Help with a puzzle

[Mark Stevenson]

Can anyone help me with this puzzle that someone has just given me?

If it takes a man a week to walk a fortnight
How many apples in a bunch of grapes?

It's got me totally perplexed.

---
Mark Stevenson,
Enterprise Oil plc,
Trafalgar Square,
London, England
email: mark.st...@entoil.co.uk

[Rick Shank]

In article <3phnf9$8...@lnss30.entoil.co.uk>,

Which reminds me of another one I heard 20 years ago.

If you're driving down the road at 45 miles per hour
and your front left tire falls off; how many pancakes
does it take to make a doghouse?

[Michael Donn]

ln1...@entoil.co.uk (Mark Stevenson) wrote:

>Can anyone help me with this puzzle that someone has just given me?

>If it takes a man a week to walk a fortnight
>How many apples in a bunch of grapes?

>It's got me totally perplexed.

>---
>Mark Stevenson,
>Enterprise Oil plc,
>Trafalgar Square,
>London, England
>email: mark.st...@entoil.co.uk

green

[Hans Havermann]

In article <D8u2n...@txnews.amd.com> Rick Shank, ri...@dvorak.amd.com
writes:

>Which reminds me of another one I heard 20 years ago.
>
>If you're driving down the road at 45 miles per hour
>and your front left tire falls off; how many pancakes
>does it take to make a doghouse?

Godley + Creme have a wonderful musical example of this type of thing in
a cut called "The Problem" [on their CD "Ismism"; Polydor, 1981]. It
begins: "If a man, A, who weighs 11 stone leaves from his home at 8:30 in
the morning in a car whose consumption is 16.25 m.p.g. at an average
speed of 40 m.p.h. to his office which is 12 miles away..." and continues
thus (non-stop) for almost 4 minutes before the final "How long would it
take to fill the bath?" A musical gem!

Rarebit Dreams Nature requires five, Custom allows seven,
ha...@magic.ca Idleness takes nine, And wickedness eleven.

[Paul Stoufflet]

In article <3prfnu$i...@news.compumedia.com>, mi...@compumedia.com (Michael
Donn) wrote:

I'm sorry, you forgot to mention the brightly colored machine tools.

--
Paul Stoufflet Don't tread on me
Decision Systems Group
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
psto...@dsg.harvard.edu

[fagg...@hotmail.com]

It's actually barrel of grapes and goes back to when the put an apple in every barrel to keep the grapes edible. The walk is irrelevant.

Hope this helped.

[bugs...@googlemail.com]

On Friday, 19 May 1995 08:00:00 UTC+1, Mark Stevenson wrote:
> Can anyone help me with this puzzle that someone has just given me?
>
> If it takes a man a week to walk a fortnight
> How many apples in a bunch of grapes?
>
> It's got me totally perplexed.
>
> ---
> Mark Stevenson,
> Enterprise Oil plc,
> Trafalgar Square,
> London, England
> email: mark.st...@entoil.co.uk

I have a variation of this one. If it takes a man a week to walk a fortnight then how long does it take an elephant with boxing gloves on to remove a tin tack from a barrel of treacle?

[Cherie Plum]

My Dad used to say ( holding his hands out a foot apart)
" a banana this colour"

[gerson]

"Cherie Plum" wrote in message news:paftpu$bbp$1...@gioia.aioe.org...

They grew while she studied history ("As the settlers pushed ever westward, they were threatened constantly by hordes of savage
Indians"); they grew while she studied arithmetic ("If a hen and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half how long will
it take a monkey with a wooden leg to kick the seeds out of a dill pickle)

[gavma...@gmail.com]

Answer is a slice of gravy

[salaman...@gmail.com]

IT'S A BLUE YALE KEY BUT THEIR MUST BE SUGAR ON THE DOUGHNUT.

[bryce_...@hotmail.com]

It’s actually
If it takes a fortnight to walk a week
How many peas can you get from a grape?


The answer is one

First line to throw you off and you can only spell pea once from grape
Or at least that was the way I got told it as an “ old Scottish conundrum “