BECAUSE HE DIED ON THE TITANIC!
I guess I failed to make clear what I thought “competition rules” should be. My bad.
When we’re playing for fun, it’s enough that a person gets most of the way there, so that it’s obvious s/he’s got most ofthe answer. But in order to win a competition, I want the person to answer every relevant aspect of the puzzle in a single post - in other words, to unambiguously solve the puzzle.
I am inclined to call this one a tie, cut the cigar in half, and do another one, now that the expectations are clear.
- Rick
Hey folks:
I know its all for fun, but that was lame. I thought you guys were good at this stuff 
Now impress us!
Eissclam.
The police have not been called because the Titanic drowned in international waters and no police force has jurisdiction there (Interpol didn’t exist yet.)
bite me, newbie.
Hey, Rick, how about a point system? For every YES!! you guess, a certain pointage is awarded?
Dandy by me, Brick. Fire away.
So, to be crystal clear, a winning post might say:
It was an un-named man who was rich who refused to evacuate the Titanic without his jewels. The police wouldn’t have been called, since it’s a maritime disaster. He drowned.
See?
I am sorry; I’ve played these in competition before and assumed, foolishly, that everyone sort of knew competition rules. My error.
- Rick
sigh
No, too arbitrary. I would control the game too much.
Let’s just stick with winner (complete solution) takes all.
OK:
An elderly woman peers out of her apartment to see a man standing in the parking lot near her car. For three days, the man is there every time she looks. She finally calls the authorities, but before they arrive, he has vanished, leaving a single clue behind: his hat.
How come?
It’s a snowman.
Is the man a statue?
Is the man a scarecrow?
Is the man a live representative of species Homo Sapiens?
Is the window actually a virtual window, run under the Windows operating system?
Okay, is the interval of 3 days important?
He was a snowman that finally melted.
We went right out there and refused to do accoustical versions of the electrical songs that we had refused to record in the first place.
Dammit, Finagle swoops in again!
sonova bitch
Yes, Finagle.
Cigar to you.
Sheesh. I thought that was tough.
A young boy is trapped on an island. People know he’s stuck there, but make no plans to help him. Finally, he decides to walk back home.
How come?
No fair, I was getting lunch.
Is this a make believe island?
Is it a traffic island?
Is the island only created at high tide, but is not an island at low tide?
If so, they make no effor to save him because they know he can walk home soon, and when the tide goes down he does so.
the tide went down. see kidnapping, R.L. Stevenson
Is he on an island in a street?
How about one of those Faux islands in a fountain? (a la Beavis and Butthead)