The Duck in the Bottle...HELP!
tsnick
Its the riddle about the duck trapped inside a perfectly formed bottle -
with the only way out being the top of the bottle - which is far too small
for the duck to get its head through. So without hurting the duck or
breaking the bottle - how do you get the duck out of the bottle?
cheers in advance
Clearshaw
Carl G.
tsnick wrote in message <7jvqqh$jl7$1...@gxsn.com>...
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I suspect that the answer is either based on a pun (i.e., somehow it "ducks
out" or gets "tired out"), or on a Zen approach (i.e., if you are "truly
enlightened" you will see that the duck *is* out of the bottle.). Here are
some other approaches:
1. Word quibble approach: Cut the bottle open (don't break it).
2. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. approach: Use a chrono-synclastic infundibulum (or a
"quack in time" :-) ).
3. Reverse chronology approach: View time backwards until a you reach a
time before the duck was in the bottle (I would guess that the duck was
inserted into the bottle when it was a small duckling and raised inside the
bottle).
4. Mathematical/pun approach: Write an equation that describes the duck and
then work it out with a pencil.
5. Topological approach: Turn the bottle inside out.
Carl G.
Ian MacDonald
<r.y.ka...@anagrams.r.us> writes
>"tsnick" <nick.char...@global.net.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Its the riddle about the duck trapped inside a perfectly formed bottle -
>>with the only way out being the top of the bottle - which is far too small
>>for the duck to get its head through. So without hurting the duck or
>>breaking the bottle - how do you get the duck out of the bottle?
>
>the bottle, then follow them in reverse order!
But what if it hatched from an egg which had been placed in the bottle?
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Ian MacDonald
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Matthew Wootton
chapter 24, verse 7, does clearly state:
Simple. Reverse the thermodynamic arrow of time, and the duck will turn
into an egg and can then be removed from the bottle. It's just lateral
thinking.
~ma=t
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Michelle Lee
duck.
sue wrote:
> is the bottle made of plastic? if so, you could cut the bottom off...this way
> it would not 'break'
>
> tsnick wrote:
>
> > This is probably really easy - but help me!
> >
> > Its the riddle about the duck trapped inside a perfectly formed bottle -
> > with the only way out being the top of the bottle - which is far too small
> > for the duck to get its head through. So without hurting the duck or
> > breaking the bottle - how do you get the duck out of the bottle?
> >
> > cheers in advance
diogo...@gmail.com
it is very easy to imagine the duck inside of the bottle. Right? i bet you didn't struggled to do that.
i'll give you a "silly" real example that i'm passing through.
My girlfriend says that she will only be a good makeup professional if she get an academic degree course of makeup. I keep telling her to practice at home and start working with friends, or simple jobs in the area. But she doesn't even try to get a freelance or practice on her friends because she believes it isn't worth, and her work will not be valid if she doesn't goes through something academic. That's the duck that she easily placed inside of her bottle. How do you get it out there? the same way you put it there. With your imagination. You just can't see it. 😉
sirnin...@yahoo.com
One lets the duck die of natural causes and then the duck is no longer in the bottle, no more than a person is still in a box when they pass.
...before anyone says it, I am a vegetarian veterinarian, so please do not try this at home. :)