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Breaking Curfew
The coach of the college baseball team, Mike Buck, was checking the residence grounds to be certain his players were in by curfew. Suddenly, he heard a loud crash and turned to catch a glimpse of a man running into the residence. Buck thought it was his star right-handed pitcher, James Macullah, but he couldn't be sure. Buck went to James' room and opened the door. James stood in the middle of the room, his right leg in his pants and his left leg out. James, looking at the wristwatch on his left arm said, "I heard a loud crash and was getting dressed to see what happened", he stammered. "Forget the bull," said Buck, "I'm certain it was you who just ran in here. For that little caper, you won't be playing tomorrow." How could Buck be so certain it was James who had been out after curfew?
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Mike was certain it was James because he was getting undressed not dressed as he claimed. A right-handed person will put their left leg in their pants when dressing.Hide Answer Show Answer
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not necesarily.... i'm a lefty but i start with my left....
very weak, many left handed people do things the same as right handed. it would surprise me too find that many right handed people get dressed the same way as lefties.
i am a righty and i put my right leg in first
I put either leg in first; it just depends on the situation.
I thought it was due to his checking his watch, somewhat guiltily when he said that he was just getting dressed. Most people I know do not wear their watch while sleeping.
Thats not a good teaser, because people do things differently. I'm a rightie but I don't always put the same leg in first every time.
I was thinking the answer would be that he still had his shoes on. It would have better, at any rate. On a random side note, I am right handed, and as an experiment, I tried switching which leg goes in first when putting on my pants. I discovered that I do much prefer putting in my left leg first. Also, I always put my left arm in my jacket first. Not that any of you cares...
I am left-handed. I put my left leg in the pants first, but with a shirt, I go right first (arm that is).
I got this right away, but only because it's a thinly-veiled recasting of an old puzzle. I read an earlier version around 1970.
"thinly-veiled recasting of an old puzzle"
Right, once again, nobody cares that you "show off" your stupid big words, and also, nobody cares that you've read this before....
Good Teaser got me thinking
Right, once again, nobody cares that you "show off" your stupid big words, and also, nobody cares that you've read this before....
Good Teaser got me thinking
Re; fishmed, my watch stays on my wrist, except for washing et c, 24/7. I'm right-handed, could not put trousers on left leg first or shirt on left arm first for a gold clock!
I'm right handed and I don't always put on the left leg of my pants first. I don't like this teaser, sorry.
As I read the comments for this teaser, I am reminded that Braingle discourages excessively negative posts, why is it then that anyone who critiques a teaser is labelled as being negative and is thus subjected to flaming of all sorts? Is that not excessively negative? Why can authors and users alike not simply accept criticism like mature human beings? I would advise prudence in phrasing your criticism, so as to spare unneeded offense, but we must also accept that not every teaser and/or quiz is "brilliant." That being said, this quiz does have holes in it's logic, but the spirit of it is valid, as is the attempt. Also, MANY of the teasers on this site are rewordings of others, it would be hard to hold everyone to the same standard at this point.
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