Paired Horse and blabla

[T.I. Console]

H.M.Hubey wrote:
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> One of my teachers played this "joke" on us a long time ago.
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>         I have four bottles labeled A, B, C and X.
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>         I mix A & X and drink and get drunk.
>         I mix A & Y and drink and get drunk.
>         I mix A & Z and drink and get drunk.
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> What can you say?
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> Most people would say that X has alcohol.

And later:

>I mixed up my variables obviously. It should be X in all cases
>not X,Y, Z.

Still a bit drunk of all those mixtures? Instead of three times A, it makes more fun with A, B, and C. So,

I have four bottles labeled A, B, C and X.
        I mix A & X and drink and get drunk.
        I mix B & X and drink and get drunk.
        I mix C & X and drink and get drunk

, which might led to the conclusion: X is the alcohol, neglecting the possibility of ABC being liquors.

Anyway, I like your joke; it keeps people alarmed at one-sided conclusions.

Sandra van der Geer
Leiden, NL
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