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Post by Tegid on Jun 4, 2005 23:25:32 GMT -5
Ian brushed the dust off the lid and opened the box. There inside was the yellowing correspondence between Ingmar and NaNa, from back when he, Bail Organa, Enya, and Shagrat made their thirteenth annual trip to the Gap of Rohan to sacrifice a clone of the Wild Bluebird of Ekklsindorfia to Fossah. In one of the letters, Ingmar tells NaNa that Shagrat said, "Two days ago, I was 16 years old. Next year, I'll be 19 years old." Ian wonders, if his words are true, how is this possible?
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Post by karenee on Jun 5, 2005 14:23:02 GMT -5
ROFL Is this in the right place???
Well, I'll take a guess. Stepping into a place where time travels differently for a couple years.
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Post by Tegid on Jun 5, 2005 15:45:44 GMT -5
HaHa! It had been several years since Ingmar last encountered CuCulain or got dosed with psilobe, and really, nothing that you or I would consider as unusual as time travel had happened among his little circle in, oh, at least 777 days before setting out on this trip.
Really, the setting is just window dressing. You might have a neighbor make the same statement to you.
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Post by Gwalchmai on Jun 5, 2005 19:02:30 GMT -5
The "days" in question was his previous birthdays.
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Post by Tegid on Jun 5, 2005 21:04:41 GMT -5
(I guess I'm just not good at casting these things. No, let me rephrase that: I know I'm not good at casting these things.)
Joe walks up to Mary and says, "The day before yesterday, I was 16 years old. I'll be 19 years old next year." What he says is true. What's going on here?
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Post by karenee on Jun 5, 2005 23:10:36 GMT -5
ROFL his birthday is on leap year?
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Post by Tegid on Jun 5, 2005 23:24:04 GMT -5
No. He'd be 'aging' a whole lot more slowly (numerically), in that case.
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Post by karenee on Jun 5, 2005 23:34:55 GMT -5
He's a dog.
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Post by Tegid on Jun 6, 2005 7:41:07 GMT -5
Really!? All this time, Ingmar's been a dog? I never picked up on that in the story!
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Post by karenee on Jun 6, 2005 7:45:19 GMT -5
Sheesh! it's not dog years, it's not leap years
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Post by Tegid on Jun 6, 2005 7:50:32 GMT -5
This one can be done with regular ol' plain vanilla years. (And I'm not sure it could be done with either leap or dog years.)
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Post by karenee on Jun 6, 2005 8:03:21 GMT -5
Okay...yesterday was his birthday...I get that. He is now 17years old. A year from yesterday, he will turn 18...............but how the 19 comes along is beyond me.
Augh! Why do I even try? Kicks the riddle across the room.
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Post by karenee on Jun 6, 2005 8:07:04 GMT -5
Unless....
next year... hmmm. it's january first today? Wait...would that work? I think so...
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Post by cree8ivone on Jun 6, 2005 8:17:08 GMT -5
Birthday on Dec. 31st - that makes sense.
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Post by Gwalchmai on Jun 6, 2005 9:23:05 GMT -5
Blah, I like my birthday answer better =P
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