# Three Minute Mysteries Part III **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 29, 2000, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379 "2000-03-29T19:00:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379/101 "2000-03-29T20:18:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by waterj2: > **Oh, dear God. > I’m going with TMR’s theory here. And TMR, how big is that virtual cigar you’re getting?** ## It’s Thiiiisssss big! ::holding arms wide apart:: New and Improved Enright3 ---
**Author:** ![MtnMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@MtnMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MtnMan)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379/102 "2000-03-29T20:18:00Z")
That must be the answer. Kudos TMR! Smoke 'em if you got 'em. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379/103 "2000-03-29T20:18:00Z")
Steve, you rock. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379/104 "2000-03-29T20:19:00Z")
**Ding Ding Ding!** **Trout Mask Replica** barley beat **Stevie Rave On** for the prize. Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![Stevie\_Rave\_On](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Stevie\_Rave\_On](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stevie_Rave_On)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379/105 "2000-03-29T20:19:00Z")
Sorry for the double post. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@Lord\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379/106 "2000-03-29T20:20:00Z")
How about this? The man calls home after his fishing trip, another man answers his phone, he drops the big fish and punches the glass out of the phone booth slicing his wrist in the process. The fish is so big that the door which folds inward can’t be openned. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trout_Mask_Replica)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379/107 "2000-03-29T20:20:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried: > \*\ ***Ding Ding Ding!** > > **Trout Mask Replica** barley beat **Stevie Rave On** for the prize. > > Congratulations!\*\* Wheeeee! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379/108 "2000-03-29T20:21:00Z")
You know, I thought about the “sticking the arms through the glass theory while showing how big the fish is”, but that’s an even dumber answer than my sabertoothed tiger “guess”. _No one_ is going to be that klutzy. Besides, that glass was pretty strong. ---
**Author:** ![MtnMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@MtnMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MtnMan)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379/109 "2000-03-29T20:22:00Z")
Well, that’s a nice way to kill 66 minutes and pad my post count at the same time. Damn, I should have thought of that. ---
**Author:** ![Realhoops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8dc957/32.png) [@Realhoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Realhoops)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379/110 "2000-03-29T20:23:00Z")
\<\\> I’m just starting to get the hang of this by reading the posts… doesn’t anybody have another one? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379/111 "2000-03-29T20:24:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Finagle: > _No one_ is going to be that klutzy. Not true, it happened to a friend of a friend of mine. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trout_Mask_Replica)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379/112 "2000-03-29T20:26:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Finagle: > **_No one_ is going to be that klutzy.** I used to think like that until I found [this site](http://www.darwinawards.com). * * * TMR LETS RIDE THIS SAUCER FULL OF SupErlovE INTO OUR FORTOLD UTOPIAN MILLENIUM… ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379/113 "2000-03-29T20:27:00Z")
Off to my meeting now guys and gals. Smell you later! (That’s a _fishy_ joke for you.) ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379/114 "2000-03-29T20:39:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Realhoops: > \<\\> I’m just starting to get the hang of this by reading the posts… doesn’t anybody have another one? I have one if anyone still wants to play (and someone else hasn’t posted one in the interim). Here goes… The music stopped and the crowd watched as the blindfolded man fell to his death. The man was murdered. How did it happen? * * * “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379/115 "2000-03-30T02:50:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Realhoops: > **\<\\> I’m just starting to get the hang of this by reading the posts… doesn’t anybody have another one?** I have one. I may post it on another thread a bit later and give the night owls a shot at playing. * * * Your Official Cat Goddess since 10/20/99. _Hey, I like that hat, man. They sell men’s clothes where you got that?_ ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379/116 "2000-03-30T09:44:00Z")
The man was a tightrope walker. The music was timed so that when it ended, he knew he was okay to step off the rope and onto the platform. The person who controlled the music murdered him by ending it early. * * * “His eyes are as green as a fresh-pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard, I wish he was mine, he’s really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.” ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379/117 "2000-03-30T17:48:00Z")
Rilchiam, I believe you got it! Shayna, you must have posted yours right before the MPSIMS “blackout.” ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379/118 "2000-03-31T04:58:00Z")
Thank you, Arnold, but the truth is I’d heard it before. 😉 ## Can you do me a favor, Arnold? I have a great TMM that I want to post, but my schedule doesn’t permit maintaining it. I’m going to e-mail it to you; can you post it on my behalf? Apologies if this is presumptuous. “His eyes are as green as a fresh-pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard, I wish he was mine, he’s really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.” ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379/119 "2000-03-31T05:01:00Z")
Rilchiam, with pleasure, I’ll do it tomorrow if time permits. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379/120 "2000-03-31T05:24:00Z")
In the mean-time, I’ll post one: A man is found dead in a tent. He’s hung himself. There are small wooden disks under his cot. His brother is arrested for the death. What happened? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-minute-mysteries-part-iii/15379.md?page=7)