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Remember, this one remains to be completely solved:

Every day on his way to work a man passes by a small building, and chuckles when he sees it. The reason he thinks it's mildly amusing is that it makes a type of product, but can't use that product itself. It's a product that each and every one of you has almost certainly used before, some of you every day, and many buildings use it. What is the product that the company sells, but can't use it in its own building? Technically it can use it, but it would be strange and wasteful to do so.

I edited it a little, and I can think of three right answers.
 
@WillJ: electricity! and another: its a lumber mill!

@Turner: he hit a golf ball through the window!
 
Originally posted by Noldodan
@WillJ: electricity! and another: its a lumber mill!
Why couldn't the building use electricity or lumber? :confused:
 
@willj: well, it cant use much lumber because its already built, and electricity because... damn
 
Originally posted by Noldodan
@willj: well, it cant use much lumber because its already built, and electricity because... damn
Hmm, well, I guess I'll accept lumber... Still three answers left, though!
 
Actually, a power plant would be able to use its own power. It would only need a power source to start the factory (coal fire, river, steam, solar, etc..).

How about a Styrofoam or box factory?
 
Originally posted by CrackedCrystal
How about a Styrofoam or box factory?
Nope, the building could use both styrofoam (like with coffee cups) and boxes (hundreds of uses of boxes).
 
ooooh, they make part to machines that make other things.

Like they make parts for a car assembly line. They would not use the car assembler themselves.
 
Originally posted by DiamondzAndGunz
Hmm, do they make elevators? :hmm: :lol:
:goodjob: Yes, as a matter of fact, they do! :) I was about to say, "The key is the 13th word of the riddle; if the building were not this, its product would be much more useful to itself," but you already got it right. Now, I've decided that one of the answers I was thinking of doesn't work, so there is still one possible correct answer left.

@CC: That might work, but how many people that you know of use those?

Edit: I'm going off to bed now, so I won't be able to see if anyone got the second answer until late afternoon tomorrow.
 
Originally posted by Turner_727
How about Escaladers?(Sp?)
Yep, that's the other one! :goodjob: (D&G supplied the correct spelling.)
 
Originally posted by Turner_727
Right. . .too easy. Hmm. . . have to find some harder ones. (Can I say that here?)

Hmm. . . .

Edward carefully plotted the murder of his enemy. One winter's day he strangled her in the bedroom, then faked a burglary. He ransacked the house, scattered possessions and broke through the patio doors. He set the burglar alarm downstairs before driving to the local golf course to establish his alibi. Two hours later, when Edward was in the middle of his golf game with three colleagues, the burglar alarm went off and the police were alerted. They found the house apparently broken into and the woman strangled. No animals or electrical devices were found which could have set the alarm off, so it looked as though an intruder had set off the alarm before killing the poor woman. Edward was never arrested or charged. The police inspector long suspected Edward, but there was one question which he could not fathom: How did the suspect get the burglar alarm to go off so conveniently? Can you work it out?


The key word is winter. There was a powerout when he killed her, thus the alarm could not go off. When the power came back, he set the alarm, and left. Two hours later the alarm set off.

P.S.: I instantly thought of a powerout because I had to spend all day at work with no power due to construction jobs.
 
@Yaniv: Good reasoning and logic. Mr. Spock would be proud. However, there was power before, during, and after the murder.

Keep trying, tho.
 
Maybe he went golfing indoors... :hmm:
Or maybe he lives somewhere warm, where there is no snow during winter...

Either way, I can't think of anything... :mad:
 
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