Riddles

[red750]

I thought I might start a topic to post a few mind testers. Here is one to start.

 

Name four days of the week starting with "t".

[Jerry_Atrick]

Tuesday, Thursday, today, tomorrow?

[old man emu]

Name the day of the week beginning with "o".

[red750]

Correct, Jerry.

Two fathers and two sons go fishing. How many in the boat?

[rgmwa]

Three

[pmccarthy]

None, they fished off a jetty.

Edited September 1, 2022 by pmccarthy

[Marty_d]

23 hours ago, red750 said:

Correct, Jerry.

Two fathers and two sons go fishing. How many in the boat?

Two.

[red750]

rgmwa is correct - grandfather, father and son.

[Marty_d]

Could I just point out that if two fathers are fishing, they are also both somebody's sons.

[rgmwa]

Yes, but those somebody’s aren’t fishing, or.if they are, they aren’t in the same boat.

[red750]

Yes, but Marty, the grandfathers father was not there.

[Marty_d]

I understand your premise.  Grandfather and father, that's 2 fathers.  Father and son, that's 2 sons.

BUT in that scenario the father is being counted as both a father and a son.

 

In my scenario, you have two unrelated blokes who are family men, so they're both fathers.  However by definition any male is also somebody's son, so they are both sons as well.  2 fathers, 2 sons.

 

In fact in your grandpa/father/son scenario you could remove the son as well, because even grandpa was someone's son.

[rgmwa]

But Marty, although your two blokes are definitely sons they are not necessarily fathers. We only have your word that they are family men.

Edited September 1, 2022 by rgmwa

[Marty_d]

On 28/08/2022 at 12:50 PM, old man emu said:

Name the day of the week beginning with "o".

"Oh shit, it's Monday again?"

[old man emu]

On 28/08/2022 at 12:50 PM, old man emu said:

Name the day of the week beginning with "o".

Overmorrow: the day after tomorrow.

 

A calque of German übermorgen; equivalent to over- +‎ morrow.

 

"Calque": A borrowing by word-for-word translation:

[facthunter]

O my gosh I'm late for Mass. Nev