> Well, shoot. Now that Sam has gone and referred to your "ongoing" lateral thinking puzzle in the
> RinkWorks news email update, I'm practically FORCED, kicking and screaming, to keep guessing
> at this thing, lest we disappoint the teeming masses who keep up with minute RinkWorks site
> changes. :-)
>
> 1) Are Brian and Charles similarly each missing one of their arms, like Arthur?
>
> 2) Is this Arthur's attempt to fulfill some kind of grotesque agreement made between the three
> men in an earlier chapter of their lives?
>
> 3) More specifically: were they all shipwrecked on a desert island, starving to death, and agreed
> that each day, one of them would contribute his arm to make a stew, but the day after Brian and
> Charles surrendered their arms, they were all rescued, and only now are Brian and Charles
> demanding that Arthur fulfill his end of the bargain?
>
> 4) Am I unbelievably brilliant and insightful, or did I simply encounter a very similar lateral-
> thinking puzzle a few years ago? (Hint: "yes.") :-)
>
> Regards,
> Iss
>
>
> > > 1) Is the arm a HUMAN arm?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > 2) Is it Arthur's own arm?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > 3) Is it Brian's?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > > 4) Charles'?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > > 5) Someone else's?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > > 6) Will this take so long to solve that after a week, the forum will show nothing but entries
> > > that begin with Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Brain Food?
> >
> > Not relevant to the answer. :)
> >
> > > > Arthur has an arm wrapped up and mails it to Brian. Brian unwraps the arm and examines it, then
> > > > wraps it up again and mails it to Charles. Charles unwraps it and examines it, then wraps it up again
> > > > and sends it back to Arthur. Arthur arranges for it to be buried.
> > > > Explain.

PAUL A!!! QUIT KEEPING US IN SUSPENSE!!!

I know you still come here... Oh, yeah, I bet now you're going to try to tell us that you don't keep UP with threads which are over two years old... Sure, a likely story...

Don "Dredging the Forum for unfinished business again" Monkey