Maid. Never seen a post office open on a sunday.

KPG: Maid. Never seen a post office open on a sunday.

I’d never have thought of that.
I often used to collect my mail on Sundays from my post office box. 

Depends on where you are, KPG. Sunday Mail Delivery was common at the start of this country and is still the norm in several places around the country. See this entry about Sunday Mail Service in a Christian Nation over at atheism.about.com.

Of course that’s just me being nitpicky and probably has nothing to do with the riddle.

Ha!

I stand corrected but stand by my answer as well.

The only reason for specifying that the murder took place on a Sunday afternoon is that being Sunday is significant. The postal delivery is the only one that seems to be contradictory to that.

I wish our post office here was open on Sundays.

I got a good riddle
An adventurer is walking through the forest when he is caught and drugged by cannibals.  When he comes to they tell him he may make one statement.  If it’s true they’ll boil him in water if it’s false they’ll fry him in oil.  He makes his statement and is set free.  How is this possible?

The maid - cos there’s no mail on Sundays.
Having said that - one can collect the mail from the Post Office BOX, with a key, any day.

From memory KPG exposed this one some time ago.
I’m a bubble-burster from way back. 

FUCK this!!!
I’m not gonna play here anymore whilst there’s this Page 1, 2, etc bullshit.

No redface but I’m

coolaxman94 - maybe the silly bastard woke up from a dream and realised too much dope can fry your brain. I know abitaboutit.

You’ll boil me in oil is the statement.

If they do boil in oil, then the statement is true, so they should have boiled in water.

If they boil in water, then the statement, is then false, so they should boil in oil.

You can work it backwards all you want. This is a famous (and rare) case of algebra failing us. The thing is, there were $30 at the beginning. At the end, there are $29. The three men spent a total of $27. The bellboy kept $2. The hotel has $25 and gave up $5. There is a missing $1.

No Ryan, there isn’t a missing $1. The solution was provided earlier on in the comments. It all adds up correctly.

Ryan, algebra is never wrong—as opposed to your understanding of it

What happens is that 3*(10-1) = 25 + 2

Each guy spent $9, of which $25 go to the hotel and $2 to the bellboy.

Or if you look at it differently, 30 = 25 + 2 + 3*1

Of the $30 the guys originally spent, 25 go to the hotel, 2 to the bellboy, and 1 goes back to each of the guys.

Sorry, guys, Ryan is right.  The leprechauns got the missing dollar.

Zilch, don’t make me revoke your blackboard privileges.

here’s a hard riddle

A logician with some time to kill in a small town decided to get a haircut. The town had only two barbers, each with his own shop. The logician glanced into one shop and saw that it was extremely untidy. The barber needed a shave, his clothes were unkempt, his hair was badly cut. The other shop was extremely neat. The barber was freshly shaved and spotlessly dressed, his hair neatly trimmed. Why did the logician return to the first shop for his haircut?

Because each barber trimmed the other’s hair?

Plus its easier to keep your surroundings and self neat if have a lot of free time. The first barber was kept busy by the townsfolk who probably knew from experience who the better barber was.

Not only that, but the first barber was obviously the one who shaved everyone in town who didn’t shave himself, and rather than participate in the old paradox, he simply went without shaving.

dang u guys r too good
i’ve still got sum more

1. what comes once in a minute twice in a moment but never in a thousand years?

2.I can be long, or I can be short.
I can be grown, and I can be bought.
I can be painted, or left bare.
I can be round, or square.
What am I?

3. I never was, am always to be, no one ever saw me, nor ever will. And yet I am the confidence of all to live and breathe on the terrestrial ball. What am I?
There once was a strange man who loved wordplay, he had a very important sucessful busisness that would take insect shipments from all across the world and distribute them to zoos all across the US.

What is the name of his company?

clues
1. the anwser is 9 letters

2. i have left some important clues and not so important clues in both versions

3. i have allready told you the anwser

4. remember it has to do with wordplay
4.

The maid...no mail on sundays.