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One afternoon, a retired air force pilot and his family were driving through Texas on a vacation. They pass a road sign. One of the children remarks on the fact that the sign is named after a dance style.
After about five minutes, they pass another sign, which reads, "Golf Road". As soon as they pass it, the man turns to his wife and says he knows what the next sign will say, and that he'll bet her twenty dollars that he's right. She agrees, and they drive on. After passing the next road sign, the wife finds that her husband is right, and hands him twenty dollars.
What did the last sign say and how did the man know?
After about five minutes, they pass another sign, which reads, "Golf Road". As soon as they pass it, the man turns to his wife and says he knows what the next sign will say, and that he'll bet her twenty dollars that he's right. She agrees, and they drive on. After passing the next road sign, the wife finds that her husband is right, and hands him twenty dollars.
What did the last sign say and how did the man know?
Hint
Retired Air Force PilotThe dance style is also a well known comic strip in the USA.
Answer
The key was that he was a retired air force pilot.The military, and other organizations, use words to represent letters when talking via radio, etc, to avoid confusion of the many similar sounding letters.
The international standard for this is the NATO alphabet:
Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliet Kilo Lima Mike November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey Xray Yankee Zulu
The one for F is Foxtrot, which is a style of ballroom dancing or a well known comic strip in the USA. Golf is for G. The one for H is hotel, so, seeing the pattern of Foxtrot and Golf, he correctly guessed Hotel Road.
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I really enjoyed this one.
Really good one! You had me going in every direction - except the right one!
good one, i had no idea until i saw the hint. then it was easy
I guessed the first road correctly (admittedly, upon reading the hint), but I couldn't guess the last road. Well done!
Great Teaser!
I can't believe I didn't get this one!!! LOL Great teaser!
Feb 25, 2005
Yes ... everyone really has a chance here (sarcasm)
right...
was thinking of the wrong dance (tango) so i was looking for a diff pattern =P shouldve looked at it longer..
omg...so confusing...great teaser...=P
WAH???????????????????????
Very good!!
That was the hardest teaser ive had in a long time!!!!!!!!!!
i didn't get that one but i'm a blond what do you expect
I didn't know the codey thing, but I had JUST READ the comic foxtrot before this. D'oh!
I know of that alphabet, but I never would have guessed that.
Great teaser!
Great teaser!
The fact that he was a retired pilot meant nothing to me. I don't know anything about that kind of crap. That thing totally confused me even though I just finished reading a book fulla Foxtrot comics. I'm so retarded.
That was the hardest so far!!
I figured the clues out but didn't know where they should take me!! great teaser...Hard for me being as I don't know that code...
retired air force meant nada to me this was a confusing riddle for some of us
I didn't really enjoy this one.
hahaha!!!! either im very dumb... or that made no sense!! sorry! didnt like it
I think I already read this one. Does this site to repeats???
Hey that would have been easier if I were in the militarty and knew about Alpha Bravo Charlie ect...
hey gr8 teaser my dad wuz in the air force so i new the alphabet thing it was pretty simple 2 me but hey, im special!
HOLY!!!!!!!! NEVER in a million years would have got that one!
This one was easy for me, too may years in the military, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Bravo Zulu
Bravo Zulu
Did not like that one at all..
I didn't get this but i don't know anything about the Air Force! Good Teaser if I knew things about the Air Force!
It was hard. I didn't know the air force stuff
how the hell were we supposed to know the Air Force alphabet???
I could of never figured that out.
way too easy
i was on the right track of think what dance had incommon with golf and my favorite comic strip foxtrot, but with my lack of knowlege of the alphabet (you know the alphabet i mean, im not retarded ) i couoldnt have guessed hotel, good one, i would had to used the knowlege of him being and x air force pilot and some research behind that to have gotten what you were really saying.
great teaser
very hard but fun
very hard but fun
it was so easy. your hint totally gave it away.
Great one! Fortunately I participated in a Community Police Academy and learned the alphabet. I actually got this one. Yipeee!
Very precious informations.
i think this one is common sence if u no the one alphabet but if u dont ur kinda without a clue
I is a very good one! You should do more!
Heehee, great teaser, keep them coming.
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