Thinking outside the goldfish bowl

[j4]

From Bilateral thinking puzzles:

Q: Deep in the forest was found the body of a man who was wearing only swimming trunks, snorkel and facemask. The nearest lake was 8 miles away and the sea was 100 miles away. What happened?

A: The man is a priest.

Also, if you haven't seen Michael Kelly's lateral thinking puzzles yet, you should.

Comments

[simont]

Ah, in that case I've got it. The dead man is Joseph, and the surgeon is God! :-)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Hey, no bringing philosophy into it. If you're going to allow that, maybe the man in the car accident and the surgeon were both Jesus :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

(My first thought reading that was "I know the bible said he had a rainbow coat, but I didn't know it officially said he was bi!" :))

[simont]

Not that Joseph!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I worked that out. Although minor changes to the wording might change the solution.

A man and his son were in a car accident. The man was thrown from the car at 70mph towards a nearby wall which would be fatal on impact. The son was injured, and the man who found him was his only father, and healed him. Who was that man?

Answer: Saint Joseph of Cupertino (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Cupertino), patron saint of flying and healing. (And mentally handicapped, and overzealous automatic spelling checkers.)

A man died, was buried, and came out alive again from his tomb, and healed a man's son who was injured in a car accident. Whose tomb?

Hint: He drank from the Holy Grail before Indiana and Henry Joneses.

Answer: Joseph of Arimathea.

:)