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Yes, there have been threads of these, but these are new.


A Boeing 737 is flying over the US while safely at cruising altitude. The flight had no previous problems. Suddenly both left engines fail and the plane rapidly loses altitude. However with great skill the pilot manages to keep the plane in the air and gets it low over an airport. However, he has a heart attack. While flight attendants administer first aid, the co-pilot takes over and lands the craft safely with no casualties other then the pilot who survives to live many more years. 2 weeks later only one is awarded a medal. Which is it?

A man stops his car beside a hotel. Without any more information he knows he's gone bankrupt. How?

Why are manholes circular?

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:Yes, there have been threads of these, but these are new.


A Boeing 737 is flying over the US while safely at cruising altitude. The flight had no previous problems. Suddenly both left engines fail and the plane rapidly loses altitude. However with great skill the pilot manages to keep the plane in the air and gets it low over an airport. However, he has a heart attack. While flight attendants administer first aid, the co-pilot takes over and lands the craft safely with no casualties other then the pilot who survives to live many more years. 2 weeks later only one is awarded a medal. Which is it?

A man stops his car beside a hotel. Without any more information he knows he's gone bankrupt. How?

Why are manholes circular?

The co-pilot, because the pilot is dead.
He's playing monopoly.
Don't know.

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:Yes, there have been threads of these, but these are new.


A Boeing 737 is flying over the US while safely at cruising altitude. The flight had no previous problems. Suddenly both left engines fail and the plane rapidly loses altitude. However with great skill the pilot manages to keep the plane in the air and gets it low over an airport. However, he has a heart attack. While flight attendants administer first aid, the co-pilot takes over and lands the craft safely with no casualties other then the pilot who survives to live many more years. 2 weeks later only one is awarded a medal. Which is it?

The co-pilot cause he's the one who landed the plane

A man stops his car beside a hotel. Without any more information he knows he's gone bankrupt. How?

Wild guess he owned the hotel

Why are manholes circular?

cause the world is round

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:A man stops his car beside a hotel. Without any more information he knows he's gone bankrupt. How?

Because it's his hotel.

Why are manholes circular?

Because if they were any other shape you could pick up the manhole covers, turn them around, and drop them down the hole.

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:Yes, there have been threads of these, but these are new.


A Boeing 737 is flying over the US while safely at cruising altitude. The flight had no previous problems. Suddenly both left engines fail and the plane rapidly loses altitude. However with great skill the pilot manages to keep the plane in the air and gets it low over an airport. However, he has a heart attack. While flight attendants administer first aid, the co-pilot takes over and lands the craft safely with no casualties other then the pilot who survives to live many more years. 2 weeks later only one is awarded a medal. Which is it?

The pilot who survived was the copilot (as it implied one died), so him.

A man stops his car beside a hotel. Without any more information he knows he's gone bankrupt. How?

Going to copy sharpkun on this one.

Why are manholes circular?

Any other [cover]shape would fall through?

EDIT: added the word cover.

the copilot gets the medal. the real pilot died in hospital somewhen during the 2 weeks betwenn the crash and the reward.

Monopoly and 'any other shape would fall through' are correct. The first had a major typos making it unanswerable and has been fixed. I did edit posts so people can't just compare.

The pilot ... he gets a pacemaker.

'Casualty' doesn't necessarily mean 'dead', it can mean injured or incapacitated as well. For exaple, both a soldier who is KIA and a soldier shot and wounded in the arm are considered casualties.
That said, I think the pilot got the medal. Why? Because everyone but Crown said co-pilot.

EDIT: That reminds me, one of my friends from high school had an illogic problem he used to ask all the time. It makes no sense, but then it's not supposed to. Here goes...

If you're traveling at the speed of light across the Pacific Ocean on a Jet-Ski and you run out of gas, how many pancakes does it take to cover a doghouse?

If anyone can provide the correct answer to this, I will be pleasantly surprised. Either that, or I'll become very paranoid.

One very big one

Executor32 wrote:If you're traveling at the speed of light across the Pacific Ocean on a Jet-Ski and you run out of gas, how many pancakes does it take to cover a doghouse?

If anyone can provide the correct answer to this, I will be pleasantly surprised. Either that, or I'll become very paranoid.

What the hell have you been smoking to come up with a question like that

Err... how is the pilot who survived a casualty?

Executor32 wrote:'

If you're traveling at the speed of light across the Pacific Ocean on a Jet-Ski and you run out of gas, how many pancakes does it take to cover a doghouse?

If anyone can provide the correct answer to this, I will be pleasantly surprised. Either that, or I'll become very paranoid.

Traveling on a jet ski at c and running out of gas have no bearing on how many pancakes it takes to cover a dog house. Therefore just find out how many pancakes it does take to cover a dog house. Because of the great many dog-houses you might wish to use many to obtain an average or range, as well as get average pancake sizes. don't forget to use different pancake compositions ether BTW, those properties may effect how well they stick to the dog house, thus effecting how many layers you need.

Executor32 wrote:'Casualty' doesn't necessarily mean 'dead', it can mean injured or incapacitated as well. For exaple, both a soldier who is KIA and a soldier shot and wounded in the arm are considered casualties.
That said, I think the pilot got the medal. Why? Because everyone but Crown said co-pilot.

That is true. There is a distinction between casualty and KIA. Also the way the question was phrased could go either way. The pilot WHO survived meaning the pilot who LIVED. Or the the pilot who survived went on to live many more years after his heart attack. Though for the latter I would think there would need to be a comma there.

Trytostaydead wrote:

Executor32 wrote:'Casualty' doesn't necessarily mean 'dead', it can mean injured or incapacitated as well. For exaple, both a soldier who is KIA and a soldier shot and wounded in the arm are considered casualties.
That said, I think the pilot got the medal. Why? Because everyone but Crown said co-pilot.

That is true. There is a distinction between casualty and KIA. Also the way the question was phrased could go either way. The pilot WHO survived meaning the pilot who LIVED. Or the the pilot who survived went on to live many more years after his heart attack. Though for the latter I would think there would need to be a comma there.

no casualties other then the pilot who survives to live many more years.

It seems to me that both pilots live. As there was only one casualty (injury) and that was the pilot who had the heart attack, but they all lived (because the pilot that lived for many years was the one with the casualty). So the main pilot gets the medal. IMO.

Is it possible that the pilot and copilot together made up only one person?

Raxmei wrote:Is it possible that the pilot and copilot together made up only one person?

No. It specifically states that the co-pilot takes over when the pilot has a heart attack and while the attendants are administering first aid.

1. If the pilot who had a heart attack survives for years, then could it be possible that the co-pilot died during the 2 weeks, and making the pilot the sole recipient?
2. Who cares?
3. Because you touch yourself at night.

i see it. naturally the pilot is the one who gets the medal as he survived. and the post specifically states there is only one pilot. the 'except' is nothing but a red herring to throw you off.

it's like the old logic problem, "if a plane crashes on the border of mexico and america, where do you bury the survivors"? kind of old really.

ummm.. the mechanic gets the medal for putting extra engines on the 737. How can two left engines fail when a 737 has only one engine per wing?

Col. Crackpot wrote:ummm.. the mechanic gets the medal for putting extra engines on the 737. How can two left engines fail when a 737 has only one engine per wing?

The good Col has a very good point



That is one funky mechanic

I'm guessing: Once the co-pilot takes over, he becomes the "pilot". So during the rough landing he injures himself (ie. he's the only casualty from the "landing") but survives many years and gets the medal. The other pilot dies, but its ruled natural causes and he's not considered a casualty.

EDIT: I suppose that if the former pilot dies of natural causes before they land, then the co-pilot can no longer be considered the "co-pilot" and should be called the "pilot". He can in turn be injured during the landing and be the casualty.

How about this:

2 weeks later only one is awarded a medal. Which is it?

The medal for distinguished service.

Zoink wrote:I'm guessing: Once the co-pilot takes over, he becomes the "pilot". So during the rough landing he injures himself (ie. he's the only casualty from the "landing") but survives many years and gets the medal. The other pilot dies, but its ruled natural causes and he's not considered a casualty.

EDIT: I suppose that if the former pilot dies of natural causes before they land, then the co-pilot can no longer be considered the "co-pilot" and should be called the "pilot". He can in turn be injured during the landing and be the casualty.

it was never stated the former pilot died. although the rest of the theory might be valid, as it doesn't specify that a pilot was awarded the medal, so it may indeed be the co-pilot who wins it. of course not knowing what the medal was for it's hard to say.