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Originally written by Ash Lael:

On the balance side, I know I'm not going to hear anything else for a few days, and it's all beginning to annoy me already.

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Originally written by Spring:

I am Australian and thus I don't celebrate Halloween. It is celebrated in some parts of my fair country, however.

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Your second statement invalidates your first, unless only non-Australians in Australia celebrate Halloween.

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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

One more thing I noticed about the monks problem: unlike other versions of the same puzzle, in which the entire problem is set up on day 0, in this case most of the situation has been going on for years, before the tourist arrives. Suppose there are at least two red-eyed monks; then every monk, including the red-eyed, has known for ages that at least one monk has red eyes. So it seems as though the tourist tells the monks nothing that they haven't all already known, for a long time, from observation. So why does the suicide calendar only start counting down when the outsider delivers this non-news?

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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

Alternatively, so many white-eyed monks are trying to kill themselves that at least one is prevented by a brother monk who knows he has white eyes. He kills the tourist to avenge his brothers. For this crime he is cursed with red eyes. He doesn't know.

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is the feeling that something bad will happen to kenny ,cus of south park's kenny dying in every episode?

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Kenny doesn't die in every episode, only most of them. There was a Christmas special where he survived, and he survived the one where he started the "Krazy Kenny" show.

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Originally written by Explode Thuryl Now:

Mmm... kahk...

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Originally written by Thuryl:

That's hardly even a puzzle. You can't add the amounts that are left in the account after each withdrawal and expect them to add to $50 -- that's just silly. It's only a carefully-crafted coincidence that the sum even happened to be close to $50 in this particular case, making you think there's some connection between the amounts when there isn't.

(It's easy to see this by giving other examples. If you withdraw the $50 all at once instead of in little chunks, for example, the sum of amounts left after each withdrawal is obviously $0. If you withdraw it $1 at a time, the sum of amounts left after each withdrawal is, well, a lot more than $50.)

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