# Puzzle - what you're not.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [August 1, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484 "2008-08-01T13:19:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/61 "2008-08-06T01:39:53Z")

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[QUOTE=Santo Rugger]  
Just how many people read post #11, post #43, et al, and still had no idea what the hell the puzzle was about? :dubious:

We’re not all Trekkie geeks, ya know. 😛😉  
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Oh, I read post #11 too. But I got [this](http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1512/ff_bones2_630.jpg) out of it, not [this](http://mayclaire.res-alian.com/memoriam/dkelley/bonesmccoy.jpg). Which made the insistence that #11 was on to something very odd to me :eek:

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**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/62 "2008-08-06T13:33:49Z")

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[QUOTE=Santo Rugger]  
Just how many people read post #11, post #43, et al, and still had no idea what the hell the puzzle was about? :dubious:  
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[Raises hand]

Despite this, I think it’s a perfectly reasonable puzzle. For the naysayers, do you have any alternative answers that fit as well as the intended answer?

This thread has become quite topical as apparently the rocket carrying James Doohan’s ashes into space (for the third attempt!) exploded yesterday.

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**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/63 "2008-08-06T14:03:16Z")

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I wouldn’t call it a puzzle; I’d call it a trivia question. I thought my answer fit just as well as the intended one. 😃

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/64 "2008-08-06T15:10:53Z")

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[QUOTE=tdn]  
I am a treefrog.  
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I still think this is the best answer!

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/65 "2008-08-08T21:20:23Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]  
How does Dr. McCoy fit these queries?  
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Seeberger made the first working escalator.

There’s a famous story about the bricklayer unable to come to work today. I linked it above.

A petar is a type of bomb. The guy that set it up was called an enginer (or engineer.) If the bomb exploded too soon, then the engineer was hoist by his own petar. (It’s a quote from Hamlet, btw)

And Doctor McCoy said “I’m a doctor, not an escalator/ bricklayer/ engineer.”

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