Thursday 17 March 2011

Living in heaven...?

Answer: He is a policeman, standing on a traffic island.

I love wordplay. Let it be known to the world. I especially take interest in puns, double entendres, malapropisms... But any type of word bending really tickles my fancy. In fact, many puzzles are predicated on multiple meanings and ambivalent word usage. Observe:


A man marries twenty women in his village but isn't charged with polygamy. Why not?
Hint: Title of this post. It's a double entendre!

24 comments:

  1. hehe, the man is a priest. Priests marry couples all the time.^^

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  2. i was way off on that last one
    on this new one i say
    hes a mormon

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  3. I don't have one single clue 8(

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  4. Do you ever listen to any Modest Mouse?
    I ask because there's a lot of really smart wordplay in the lyrics.
    It's one of the things I love about them.

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  5. because he himself is not being married.

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  6. All his previous wife´s died? lol How cruel :(

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  7. Because he's deeaaad....?


    Or dreaming.

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  8. lol wut, but on a serious note i actually understood them perfectly

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  9. man. that could be anyone lol. I'm stumped on this one completely.

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  10. These brain teasers are great, it will also be very helpful for use to use in order to tell humans and androids apart in the future.

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  11. He's the priest! Or whatever you call the dude that performs the ceremony.

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  12. The name the of the women he marries is "Twenty Women", thus he is not commiting polygamy.


    I think my goal is going to be to come up with technically correct but horribly wrong answers :)

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  13. because the man is actually a robot

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  14. lol I've no idea - Happy St P's day

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  15. He marries, divorces, remarries?

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  16. because this man lives in the awesome near future where you marry/buy women legally

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  17. Tough one Still thinking about it!

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