brain teaser

[S8ight]

no cheating and looking the answer up on the net.

98% of the population cant work it out  

There are 5 houses, each is a different colour

In each house lives a person of a different nationality.

These 5 owners all drink a certain beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.

No owner has the same pet, smokes the same brand of cigar or drinks the same drink as another owner.

1: The Briton lives in a red house.

2: The Swede keeps dogs as pets

3: The Dane drinks tea

4: The green house is on the left of the white house (they are also next door to each other)

5: The green house owner drinks coffee

6: The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds

7: The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill

8: The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk

9: The Norwegian lives in the first house

10: The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats

11: The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill

12: The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer

13: The German smokes Prince

14: The Norwegian lives next to the blue house

15: The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

The question is: WHO KEEPS FISH?

[timd]

98% of the population cant work it out  

98% of the population can't be ed to work it out...

..again...

[oioi]

i dont want to live in a red house

[mad lon]

MAJOR STARE

[Frau Vesty]

After 20 minutes of scribbling, I conclude: the German keeps fish  

[Major Stare]

MAJOR STARE

Well done      

[Neil Purdie]

got a problem with one of our (the fox family) goldfish ,it keeps on bloating up and floating , it is as if it is waiting to fart or something so it can resume normal goldfish duties.this has been going on for 3 weeks what can i do ?

p.s. it has got to last until next july so i can win a drunken bet with my mate that my fish will live longer than his , so not only is a life stake but also £50    

PLEASE HELP

'Mud' was trying to keep fish.

Is it still alive

[Neil Purdie]

Its easier to work out now after coffee and bacon butties instead of last nights Murphys and Glen Moray chasers [hic]

It must look a bit like this

[mud]

Nokia , the wscc's  most famous goldfish is still going strong.thanks for asking ,piccies coming soon.cheers martin

[pistonbroke]

It must look a bit like this

How are things in Tobermory !

[ChrisF]

How are things in Tobermory !

Piston, it's Ballamory....mind you only dad's with kids under 5 would know that  

Nice to meet you today  

[jeff oakley]

Over the years I have been on more "training" days than I care to remember, and on almost all of them this or a variation of it was trotted out. It was always to show how you worked as a team at problem solving. It never occured to the trainers that a bunch of misfits living in multi colured houses with enough pets would never be a problem to a sales force, because we wouldn't care so long as we sold them something.

What it usually proved was the less effective the sales person the better they were at mind numbing physco games. My favorite was a training course where they used a film (staring Gregory Peck) as an Airforce leader who takes over a struggling command. As this 5 day course unfolded you saw how he took control of the problems became hated by everyone and slowly won the war singlehandedly (it was an American film), however having seen the end of the film before being on the course I knew something the trainer obviously didn't. We weren't going to be shown the entire film as the trainer wasn't trained to do so, after much persuasion he did finally agree to it as I told him it was such a positive end.  Imagine his horror as Gregory Peck went mad was sent to a loony Bin and someone else took the credit.

So the moral was treat your staff like s**t you will go mad and your boss will take all the glory, seemed to put a bit of a damperner on the message, and it only cost us £350 per day for the consultant trainer.