Quote Originally Posted by Gizmokid2005 View Post

I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
ANSWER (Congrats Knight, Mathster, and TL): A pencil

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I started 2 watches at the same time, It turned out that one of them went two minutes per hour too slow, and the other went one minute per hour too fast. When I looked at them again, the faster one was exactly one hour ahead of the other. How long had the watches been running?



--You guys whine cause they are too easy, so I give you a harder one...then you whine again. Bunch of whiners you all are :-P THIS one should be easy, it took me all of 15 seconds to figure it out, and I've been sick since Monday....--