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| Posted by liltunalol | 01/08/04 |
| hmm i thought he drowned cause he didnt hold his nose... but then i saw the hint. very clever!! |
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| Posted by fishmed | 01/09/04 |
| Good one. Would that be the same as suffocation, which is what I thought as I assumed he would not get enough air that way? |
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| Posted by Rowsdower | 01/10/04 |
| You know, as a little kid I tried this with a 7ft piece of pvc pipe in a swimming pool. Much to the world's dismay, however, I had the sense to come up when I couldn't breath. :o Fun teaser! :D |
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| Posted by doggyxp | 01/10/04 |
| Well, I guess you can get partial credit for saying suffocation! Glad you all like the teaser. :D |
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| Posted by griphook | 01/10/04 |
| unbelievable :o |
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| Posted by bbngk | 01/10/04 |
| huh? How much carbon dioxide would cause death? |
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| Posted by od-1 | 01/12/04 |
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:D Very nice. I liked the story line well writen. |
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| Posted by bbngk | 01/12/04 |
| Thank u. So what was the cause of death? Not Carbon Dioxide poisoning ?! |
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| Posted by fasil | 01/19/04 |
| I've always wandered why people can't just breathe in their mouth and out their nose. Never tried it though. |
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| Posted by liltunalol | 01/19/04 |
| bbngk, like HarryLarry said, you can't get POISONED by carbon DIOXIDE, its carbon MONOXIDE that causes poisoning. If you look at the situation in a different perspective, think of yourslef trapped in a box with one teensy weensy hole at your feet (where you cant reach with your mouth). The hole wouldn't be big enough to exchange the increasing amount of carbon dioxide when you exhale and the decreasing amount of oxygen when you inhale, therefore you will die of suffocation.
Also, to contarary belief, one cannot die of being painted gold. Some believe (from the Bond movie "Goldfinger") that being painted in gold will cause your skin to suffocate, or not let in oxygen :roll: . That is not true because we humans do not breathe through our skin! We have LUNGS!!! |
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| Posted by liltunalol | 01/19/04 |
| And fasil. We CAN breathe through our mouths and out of our noses! That would be a counterexample to this riddle! Jamie could have inhaled oxygen through the pole while holding his nose and exhaled through his nose! Would that work though?? |
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| Posted by bbngk | 01/19/04 |
| I did not say Jamie died of CO2 poisoning. The ANSWER says so. :roll: |
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| Posted by bluetwo | 01/21/04 |
| breathing through the nose would probably work, but then the hiding place would be revealed by the bubbles rising to the surface of the water... a catch 22! |
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| Posted by doggyxp | 01/22/04 |
| I am sorry about the "CO2 Poisoning" bit. Maybe I should have just stuck with the suffocation bit. Sorry guys. And thanks to all of you who helped clear up that misconception. I am glad you like the story line :) |
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| Posted by Dave625 | 02/10/05 |
| cool. i figured it out aftwer rading the hint. :D |
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| Posted by GarnetLover | 05/30/05 |
| I knew that the doctor killed him for the money, but i couldn't figure out why |
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| Posted by sweetime | 07/06/05 |
| wow - when i read that there was 20 comments i thought for sure someone else would have twigged to the fact that this teaser was an encyclopedia brown "mystery" (though i'm also willing to go with "2 minute mystery" story 'coz i always mix them up) |
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| Posted by bookworm91 | 11/18/05 |
| garnet u contradicted urself lol. just thought i'd point that out, but we no wat u meant. anywayz i thought that was cool even though i didnt get it. :D |
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| Posted by mufffin09 | 01/03/06 |
| It is a two minute mystery. So I'm not the only one who got one of these accepted.
My teaser Dino Photo is also a two minute mystery. |
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| Posted by ALW007 | 03/08/06 |
| Way too plagiarize...For shame :( |
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| Posted by doggyxp | 06/01/06 |
| If it is a Two Minute Mystery, then that is simply a coincidence; I heard this one years and years ago. It is not plagiarism. |
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| Posted by luckypuppy | 05/14/08 |
| good one |
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| Posted by MsPacMan | 09/28/08 |
| Bamboo does have hollow stems, but the stems are segmented every foot or so, and each segment is separated from the next by a solid node. So, it would be impossible to breathe through at all. A better plant for this riddle would be the common reed, which can grow taller than five feet, is hollow, and would look more natural poking out of a pond than a length of bamboo. |
