riddle time!

[Guest guest]

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My first is a number, my second another, And each, I assure you, will rhyme

with the other. My first you will find is one-fifth of my second, And

truly my whole a long period reckoned. Yet my first and my second (nay,

think not I cozen), When added together will make but two dozen. How many

am I?

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YESTERDAY'S RIDDLE:

While playing with a metal washer shaped like a ring, Dave accidently pushed

it on his finger too far and couldn't get it off. Trying to remove it using

soap and water didn't work. The hospital sent him to a service station

thinking they could cut the metal. Since the ring was made with a specially

hardened steel, it couldn't be cut. Just then Brad arrived on the scene and

suggested an easy way to remove the washer in just a few minutes. What was

his solution?

YESTERDAY'S ANSWER:

Brad suggested that Dave hold his finger in the air while someone wound a

piece of string tightly around his finger just above the metal ring. The

string forced the swelling down. As they unwounded the string from the end

nearest the ring, someone else slid the ring up. They continued winding and

unwinding the string until the ring could be easily removed.

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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the

affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one

life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

--- Ralph Waldo Emerson