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STUARTe

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Jan 30, 2008, 9:42:26 AM1/30/08
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I saw this in GAMES magazine and no answer was provided.

A man goes to work in an office. He gets fired from his job. The next
day he appears at the office bright and early and ready for work. How
could this happen?

Reinhold Burger

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Jan 30, 2008, 1:18:07 PM1/30/08
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Just a guess: Perhaps the job he was fired from was at some *other*
office (or shop or factory). Maybe he was trying to hold down two jobs
at once, and when the work schedules conflicted, the other place fired
him?

Btw, you may want to try posting on rec.puzzles. Traffic on this
newsgroup (alt.brain.teasers) has been dwindling for a while now.
I wonder if many people still read it.

Reinhold

Sid

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Feb 4, 2008, 9:23:41 PM2/4/08
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(1) I would suspect that his "office job" was designing things, one such
thing was the cannon which was used to shoot the "human cannonball" and
because he designed it he wanted to be the first person to be shot from his
cannon.


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Feb 19, 2008, 12:02:47 AM2/19/08
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Reinhold Burger <rfbu...@cs.uwaterloo.ca> wrote in
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The puzzle is too vague and ill-defined to be a good one. There are
probably dozens of possible solutions. Here's one that springs to mind. The
guy is a private detective working on a case. His client tells him he no
longer needs him on the case, so basically fires him. So the guy comes back
to his office next morning to wait for more clients. This could apply to
any situation where someone is self-employed.

Steve

beauwlf

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Feb 28, 2008, 8:03:40 PM2/28/08
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In a simpler words he is a fireman ....

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alan holmes

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Mar 5, 2008, 6:09:45 PM3/5/08
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I've just started to read it, but do you think I should save my time?

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> Reinhold


STUARTe

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Mar 19, 2008, 9:54:32 AM3/19/08
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sorry
i misspoke when i said "office". best answer was provided elsewhere.
he works at the circus and is fired from a cannon everyday.

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