Randy Souther wrote:
Why don't you just ask them if it is dark or not?
Randy
Horace was providing the solution to the classic riddle, which goes
something like this:
One tribe lies, the other doesn't; one has red feet, the other green;
you don't know which is which; on a dark night how do you
The Red feet never lie, the green feet never tell the
truth. A green foot need not give any answer, orhe may give an answer in
the form of a question such as.. why do you ask?.. or any number of others..
Aquestion may be a method of shielding a lie.
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At 7:39 AM 1/11/5, RC Macaulay wrote:
BlankThe Red feet never lie, the green feet never tell the truth. A green
foot need not give any answer, or he may give an answer in the form of a
question such as.. why do you ask?.. or any number of others.. A question
may be a method of shielding a lie.
A
where did this come from? and take leadership roles? please, these
guys coming back are making vietnam vets look like ex cops. its a new
generation of homeless we're creating. and i find it funny that you
talk of the lies of one president, without discussing the lies of the
other. one lie was
Give me liberty, or give me death! -- Patrick Henry
G.W. Bush's motto is:
Give them liberty, or give them death!
Harry
Harry
leaking pen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
where did this come from? and take leadership roles? please, these
guys coming back are making vietnam vets look
At 11:56 PM 1/10/5, Randy Souther wrote:
Why don't you just ask them if it is dark or not?
Randy
Ohhh... (slaps hand to forehead!) ... now I see what you meant. Yes, that
works too.
Regards,
Horace Heffner
At 6:03 PM 1/11/5, Mark S Bilk wrote:
You ask one of them how the other one would answer the
question. Thus you always get a single inversion, and
the truth is the opposite of whatever he says. You never
do find out which is the liar and which the truth-teller,
which makes sense, because there
Ya havta love this group!! Stephen Lawrence
is correct in his view.. but.. think again of the question.
The red foot tribe never lies and the green foot tribe
never tells the truth
The question presupposes an attempt by the visitor to
determine if the tribe is red foot or green foot using
RC Macaulay wrote:
In west Texas there lived two tribes of natives. One tribe had red feet
and never told lies. One tribe had green feet and never told the truth.
Question If you were traveling in the area during the darkest night
and encountered a tribe in the dark..
Phrased correctly, what
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