George W.Bush solves any puzzle !

Bush is the puzzle-god !

Brian Raab schrieb:

Alexander the Great solved a fiendish knot puzzle once. But then he had Aristotle for a teacher...

Solved? I thought he cheated.

Matter of interpretation. Does anyone believe this Gordian knot story actually happened? The idea of a real knot that nobody can untie strikes me as preposterous. The only way I could imagine making something like that would be if the ends were acutually glued into the middle, in which hacking it up would be the only way to 'solve' it.

Similarly, the story of Alexander and Demosthenes smells like bullshit to me. Unless Demosthenes was a complete idiot (which he wasn't), he should have realized that wandering the streets at night is not a particularly efficient way to go about encountering an honest man, and that he wouldn't recognize one if he were to encounter him. And Alexander wouldn't have any reason to trust Demosthenes' assesment of his honesty beforehand, nor any reason to alter his own self-assesment after.

OTOH, the story about Colombus balancing an egg on its little end I believe.

OpPuzzle: prove the events in these stories did or did not actually occur.

Would anyone had ever heard of Aristotle if hadn't had Alexander as a pupil?

Apologies for replying to my own post, but it ocurred to me right after sending that I meant 'Diogenese' rather than 'Demosthenese'. No points for pointing that out.

Here's a puzzle: If a homo known as Brian Raab makes 386 posts in two days, what kind of drugs is he using?

Sam schrieb:

Well, I figured him for a troll because of the can.vlsi crosspost which I silently deleted, but I thought it would be possible to make an interesting thread. Problem is, any thread involving Bush or Kerry is hard to keep from erupting into flames these days...

actually : occur. : : : >>Still an attentive ear he lent Her speech hath caused this pain : >>But could not fathom what she meant Easier I count it to explain : >>She was not deep, nor eloquent. The jargon of the howling main : >>

EDEB schrieb:

It's in chapter IV of TLG, as can be ascertained from the Gutenberg text. http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/12

I must also admit that I cut two words from a line in my excerpt below so as to make both stanzas (which are not consecutive) fit on the 72-character line. Apart from that, the stanzas are unaltered, but of course the title of the poem is not the one Carroll used. If it were so, it would be.

Cheers

Somebody claiming to be Michael Mendelsohn

Just burn the bark. That should work for a wicker basket, too.