Riddle of the Day

[Gizmokid2005]

QWERTYUIOP are the letters on the top row of letters on a standard typing keyboard. What is the longest word that can be typed using just those letters? Pepper is one but you should be able to come up with a longer one (or several longer ones).

ANSWER (Congrats Knight): Typewriter is usually the most common word formed from those letters. Others are: Repertoire, Proprietor, Proprietory. Have any others?

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NEXT RIDDLE (A little word riddle today):

Punctuate the following group of words:
I said that that that that that man wrote shoud have been underlined

[Gizmokid2005]

Please do because either the riddle had missing facts in it as I mentioned or this riddle is lacking logic much like your "your are jealous comeback to everything I say"

Explain this, according to which clock/time the morning journey took 65 mins?
There are only 2 mentioned in the riddle, the guy's and the station so my scnearios do make sense since there was the absence of a known, accurate watch to compare to...

If the riddle makes sense and I still can't get the answer then my hat is off to those who get it but as you can see, this riddle even confused Karl and he is a very sharp guy....ehem.

OK TL....this is for you.

THE MORNING JOURNEY:

The journey took 65 minutes. Why? The narrator of the riddle stated that it arrived 5 minutes late for a 60 minute journey. That is the correct time as it's not based off of any clocks mentioned in the riddle. Mr. Grumper thinking that his watch was 3 minutes SLOW set it to be the same time as the station clock (3 minutes forward).

THE EVENING JOURNEY:

This journey left on time according to the watch (which we know is 3 minutes fast as is from the morning journey). Also, the train arrived on time according to the station clock. We were told that the train was 25% faster than the morning trip. So, since we know the morning trip took 65 minutes, we divide that by 1.25 which gives us 52 minutes. BUT, as was stated in the riddle, the train arrived for the original journey 5 minutes late, which in turn (because Mr. Grumper set his watch to show that the train was on time) means that the evening trip actually was 5 minutes later. So the evening trip actually took 57 minutes. If the station clock said that this was on time, this makes the station clock 3 minutes fast. 60-57=3

[acoustikarl]

NEXT RIDDLE (A little word riddle today):

Punctuate the following group of words:
I said that that that that that man wrote shoud have been underlined

I said that that "that," that that man wrote, should have been underlined.

[Gizmokid2005]

Close...but because this is a grammar riddle, I can't give it to you. You are on the right track though

[acoustikarl]

Close...but because this is a grammar riddle, I can't give it to you. You are on the right track though

I can live with close, after all, I are enguhneer. Six muns ago I cudn't spel enguhneer, now i are one.

[Gizmokid2005]

LOL!! Nice one!

[TurcoLoco]

ANSWER (Congrats Knight): Typewriter is usually the most common word formed from those letters. Others are: Repertoire, Proprietor, Proprietory. Have any others?

The best one I could come up with was "territory" but Knight already got a better one (damn you punk!), so I didn't even bother post it till now of course.

OK TL....this is for you.

THE MORNING JOURNEY:

The journey took 65 minutes. Why? The narrator of the riddle stated that it arrived 5 minutes late for a 60 minute journey. That is the correct time as it's not based off of any clocks mentioned in the riddle. Mr. Grumper thinking that his watch was 3 minutes SLOW set it to be the same time as the station clock (3 minutes forward).

THE EVENING JOUNREY:

This journey left on time according to the watch (which we know is 3 minutes fast as is from the morning journey). Also, the train arrived on time according to the station clock. We were told that the train was 25% faster than the morning trip. So, since we know the morning trip took 65 minutes, we divide that by 1.25 which gives us 52 minutes. BUT, as was stated in the riddle, the train arrived for the original journey 5 minutes late, which in turn (because Mr. Grumper set his watch to show that the train was on time) means that the evening trip actually was 5 minutes later. So the evening trip actually took 57 minutes. If the station clock said that this was on time, this makes the station clock 3 minutes fast. 60-57=3

Where the F the narrator come from? How would we differentiate the narrator's comments from the tricky riddle sh.t? Besides, I axed for (and you said) a graphical explanation!!!

I can live with close, after all, I are enguhneer. Six muns ago I cudn't spel enguhneer, now i are one.

How many fricken engineers does it take on this forum to solve to unsolvable riddles? lol

I have an emergency bottle of Quervo, but no limes....

I like Sauza better...

[Gizmokid2005]

LOL!! Wow TL...sounds like you need some tequilla yourself...

[Mathster]

engineers use spell check and pass it along to hte office manager to correct grammar.

Im not much of a tequila fan myself.

[Mathster]

I said that? that?? that!? that "that" man wrote shoud have been underlined