the answer. Where else? Well, maybe the North Pole on Mars, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter etc etc...
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There are in fact an infinite number of places on Earth where this happens.
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But not Chipping Sodbury?
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No, sadly, that's one of the infinite number of places where this does not happen.
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Okay, that was my best guess.
Are you going to tell us before Roger comes on and starts quoting everyone again?
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Once he'd finished walking (after the one mile North bit), did he catch a bus back to the starting-point? He'd finished his walking (he was carried off the bus), and there are only certain places this could occur. Places that have bus stops in fact.
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I may be wrong, but I'd be willing to bet that Chipping Sodbury has bus stops.
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http://www.cotswoldsaonb.com/bus_timetables/south_bus_result.asp?ServiceID=3 (http://www.cotswoldsaonb.com/bus_timetables/south_bus_result.asp?ServiceID=3)
Indeed it has!
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That Service 41/31 looks quite interesting.
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I thought so.
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The last bus-ride I went on was from Glasgow Airport to Paisley Railway Station. Although the journey took in a splendid view of St Mirren Football Club, I have a feeling that the Service 41/31 at Chipping Sodbury is far more scenic. I may be wrong.
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Try starting at the equator.
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Try starting at the equator.
I just checked. The Service 31/41 doesn't take in the equator.
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Okay, so he ends up back on the Equator, but he's a mile further away from the point where he started, so I reject that answer on the grounds that it's forced. It's a bit like starting just to the left of Chipping Sodbury then finishing up a mile away to the east of Chipping Sodbury, then claiming you started "near Chipping Sodbury".
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I never said it was the right answer. I just said you could try starting there. ;D
Now try further down south.
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And try Brisbane while you're down there. It won't work but it'll be a laugh.
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Okay - very good, Mr Mince. Are we talking about any point on the line of latitude that is one mile north of the South Pole?
Although I'm not sure how you can walk east from the pole? All miles would be north surely? I should be working...
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Okay - very good, Mr Mince.
Revenge for Chipping Sodbury.
Are we talking about any point on the line of latitude that is one mile north of the South Pole? Although I'm not sure how you can walk east from the pole? All miles would be north surely? I should be working...
Yes, there are an infinite number of points on that latitude that work.
There are still an infinite number of other points that work.
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Try starting at the equator.
I just checked. The Service 31/41 doesn't take in the equator.
I laughed at that, Nige! ( How did I ever manage without quoting?)
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How often would the north and south poles, the equator, the bermuda triangle, Brisbane and Chipping Sodbury be mentioned in the same conversation?
And sorry to go off on a tangent Mince, does anyone know the name of the place where you can free-wheel up hill on a bicycle, but have to pedal hard to go down?
Is the answer to this puzzle anywhere near this place?
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Is it Electric Brae, Tom? I've been up and down that hill so many times, sometimes with my feet on the pedals, sometimes off.
My god, I've lived.
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Isn't that near The Borders somewhere? I'm sure I've been there.
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I don't know the name of the place... I seem to remember Judith Chalmers demonstrating the odd gravity effect years ago.
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The other places are just slightly further north than "one mile north of south".
The distance around the world is about 26,000 miles at the equator, reducing as you move to the north or south poles, and zero at the poles. There must be a point near the south pole where the distance around the world is one mile exactly. Start one mile north of here. There must also be a place where the distance around the world is half a mile. Start one mile north of here. And so on.
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Electric Brae is near Ayr. It's a place I used to frequent when I was courting various burrds.
There's no magic or spooky stuff happening, just an optical illusion caused by the landscape, the hill appears to be going upwards when in fact it's going down.
I've lost count of the number of choobs I've seen testing the effect by letting off their handbrake and freewheeling.
I never have, of course.