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Offline keyboard kitty

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A Riddle/Joke
on: August 17, 2007, 07:25:57 PM
You are trapped in a metal room. No windows and the door is locked. All that is in the room with you is a piano, how do you get out?

I'll let you know when you get the right answer  ;)

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #1 on: August 17, 2007, 07:29:02 PM
play the ocean etude comme style, all the metal will crack
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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #2 on: August 17, 2007, 07:31:59 PM
Play so beautifully that the people who locked you in get moved and release you :)

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #3 on: August 17, 2007, 10:47:52 PM
use the keys on the piano?
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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #4 on: August 18, 2007, 01:26:43 AM
Play so beautifully that the people who locked you in get moved and release you :)

Or do the reverse and play as horribly as possible until they release you from the pain.  ;D

That or play Fur Elise over and over. That'd crack everyone.
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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #5 on: August 18, 2007, 02:19:19 AM
Play so much you go insane and create your own reality, where you'll be outside the room.

Is the door bared?

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #6 on: August 18, 2007, 02:33:12 AM
Use the piano as a battering ram.

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #7 on: August 18, 2007, 03:08:14 AM
Remove a few of the higher end strings, and use one of them as a garrote when the blokes decided to give you a meal.  Once he's out of the way, use the fallboard as a bat, and club the other guards.  Bring the garrote with you, along with the guards' keys and handguns.  Use your imagination from here, and fight your way out into civilization!

:P

I think Alia's closer :P
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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #8 on: August 18, 2007, 04:38:11 AM
employ the use of faraday's cage - where the entire outside of this metal box (room) is charged with voltage.  the electrical charges will not enter the room.  you will be able to play 20x better - as though you are inside a cell nucleus and kind of like a proton at times - and an electron at other times.  you and the piano will become alive at some point - and the box will simply startgrowing and growing until it becomes a bigger and bigger.  attaching itself to other boxes and overtaking your once proud captors.

the only problem is how to get the faraday cage thing working properly at the start.

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #9 on: August 18, 2007, 09:48:22 AM
first poop by the door hoping that this one in particular contains a stench strong enough to seep out and be detected by the freaks who put you in the room. then when they smell it they will wonder where it is coming from then play the piano and then they will think that it's weird that the smell and the sound is coming from the same place. and they know where the sound is coming from already so they must know where the smell is coming from. so when they come to open the door, stand by the wall so the door covers you up when they walk in. when the time is right you have to perform this move: a devestating blow to their chest with the palm of your hand as hard as you can. if done correctly this will stop their heart. be stealthy on your way out.
i'm not asian

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #10 on: August 18, 2007, 12:36:31 PM
use the keys on the piano?

I was thinking the same thing. Play the piano until you find the right key, then bash the door open with the piano.

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #11 on: August 18, 2007, 03:29:57 PM
Climb inside the piano. :)

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #12 on: August 18, 2007, 04:05:38 PM
Simple.  The metal is mercury, and you just step over the liquid. 

Teresa

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #13 on: August 18, 2007, 04:30:56 PM
i think if you look up the definition of a room it is impossible for liquid like mercury to form a room.
i'm not asian

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #14 on: August 18, 2007, 04:50:16 PM
My dick is like a harley, you kick it to start it.

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #15 on: August 18, 2007, 05:03:19 PM
My dick is like a harley, you kick it to start it.
A 2-stroke, might one suppose?

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #16 on: August 18, 2007, 05:08:22 PM
This is getting out of hand. Aren't we supposed to answering a riddle? Why did soliloquy post a comment that is pointless? Can we all go back the original subject?

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #17 on: August 18, 2007, 05:23:17 PM
This is getting out of hand.
Careful, now!...

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #18 on: August 18, 2007, 05:56:07 PM
A 2-stroke, might one suppose?

:-[


Why did soliloquy post a comment that is pointless?

8)

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #19 on: August 18, 2007, 05:58:38 PM
Why did soliloquy post a comment that is pointless?
Not being "soliloquy", I cannot say, but then I suppose that may have been better than posting a point (in pictorial form) that is beyond comment...

Or maybe that is the riddle...

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #20 on: August 18, 2007, 06:19:07 PM
Or maybe that is the riddle...

true, I am a mystery.  Or, possibly, occasionally I just like to throw in some SDC CG.

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #21 on: August 18, 2007, 07:29:32 PM
Just walk out of the room.  There was no mention of there being walls.  Metal could just be studs.   ;)
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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #22 on: August 18, 2007, 08:09:06 PM
I was thinking the same thing. Play the piano until you find the right key, then bash the door open with the piano.
You got it! :D
Play the piano untill you find the right key  :)

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #23 on: August 18, 2007, 08:58:01 PM
I'd figure out how to tune the piano and make myself comfortable

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #24 on: August 18, 2007, 09:00:58 PM
My dick is like a harley, you kick it to start it.

Ouch!!!!

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #25 on: August 18, 2007, 09:27:50 PM
true, I am a mystery.
To some here - but not necessarily to all, methinks...

Or, possibly, occasionally I just like to throw in some SDC CG.
Strangely Dull Claims for Chopin/Godowsky; hmmm...

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #26 on: August 19, 2007, 11:15:44 PM
You got it! :D
Play the piano untill you find the right key  :)
lol clever, give us another riddle, heres mine.

You have two coins that add to 35 cents but one of them isn't a quarter, what are they?(the riddle goes something like this)

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #27 on: August 19, 2007, 11:59:35 PM
two us fifty cent pieces? (wonders how much is really silver?  that's why it pays to bite your money).

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #28 on: August 20, 2007, 12:29:29 AM
lol clever, give us another riddle, heres mine.

You have two coins that add to 35 cents but one of them isn't a quarter, what are they?(the riddle goes something like this)

1 quareter, and 1 dime.

It says 1 isn't a quarter, it does not say both are not quarters.
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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #29 on: August 20, 2007, 08:07:16 PM
1 quareter, and 1 dime.

It says 1 isn't a quarter, it does not say both are not quarters.
Right right, lol.

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #30 on: August 21, 2007, 02:22:48 PM
I've got another one  :)
You push your car to a hotel, then you realise you are brankrupt. How?

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #31 on: August 22, 2007, 11:11:49 AM
My dick is like a harley, you kick it to start it.
I like your sense of humour
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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #32 on: August 22, 2007, 11:52:17 AM
the hotel does not have an ocean-front view?

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #33 on: August 22, 2007, 12:12:27 PM
the hotel does not have an ocean-front view?

No. (Or Yes, it does not have an ocean-front view)

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #34 on: August 23, 2007, 12:20:15 AM
I've got another one  :)
You push your car to a hotel, then you realise you are brankrupt. How?

Because you would have paid a tow truck if you wern't bankrupt
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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #35 on: August 23, 2007, 12:41:33 AM
I've got another one  :)
You push your car to a hotel, then you realise you are brankrupt. How?

monopoly?

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #36 on: August 23, 2007, 09:57:37 PM
Your right keasbey!

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #37 on: August 24, 2007, 08:29:31 AM
There are 2 trains every 1hr; 1 train goes to Station A and 1 train that goes to Station B. A man leaves home every day at a different time and catches the 1st train that arrives. He realises after some time, that he has been to Station A 11 times and Staion B only 1 time. How come?

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #38 on: August 25, 2007, 12:17:43 PM
Hmmm...maybe that was a bit too hard...

OK, why did the chicken cross the road?

 ;D

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Re: A Riddle/Joke
Reply #39 on: September 11, 2007, 02:25:44 PM
There are 2 trains every 1hr; 1 train goes to Station A and 1 train that goes to Station B. A man leaves home every day at a different time and catches the 1st train that arrives. He realises after some time, that he has been to Station A 11 times and Staion B only 1 time. How come?

Ok...Ok...

Train A arrives every hour @ 5 minutes to the hour.
Train B arrives every hour on the hour.

There is only a 5 minute window for the man to catch train B if he misses train A, but he has a 55 minute window to catch Train A which gives a ratio of 11:1
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