HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ajw@aus.intel.com (alan waldock)
Subject: Re: Virtual reality puzzle
Organization: Architecture & Software Technology Group, Intel Corp.
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:04:34 GMT

tolman%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Kenneth Tolman) prompted
an awful lot of nonsense by writing:

>  It is the year 2056, and the first perfect virtual reality simulators
>have hit the market.  So you buy one, bring it home..[&c. &c.]

It suffices to define "perfect". If it implies "indistinguishable from
reality", then no, you can't distinguish from reality. If it implies
"almost indistinguishable from reality, except in detail MIL-TFD41", then
you can distinguish by examining detail MIL-TFD41.

Q: Does God exist?
A: It all depends on what you mean by "does".

Is there an alt.psychobabble?

-- Alan Waldock, from but not on behalf of Intel Corporation,
   who got out of bed the wrong side this morning.
   ajw@aus.hf.intel.com       ...uunet!intelhf!aus!ajw
From: dbodoh@flute.mitre.org (David Bodoh)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: Homographs
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:06:55 GMT
Reply-To: dbodoh@flute.mitre.org (David Bodoh)
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, Va

In article <1992Aug13.204913.5639@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, rad2r@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Robert DeLine) writes:
|> 
|> I friend recently asked me for two homographs (words spelled the same
|> but pronounced differently) where one was an adjective and the other a
|> noun.  He swears there's only one.  I don't believe him, but I've yet to
|> come up with another example.  There are plenty noun/verb pairs but few
|> noun/adjective pairs.
|> 
|> Below I've written the pair he told me.  Can someone come up with
|> another?
|> 
|> 
|> polish (n) e.g. shoe polish
|> Polish (adj)

How about "invalid"?

invalid (noun) = the guy who lost his limbs
invalid (adj)  = expired

-dbodoh@mitre.org-
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From: jes@downey.dev.macsch.com (John Schiermeier)
Subject: Re: Swallows flying south
Organization: The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 19:44:01 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.115259.28944@nntp.nta.no> stein@hal.nta.no (Stein Kulseth FBA) writes:
>A swallow (A) is flying south. It then spots another swallow (B) flying behind
>it, but some distance to the right on a parallell course due south. Ie:
>

Would these be African swallows or European swallows?  And laden with
coconuts or not?

John

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From: chepan@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (Parthasarathy Nambi)
Subject: SSN puzzle
Summary: SSN and primes
Keywords: primes, SSN
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:08:06 GMT

	I hope the following is *not* a stupid puzzle!!!!!



	Assume that USA population is 250 million.

	Assume also that everyone has a Social Security number
	and also none of those start with 0 in the first digit.

	How many people in the US have SSN which is also a prime?

	P.Nambi
From: vreddy@das.harvard.edu (Venkatesh Reddy)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: Riddles
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:55:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: das.1992Aug20.145540.14542
Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University

In article <1992Aug19.163054.9197@Princeton.EDU>, shari@room.Princeton.EDU (Shari L. Landes) writes:
|> We both said, in some-odd way:
|> >:>>12	N on an A C
|> 
|> >:>Not necessarily.
|> >:>Mine has 0.  My wife's 4.
|> 
|> >:I believe you have the wrong solution in mind then.
|> 
|> >"Wrong"?  Why is it "wrong"?
|> >It may not be the same answer you have in mind, but it is certainly
|> >correct! 
|> 
|> Because, if it was not wrong, it would not have the variations that you
|> mentioned.  If your answer was correct, you wouldn't be able to say that
|> yours has 0 and you wife's has 4.
|> 
|> Harlan
|> 
|> BTW - I do not mean my statement(s) to be offensive, and please do not
|> take them that way.
|> 
|> -- 
|> _________________________________________________________________________
|>           Only the ephemeral is of lasting value--Ionesco
|> -------------------------------------------------------------------------


Ever seen a "Swatch" watch?

-- Venk --
From: emru@CAM.ORG
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: Rhymes
Date: 19 Aug 92 11:37:17 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada

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?
>
>Anybody know words similarly difficult to rhyme?

Sure, my name.  At least I don't have to worry about some song coming out
mentioning me (tho Spielberg did release a movie with my initials) :)

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From: mhz7c@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Mark H. Zollinhofer)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Hofstadter:Riddle Sentence
Date: 18 Aug 92 03:02:18 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia

I just began perusing Hofstadter's book "metamagical themas"
and found a sentence on page 44 that I can't decipher.  This is
old by now so if someone out there can enlighten me, I'd be
grateful.

"f y cn rd ths, itn tyg h myxbl cd."

Thanks for your help.
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From: jimhsu@athena.mit.edu (Jimmy M.D. Hsu)
Subject: New Homograph
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 02:48:28 GMT

molar-n:  back tooth
molar-adj:  relating to a mole of solute in a liter
of solution

I pronounce the noun as "moler" and the adjectivial
variation as "mo-LAR".  Does anyone else pronounce them
this way?  My high-school chem teacher also used this
pronunciation.  I've seen the chemical version listed
as "moler" and "molar" in different dictionaries.  Does
anyone else use "mo-LAR"?  Please forgive the digression
into a tomato, tomahto;  potato, potahto, potatoe :^)
controversy.

--
James Amdee  MIT

"I come up with this from the teachings of a ninjiatic
disciple, that's where!"

Knocking on heaven's door...   GNR
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From: kanad@top.cis.syr.edu (Kanad Chakraborty)
Subject: Re: Homographs
Organization: Syracuse University, CIS Dept.
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 08:55:25 EDT

In article <1992Aug14.160559.24593@cco.caltech.edu> keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:
>hamel@primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) writes:
>
>
>>> I friend recently asked me for two homographs (words spelled the same
>>> but pronounced differently) where one was an adjective and the other a
>>> noun.  He swears there's only one.  I don't believe him, but I've yet to
>>> come up with another example.  
>>> 
>>> Rob DeLine
>
>>How about BASS?
>
>>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)?
>
>keith
>

Also, the word 'INVALID' which may either be a noun, pronounced
`inva-leed,' meaning a handicapped person, or an adjective, pronounced
`in-valid' meaning not valid, or untrue.

Kanad
From: shari@room.Princeton.EDU (Shari L. Landes)
Subject: Re: Riddles
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 16:30:54 GMT

We both said, in some-odd way:
>:>>12	N on an A C

>:>Not necessarily.
>:>Mine has 0.  My wife's 4.

>:I believe you have the wrong solution in mind then.

>"Wrong"?  Why is it "wrong"?
>It may not be the same answer you have in mind, but it is certainly
>correct! 

Because, if it was not wrong, it would not have the variations that you
mentioned.  If your answer was correct, you wouldn't be able to say that
yours has 0 and you wife's has 4.

Harlan

BTW - I do not mean my statement(s) to be offensive, and please do not
take them that way.

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From: ncramer@bbn.com (Nichael Cramer)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: Riddles
Date: 19 Aug 1992 16:00:48 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Reply-To: ncramer@labs-n.bbn.com (Nichael Cramer)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

shari@room.Princeton.EDU (Shari L. Landes) writes:
:ncramer@labs-n.bbn.com (Nichael Cramer) writes:
:>shari@room.Princeton.EDU (Shari L. Landes) writes:
:>>12	N on an A C
:>Not necessarily.
:>Mine has 0.  My wife's 4.
:I believe you have the wrong solution in mind then.


"Wrong"?  Why is it "wrong"?

It may not be the same answer you have in mind, but it is certainly
correct!
From: rad2r@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Robert DeLine)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Homographs
Date: 13 Aug 92 20:49:13 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department


I friend recently asked me for two homographs (words spelled the same
but pronounced differently) where one was an adjective and the other a
noun.  He swears there's only one.  I don't believe him, but I've yet to
come up with another example.  There are plenty noun/verb pairs but few
noun/adjective pairs.

Below I've written the pair he told me.  Can someone come up with
another?


Rob DeLine
Computer Science, University of Virginia
deline@Virginia.EDU


One answer follows

	|
	|
	|
	V


























































polish (n) e.g. shoe polish
Polish (adj)
From: schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Skittles commercial
Date: 16 Aug 92 15:20:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: eola.schnitzi.713978429
Distribution: rec
Organization: University of Central Florida

So I just saw this commercial for Skittles where they
claim the number of "flavor combinations" in a packet
of Skittles is 371,292.  Anyone have any idea how they
came up with this figure?

mark
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From: wlh04953@elp.aero.org (William L. Hayden)
Subject: planiverse simulation
Summary: looking for info on program 2DWORLD
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 20:04:20 GMT

I know that this might not be the correct news group and would appreciate 
any suggestions for query follow-ups.

I've just picked up a copy of A.K.DEWDNEY's "The Planivers".
The introduction refers to the computer
program 2DWORLD which evolved as a class project at the 
U. of Toronto.
Did/does this simulation program actually exist ?
If so - what source language
        what platform
        Is it available for download (FTP?)
From: bawagan@rwja.umdnj.edu (Hinayana Bawagan)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: riddles
Keywords: what is that?
Date: 12 Aug 92 20:12:01 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway NJ

1) What walks all day on its head?

2) He who makes it, makes it to sell,
   He who buys it, does not use it,
   He who uses it, does not know it!
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From: tsmaster@media.mit.edu (David LeCompte)
Subject: Re: Virtual reality puzzle
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:41:03 GMT

You simply trundle out to the (real? virtual?) store where you bought
the virtual system and ask to try out the next model up. I don't believe
that the company would market a machine that could not be improved upon.
(Sorry, realism creeping into the puzzle.)

			-Dave
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From: kml@cellar.org (Lazlo Hoover Toth)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: Riddles
Date: 19 Aug 92 17:06:16 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

7 C in a R
88 C in the S

7 colors in a rainbow
88 constellations in the sky (? not definite on this one).


..
From: widenius@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Widenius)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: Hofstadter: Riddle Sentence
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:11:37 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

Ulf.Lunde@kvatro.no (Ulf Lunde) writes:

>I always took it to be a joke, assuming that 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.

rw
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From: jw7348@norway.medtronic.com (Jeff Wilkinson)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: Homographs
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:29:06 GMT
Organization: Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN

In article <1992Aug14.151938.12410@medtron.medtronic.com> jw7348@norway.medtronic.com (Jeff Wilkinson) writes:

>
>Hey!!!! My example is a noun/adjective pair!  Deer (the animal) and
>dear (what my wife means to me)!
>
>Well........nothing like finding a penny when you fall on your face!
>

Never mind (sigh). Brain Cramp.

wilk
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From: tycchow@riesz.mit.edu (Timothy Y. Chow)
Subject: Re: Virtual reality puzzle *spoilers?*
Organization: None.  This saves me from writing a disclaimer.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 02:21:46 GMT

How about this: a VR machine that doesn't let you get out easily is buggy
and therefore imperfect.
-- 
Tim Chow     tycchow@math.mit.edu
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs
30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh
only 1 1/2 tons.                               ---Popular Mechanics, March 1949
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From: mmokhtar@attmail.com (Mazen Mokhtar)
Subject: Re: Virtual reality puzzle
Originator: mmdh@cbnewsf.cb.att.com
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:25:53 GMT

In article <IeYFKIu00XsG0nomAm@andrew.cmu.edu> ss8c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Simon Szykman) writes:

>  Why not "I think that I think, therefore I think I am"?

  I think that I think, therefore I think, therefore I am.

  If I am not, then who is asking the question?

>I always thought "I think therefore I am" was more of an axiom or a  postulate
>than something he was sure of.

  It belongs to the set of propositions which we know are true but which we
have no device for proving. This is due to imperfection in our system of
formal logic, not due to uncertainty.


Regards,

Mazen Mokhtar


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From: mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Douglas Mueller)
Subject: Re: Licence Plate: what does it mean?
Reply-To: mueller@schaefer.UUCP (Carl Douglas Mueller)
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 13:25:12 GMT

In article <80621@bcsaic.boeing.com> gah2468@bcsaic.boeing.com (Geoffrey Hazel) writes:
>I saw a personalized plate I can't figure out (on a non-descript car):
>MEDJGRE
 How about ME DJ GRE ?  If there's a radio station WGRE (or KGRE).

Carl Mueller
From: slandrum@ntg.com (Stephen H. Landrum)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: ducks and foxes **SPOILER**
Keywords: ducks, foxes
Date: 14 Aug 92 23:40:48 GMT
Organization: New Technologies Group, Inc.  Palo Alto CA

In article <12AUG199222310506@wccf.mit.edu> huh@wccf.mit.edu (GENE SIMON HUH) writes:
>     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?

**SPOILER** follows




Yes, the duck can escape.

Reasoning:

  Call the radius of the pond 1 unit.  As long as the duck is within
the circle concentric with the pond and with a radius of .25 units,
then the duck can stay directly opposite the center of the pond from
the fox.  As soon as the duck is .25 units from the center of the pond,
the duck can make a dash for the edge, having a distance of .75 units
to cover, while the fox must cover a distance of PI units to catch the
duck.  In the time  that it takes the duck to cover .75 units of
distance, the fox can only move 3 units, and will miss the duck by a
small amount.
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From: dwr2560@zeus.tamu.edu (RING, DAVID WAYNE)
Subject: Re: ducks and foxes (SPOILER)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: ducks, foxes
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 09:26:00 GMT

>     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?

Suppose the fox runs at a speed 23mph and the duck swims at 5mph. Can
the duck escape now?

Dave Ring
dwr2560@zeus.tamu.edu
From: dsbb@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (D. SPENCER BEECHER)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Rhymes
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:04:31 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

Can anyone out there rhyme month, hungry, angry or orange?

Anybody know words similarly difficult to rhyme?
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From: karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr)
Subject: Re: Virtual reality puzzle
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:28:55 GMT

In article <15792@star.cs.vu.nl> lbkruij@cs.vu.nl (Kruijswijk LB) writes:
>In article <1992Aug18.002339.17501@hellgate.utah.edu> tolman%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Kenneth Tolman) writes:
>>  What is a sure way to know if you are in the real world or the virtual
>>one?  That is the puzzle.
>If there are people that outrun your intelligence, the reality is real. If
>there could exist simulators that simulates intelligence, then such machine 
>should be intelligent. Also, playing with such simulator would have a meaning
>for the machine, because it is intelligent. So, your actions would have a
>meaning and therefor the reality is real. There is only a problem when you
>think you are the most intelligent being. This is true when you are alone on
>the world.

This is interesting.  What it says to me is that a TRULY "perfect" VR
machine would have to include a program that could pass the Turing
test, so that it could simulate your spouse (for example) in a
convincing manner.

For an interesting interpretation of the Turing test, read the end of
Hofstadter's book, Go"del, Escher, Bach.  If you believe Hofstadter,
it is theoretically possible that the simulated intelligence WOULD
appear to be smarter than you.

-- David Karr (karr@cs.cornell.edu)



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From: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider)
Subject: Re: Maximum Product (was Re: Another math question ...)
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:35:57 GMT

tordm@vana (Tord Malmgren) writes:

>In article <1992Aug18.131852.20419@cco.caltech.edu>, keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:

>>>>> 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.
>[...]
>>>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?

>>No.  What you need to do is get the numbers as close to each other as possible.
>>For example, 96420*87531 is 11110000 greater than 97531*86420...

> and just for the fun of it, 50123*49876 is less than 96420*87531, but
>50123 and 49876 are closer to eachother than 96420 and 87531 are...

Well, the first digits seem obvious, but the others?

keith
From: shari@room.Princeton.EDU (Shari L. Landes)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: Riddles
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:07:03 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@nimaster

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...
>>
>>7 	C in a R

7 Colors in a Rainbow

>>12	N on an A C

12 Numbers on an Analog Clock (PEM on this one, sorry.)

>>3	C on a T L

3 Colors on a Traffic Light  (Normally, some have two, but most everywhere they have 3)

>>7	D in a L T N (A)

7 Digits in a Local Telephone Number (American)

>>200	S of P in a R

200 Sheets of Paper in a Ream

>>88	C in the S

88 Constellations in the Sky

>>9	D in a Z C (with the S C)
>        digits in a zip code (with the street code)

>It would be interesting to see a post with all the
>answers from the originator.

Enjoy....

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


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From: marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Bob Marshall)
Subject: Re: An: Homographs
Reply-To: marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 02:10:33 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.200138.82363@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, dsbb@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (D. SPENCER BEECHER) writes:
>In article <1992Aug13.204913.5639@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, rad2r@uvacs.cs.Virg
>inia.EDU (Robert DeLine) writes:
>>
>>I friend recently asked me for two homographs (words spelled the same
>>but pronounced differently) where one was an adjective and the other a
>>noun.  He swears there's only one.  I don't believe him, but I've yet to
>>come up with another example.  There are plenty noun/verb pairs but few
>>noun/adjective pairs.

How about wound (noun:an injury, adjective: a wound watch)
And closer (noun: baseball term for reliever who finishes a game), and
    closer (adjective: comparative form of close, as in nearness)
And bustier (noun: female undergarment, adjective: well, you know...)

And, while it doesn't meet the conditions, I came up with a good
noun/verb example : moped.

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From: kml@cellar.org (Lazlo Hoover Toth)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: Riddles
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:01:25 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

chris@peregrine.peregrine.com (Chris Cole) writes:
> This puzzle is on the rec.puzzles FAQL (Frequently Asked Questions List).
> From the FAQL, the answer is:
> 1 = G. S. for M. K. (1 giant step for man kind/mankind)

'Scuse me, but that's 1 Giant LEAP for ManKind.  (1 Small Step for Man)

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