HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: billg@bony1.bony.com (Bill Gripp)
Subject: Re: A Tough One from Popular Science Magazine
Organization: LA&W RR
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 17:58:35 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.132720.8225@cs.cornell.edu> karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr) writes:

>I interpreted it as, 
>"which of the following is most likely to be found immediately
>below the lowest rock layer [SHOWN IN THIS DIAGRAM] in the Southwest U.S.?"
>A reasonable interpretation of the diagram, given the way geology must be
>practiced, is that the layers shown are just the ones that are visible
>at three locations.  Geologists don't usually have the luxury of 
>excavating all the way down to the molten core, or even to the bottom
>of the fossil record in any location.
>
>Note that the interpretation that the diagram shows ALL the rock
>layers at each place is geological nonsense; there is plenty of rock
>well below any fossils in the Southwest U.S.  Or doesn't the mantle
>qualify as a "rock layer"?
>
>Assuming the question is asked relative to the diagram, however, we
>attempt to align the fossil records:
>
>               +----------+    
>	       |  F  F    |    
>+-----------+  +----------+    
>|   A B A   |  |  E  E    |    
>+-----------+  +----------+   +----------+   
>|   C B C   |  | C C B    |   |   C  C   |    
>+-----------+  +----------+   +----------+    
>| B D B D B |  | B B B    |   |   B  B   |    
>+-----------+  +----------+   +----------+    
>|  D D D D  |	  ? ? ?	      |  D D D   |   
>+-----------+  	      +----------+   
>			      | G G G G  |   
>			      +----------+   
>Northern U.S.  Southwest U.S. Northern Europe   
>
>
>So we'd expect to find some D fossils immediately below the B's in
>the Southwest U.S.



I tried explaining this to someone who couldn't get the correct answer.
I found it much easier to show if one sorts the columns so that they are
in the correct geographical order:


    +-----------+
    |   F   F   |
    +-----------+                     +-----------+
    |   E   E   |                     |   A B A   |
    +-----------+    +-----------+    +-----------+
    |   C C B   |    |   C B C   |    |   C   C   |
    +-----------+    +-----------+    +-----------+
    |   B B B   |    | B D B D B |    |   B   B   |
    +-----------+    +-----------+    +-----------+
        ? ? ?        |  D D D D  |    |   D D D   |
                     +-----------+    +-----------+
                                      |  G G G G  |
                                      +-----------+
    Southwest U.S.   Northern U.S.    Northern Europe



I think it now becomes very apparent that D is the answer.

Bill
From: grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: Slaughter of the Innocents
Keywords: puzzle Bible New Testament
Date: 18 Aug 92 19:59:25 GMT
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.

In article <1992Aug18.005923.19108@cco.caltech.edu> stevek@cco.caltech.edu (Steven P. Krekeler) writes:
>asymes@nl.oracle.com (Andy Symes) writes:
>
>>This is one I saw in an old puzzle book.
>
>>After King Herod had completed his sluaghter of the innocents, all the little
>>children were buried in a mound of earth with just their feet sticking out.
>>How do we know which were boys and which were girls???
>
>Am I confused, or were only _males_ under the age of two slaughtered?

and now the other golden oldie
.
How many animals of each kind did Moses take with him on the ark?

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-- 
i.sinature
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From: Ulf.Lunde@kvatro.no (Ulf Lunde)
Subject: Re: Hofstadter:Riddle Sentence
Organization: Kvatro A/S, Trondheim, Norway
	<1992Aug19.023356.11899@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Distribution: rec
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:29:24

>>>>> On Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:33:56 GMT, 
>>>>> mhz7c@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Mark H. Zollinhofer) said:
> 
> While I appreciate knowing the content of the sentence:"If you
> can read this, do what it says.", I'm equally interested in
> figuring how it was deciphered (and I'm a sceptic). 

I always took it to be a joke, assuming that no English word contains the
letters "myxbl", and certainly not in that order!  

The joke is (just the way DRH likes it) on a meta-level, because the
first part obviously deciphers to "If you can read this,", so if you
succeed in interpreting the beginning of the sentence, you'll find
that it talks about the very interpretation which you are in the
process of doing.  (It even seems to know that it is *you* who are
reading it, since it doesn't say "If so-and-so can read this...".)

I concluded that the second part was undecipherable, but still
interpretable from context, and that it means something like 
   "then try to decipher this!" 
or "then the first part of the sentence was too simple." 
or "then this will frustrate you.".  
In that respect it is a bit like the sentence "Plim glorkle pegram ut replat,
trull gen ris clanter froat veb nup lamerack gla smurp Eartlings.", except
that the latter requires a second sentence which then enables you to solve 
the code by analogy, whereas "f y cn rd..." contains in itself the key to 
its solution.  I also liked Mark Schnitzius' solution.  ("..do what it says.")

Anyway, the point is that just when you think you have found the key to the 
cipher used, then the "key" is changed!

Ulf Lunde
"S l pa eq guf, gua l e ceooy szye jgu eg-13 apqat."
"Hvs d kn ls dtt, kn d snnsnlgvs snkk nrsk."
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From: cab@col.hp.com (Chris Best)
Subject: Re: Slaughter of the Innocents
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 21:08:32 GMT
Organization: your service

> How many animals of each kind did Moses take with him on the ark?

zero - better read the book again
From: tony@mantis.co.uk (Tony Lezard)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: FAQ question...
Date: 18 Aug 92 10:12:24 GMT
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

bmb1021@ultb.isc.rit.edu (B.M. Buck ) writes:

> Puzzle:  Where can one get a copy of the FAQ for rec.puzzles?

Regular readers of this group will be familiar with this puzzle
and I think it should go on to the FAQ list at once.

Seriously though, how about a weekly or fortnightly canned posting
to this group pointing to the FAQ list?

A revamped FAQ list is due to be posted to rec.puzzles and
news.answers soon, BTW.

--
Tony Lezard IS tony@mantis.co.uk OR tony%mantis.co.uk@uknet.ac.uk
OR EVEN arl10@phx.cam.ac.uk if all else fails. Great! Kept my .sig down to two
lines!
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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Subject: Re: WEST
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 02:14:57 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park

In article <1992Aug18.220204.1097@news.eng.convex.com> dodson@convex.COM (Dave Dodson) writes:
>In article <9817@ncrwat.Waterloo.NCR.COM> tjgerman@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Trevor German) writes:
>>
>>	An aircraft sets off from city A in a straight line due west
>>	at a ground speed of 250mph.  How long till it reaches city
>>	B 2000 miles due west?  Both cities are in Canada.
>
>
>P.S.  Isn't Canada on the metric system?  What is this "miles" stuff?

Gotcha, you evil metric bigot :-).  Them's NAUTICAL miles, which
actually have some relation to reality rather than British monarchs
:-)



-- 
Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
Some news readers expect "Disclaimer:" here.
Just say NO to police searches and seizures.  Make them use force.
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From: ronnie@cisco.com (Ronnie B. Kon)
Subject: Re: Rhymes
X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message are those of an
	      individual at SRI International, and do not necessarily
	      reflect those of the company.
Organization: cisco Systems, Incorporated
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 01:30:44 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.200431.152696@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, dsbb@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (D. SPENCER BEECHER) writes:
|> Can anyone out there rhyme month, hungry, angry or orange?

Sure: bonth, bungry, bangry, borange


|> 
|> Anybody know words similarly difficult to rhyme?

I didn't find them very difficult.


			Ronnie

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From: goddard@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bart Goddard)
Subject: Re: 1s and 2s series
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:12:32 GMT


In article <ueLgPB1w164w@cellar.org> kml@cellar.org (Lazlo Hoover Toth)  
writes:
> 
> I have an answer to this one, but I'd like an independent  
confirmation.
> 
> Supply the next two entries in the series and the rules:
> 
> 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, ..., ...

312211,13112221,.....

reading the previous entry from left to right, you record how
many of each digit you run accross, so the next entry is
three 1's two 2's and one 1, or 312211.
From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: Virtual reality puzzle
Date: 19 Aug 92 04:55:08 GMT
Reply-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au

karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr) writes:

>In article <9881@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>>Trivial:  Open up the VR machine in your Real/VR homes, and examine EVERY
>>  component.  The VR machine cannot possibly store the details of its own
>>  construction (where would it store them?).

>Nonsense....

Nonsense it's nonsense...

>The mechanism for the VR machine is much simpler: inside is a 500
>gigabyte disk (i.e. what an ordinary portable PC carries in 2056 :-)
>upon which are recorded all the details of the components of the VR
>machine, including an Acme 500 gigabyte 3 ms hard disk which stores
>needed data including the details of the components of the VR machine
>...

To what level of detail?  "1 x 150ohm resistor connecting points 142 and 421"?

Is there a file on the disk that describes the contents of the disk?
If so, I can just keep that file, and use the rest of the disk for
my GIFs...


>The human body stores the details of its own construction,
>in fact it has many millions of copies of the plan.

Again - to what level of detail?  Certainly not the level of detail
present in the REAL THING (tm).  My DNA does NOT say how tall I am.
Oh, sure it says "I will be fairly tall".  But I am more than what
my DNA defines.  All my DNA defines is itself.  It cannot even define
the zygote I once was - for any random mutation could have occured
after the First Cell split.

As I said originally, this all relies on you ability to tell the difference
between a mock-up VR machine and the real thing... maybe that's the hard part.

The brain surgeon might open the VR VR machine to find a clone of himself
suspended in a pink fluid with the brain-case removed and wires infusing
the cortex.

The <low socio-economic person> might open the VR VR machine to find a HUGE
hairspring with a sign "no user servicable parts".

The sceptic might open the VR VR machine to reveal a man in a green suit
with a megaphone and an embarassed look on his face.

Maybe if a computer scientist chopped up his Vwife, he would find
lumps of sugar, packets of spices, and other nice things.



What if when you opened the VR machine, and found it empty, then turned
to see a horde of orcs stampeding towards you...

	a) The machine is incapable of representing itself, and the Orcs
		are virtual, along with the whole scene.

	b) Your VR machine is a hoax.  What IBM really invented was Orcs.


--
Warwick.
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 /     * <-- Computer Science Department,  /  
 \_.-._/     University of Queensland,    /      void (if removed)
      v      Brisbane, Australia.        /
From: mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Douglas Mueller)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: Maximum Product (was Re: Another math question ...)
Date: 18 Aug 92 12:15:06 GMT
Reply-To: mueller@schaefer.UUCP (Carl Douglas Mueller)
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics

In article <Aug.18.03.55.41.1992.16529@remus.rutgers.edu> clong@remus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) writes:
>In article <1992Aug15.132203.49077@news.th-darmstadt.de>, Ulrich Graef writes:
>
>> Problem:
>> ========
>> Given the set of ten digits from 0 to 9: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
>> i)   Combine the digits to two numbers x and y and use every
>>      digit only once.
>> iii) Which are x and y with the maximum product.
>
>More generally, given the set of digits {0,...,n} form two numbers
>such that x*y is maximal.  This is an old chestnut with a nice
>(non-computer) solution.

I haven't proved this, but it seems "obvious" to me (though I've been wrong
before) that you'd get the maximum product by creating the two numbers by
taking the largest digit remaining in the pool and putting it at the right
side of number A.  Then the right side of number B, and repeat until the
digits are gone.  Thus, for the digits 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, my algorithm
would produce 97531 and 86420.  Is this correct?

Carl Mueller (mueller@math.wisc.edu)
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From: kornya@newton.cs.jhu.edu (Elizabeth Kornya)
Subject: Re: How come? puzzles (SPOILER and new one)
Keywords: Does anyone have any?
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:12:03 GMT


A while ago, a large list of "Yale puzzles" were posted to this news group
I am interested in getting a copy of that list (or at least a list of that
kind of puzzle)  These are also known as "How come?" puzzles, etc.  If
someone could _e-mail_ me back a list or where they can be found, I would 
greatly appreciate it.

Thanks greatly,
Liz
kornya@newton.cs.jhu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
From: schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius)
Subject: rot13 word pairs
Organization: University of Central Florida
Distribution: rec
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:26:47 GMT

This is actually going on in talk.bizarre but
belongs here.  What is the longest word that
rot13's to another word?

The best so far is "nowhere/abjurer".

mark
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
From: afd@bellcore.com (Alex F. Dietz)
Subject: Re: Virtual reality puzzle
Reply-To: afd@bellcore.com
Organization: Bellcore
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 13:14:09 GMT

In article 28527@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu, dsinclai@nyx.cs.du.edu (David Sinclair) writes:
> In article <1992Aug18.002339.17501@hellgate.utah.edu> 
 
> Perhaps this should be in some philosophy group, but I don't think there
> is one... I believe that Alan Turing and Alonzo CHurch found that any 
> phenomenon that could be simulated could be simulated by ANY universal
> Turing machine. 

This is the classic "Evil Genius" problem pondered by Descartes.  Namely, how
do I know that I'm not imprisoned somewhere by an evil genius who's feeding
stimuli to my senses that simulate reality?  He also pondered how to distinguish
dream reality from waking reality.  In the end, he concluded that his 
consciousness was the only thing he could be sure of.  In other words, "I think,
therefore I am."

-A Dietz
Bellcore, Morristown
From: asymes@nl.oracle.com (Andy Symes)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Slaughter of the Innocents
Keywords: puzzle Bible New Testament
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:11:29 GMT
Organization: Oracle Europe

This is one I saw in an old puzzle book.

After King Herod had completed his sluaghter of the innocents, all the little
children were buried in a mound of earth with just their feet sticking out.
How do we know which were boys and which were girls???

Flame me, not the net.

Andy Symes.
Standard disclaimers etc, apply.
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
From: stein@hal.nta.no (Stein Kulseth FBA)
Subject: Re: ducks and foxes (SPOILER)
Keywords: ducks, foxes
Organization: Norwegian Telecom Research 
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 08:28:07 GMT

In article <12AUG199222310506@wccf.mit.edu>, huh@wccf.mit.edu (GENE SIMON HUH) writes:
|> Dear puzzlelovers,
|> 
|>      I don't think that this one is in the FAQ; please don't flame me too much 
|> if it is.  I heard it a while ago on a bus somewhere.
|> 
|>      A duck is swimming about in a circular pond.  A ravenous fox (who cannot 
|> swim) is roaming the edges of the pond, waiting for the duck to come close.  
|> The fox can run four times faster than the duck can swim.  In order to escape, 
|> the duck must swim to the edge of the pond before flying away.  Assume that 
|> the duck can't fly until it has reached the edge of the pond.
|> 
|>      The question is, can the duck escape?  Why or why not?
|> 
|> Cheers


SPOILER:

Yes, it can:

The pond has a circumference of C1 = 2*PI*r. Now, the duck swims just
outside of a circle (1-PI/4)r from the pond centre, this circle has a
circumference of C2 = 2*PI(1-PI/4)r = 2*PI(4-PI)r/4 < 2*PI*r/4 =C1/4 

As C2 < C1/4, the duck can swim around this circle faster than the fox
can run around the edge of the pond, so the duck is able to navigate to
a position where the fox is exactly opposite of the pond centre. Now the
distance to the nearest shore is just under (PI/4)r, while the fox must
cover an entire halfcircle measuring PI*r.

So, no duck for mr. Fox

-- 
stein.kulseth@nta.no (Norwegian Telecom Research)
  'It's the howl from the desert, the scream from the slums
   The Mississippi rolling to the beat of the drums'
   - Phil Alvin ("American Music" recorded by the Blasters)

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From: ah335@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Banks)
Subject: I need a rec.puzzles FAQ
Reply-To: ah335@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Banks)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 02:16:16 GMT


Sending it to ah335@cleveland.freenet.edu
will be appreciated.

Thank you.
Thank you.
--
Richard Banks        I just don't speak
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From: herbert@let.ruu.nl (Herbert Ruessink)
Subject: Re: Riddles
Organization: Faculty of Arts, State university of Utrecht
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 09:56:15 GMT

shari@room.Princeton.EDU (Shari L. Landes) writes:

>In article <1992Aug19.193603.138@draco.macsch.com> jes@downey.dev.macsch.com (John Schiermeier) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug18.150938.3688@Princeton.EDU> shari@room.Princeton.EDU (Shari L. Landes) writes:
>>>Great... everyone who has posted got them right...  here's the ones that
>>>are left...

>>>200	S of P in a R

>200 Sheets of Paper in a Ream

>Enjoy....

>- Harlan - Gates of Dawn BBS - 609-426-1618 -

Sorry, Harlan, my joy is somewhat dulled by Longman's dictionary of
Contempory English (where I checked my first hunch on this, not being
English or American):

"REAM - 1 a (in Britain) 480 pieces of paper, b (in the US) 500 pieces
of paper (...)"

Herbert.
From: sanzgiri@bombay.metaphor.com (Ajit Sanzgiri)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: ducks and foxes (SPOILER)
Keywords: ducks, foxes
Date: 21 Aug 92 00:02:58 GMT
Organization: Metaphor Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA



In article <1992Aug14.195411.1013@cco.caltech.edu> keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:
>> [description of duck's strategy deleted]
>
>Okay, I see this now.  This is a better strategy, but is it the best strategy
>for the duck?  If so (or not), can you prove it?
>
>Anyone?
>
>keith


	Yes, this is the best strategy for the duck. Specifically, the
	following may be proven:
	The limiting ratio of velocities that this strategy works against
	cannot be improved by any other strategy. i.e. if the ratio of
	the duck's speed to the fox's speed is less than r where r is defined
	by the equation : sqrt(1-r*r) = r*(pi + arccos(r)), then the duck
	cannot escape given the best fox strategy.

	Given a ratio R of speeds less than the above r, the fox is sure to
	catch the duck (or keep it in water indefinitely) by pursuing the
	following strategy: 
	Do nothing so long as the duck is in a radius of R around the centre.
	As soon as it emerges from this circle, run at top speed around the
	circumference. If the duck is foolish enough not to position itself
	across from the centre when it comes out of this circle, run "the short
	way around", otherwise run in either direction.

	To see this it is enough to verify that at the circumference of the
	circle of radius R, all straight lines connecting the duck to points
	on the circumference (in the smaller segment of the circle cut out
	by the tangent to the smaller circle) bear a ratio greater than R
	with the corresponding arc the fox must follow. That this is enough
	follows from the observation that the shortest curve from a point on
	a circle to a point on a larger concentric circle (shortest among all
	curves that don't intersect the interior of the smaller circle) is
	either a straight line or an arc of the smaller circle followed by a
	tangential straight line.

	Ajit Sanzgiri
From: berninge@iron.ecn.purdue.edu (James A Berninger)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: Riddles
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:28:07 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <1992Aug18.150938.3688@Princeton.EDU> shari@room.Princeton.EDU (Shari L. Landes) writes:
>Great... everyone who has posted got them right...  here's the ones that
>are left...
>
>12	N on an A C
Numbers on an Analog Clock

>7	D in a L T N (A)
Digits in a Local Telephone Number (American)

>9	D in a Z C (with the S C)
Digits in a Zip Code (with the.....?)

Jim Berninger                   ______ "This is no 'Whoops!'  This is
B0 w- c- g k s- e r- p          \    /  an 'Aaaaaaaauuuuuggggghhhh!'"
berninge@cn.ecn.purdue.edu       \  /   - Harvey ("Arnold") Fierstein
Green Lantern Fan, Extraordinaire \/      "Torch Song Trilogy"
From: emru@CAM.ORG
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: Riddles
Date: 19 Aug 92 11:31:58 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada

Spoilers off the port bow, Smee!


In article <1992Aug14.162002.28421@Princeton.EDU> shari@room.Princeton.EDU (Shari L. Landes) writes:
>
>SPOILERS!
>
>>1. Next number in this series 3 3 5 4 4 
>
>I'll guess... 6 ?

3, actually.  It's the number of letters in each number, from one up.  One, two,
three, four, five, six...

>>3. Each capital letter stands for a word to make up a common combination.
>
>1001 A N

1001 Arabian Nights

>8 D a W (In the B S)

8 Days A Week (In the Beatles Song)

>12 D of C

12 Days of Christmas

>That's all I could think of off hand...

How about:

50 W to L your L

==========================================================================
Emru Townsend        Fido: 1:167/133        emru@cam.org        BIX:switch
Q:  Do you know what the death rate around here is?    A:  One per person.
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
From: Ulf.Lunde@kvatro.no (Ulf Lunde)
Subject: Re: Hofstadter: Riddle Sentence
Organization: Kvatro A/S, Trondheim, Norway
	<1992Aug19.023356.11899@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
	<ULF.LUNDE.92Aug19182924@grim.kvatro.no>
	<1992Aug19.221137.7410@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Distribution: rec
Date: 20 Aug 92 10:42:00

>>>>> On 19 Aug 92 22:11:37 GMT, widenius@klaava.Helsinki.FI 
>>>>>(Risto Widenius) said:
> 
> Ulf.Lunde@kvatro.no (Ulf Lunde) writes:
>
>> no English word contains the letters "myxbl", 
>> and certainly not in that order
> 
> Well, a grep from webster yields 'myxoblastoma' (some sort of
> slime construction probably). Of course this merely reinforces
> taking the sentence as a joke.
> 

I stand corrected!
:-)

Ulf
From: skataba@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Sam Atabaki)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: Homographs
Date: 15 Aug 92 00:28:01 GMT
Reply-To: skataba@PacBell.COM (Sam Atabaki)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA

In article <1992Aug14.160559.24593@cco.caltech.edu> keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:
>hamel@primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) writes:
>
>>BASS (noun) --the fish
>>BASS (adjective) -- as in bass violin
>
>How about lead (pb, the element) and lead (as in you lead, and I'll follow)?
>
How about  polish  (verb) To make shiny 
           Polish  (adj)  Of or pertaining to Poland

-Sam
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