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Re: Nugry
Posted:
Oct 27, 1999 6:17 PM
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Fred Galvin <galvin@math.ukans.edu> writes:
> Nothing to do with math, try rec.puzzles. That word comes up in a puzzle
> that goes something like this: "There are three words that end in gry, one
> of them is nugry, what are the other two?" But I don't know what it means.
For those who don't read rec.puzzles or care about its FAQ:
(Oh, it's standard to write a word in all caps instead of wrapping it
in quotes. I hope nobody thinks I'm rudely shouting or calling
attention to the bit where making money fast really works.)
There was once a puzzle that read something like this: "One word that
ends in GRY is ANGRY, and another is HUNGRY. There are three common
words in THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. What's the third?" The point is that
there is no third common English word that ends in GRY, and the victim
of this riddle tries and tries to find one, only to eventually be told
that LANGUAGE is the third word. Ha ha ha. Thanks to Usenet, the red
herring bit of the puzzle has completely lost its host, and people are
trying to find a third word that ends in GRY.
It's in the FAQ (as is finding the odd ball out of twelve in three
weighings), but newbies keep asking the question. NUGRY is a
corruption of NEWBIE invented to describe such people. There isn't
really an equivalent in sci.math; perhaps the single-post "I don't
understand Cantor" kooks come close.
--brian
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