Friday Fun! Boxing riddles!

First topic message reminder :

Are we allowed to have fun anymore? Are we going to create a new section for riddles?! Time to find out!

Anyway, i ran this on the old 606 and i must say it was an inspirational success! Answers will be updated as we go with new ones added if i can be bothered...

LAST 2 AS IVE HAD ENOUGH OF BIRD-GATE!

9) Ricky Hatton has 13 pints of guiness, he takes 4 away. How many does he have?

4

10) Ricky Hatton, Floyd Mayweather, Jose Castillo, George Foreman and Kevin Mitchell are all walking to church when it starts peeing down... 4 try to peg it for the church but get wet and the other stays still but is dry.... How?



7) Bob Arum walks into a room and finds that Brandon Rios has ended it all by hanging himself, his hands were tied and there was nothing to jump off to hang himself... all that was there was Rios and a puddle of water. How did he do it?

Stood on a block of ice and waited for it to melt.

8) Chris Eubank is driving his big giant truck that weights 5000kg across a bridge that can hold an absolute maximum of 5000kg. He gets halfway across and big fat (Truss) pesky hitchhiker jumps onto the back of his truck... yet the bridge doesn't collapse. Why?

the truck burnt off enough fuel (very long bridge you see) by that point

5) Ricky Hatton is 5'6, has a 65" reach, 50" chest, 30" inside leg and wears size 8 shoes and he's got a new job! He's a junior assistant at his brother Daves butchers! What does he weigh?

Meat

6) Mayweather Jr and Oscar de la Hoya are locked up in a cell for murdering Bob Arum. It's got a really high ceiling with an unbarred window at the top they can't reach as it's like 50ft away. They prison perimeter walls are 3 miles away so tunnelling out would take them too many years. How do they escape?

Dig a whole and use the soil to get upto the window!


3) Who got wet standing under an umbrella? Mayweather Jr, Vitali Klitschko, Ricky Hatton, a monkey, a shark or Calderon?

No-one got wet as i never said it was raining!

4) Erik Morales walks into a bar and asks for a cup of water, the barman pulls a shotgun on him. Morales then walks out and says thank you. Why?

He had hiccups



1) Floyd Mayweather Jr has been a very naughty boy and was found guilty of poking people in the eye. The judge was about to sentence him and the judge told him, "You may make on last statement. If it is true, I'll sentence you to four years in prison. If it is false, I'll sentence you to six years in prison." After Mayweather Jr his statement, the judge let him go free. What did the man say?

Gentleman01 wrote:1) "You will sentence me to 6 years in prison". If the Judge decrees that FMJ was lying he must sentence him to 6 years. However, by doing so he will render FMJ's statement true. In that case he is compelled to sentence him to 4 years. However, in doing so he will make FMJ's statement false, in which case he is bound to sentence him to 6 years which, as shown, will render FMJ's statement true, and so on and so on etc.. As such the Judge is left with no option but to release FMJ

2) Manny Pacquiao has a huge sock drawer which contains 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks, and 2 tan socks, how many socks would Pacquiao have to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair?

Rowley got it right, oh dear: Five. There are only four colors, so five socks guarantee that two will be the same color.

Ta

Coxy

They had a spade made from part of their bed frame.

Logo on both sides, how frightfully vulgar.

coxy0001 wrote:They had a spade made from part of their bed frame.

Still doesn't explain how they get past the perimeter wall, some 3 miles away.

rowley wrote:Logo on both sides, how frightfully vulgar.

Disgraceful.

Union Cane wrote:

coxy0001 wrote:They had a spade made from part of their bed frame.

Still doesn't explain how they get past the perimeter wall, some 3 miles away.

Christ, FMJ and DLH dig and use the soil they excavated to make a mound to reach the unbarred window at the top of the wall!!!!

You forget that FMJ is very smart!!!!

If you allow animals, then any insect capable of climbing walls, any one with wings, or any animal capable of burrowing for large distances is just as good as a bird.

Birds is rubbish in fact, because how is a bird going to kill someone? At least a spider has got venom. I would pick a man to kill a bird in a fight to the death 100 times out of 100, but a spider could kill someone on the sly.

coxy0001 wrote:

Union Cane wrote:

coxy0001 wrote:They had a spade made from part of their bed frame.

Still doesn't explain how they get past the perimeter wall, some 3 miles away.

Christ, FMJ and DLH dig and use the soil they excavated to make a mound to reach the unbarred window at the top of the wall!!!!

You forget that FMJ is very smart!!!!

How do they get down from the 50ft drop once through the window?

10) Ricky Hatton, Floyd Mayweather, Jose Castillo, George Foreman and Kevin Mitchell are all walking to church when it starts peeing down... 4 try to peg it for the church but get wet and the other stays still but is dry.... How?

The other bloke is dead, and the 4 of them are carrying the coffin he is in.

Hobo wrote:Coxy - you have 2 pms from me and possibly one from Windy to read

Goody gumdrops

So once they get beneath the concrete and foundations, they did 1600 metric tonnes of soil, have a shallow enough slope in what I presume is a standard size prison cell to climb up, climb out the window, make it down 50 feet unscathed, walk 3 miles without being spotted and manage to dig a second hole to get over the perimeter fence without being caught.

Makes Shawshank look easy.

Y I Man wrote:

coxy0001 wrote:

Union Cane wrote:

coxy0001 wrote:They had a spade made from part of their bed frame.

Still doesn't explain how they get past the perimeter wall, some 3 miles away.

Christ, FMJ and DLH dig and use the soil they excavated to make a mound to reach the unbarred window at the top of the wall!!!!

You forget that FMJ is very smart!!!!

How do they get down from the 50ft drop once through the window?

The cell in underground so the window is actually at ground level, would have thought that was obvious.

Goats have been arrested and jailed before why not birds?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7846822.stm

You know your riddle is a failure when a bird being arrested for the murder of Bob Arum is the most logical explanation.

Scott

Yes they dug and kept digging. Happy?

If they dig enough earth to make a 50ft mound, how do they get out of the hole they create to make it to the window?

Birds can kill people, at least they did in that film with all those birds in, the one where the birds went mad and the birds started attacking people. Hitchcock I think it was, the birds film, can't remember what it was called.

Union Cane wrote:Birds can kill people, at least they did in that film with all those birds in, the one where the birds went mad and the birds started attacking people. Hitchcock I think it was, the birds film, can't remember what it was called.

Sounds like North by Nortwest to me, either that or Vertigo

Scottrf wrote:If they dig enough earth to make a 50ft mound, how do they get out of the hole they create to make it to the window?

Scott, Floyd and DLH are not the biggest guys. When you dig a whole you generally dig one big enough to get in and out of........... Imagine pleasuring your gf/bf (why i'm using this as example i have zero idea)... what goes in must come out yeah?!??

So they dig one big enough to get out of, but with 1600 metric tonnes of soil. Must be a large cell.

Scottrf wrote:So they dig one big enough to get out of, but with 1600 metric tonnes of soil. Must be a large cell.

Has to be to house those 2 egos... did say it had 50ft high ceilings as well...... I might tweet Floyd as to what to do when he gets locked up for calling Pacquiao naughty names!

coxy0001 wrote:

Scottrf wrote:If they dig enough earth to make a 50ft mound, how do they get out of the hole they create to make it to the window?

Scott, Floyd and DLH are not the biggest guys. When you dig a whole you generally dig one big enough to get in and out of........... Imagine pleasuring your gf/bf (why i'm using this as example i have zero idea)... what goes in must come out yeah?!??

But they require 1600 tonnes of soil. Given that a standard cell is about 8ft (2.5m) by 10ft (3.0m), that is an area of 7.5 square metres, to obtain the required 1125 cubic metres of soil the hole (whole?) would need to be approximately 150 metres deep. This is the height of Blackpool Tower.

Floyd and DLH are very good and quick at digging

That's wrong, sorry, they couldn't use the full floor space as they need somewhere to pile the soil they have dug up.

Union. They covered the whole cell in soil. Deal with it.

Sock-gate and soil-gate have knackered me out. Floyd and DLH were very smart and Pacquiao, because he's from a background of poverty, doesn't have "left and right" socks hence the answer was 5 - not 11.

Have a good weekend. Might re-start this next week, and i'll spend 5 nights working on them so that there are miniscule holes in for people to try and exploit!!!!!

Union Cane wrote:That's wrong, sorry, they couldn't use the full floor space as they need somewhere to pile the soil they have dug up.

Also, they need to pile the soil to a climbable angle.

Scottrf wrote:

Union Cane wrote:That's wrong, sorry, they couldn't use the full floor space as they need somewhere to pile the soil they have dug up.

Also, they need to pile the soil to a climbable angle.

True.

Let's just say they were birds, it makes things easier.

Union Cane wrote:

Scottrf wrote:

Union Cane wrote:That's wrong, sorry, they couldn't use the full floor space as they need somewhere to pile the soil they have dug up.

Also, they need to pile the soil to a climbable angle.

True.

Let's just say they were birds, it makes things easier.

No. I want you to work out the smallest the cell could be for them to be able to get out of the hole they have dug and climb the mound.

Can be your new project after the reverse linear threads.

THEY WERE NOT BIRDS

Have a good weekend

Except for anyone who thinks they're birds.

coxy0001 wrote:THEY WERE NOT BIRDS

Have a good weekend

Except for anyone who thinks they're birds.

Well I hope you don't have a good weekend either then.

Assuming that the pile is an approximation of an equilateral pyramid with climbable angle of 45 degrees, the base area would be 15m x 15m, an area of 225 square metres. They would need double this, one half to dig the earth out of (in an inverse pyramid to enable them to climb in and out) and the other to build the now infamous pile of soil. So a cell floor area of 450 square metres would be required. This is the size of approximately 60 standard cells.

Union Cane wrote:Assuming that the pile is an approximation of an equilateral pyramid with climbable angle of 45 degrees, the base area would be 15m x 15m, an area of 225 square metres. They would need double this, one half to dig the earth out of (in an inverse pyramid to enable them to climb in and out) and the other to build the now infamous pile of soil. So a cell floor area of 450 square metres would be required. This is the size of approximately 60 standard cells.

Am I to assume then that my original answer was wrong, could do with this clearing up because obviously if this is indeed the case will need to remove this from my CV.

Eagles have a wingspan of about 6-8 feet, so they are not going anywhere in a standard sized cell either. So thats an end to the bird theory, once and for all.

rowley wrote:

Union Cane wrote:Assuming that the pile is an approximation of an equilateral pyramid with climbable angle of 45 degrees, the base area would be 15m x 15m, an area of 225 square metres. They would need double this, one half to dig the earth out of (in an inverse pyramid to enable them to climb in and out) and the other to build the now infamous pile of soil. So a cell floor area of 450 square metres would be required. This is the size of approximately 60 standard cells.

Am I to assume then that my original answer was wrong, could do with this clearing up because obviously if this is indeed the case will need to remove this from my CV.

Did you say birds? If so you are correct.

Damn it scott, it was me that offered the tunnel/hole and dirt pyramid/pile option/solution.

rowley wrote:Damn it scott, it was me that offered the tunnel/hole and dirt pyramid/pile option/solution.

That theory is, dare I say it, bunkum.

They were birds, as I have inconclusively proven.

Union Cane wrote:

rowley wrote:Damn it scott, it was me that offered the tunnel/hole and dirt pyramid/pile option/solution.

That theory is, dare I say it, bunkum.

They were birds, as I have inconclusively proven.

But if they werebirds, why lock them in a cell with a window? The jailers must be idiots to think such a cell would two such homicidal birds. Maybe they were squirrels?

alma wrote:

bhb001 wrote:

Union Cane wrote:

rowley wrote:Damn it scott, it was me that offered the tunnel/hole and dirt pyramid/pile option/solution.

That theory is, dare I say it, bunkum.

They were birds, as I have inconclusively proven.

But if they werebirds, why lock them in a cell with a window? The jailers must be idiots to think such a cell would two such homicidal birds. Maybe they were squirrels?

Werebirds? Can birds get that hairy? Can't imagine they'd be as scary as a werewolf

Forgot the space i.e. were birds. However, there is merit in this theory, if the guards didn't realise they would change into birds on a full moon. I'll go with that.

Im not quite understanding this, how can birds dig a hole and make a pyramid mound?

alma wrote:Or alternatively they were big fans of Lionel Ritchie and copied his dance moves from the 'Dancing On The Ceiling' video, walked up the walls and then out the window

You cracked it. Mind you Mayweather isn't the greatest of dancers re Dancing with Stars, but it doesn't have to be a prize winning performance

Y I Man wrote:Im not quite understanding this, how can birds dig a hole and make a pyramid mound?

Best comment of the day!!

It must have been birds Geoff.

Il Gialloblu wrote:It must have been birds Geoff.

That certainly seems to be the consensus view, however do think the Dancing on the Ceiling theory is worth examining.

So, is coxy's riddle corner gonna become a regular Friday fixture?

Scottrf wrote:While we are opening enquiries, 2) isn't correct. You guarantee the same colour, but not necessarily a pair.

Should be 11 assuming there are equal numbers of L/R sided socks.

If we are assuming that there are left and right socks Scott then surely the answer would be 21? Hypothetically, you could remove 6 left footed black socks, 4 left footed brown socks, 8 left footed white socks and 2 left footed tan socks. removing the next sock would would make a complete pair, which would be 21.

6oldenbhoy wrote:

Scottrf wrote:While we are opening enquiries, 2) isn't correct. You guarantee the same colour, but not necessarily a pair.

Should be 11 assuming there are equal numbers of L/R sided socks.

If we are assuming that there are left and right socks Scott then surely the answer would be 21? Hypothetically, you could remove 6 left footed black socks, 4 left footed brown socks, 8 left footed white socks and 2 left footed tan socks. removing the next sock would would make a complete pair, which would be 21.

See bolded words.

Scottrf wrote:

6oldenbhoy wrote:

Scottrf wrote:While we are opening enquiries, 2) isn't correct. You guarantee the same colour, but not necessarily a pair.

Should be 11 assuming there are equal numbers of L/R sided socks.

If we are assuming that there are left and right socks Scott then surely the answer would be 21? Hypothetically, you could remove 6 left footed black socks, 4 left footed brown socks, 8 left footed white socks and 2 left footed tan socks. removing the next sock would would make a complete pair, which would be 21.

See bolded words.

The only suprising thing with that for me is that there are left and right sided socks... I thought they were just the same I never look at which one I'm putting on which foot... :S

Apologies Scott.

rowley wrote:

Il Gialloblu wrote:It must have been birds Geoff.

That certainly seems to be the consensus view, however do think the Dancing on the Ceiling theory is worth examining.

What is happening here
Somethings going on that's not quite clear
Sombody turn on the lights
Were gonna have a party
It's starting tonight

Oh, what a feeling
When were dancing on the ceiling

Lionel Richie. Is that the answer?

Coxy mate I hope there are going to be more riddles today.