No. No. Guys! That's NOT what happened at all. heh. Driving in reverse is too simple of an answer. Here's what really happened. ha. heh. When he went onto the road, he looked at the compass in his car. That's how he knew the road goes North and South .Now we all know that the NORTH Pole is above the equator. Isn't it??? Ya. That means the South Pole is below the Equator. These two facts are accepted by normal people as being a true statement. Isn't it???? Therefore, we can assume that anything above the equator is in the Northern hemisphere, and anything South of the equator is in the Southern hemisphere. Isn't it ?????
Now we all know that a compass is nothing more than a simple magnet. We also know, that a magnet has two ends more commonly known as "poles" One 'pole' is marked or understood to be known as the North Pole while the other end is, by reason of elimination, the South Pole. Isn't it???We also know, that the earth has lines of magnetic force that exit from the North Pole and enter the South Pole on a route outside the earth's crust and travel back to the North Pole along a route inside the earth's crust. It's also possible for the reverse to be true, depending on your point of view of life and physics study. We also know, don't we??? that magnetism displays the characteristic of having 'like poles' repel each other and 'unlike poles' attract each other. Doesn't it??? Therefore, when the poor slob got into his car and aligned it to the N on his compass, he in fact, was pointing South. That's because the South Pole of the earth attracted the North Pole of his compass causing him to actually drive South for one mile while he thought he was going North. Wasn't he?????. Either that, or he was driving in an abandoned mine, well below the earth's surface, and was influenced by the return path of the earth's magnetic field from the South Pole to the North Pole along it's route below the earth's crust. OH! What a wonderful feeling to be able to sometimes solve these puzzles. ho . ha. heh. love it.... Donnie.. ----- Original Message ----- From: Alan MacLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 10:02 AM Subject: Re: Puzzler of the week > > > > > > He pointed the car north, then drove in reverse for a mile... > > > > > > > >This week's puzzler: > > > >While we were way up north this fall looking at the New England foliage, we > >visited our friend, Doug Mayer. He said, "There's a road right near my > >house that runs directly north and south." > > > >I said, "Yeah? Show me." > > > >And Mayer says, "I can put my car on this road and point it north, and > >drive for a mile and when I'm done, I'm a mile south of where I started." > > > >The question is very simple: How's he doing it? > > > >Last week's puzzler: > > > >The owner of a record store hires a pimply faced, high-school kid to work > >on Saturdays. > > > >He says to the kid, "You know what to do. But I got one little extra thing > >for you. I've got two piles of used 45-PM records that I'm selling for my > >friend Sam. Each pile consists of 30 records. > > > >"The records in the first pile are two for a buck. The other pile is three > >for a buck. I don't want you to put the money in the register. I've got to > >give it to Sam. Put the money into the cigar box under the counter." > > > >At the end of the first day, the owner comes back to the store, finds that > >all of the records have been sold and there is $25 in the cigar box. The > >two-for-a-dollar records sold for a total of $15, and the > >three-for-a-dollar records sold for a total for ten bucks. > > > >Encouraged by the rapid sales, the next week Sam shows up with 60 more > >records. > > > >The owner gives the kid the same instructions. This time, the kid says, "I > >noticed last week that people were taking two records from one pile and > >three records from another pile, so I decided that this week I'm going to > >sell five for two bucks." > > > >The fellow who owns the record store says, "Seems like a good idea." > > > >At the end of the day, though, the owner opens the cigar box and there's > >$24 in there. He says, "You're missing a dollar!" > > > >The kid says, "No, I sold all the records." > > > >And that's the question. Where's the missing dollar? > > > >Last week's puzzler answer: > > > >In the record sale in Week #1, the records in the pile marked 2 for $1 were > >priced at 50 cents each. And the records in the pile marked 3 for $1 were > >priced at 33.33 cents each. > > > >In the record sale in Week #2, the records were all marked 5 for $2, which > >averages out to 40 cents per record. And that average price is the problem. > > > >Because if you averaged the price of the records for sale in Week #1, the > >true average is 41.67 cents. > > > >To make $25 in the record sales in Week #2, the clerk should have priced > >the records at 5 for $2.08 to reach a total sales figure of $25. > > > >_______________________ > >Scott MacLean > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >ICQ: 9184011 > >http://www.nerosoft.com > > > _________________________________________________________________ > The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.423 / Virus Database: 238 - Release Date: 25/11/02
