Braingle: 'Footnotes' Brain Teaser

Footnotes

Logic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.

Puzzle ID:	#7826
Fun:	(2.81)
Difficulty:	(1.53)
Category:	Logic
Submitted By:	just_moi

A, who knows only French, publishes an article in an English magazine. At the end of the article are the following 3 footnotes:

1. I thank my friend B for translating the above article into English so that it could be published in this magazine.

2. I thank my friend B for translating the above footnote.

3. I thank my friend B for translating the above footnote.

Why are there only 3 footnotes when logically, A will have to go on forever to be able to thank B properly???

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Comments

tissue Oct 23, 2002	Neat
just_moi Oct 26, 2002	thanx
ADAMANT545 Nov 09, 2002	sry i am stupid i dont get it
(user deleted) Nov 09, 2002	very smooth!!!.....
(user deleted) Nov 09, 2002	that's pretty good. nice job.
gven Nov 10, 2002	I got it!!!
electronjohn Nov 13, 2002	Those Frence are pretty clever! Nice one. I had seen something like it before so I got it right away but it is still a good one.
Princess_Neopia Dec 17, 2002	Excellent teaser. You really puzzled me until I read the answer and I definetly get it.
KhRiSsY Jan 26, 2003	Yippie! I got it right, very cute riddle!
singcan Jan 28, 2003	Great!!! The French do think of great things!!! By the way, did you make that up your self? Or did you get it from France? lol............
na-iem Mar 12, 2003	Nice!
dakini Jun 25, 2003	I thought that it was that he wrote the last one in French, but yours works much better!
Smithy Jul 29, 2003	Very Nice, and I actually worked this one out!
coolbrain2291 Jan 13, 2004	this is the secondteaser of yours that i'm commenting on, this is a teaser that isn't so hard that you cant get it, yet it isn't so easy that it bores me great teaser!
just_moi Jan 14, 2004	thanx
SliceOPi Jan 14, 2004	Nice teaser.
Palsha Feb 24, 2004	I like these types of trick problems!
goldenguide Feb 24, 2004	i did not get it, because i was side-tracked: I thought you were referring to Canadian-French, but now that i know you are talking about euro-french, i understand it. Thanks.
just_moi Feb 24, 2004	lol goldenguide that doesnt really make a difference
mouse2 Feb 24, 2004	Thats Clever!!!!! I likedit!
thebuddhawithin Feb 24, 2004	nice nice... I got it!!
madatadam Feb 28, 2004	nice... cute riddle... as they say - just simple enough to excite interest (not break ur head too much on) and good enough to be called a riddle
mcbidjcd May 21, 2006	very good i like it