No
was it really on that list read off by bugs bunny?
Yes
Do we really need to write out the list, “Was it a …?” for all of them?
does it involve bears?
or boars?
bears
You said much earlier that this would work on certain days of the week, but not others. Are those your garbage pickup days? Is the idea that the fish will scare off the bears and stop them from rooting in the garbage?
You got it!
One of my household responsibilities is to take out the garbage can on Tuesday mornings. We live in a “bear wise” community, so trash cannot be placed outside until the morning of pick-up, but must be out before 7am. From mid-November thru early March, I can get up, place the trash and just go back to bed as there is little bear activity then. But this time of year I must stay awake, drink coffee, and watch the can because sometimes the pick-up is not until late morning and occasionally a bear gets there first. Then it involves picking up trash dragged through the poison-ivy infested steep woodlands around our home if I am not paying attention. Usually I can just yell, however, and the bear runs off. But some mornings I wish I could just go back to bed so I googled for a solution and found a video showing a trash can with attached Billy bass. The bear came to the can, Billy sang and flopped, and the startled bear ran away. Might work, but I bet the bear would eventually wise up.
I think this one will be easy for some people.
I saw a 4045 and was disappointed
Likewise seeing a 4053 and two 4012s
But when I saw three 4490s I got very happy.
What am I doing?
So in the first case you saw only one number, but in each of the latter two cases you saw three numbers?
Are you playing a game of some sort?
Are you trying to build something? Or repair something?
Was your happiness due to an anticipated financial benefit?
Did these numbers appear on a computer screen?
When you say you “saw three 4490s”, does that mean you literally saw the number 4490 repeated three times?
Is a “4045” a “four thousand, forty-five”? Is it a 4, a 0, a 4, and another 5? Is it a forty, and a forty-five?
(if the answer to the corresponding question is different for the other numbers, then same question).
Is every number (within some appropriate range) also a thing? That is, is there a 4046, and a 4047, and so on, as well?
Are these model numbers for some type of product?
Nope
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Four, Zero, Four, Five
Similar for the others
Nope
Technically no. But close
Does the order of the numbers matter? For instance, would 4405 be different from 4045?
Very different
I am pretty sure I know this one.
Like I said, there would be a group of dopers that would see it and be, “Got it!”
Do the numbers identify something?
If so, is it a product? A service?
Are the numbers assigned more-or-less arbitrarily?
Yes
Product
I believe so.
As a reminder to all, the ultimate question is what am I doing?