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GhostWay · Postby **GhostWay** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 9:39 pm

Nope. The reason is directly related to the board of wood.

Ozymandias · Postby **Ozymandias** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 9:59 pm

MAN KILLS SELF OVER BIT OF MDF: Community puzzled Some helluva headline

Muninn · Postby **Muninn** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:57 pm

Were the etchings on the wood some kind of language or code?

GhostWay · Postby **GhostWay** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 12:27 am

Nope. No language or code. Remember, they were horizontal lines. That's somewhat important.

Dr. Doog · Postby **Dr. Doog** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 12:59 am

it had satan! YES! it was christmas and he saw the image of SATAN CLAUS and him, so he killed himself to escape hell!

TyVulpine · Postby **TyVulpine** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 1:06 am

I got it. Think I've heard this one before. He is the world's shortest man. The horizontal markings are when he measured himself, and someone(his roommate perhaps) has fooled into thinking he was growing, and therefore would lose his title of "World's Shortest Man", so in despair he killed himself.

GhostWay · Postby **GhostWay** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 2:07 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Tailsthefox @ Jan 14 2005, 08:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I got it. Think I've heard this one before. He is the world's shortest man. The horizontal markings are when he measured himself, and someone(his roommate perhaps) has fooled into thinking he was growing, and therefore would lose his title of "World's Shortest Man", so in despair he killed himself.  </td></tr></table>  Close enough. The man was a professional midget. As in, a vertically challenged person who participates in circus performances. He used this board to measure his height, to make sure he didn't grow too tall. Then, a colleague, jealous of his success, started gradually shortening the board, convincing the man he was growing taller. Thus, his carrer was ruined.

TyVulpine · Postby **TyVulpine** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 2:16 am

okay....hope I get this right... a gunman takes a family hostage after a botched robbery. He has the 4 hostages lie on the floor. Soon the police arrive and negotiations start. Shortly thereafter, the gunman agrees to let the hostages go, in exchange for a bulletproof vest, and an escape car. The 2 mothers, the grandmother, and the 2 daughters soon walk out of the building unharmed. How is that possible?

Maeglin · Postby **Maeglin** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 2:19 am

One of the mothers are pregnant with a girl, and already have one daughter, or both mothers are indeed, pregnant?

TyVulpine · Postby **TyVulpine** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 2:20 am

no, none were pregnant. but you're on the right track with the mother and daughter.

allison · Postby **allison** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 2:25 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Maeglin @ Jan 15 2005, 02:19 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> One of the mothers are pregnant with a girl, and already have one daughter, or both mothers are indeed, pregnant?  </td></tr></table>  But if both mothers are pregnant it would make it 2 mothers, 2 daughters, and a grandmother - but that would only be 3 hostages. It's four, remember?

Maeglin · Postby **Maeglin** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 2:26 am

Ah, perhaps one was being carried one out? And technically, I think it would add up to four, they aren't dead in the mother's womb, you know. =P

allison · Postby **allison** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 2:27 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Tailsthefox @ Jan 15 2005, 02:16 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> okay....hope I get this right... a gunman takes a family hostage after a botched robbery. He has the 4 hostages lie on the floor. Soon the police arrive and negotiations start. Shortly thereafter, the gunman agrees to let the hostages go, in exchange for a bulletproof vest, and an escape car. The 2 mothers, the grandmother, and the 2 daughters soon walk out of the building unharmed. How is that possible?  </td></tr></table>  Hostage 1: Mother of hostage 2, grandmother of hostage 3. Hostage 2: Mother of hostage 3, daughter of hostage 1. Hostage 3: Daughter of hostage 2. Hostage 4: A husband of some sort?

TyVulpine · Postby **TyVulpine** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 2:28 am

no, I f***ed up. it should have only been 3 hostages, not 4. sorry. I DQ myself. there was: the grandmother her daughter the granddaugher sorry. I guess someone else can go...

GhostWay · Postby **GhostWay** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 2:33 am

Alright then. Time to use the one from my sig. What is like dramatic structure, and like a greek column, but has a thousand eyes, wears a pointed helmet and a necklace of domestic fowl and never sits down? And by the way, there is only one of this object.

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