is sploofus down for everybody?

[ToLiveIsToFly]

Or just me?

[MarkBarrett]

Sploofus is not working. It's not just you. I knew something was wrong last night when my email box did not light up at the usual time to remind me about the TQOTD.

[Bob Juch]

Guerrilla Trivia is still up:

Monday's "Daily Challenge" deals with the origins of a two-word item. You don't have to be an authority on word origins, however, to compete. You might be better served if you know your movies.

Go to https://www.guerrillatrivia.com/members ... lenge.aspx to compete.

[Bob78164]

Three logicians walk into a bar and the bartender asks them, "Would you all like a beer?"

The first says, "I don't know."

The second says, "I don't know."

The third says, "Yes!" --Bob

[Estonut]

Three logicians walk into a bar and the bartender asks them, "Would you all like a beer?"

The first says, "I don't know."

The second says, "I don't know."

The third says, "Yes!"

This makes no sense.

[Bob78164]

Three logicians walk into a bar and the bartender asks them, "Would you all like a beer?"

The first says, "I don't know."

The second says, "I don't know."

The third says, "Yes!"

This makes no sense.

All three of them want a beer. The first knows that he wants a beer but doesn't know whether the other two also want one, so he doesn't know whether they all want a beer. The second knows that he and the first logician want beers (because if the first one didn't want a beer, he'd say no), but doesn't know whether the third also wants one. From the first two answers, the third logician knows that both colleagues want beers, and since he also wants one, he knows that the answer is yes. --Bob

[Ritterskoop]

See, when some folks around here say "you all" it often doesn't mean You. All.

It just means whoever's first in line. So that first guy could have said "Yup" and been right.

[Bob Juch]

See, when some folks around here say "you all" it often doesn't mean You. All.

It just means whoever's first in line. So that first guy could have said "Yup" and been right.

That was in a Yankee bar.

[Bob Juch]

Three logicians walk into a bar and the bartender asks them, "Would you all like a beer?"

The first says, "I don't know."

The second says, "I don't know."

The third says, "Yes!"

This makes no sense.

You picked a good career path.

[Estonut]

Three logicians walk into a bar and the bartender asks them, "Would you all like a beer?"

The first says, "I don't know."

The second says, "I don't know."

The third says, "Yes!"

This makes no sense.

You picked a good career path.

You don't know what my career path has been nor whether I picked it or not.

[Ritterskoop]

Just got an email from Sploofus linking to this morning's question. I normally get it at 1:25 a.m.

[Ritterskoop]

Yay! I got a cricket question right!

That is the only time that will ever happen, by the way.

[MarkBarrett]

No wonder the original post was made. Keep it up. I just noticed the leader board which I had been ignoring since I had already missed four this month after only two misses in June. Geography is not my strength, but I was able to figure out the nation that has the 2nd, 3rd and 6th biggest islands to make the wait worthwhile.

I have west coast advantage in usually getting the Q around 10:30 for the last thing to do on the computer for the night.

[TheConfessor]

Yay! I got a cricket question right!

That is the only time that will ever happen, by the way.

Don't be so pessimistic! Maybe this will help:

Male crickets create their chirps by rubbing their forewings together. One side of the wings contains a jagged edge. When the flat side of the wing rubs against the jagged side, this produces the chirp sound. Cricket males generally have three distinct song types. The “calling song” is the rhythmic, familiar chirp that you typically hear on a summer night. Its main purpose is just to attract some females. Then, there is the “courtship song”, which features faster, deeper sounding chirps. This particular song is used when a male is right about to mate. Finally, there is the “aggressive song”, which is a loud trill most often produced as two male crickets fight.

Darn, someone beat me to registering the valuable cricket-breeding.com domain name!
http://cricket-breeding.com/how-and-why ... ets-chirp/

[littlebeast13]

This makes no sense.

You picked a good career path.

You don't know what my career path has been nor whether I picked it or not.

I think even Bob can see the Evil Genius tag by your avatar... and he may even know that we picked it for you....

lb13

[Bob Juch]

This makes no sense.

You picked a good career path.

You don't know what my career path has been nor whether I picked it or not.

I know it has nothing to do with logic.

[Bob Juch]

Just got an email from Sploofus linking to this morning's question. I normally get it at 1:25 a.m.

So did I, not that it mattered.

[MarkBarrett]

Got the email at 10:32, so I guess everything is fixed. Even better, the Q wanted the capital of Louisiana. Hello 1,574 points and up to #104 at time of answering.

[ToLiveIsToFly]

No wonder the original post was made. Keep it up.

Thanks. Kind of amazing to me—I got a new computer and suddenly my times are >1 second faster than they were on the old one. So looks like it's at least as much about that than getting questions right.