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  • #590042
    nameless
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    2 sisters. They look EXACTLY alike. They were born same year, same day to the same parents but are not twins.

    Anyone got the answer?

    #688285
    Dr. Pepper
    Participant

    They are part of a set of triplets, quadruplets or higher multiple birth.

    Many years ago I was walking with two of my sisters when someone stopped us and said, “are the three of you twins?”.

    One sister said, “No, triplets”.

    #688286
    Joseph
    Participant

    ames: Females are allowed into the riddle thread. (At least if it isn’t too hard. Remember the Barbie doll that feminists had a cow about since when you pulled its string one of the things it said was “Math is hard” ? [They apparently had no objections to its other random sayings like “Will we ever have enough clothes?” and “I love shopping!”]

    #688287
    noitallmr
    Participant

    Second Brain Teaser:

    Give me a 9 letter English word that you can take off one letter and it will still be a word then another and another one at a time, each time making sense, till the very last letter…

    Ha Ha Dr Pepper gotcha this time…well,any suggestions???

    #688288
    Joseph
    Participant

    Wow, noitallmr believes he got Dr. Pepper stumped before squeak had a chance to!

    #688289

    please post the answer also

    #688290
    mepal
    Member

    i got that in an email a while ago. Too bad I can’t find it!

    #688291
    Dr. Pepper
    Participant

    Josephf asked that many months ago.

    startling

    starling

    staring

    string

    sting

    sing

    sin

    in

    I

    #688292
    feivel
    Participant

    starling

    restarted

    cleansers

    replanted

    probably others as well

    #688293
    feivel
    Participant

    ex

    startling

    starling

    staring

    string

    sting

    sing

    chait

    in

    i

    #688294
    jphone
    Member

    Meoal Dont bother. It was sent to you courtesy of [website link removed]. I got an email from that site, with a different riddle, but the answer to this one is on that site as well.

    #688295
    mepal
    Member

    Got it! Anyone wanna try to guess before I give my (cheated) answer?

    #688296
    mepal
    Member

    jphone, the email i got had the startling one.

    #688297
    nameless
    Member

    Here’s another one:

    As a couple left to the airport to catch a flight, their doorman stopped them and begged them not to go. The reason being that the night before he had a dream that the plane would crash.

    The couple were very grateful but fired him. Why?

    #688298
    Dr. Pepper
    Participant

    Sleeping on the job?

    #688299
    Joseph
    Participant

    He was sleeping on the job.

    #688300
    jphone
    Member

    Perhaps he was smoking something he should not have been and was hallucinating? 🙂

    #688301
    nameless
    Member

    Ok, now thin about thi one;

    How do you get a good friend or acquantance curious??

    #688302
    YW Moderator-72
    Participant

    nameless – I know the answer – I’ll tell you later!

    #688303
    nameless
    Member

    OMG! we’ve got a sharp crowd here;

    Ok, what about this one.

    My father is a Cohen and my grnadfather is a cohen but I am not.(nopt adopted either)

    How is it possible??

    #688304
    Joseph
    Participant

    You’re female.

    #688305

    I personally knew of a case like this. The boy thought because his father was a kohen he was. However, his mother is a goy and the boy ended up having a geyrus.

    He still thought he’d become a kohen after that.

    #688306
    Dr. Pepper
    Participant

    nameless-

    Did his father marry a divorcee?

    #688307
    nameless
    Member

    Sorry, I am am male.

    #688308
    nameless
    Member

    No, a Cohen is not allowed to marry a divorcee, but even if he did whats that gotta do with it?

    #688309

    What about my reply? The Kohen married a non-Jewish woman.

    #688310

    Unless the answer you are looking for is a biblical character known as Pinchas, who despite having a father and grandfather who were kohanim, he was not (initially) a kohen.

    #688311
    squeak
    Participant

    A cholol is not a cohen. Just ask the Azoulais.

    #688312
    nameless
    Member

    Thats a good answer but no, assuming he married a Jewish woman.

    Just think …..I ‘m sure someone will come up with the correct answer.

    #688313
    squeak
    Participant

    1. A Kohain (priest) who has children with a divorcee or any other women who is forbidden creates challalim. They are not Kohanim (priests).

    2. Just because my father’s name is Cohen, and my grandfather’s name is Cohen, does not stop me from legally changing my name to Smith.

    3. Pinchas was not a Kohain (priest) until after the ma’aseh with Zimri. So until that point, he was not a Kohain (priest) even though his father (Elazar) and grandfather (Aharon) both were.

    #688314
    Joseph
    Participant

    With the constantly added factors, the answer keeps narrowing…

    #688315
    jphone
    Member

    You married someone with the last name Bernstein. Your father and grandfathers are both Cohen’s but your now a Bernstien.

    #688316

    Child could be a mamzer if the father married someone with an issur erva.

    #688317
    jphone
    Member

    How about. Your”e the reform rabbi in chicago who felt bad that he couldnt earn the income from doing funerals so he renounced his kehuna (i was told such an ad appeared in a chicago paper in the 50s or 60s by a rabbi a cohen who wanted in on “performing funerals” and the income he could get from it).

    #688318
    kgb07zy
    Member

    shems son missed kahuna but noach and shem were both kohanim

    #688319
    nameless
    Member

    Squek and Jd phone were close.

    Not everyone with the name Cohen are neccessarily Kohanim. I know someone with the name Cohen and he is a levi.

    If your name is KATZ(Kohen Tzedek) then you are DEFINTELY a Kohen.

    But it has been said that 90 per cent of ‘Kohanim’ today are not even Kohanim and would not be able to trace back to Ahron Hakohen.

    #688320
    JayMatt19
    Participant

    >>If your name is KATZ(Kohen Tzedek) then you are DEFINTELY a Kohen.<<

    Not true.

    Generations ago in numerous Eastern European countries, Jews were not allowed to get married. So they got married al pi chuppa v’kiddushin, but the local government did not recognize the union. Therefore any children born to the couple were given the surname of the mother. That is one major reason why we have Cohen, Levy, Katz etc. who do not resemble their surname.

    For the record I once met a Rabbi Katz who was a Yisroel

    #688321
    feivel
    Participant

    Pinchas, given as an answer by two posters, should also be acknowledged as not only a correct answer but the answer to the question asked, without semantic trickery.

    #688322
    nameless
    Member

    Once upon a time, in the West Lake village, a servant lived with his master. After service of about 30 years, his master became ill and was going to die. One day, the master called his servant and asked him for a wish. It could be any wish but just one. The master gave him one day to think about it. The servant became very happy and went to his mother for discussion about the wish. His mother was blind and she asked her son for making a wish for her eye-sight to come back. Then the servant went to his wife. She became very excited and asked for a son as they were childless for many years. After that, the servant went to his father who wanted to be rich and so he asked his son to wish for a lot of money. The next day he went to his master and made one wish through which all the three (mother, father, wife) got what they wanted. You have to tell what the servant asked the master.

    #688323
    feivel
    Participant

    to have a son who would grow up to be a world famous (and thus wealthy) eye surgeon who would restore his mothers eyesight and give much of his wealth to his father

    #688324
    nameless
    Member

    A rich old lady died and left all her money to her grandchildren and her children. At the end of the will she stated that she had one last thing to give away: her precious diamond. She gave a clue to where it might be. She said “it’s in a cylinder surrounded by a thousand squares.” One grandchild said, “I know where it is,” and found it. Where was it?

    #688325
    nameless
    Member

    Much more simplified:

    ‘I wish my mother can see her grandson swing on a swing of gold!’

    #688326

    nameless-

    A saltshaker (although they’re really cubes).

    #688327
    feivel
    Participant

    nameless

    how about a large roll of toilet paper

    #688328
    feivel
    Participant

    to defend my answer i looked up a report on consumer reports

    although most tp rolls have between 200-500 sheets

    a few brands make a 1000 sheet roll

    so i think my answer beats icot for accuracy (cubes vs squares)

    judges?

    #688329

    feivel-

    No need to disturb the judges – I like your answer better, too.

    #688330
    nameless
    Member

    Feivel,

    Your right, its a roll of toilet paper.

    #688331
    kapusta
    Participant

    ICOT, how does a saltshaker become 1000 squares? dont mind me, its late. :/

    *kapusta*

    #688332
    Jax
    Member

    kapusta: i’ll fill in for ICOT! the grains of salt being squares!

    #688333
    kapusta
    Participant

    still not connecting… I think theres a loose wire someplace. 😉

    but that makes more sense anyway. thanx, Jax.

    *kapusta*

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