How do lame jokes run very fast and very long?

Last night I inadvertently made a lame comment as dinner ended… and boy it sure did snowball into a whole night of rubbish! I sure am sorry…

Ok so after my lame comment K started off a string of riddles/ qian bian wen da tis/ IQ questions as follows…

K: There is a basket with 5 eggs. 5 people take one egg each. But there’s still one egg left in the basket, how come?

K: In a race, you overtake the second person, what place are you in?
In a race, if you overtake the last person, what place are you in?
(place as in placing, not location.. it’s not a trick qn in that sense…)

A: 两个人掉进洞里, 一个在里面死掉了, 另一个没有. 死的叫小熊, 没有死的叫什么?

P: A boss needs to pay his worker daily equal wages for 7 days. He has a rectangle block of gold equal to the worker’s total wage and needs to pay him from this block of gold. He does so by making only 2 straight cuts in the block of gold. How did he do it? (no additional info is needed, but if you’re really trying to solve this you can ask me questions I guess)

P: A guy orders 10 boxes of oranges, each box is supposed to have 10 oranges of 10 grams each. The supplier tries to cheat him and out of the 10 boxes, only 9 are correct, the last one has 10 oranges of 9g each. The guy tries to figure out which box has the 9g oranges by using a weighing scale, but he can only use his weighing scale once. How does he tell which box has the 9g oranges?

(These 2 qns which Pam asked are real IQ qns which our friends got asked at job/internship interviews… and i'm recording them cos i always forget this kinda thing!)

Ok so basically the first few are easy but none of us got the gold block one altho there is a very logical answer for it and then for the oranges one… only the girls solved it! Hahaha so then after we got home K and R kept racking their brains trying to come up with some smart question to ask us back and had a huge pow wow in their room… then finally they came running over in fits of laughter and they were like

“Ok ok we have a question for you’ll!!! There’s this guy right and he has a tree outside his house with 10 birds. The birds are damn noisy so he takes his gun and shoots one. How many birds are left?”

We just stared at them and answered immediately… (Pam gave them an irritated look cos they’d interrupted her dvd watching for such a stupid qn and I had a rather confused look cos I was like “huh? That was supposed to be hard?”)

So the guys retreated again rather dejectedly.

Then later R comes back and tells us “oh you know this morning you’ll knocked over my contact lens case and we were hunting all over for them right… actually I was wearing my contacts already!”

-PENG-

We wanted to slap him lah!! We’d specifically asked him whether his contacts were in the case cos he wasn’t wearing his specs then but he’d said all his cases had lenses in them cos he had a few pairs around.

As sam aptly summed up…
“no wonder he thought the bird question was hard.”

(this was still followed by various attempts to ask us something that we cldn’t solve and they’d come back every few mins or so, even asking us some coffeecoffeeteateateacoffeedunnowhat crap just before we slept which we also figured out pretty fast only to discover that R himself had gotten it wrong and their stupid coffeeteacoffeecoffeewatever refrain kept ringing in my head when I was trying to sleep. But finally we managed to chase them out and shut the door in the face.

Then some time later, just as we were trying to sleep, the guys padded back again and then we heard “oh the girls are asleep already ah? Eh R we really need to think of some more intelligent qns lah. Ours all so lame. Need more power lah…”
Hahaha Sam and I were rocking with laughter and Pam was blurly asking “huh? Did you’ll have some conversation that I completely missed out on?”)