gamegirl 
Mar 19, 2005
| that was fun, but I totally didn't know the answer.  |
gamegirl
Mar 19, 2005
| that was fun, but I totally didn't know the answer. |
doggyxp 
Mar 19, 2005
| That is really ingenius. |
runscapekiller 
Mar 19, 2005
| humina humina humina humina  |
annie9698
Mar 20, 2005
| wow! you have way too much time on your hands |
theketchupwins
Mar 20, 2005
| haha, that was great.  |
something
Mar 21, 2005
| SOOO GOOD!!  |
zzz_m_a_n
Mar 21, 2005
| Now that was cool. |
penguinatheart
Mar 21, 2005
| pretty well impossible to get, but fun once you see the answer |
penguinatheart
Mar 21, 2005
| pretty well impossible to get, but fun once you see the answer |
penguinatheart
Mar 21, 2005
| pretty well impossible to get, but fun once you see the answer |
penguinatheart
Mar 21, 2005
| pretty well impossible to get, but fun once you see the answer |
penguinatheart
Mar 21, 2005
| pretty well impossible to get, but fun once you see the answer |
aardvark
Mar 21, 2005
| very witty. I had no idea. |
TehIgnored
Mar 22, 2005
| Beer in a can....BRILLIANT!
A Mathematical Limmerick....BRILLIANT!! |
filetmerlot
Mar 23, 2005
| Beer in a can-Disgusting
Beer on draught - Brilliant
this Teaser - Impressive |
Daedalus 
Mar 23, 2005
| I h8 you donfrench, making me think. Tsk tsk tsk.  |
swimmer4life292
Mar 24, 2005
| That was the most spiffy thing!!! OMG!!!! That was oh so cool!!!!! I am...OH!!! that was soooo cool!!!!!!!! WOOT! WOOT! GO donfrench!!!!!!
^^I agree with sum1 up there...you MUST have alot of time on your hands....^^ LOL!!!
This is me now (  ) from staring at the flippin screen for almost 10 minutes!!!! |
rose_rox
Mar 24, 2005
| Genius!!! |
freshoutofcrabs
Mar 29, 2005
| OMG that was AWESOME!
Here I was trying to see if the equation was true, when all I had to do was say it out loud. HEHE!!
You rock. Keep it up. |
psychedelictoad
Mar 30, 2005
| That is great! I would have never gotten it! |
Israel-Girl
Mar 30, 2005
| i don't get it. |
ttmama
Apr 09, 2005
|  |
drea_r_70
Apr 20, 2005
| That was a bit hard but fun none the less |
wolfy68
Apr 20, 2005
| Brilliant! and, Impossible for some of us, ....  Tell the truth...you're a rocket scientist, not just a poet... |
wolfy68
Apr 20, 2005
| Brilliant! and, Impossible for some of us, .... Tell the truth...you're a rocket scientist, not just a poet... |
FulanitoGM
Apr 20, 2005
| I got as far as figuring out that both sides were the same, but there was NO way I was going to get the limerick in its final published form! Really cool teaser, mainly because I never thought math and limericks (two things I'm quite fond of) could be combined so expertly. WTG! |
donfrench
Apr 20, 2005
| Well, glad you all liked it. I will have to work on another one now. |
gamegirl
Apr 20, 2005
| THIS IS A REPEAT
THIS IS A REPEAT
THIS IS A REPEAT
WHY PRINT REPEATS?
  |
gamegirl
Apr 20, 2005
| THIS IS A REPEAT
THIS IS A REPEAT
THIS IS A REPEAT
WHY PRINT REPEATS?
|
Ozymandias
Apr 20, 2005
| VERY DIFFICULT! The hint did not help, but the answer makes sense. |
itsonlyme
Apr 20, 2005
| This poem was written by John Saxon (an author of math textbooks). |
LaBrains
Apr 20, 2005
| GEEZ....How did you come up with that? ~Pretty cool!~ |
Lins
Apr 20, 2005
| ?????????????????????????????????And what is Math again? Answer: Just my worst subject ever!!!!!!!!!!!!  |
(user deleted)
Apr 20, 2005
| Nice. But as pointed out by itsonlyme, you should give attribution. Your comment that you 'will have to work on another one now' implies you wrote it. Bad juju. |
quantumpbrane
Apr 20, 2005
| brilliant. i have a friend who is a math prof in texas. i'll be sending him this one..... |
darthforman
Apr 20, 2005
| You'd have to be pretty smart to figure that one out.
Good one.
Even though I couldn't have gotten it without the looking at the answer. |
dbs241
Apr 20, 2005
| I didn't get it until I looked at the answer, but it's a great teaser! Love it! |
virusman
Apr 20, 2005
| Was really hard, got me stumped |
(user deleted)
Apr 20, 2005
| Great fun. I figured out the math part but would never have gotten the rhyme. To the math point...to make the formula correct put parens around the (5x11). |
donfrench
Apr 20, 2005
| I am sorry if it seems that I implied that I composed this puzzle. I did not write it. I did not know at the time who did write it, as it was sent to me a long time ago. But I am happy that someone provided the information. When I said I would try writing another one I meant that I thought that I would try my hand at writing one, is all.
Are all the submisssions to this site supposed to be original creations by the submitter? If I had known that I certainly would not have submitted it. Thanks for pointing out the error in my ways. |
Chelsie
Apr 20, 2005
| um... |
(user deleted)
Apr 20, 2005
| I thought it was allright |
deadeye823
Apr 20, 2005
| i wonder if anyone got that... |
smosaka
Apr 20, 2005
| I thought it was weird |
JennyTECC
Apr 20, 2005
| Well I thought it was AWESOME I got the math part of it right, which was 81, just didn't know the poem. I'm going to print it out for my Algebra Teacher. We were working on word problems last night. He'll love it!  |
brain_dead  
Apr 20, 2005
| that one was easy but good
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FeaerFactorY666
Apr 20, 2005
| HA HA! That was very clever, but I didn't get it..... I was thinking more of like an expression or something..... |
jaggirl91
Apr 20, 2005
| i punched the numbers into the calculator and it equaled 519, not 81 |
ImUrLuCkYcHaRm
Apr 20, 2005
| that was TOtaLLy HaRd! DUh!!! |
cookeechick05
Apr 20, 2005
| I luv math but I hat literature. so I guess I had somewhat of an advantage. |
Muffintins
Apr 20, 2005
| That was REALLY dum |
nvsourab
Apr 20, 2005
| It is a fun poem and it was hard!!!!!!!!  |
Bastet
Apr 20, 2005
| Outstanding! |
My3Heathens
Apr 21, 2005
| I thought it was a pretty darn good one. But I am also dumb at math. I was reading the phone to see if it was a message |
timilee
Apr 21, 2005
| Too many +(/^))*-\+='s around TAX season to enjoy.
The poem was nice, if it just wasn't "mixed" with the math.
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Nicholle
Apr 21, 2005
| Wow! |
saucyangel
Apr 21, 2005
| hey, jaggirl! i did it in my head, and i got 81! (maybe you should work on your calculator skills...the ( )'s really do mean something!) 
donfrench, i thought it was great! |
kaityaz_finest
Apr 24, 2005
| well done had me thinkn 4 a while |
norcekri
May 07, 2005
| Don, it's not simply that the submissions here are supposed to be original. What you did is plagiarism: you took the original work of someone else and published it under your own name.
In addition, this puzzle is protected under copyright in at least the USA and UK.
I strongly recommend that you read up on the intellectual property rights of the areas you inhabit, since you apparently don't have an innate sense for the concepts.
There's a huge difference between showing a puzzle to a friend when you find it in a book, and copying the puzzle to publish on a high-traffic web site. The first is "fair use"; the second is subject to prosecution. |
karadenault
May 21, 2005
| It was a little too hard!! |
silly_goose
Jun 13, 2005
| Hey itsonlyme (that comment is waaaay up there, it took me a while to comment) it's interesting that Saxon wrote it. My dad teaches Saxon math, and he was stumped for weeks on this puzzle....in fact, i wonder if he's figured out the answer yet....lol.
Good one, donfrench! I absolutely loved it!! |
Question_Mark
Jul 27, 2005
| 81 is my fav. number . |
deepsea
Oct 02, 2005
| just |
AZTTT
Oct 04, 2005
| I didn't get it, but that was GREAT! |
michelle3617
Oct 18, 2005
| Well I really wasn't sure where I was supposed to go with this, but it made a lot of sense after reading the answer. |
smarty_blondy
Nov 05, 2005
| Chalenging, fun, cleverly done! Just the way i love them! |
boodler
Nov 26, 2005
| I've not read that many, but this is the first one that made me laugh out loud! Werry good indeed |
TheEarthling
Jan 20, 2006
| Woh! Clever! |
luckythirteen
May 14, 2006
| Excellent teaser! This is definitly one of a kind! It would have been better if I had actually gotten it, but oh well. Besides that, I love it! |
OldChinaHand
Aug 03, 2006
| 'I solved this one in my head in less than one minute. Way too easy.' I read a better version of this teaser somewhere. |
brainster
Aug 03, 2006
| I found it very creative and nice! Well done! |
jj_is_cool
Dec 22, 2006
| WOW ! |
lkp68
Jun 07, 2007
| Wow!!! That was amazing. great great job! |
