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Title: Brothers and sisters have I none,
Post by: EHM-0641 Rico on February 25, 2007, 02:43:24 pm

but that man's father is my father's son."


Who is this man??? ;)

Title: Brothers and sisters have I none,
Post by: EHM-1612 Paolo on February 25, 2007, 03:31:33 pm

Myself? :%

Title: Brothers and sisters have I none,
Post by: EHM-0641 Rico on February 25, 2007, 04:08:59 pm

Not quite :P

Title: Brothers and sisters have I none,
Post by: EHM-0005 Maarten on February 25, 2007, 04:12:02 pm

his son?

Title: Brothers and sisters have I none,
Post by: EHM-0641 Rico on February 25, 2007, 04:14:50 pm

Nice one Maarten ;)

This riddle, one of the world's oldest, is still good for starting arguments. A man is looking at a portrait. "Whose picture is that?" someone asks, and the man replies: "Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son." At whose picture is the man looking?
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The portrait is of the man's son. Many people mistakenly argue that the man is looking at a picture of himself. If he had said, "... that man is my father's son." then this solution would be correct, but he said, "... that man's father is my father's son." One way out of the confusion is to substitute the word "me" for the more cumbersome phrase "my father's son." Then the statement becomes, "that man's father is me."

Title: Brothers and sisters have I none,
Post by: EHM-0250 Magnus on February 25, 2007, 04:22:43 pm

Your son

Title: Brothers and sisters have I none,
Post by: EHM-0641 Rico on February 25, 2007, 04:24:12 pm

Yup ;)

Title: Brothers and sisters have I none,
Post by: EHM-0250 Magnus on February 25, 2007, 04:35:13 pm

Can also be his nephew. His father's son can be his brother. On no, wait, he said he doesn't have any brothers. Oh well.

Title: Brothers and sisters have I none,
Post by: EHM-1883 Matt on February 25, 2007, 04:38:26 pm

hmm, I thought I heard this one on Asterix and Obelix the movie, although the answer was his brother.