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If you can solve this apparent enigma just say so, don't give the answer away just yet. The answer is simple, straightforward and involves no trickery or supernatural intervention.
There is a terrible car crash. The man driving is killed instantly. His son is rushed to hospital for emergency surgery. The surgeon walks in, looks at the boy and says,
"I can't operate on him, he's my son."
scribbler
13 years 11 months ago
hello
Where did you dig up this fossil? lol I remember it from high school and that wasn't exactly yesterday. Of course it took being told the answer back then to realize its simplicity.............stan
Kailashana2
13 years 11 months ago
Lol.
Lol.
Me too. Probably one of the first non-esoteric *koans* I heard.
~A
scribbler
13 years 11 months ago
huh?
I thought koans were the top part of a Madonna outfit lmao.........stan
weirdelf
13 years 11 months ago
It's always been one of my favourites.
So simple, and so telling about attitudes.
I got it straight away, but anyone who knows my work and background well will know why.
Kailashana2
13 years 11 months ago
Lol. I was looking for an
Lol. I was looking for an esoteric one....something like the driver was not really the father..
Sort of Darth Vader style.
~A
Candlewitch
13 years 11 months ago
Jess,
Yes! I get it!
always, Cat
weirdelf
13 years 11 months ago
It's cool, eh!
So simple, nothing supernatural or tricky, no DNA tests required. Think I should repost that poem I wrote about my sisters?
weirdelf
13 years 11 months ago
oh yes,
I know the colour of that damn bear, keeps smashing all my south facing windows to get in and steal food.
weirdelf
13 years 11 months ago
I'll fight dinner suited birds
rather than big bears, any day.
weirdelf
13 years 10 months ago
The answer.
It was easy for me, my sisters are all warriors and my mother wanted to be a doctor.
The surgeon is his mother.