RIDDLE ME THIS
Fill in the blank.
Joe is John's father. Therefore Joe is the ____________ of John's father.
This is actually not a riddle. Its a question in a Class 1 English book. Or so I am told. Took me a while to figure out the answer. Actually I did not figure it out all by myself. Anyway, it reminded me of another riddle a physics lecturer asked us back in second year. He did not solve for us and left us anguishing in torture. We finally solved it. During the August field work. We sat down during one of those cold desolate nights and decided to think. As in really think. Got so excited when we finally solved it. That is why I want to see if you can. You probably have heard it before but still I want to see how you come up with the solution.
So then, riddle me this.
You want to buy a shirt that costs 97 KeSh but you are broker than a cracked mirror. That is to say you do not have any money. So you decide to borrow. You borrow 50 KeSh from me and 50 KeSh from Rosa . So now you have 100KeSh. I hope I haven't lost you. You buy the shirt and the shopkeeper, lets call him Bwire, LOL JK, his name is Jack Fotreds . Jack gives you 3 KeSh as your change. (100-97). So you decide to start paying off your debts. You give me 1 KeSh and give Rosa 1 KeSh. Then you are left with 1 KeSh, right? So now you owe me 49 KeSh and owe Rosa 49 KeSh. A total of 98 KeSh, add that to the 1 KeSh you've got and you get 99 KeSh. But we lent you a total of 100 KeSh so where did the 1 KeSh go to? Find the shilling.
Note: 1. KeSh is Kenyan Shillings. Just in case you are slow like that.
2 .if you are thinking of the 2 shillings you gave us then that will sum it up to 101 and so the question should be where the fuck did that extra shilling come from?
Joe is John's father. Therefore Joe is the ____________ of John's father.
This is actually not a riddle. Its a question in a Class 1 English book. Or so I am told. Took me a while to figure out the answer. Actually I did not figure it out all by myself. Anyway, it reminded me of another riddle a physics lecturer asked us back in second year. He did not solve for us and left us anguishing in torture. We finally solved it. During the August field work. We sat down during one of those cold desolate nights and decided to think. As in really think. Got so excited when we finally solved it. That is why I want to see if you can. You probably have heard it before but still I want to see how you come up with the solution.
So then, riddle me this.
You want to buy a shirt that costs 97 KeSh but you are broker than a cracked mirror. That is to say you do not have any money. So you decide to borrow. You borrow 50 KeSh from me and 50 KeSh from Rosa . So now you have 100KeSh. I hope I haven't lost you. You buy the shirt and the shopkeeper, lets call him Bwire, LOL JK, his name is Jack Fotreds . Jack gives you 3 KeSh as your change. (100-97). So you decide to start paying off your debts. You give me 1 KeSh and give Rosa 1 KeSh. Then you are left with 1 KeSh, right? So now you owe me 49 KeSh and owe Rosa 49 KeSh. A total of 98 KeSh, add that to the 1 KeSh you've got and you get 99 KeSh. But we lent you a total of 100 KeSh so where did the 1 KeSh go to? Find the shilling.
Note: 1. KeSh is Kenyan Shillings. Just in case you are slow like that.
2 .if you are thinking of the 2 shillings you gave us then that will sum it up to 101 and so the question should be where the fuck did that extra shilling come from?
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