Only one of these trees has a proper full-time job. Can you tell which one?
A:
B:
C:
D:
Is it A,B,C or D?
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Only one of these trees has a proper full-time job. Can you tell which one?
A:
B:
C:
D:
Is it A,B,C or D?
A Bad Guide
A riddle, I love them!
Of course I suspect there’s a trick underneath here, so I’m not going to fall so soon, giving the obvious answer…
No comment.
In B, what is the little blob of white in the fork of the branch?
In C, are we calling the utility pole a tree?
I think it must be snow.
It was the utility pole that I was thinking of as a tree, or an ex-tree.
This is the way to get people to look closely at photos. Unfortunately, I have to confess that the answer is “C”, and my premiss was pretty silly. After Julia’s comment, I spent some time seeing if I couldn’t make up a more interesting answer, but I couldn’t find any good clues in the pictures. One doesn’t want to piss off one’s commenters, so it’s better that I end this charade before I waste anyone else’s time. Perhaps I’ll try to devise a more thought-through riddle sometime.
There’s nothing wrong with simple. I thought it might have something to do with lønn, but couldn’t find a way to work it into the pictures.
Yes, that would work with a lønn tree. Lønn is “wages” as well as “maple” in Norwegian, I realise.
Oh, no! Don’t be sorry, please!
I feel bad now for having implied in my comment that there must be something tricky in your question. That only talks about my trickery and meanness!
We know pretty well how to lose our own time… and A Bad Guide is one of my favourites excuses to do it. :-)
Don’t feel bad. It’s not too serious a problem. I hadn’t thought of doing a riddle before. It’s a good idea, if I can think of a good one. Maybe you should do it!
Oh, no! Do not give me more ideas to waste my time!
If you’d lived in Argentina, perhaps electricity or phone (what is this pole which is not a tree?) do not work, then you could have told us that this was not a “working tree. ” But in one of the other two, lived an animal or there were a hibernating animal; so this one, as the home of someone, was a working tree…
But surely in Norway all the poles with cables perform their function normally…
I was grasping for answers along much the same lines as Julia. I like the idea of a pole as a tree with a job.
I have posted a story, also partly about a utility pole, at my boringly non-pictorial blog.
The conifer, D, is doing a ” a proper full-time job” insofar as it is an evergreen and A and B aren’t. So it’s a draw between C and D. If snow brings down the cable from C, then D wins. So it all depends on extra time, or the penalty shootout.
You lot have much more imagination than I do. The snow does occasionally bring down the cables, although we’ve never had anything as exciting as Empty. All utility services are well maintained and perform efficiently in Scandinavia, and – reflection being the result of tragedy rather than of complacency – that’s probably why we watch accordion-playing clog dancers on television while you guys are out doing the tango.
hahaha!
It is more likely to find us banging our heads against the walls or cursing our ancestors:
“Why they had to get off the boat here?”
“Why they (and we) could not make a country that work as it should?”
Tango … jajajaja!
There’s nothing to say that accordion-playing clog dancers can’t dance the tango. Though perhaps they wouldn’t come over as very sultry.
I was guessing the answer was the tree that didn’t vote Labour.
Or, in the sense of functioning, all of them are working.
No doubt, some mad MEP has tabled a bill to permit certain trees to retire. “French oaks march to Strasbourg…”
Oh, what’s that… now I am thinking of the Scottish play.
I better stop and go and buy coat hangers.
Oh, well done Pin. Macbeth had some wonderful images:
Eek! Run away.