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Xeramtheum

Dec 19, 2017 3:27 PM CST

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Name: Anne
Summerville, SC (Zone 8a)
Only dead fish go with the flow!

and 28 chickens.

How many didn't?

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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Xeramtheum

Dec 19, 2017 3:40 PM CST

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Name: Anne
Summerville, SC (Zone 8a)
Only dead fish go with the flow!

Say it out loud.

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greene

Dec 19, 2017 4:01 PM CST

Name: greene
Savannah, GA (Sunset 28) (Zone 8b)
I have no use for internet bullies!

10 cows didn't eat chickens! Everyone knows that!

Sunset Zone 28, AHS Heat Zone 9, USDA zone 8b~"Leaf of Faith"

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Xeramtheum

Dec 19, 2017 4:21 PM CST

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Name: Anne
Summerville, SC (Zone 8a)
Only dead fish go with the flow!

Lol .. Not the right answer.

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Weedwhacker

Dec 19, 2017 8:08 PM CST

Name: Sandy B.
Ford River Twp, Michigan UP (Zone 4b)
(Zone 4b-maybe 5a)

“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight." ~ Albert Schweitzer
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teacup754

Dec 19, 2017 10:36 PM CST

Frisco, TX (Zone 8a)

30?

| @teacup754 | Post #1605590 (6)

crawgarden

Dec 19, 2017 10:52 PM CST

Name: Rj
Just S of the twin cities of M (Zone 4b)

As Yogi Berra said, “It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”

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AnnaZ

Dec 20, 2017 4:34 AM CST

Name: Anna Z.
Monroe, WI

Is this that new math crap where you start in the middle regardless of the "problem"????

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greene

Dec 20, 2017 5:21 AM CST

Name: greene
Savannah, GA (Sunset 28) (Zone 8b)
I have no use for internet bullies!

It's the kind of riddle that only works if you speak it; when written out it's not the same question.

What we hear is: "50 cows in a field"...
We hear "28 chickens"...
but the person speaking is actually saying, "Twenty ate chickens"...
Then, "How many didn't?"

Since cows don't actually eat chickens...well...

(When I first learned the riddle there were only 30 cows in the field: 30 - 20- = 10, hence my incorrect answer earlier.)

Sunset Zone 28, AHS Heat Zone 9, USDA zone 8b~"Leaf of Faith"

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Xeramtheum

Dec 20, 2017 7:57 AM CST

Thread OP

Name: Anne
Summerville, SC (Zone 8a)
Only dead fish go with the flow!

Thirty is right .. took me a few minutes to get it.

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teacup754

Dec 20, 2017 6:30 PM CST

Frisco, TX (Zone 8a)

It took me a while too. Only when I said that t out loud a few times did it click.

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