# joke **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 26, 2015, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514 "2015-06-26T04:41:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514/61 "2015-07-02T20:01:49Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > What do you get when you cross a Pacman character with a porcupine? Pokemon? ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514/62 "2015-07-02T20:29:09Z")
šŸ˜› > [@TriPolar](#): > > Because they both have 14 k of g in a f p d. 14 knots of Gordias in a fabled Phrygian design? (Note: Gordias was, of course, the tyer of the eponymous Gordian knot. He was a member of the royal house of Phrygia, a kingdom in Asia Minor some 3,000 years ago. King Midasā€™ father.) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514/63 "2015-07-02T22:30:07Z")
> [@jimbuff314](#): > > šŸ˜› > > 14 knots of Gordias in a fabled Phrygian design? > > (Note: Gordias was, of course, the tyer of the eponymous Gordian knot. He was a member of the royal house of Phrygia, a kingdom in Asia Minor some 3,000 years ago. King Midasā€™ father.) Thatā€™s comedy gold, I tells ya. Pure gold. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514/64 "2015-07-02T23:34:10Z")
Actually, I donā€™t know how the smiley got there. My big fat clumsy fingers must have inadvertently hit it. That is what the sequence of letters **TriPolar** posted stands for. Donā€™t know where **TriPolar** heard of it, but itā€™s something I remember well from Ancient Greek studies at the little school I attended here in Oklahoma back in the day. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514/65 "2015-07-02T23:58:40Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > Okay, how about this? > > I am thinking of a number. If that number is spelled out, it has nine letters. Exactly five of those letters are vowels (a, e, i, o, or u). What is the number? Iā€™m confused why you didnā€™t include ā€œyā€ as a vowel. Without your parenthetical comment, eighty one qualifies. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514/66 "2015-07-03T00:17:17Z")
> [@jimbuff314](#): > > Actually, I donā€™t know how the smiley got there. My big fat clumsy fingers must have inadvertently hit it. That is what the sequence of letters **TriPolar** posted stands for. Donā€™t know where **TriPolar** heard of it, but itā€™s something I remember well from Ancient Greek studies at the little school I attended here in Oklahoma back in the day. Are you kidding me? Thatā€™s been on the Dope for ages. You if you arenā€™t shittinā€™ me you have to notify a mod and have them re-open [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=398132). Zeldar mentions it in [The truly great threads in SDMB history](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=508687). ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514/67 "2015-07-03T00:31:49Z")
> [@NadaHappyCamper](#): > > Is this the correct forum for riddles? Yes, but Jim Carrey asks them better. > [@jimbuff314](#): > > Whole number? ā€¦factoring like quantities (ie the OPs question) Of Course the answer is yes. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514/68 "2015-07-03T00:38:38Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Are you kidding me? Thatā€™s been on the Dope for ages. You if you arenā€™t shittinā€™ me you have to notify a mod and have them re-open [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=398132). Zeldar mentions it in [The truly great threads in SDMB history](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=508687). Someone brings this up on the [Giraffe Boards](http://www.giraffeboards.com/showthread.php?t=26058) but used ā€˜14 karats ofā€¦ā€™ instead of ā€˜14 knotsā€™. **blondebear** has something very similar in the [original thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=398132&page=7). ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514/69 "2015-07-03T02:00:46Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Iā€™m confused why you didnā€™t include ā€œyā€ as a vowel. Without your parenthetical comment, eighty one qualifies. So does ninety-one. However the number I am thinking of has no Y when spelled out. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514/70 "2015-07-03T02:48:55Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > So why _is_ a raven like a writing desk anyway? The notes for which they are noted are not noted for being musical notes. ā€“ OR ā€“ They should both be made to shut up. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514/71 "2015-07-03T05:40:44Z")
so maybe now we can ALL get some sleep. ---
**Author:** ![SailorHG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SailorHG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SailorHG)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514/72 "2015-07-03T11:05:13Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > So does ninety-one. However the number I am thinking of has no Y when spelled out. Yes, eighty-one and ninety-one are the two solutions to that equation proposed back in post #52. If ā€œyā€ is not allowed, the only thing I can come up with is 2, provided you write it as ā€œone coupleā€. For anything else, I am going to need a bit more of a hint. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514/73 "2015-07-03T13:02:29Z")
> [@SailorHG](#): > > Yes, eighty-one and ninety-one are the two solutions to that equation proposed back in post #52. > > If ā€œyā€ is not allowed, the only thing I can come up with is 2, provided you write it as ā€œone coupleā€. For anything else, I am going to need a bit more of a hint. I feel your pain, but this riddle was in response to a taunt of ā€œway too easyā€ after a previous riddle. Hardly seems fair to ask to take away that pain now.šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514/74 "2015-07-03T13:13:02Z")
If thereā€™s no Y, that rules out everything from 20 to 99, and any higher numbers (with the exception of ā€œone googolā€ as noted above) will be too long as they will all need to include ā€œhundredā€, ā€œthousandā€, ā€œmillionā€ etc. No numbers between 1 and 19 fit the bill, and zero and below end up too long as well. So itā€™s not a number like that. So itā€™s some other kind of number. ---
**Author:** ![SailorHG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SailorHG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SailorHG)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514/75 "2015-07-03T18:55:21Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > If thereā€™s no Y, that rules out everything from 20 to 99 I was a bit sloppy above ā€“ it isnā€™t that there _cannot_ be a ā€œyā€ in the answer (at least as I understood it), just that we canā€™t count it as a vowel. However as mentioned before, I ran all the numbers up to 1.2 million and didnā€™t get any hits. Assuming integers and that NSNumberFormatter isnā€™t using British English or something. > [@Gyrate](#): > > So itā€™s some other kind of number. This statement suggests complex numbers to me. They have an ā€œiā€ there that could be useful, so something like 14i = ā€œfourteen iā€ would work. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514/76 "2015-07-03T18:56:27Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > If thereā€™s no Y, that rules out everything from 20 to 99, and any higher numbers (with the exception of ā€œone googolā€ as noted above) will be too long as they will all need to include ā€œhundredā€, ā€œthousandā€, ā€œmillionā€ etc. No numbers between 1 and 19 fit the bill, and zero and below end up too long as well. So itā€™s not a number like that. So itā€™s some other kind of number. Perhaps, but not some esoteric college educated bizzaro symbol number. It is a common one everyone knows. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514/77 "2015-07-04T03:03:54Z")
Eleventy-something? ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514/78 "2015-07-04T20:23:30Z")
What has sixteen legs and flies? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514/79 "2015-07-04T21:35:15Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > What has sixteen legs and flies? 8 pairs of pants. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514/80 "2015-07-04T21:40:34Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > 8 pairs of pants. I was thinking 4 dead horses. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke/723514.md?page=5)