Who am I?

Kevin Stone

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Jan 14, 2006, 5:15:42 PM1/14/06

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Hi,

I've been asked the following:

I leave home
I turn right
I turn left
I turn left
I turn left
Who am I?

(I am not the author of this puzzle)

--
Kev

Alexander Thesoso

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Jan 14, 2006, 5:40:54 PM1/14/06

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George W. Bush?

"Kevin Stone" <newsa...@HotPOP.com> wrote in message
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Mark Brader

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Jan 14, 2006, 5:43:14 PM1/14/06

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Kevin Stone forwards:

> I leave home
> I turn right
> I turn left
> I turn left
> I turn left
> Who am I?

Easy. You...

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are a left-handed batter who just hit a home run.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "As for Canada's lack of mystique,
m...@vex.net it is not unique." -- Mark Leeper

Kevin Stone

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Jan 14, 2006, 5:58:57 PM1/14/06

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Doh! Obvious when told, but the last thing I'd have thought of over here in
the UK.

Thanks.

--

Kev

mensa...@aol.com

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Jan 14, 2006, 6:47:56 PM1/14/06

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How would a cricket version of that puzzle go?

>
> Thanks.
>
> --
>
> Kev

Kevin Stone

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Jan 14, 2006, 6:58:35 PM1/14/06

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mensa...@aol.com wrote:

Lots of rain, tea and sandwiches I'm sure.

--
Kev

Don Del Grande

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Jan 14, 2006, 8:20:47 PM1/14/06

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mensanator wrote:

> How would a cricket version of that puzzle go?

How about:

I'm in
I'm out
I'm out
I'm in.

-- Don

dgates

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Jan 14, 2006, 9:47:45 PM1/14/06

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You're... bell-bottom pants?

Duncan Smith

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Jan 14, 2006, 10:36:28 PM1/14/06

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Kevin Stone wrote:
[snip]

>
> Doh! Obvious when told, but the last thing I'd have thought of over here in
> the UK.
>
> Thanks.
>

You could be playing rounders (I think that would work).

Duncan

Dan Tilque

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Jan 15, 2006, 1:59:05 AM1/15/06

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Alexander Thesoso wrote:

> "Kevin Stone" <newsa...@HotPOP.com> wrote in message
> news:42tbfrF...@individual.net...
>>

>> I leave home
>> I turn right
>> I turn left
>> I turn left
>> I turn left
>> Who am I?

> George W. Bush?
>

Somehow, the phrase "turn left" (multiple times) does not go with
the name George Bush. I don't know why...

--
Dan Tilque

Richard Heathfield

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Jan 15, 2006, 2:13:29 AM1/15/06

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Dan Tilque said:

Go far enough left and you end up on the right. Turn left three times, for
example.

And right, left, left, left is a 180 turn, which is pretty common among
politicians.

--
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
http://www.cpax.org.uk
email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously)

conra...@hotmail.com

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Jan 15, 2006, 6:36:15 AM1/15/06

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Mark Brader wrote:
> Kevin Stone forwards:
>
> > I leave home
> > I turn right
> > I turn left
> > I turn left
> > I turn left
> > Who am I?
>
> Easy. You...
>
> 40
> 39

>

> are a left-handed batter who just hit a home run.

I don't think this is quite right, err, correct. As a left-handed
batter who has just hit a home run, I turn right first, then leave
home, verdad?
cfe (not a jock or a sports fan)

Gareth Owen

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Jan 15, 2006, 7:44:51 AM1/15/06

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"Kevin Stone" <newsa...@HotPOP.com> writes:

> Doh! Obvious when told, but the last thing I'd have thought of over
> here in the UK.

Don't you know any UK baseball fans?

Mark Brader

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Jan 15, 2006, 8:20:27 AM1/15/06

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Spoiler protection deleted.

Kevin Stone:

> > > I leave home
> > > I turn right
> > > I turn left
> > > I turn left
> > > I turn left
> > > Who am I?

Mark Brader:
> > Easy. You...

> > are a left-handed batter who just hit a home run.

Conrad Eaton:

> I don't think this is quite right, err, correct. As a left-handed
> batter who has just hit a home run, I turn right first, then leave
> home, verdad?

I think it would be a better description that way, but "leaving home"
could be taken as meaning starting to move from the position where
you stand to bat. I took it to have that meaning here, anyway.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto But that's what all the other
m...@vex.net individualists are doing!

Master Chief

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Jan 15, 2006, 1:00:12 PM1/15/06

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A Batsman who ran a single and was run out.

In the crease, out to run, was run out and now in the pavilion.

Or

in the pavilion, out to play, got out and back in pavilion

Arthur J. O'Dwyer

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Jan 15, 2006, 1:02:56 PM1/15/06

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Easy! You're a cat!

-Arthur

Don H

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Jan 15, 2006, 2:14:10 PM1/15/06

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A question mark?
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Rich Grise

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Jan 19, 2006, 6:51:44 PM1/19/06

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A timid husband on his wedding night?