GingerAle

Well, Mr. BB, Bananas are brain food. Didn’t you know?

I have read:

"Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es."

(Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are).

1826--Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

In your case, it’s easy to tell that your dietary staples consist mainly of idiot sandwiches, pork butt-roast, meatballs, and fruitcake.

Tell me, Mr. BB, What is your favorite drink?

I know several banker and Wall Street types – not enough to do a true statistic, but most of the older ones drink Scotch (usually single malt), or well-aged bourbons.   So what is it for you? I mean what was it back when you could chose something other than bathtub gin?

Here’s one for you.

This thread is a minor example of what a fifth-grader looks like when mommy uses him as a marionette.   Here, mommy manipulates his mouth and speaks in the dimwit dialect of stupid. This is a common language for many, but it’s very difficult to understand and translate into an educational language—such as Standard English.    The irony here is this is incomprehensible unless one grows up with it, and if one grows up with it, it’s very difficult to learn how to translate it.   

Using a Babble translator and my genetically enhanced Chimp brain—with mind reading skills, I have determined a probable translation:

How do you round off fractional numbers to the nearest whole number?

Specifically, how do you round off 0.84 to the nearest whole number?

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This is like “Finding Wally.”

Hail, hail the gang’s all here. I am amazed how the mere mention of my name brings in the ne’er-do-well pseudo intellectuals, the unsuccessful, the ineffectual, and the good for nothing –know-nothing dregs of mystical Camelot.

They gather like mutant vultures seeking revenge on me as if I am the cause of their brain-dead stupidity and virulent contagious dumbness.

You dimwits are so dumb to think smashing the fire alarm puts out the fire.

What is your game?  I know BM is one of your puppets, TPM (The Puppet Master), but I don’t yet know what your game is. Is it some kind of self-styled therapy to deal with your hyperactive, chaotic brain? 

If so, please continue. Trolling you and the Blarney Banker is my self-styled cathartic therapy:  like squeezing zits, lancing boils, and breaking dams of batshit-stupid that keep the offal from flowing through the sewers of mystical Camelot.   

BM This is an example of your disconnect to reality: Compare Sir CPhill’s answer to your meandering pile of incomprehensible slop. 

CPhill’s answer is compact, to the point, and clear. His comment is relevant and concise.

Your answer meanders all over Hades. By the time anyone wades though and digests this hog slop of discontinuity, the reader forgets the question, as the toxic brew induces a mental fog and accelerates brain atrophy.

W T F  Yes, Ginger is smarter than that! That is my proof these posts are not me. 

I recognize all the kooks on here.  Birds of a feather, for sure, but each has their own signature style. For god’s sake, no one needs to sign their name. I can smell who they are. 

I’ve always enjoyed logic questions; I don’t always figure them out.

Along with basic math skills, thinking like Sherlock Holms, by using logical, deductive reasoning will let the magnifying glass zero in on the correct solution. 

The math:

The first column is a list of three integers that sum to 13. The second column is the product of these integers, listed in ascending order.

9 3 1       27

8 4 1       32

7 5 1       35

9 2 2       36

6 6 1       36

8 3 2       48

7 4 2       56

6 5 2       60

7 3 3       63

6 4 3       72

5 5 3       75

5 4 4       80

At this point, the reader knows one set of the three integers are the ages of the children.  The reader does not know Nils’ room number, but Nils knows it, and still did not know the ages of the children. The reason he doesn’t know is that two of the products are 36, which is Nils’ room number. It’s one or the other but which one? Is it a set of twins with an older sibling, or a set of twins with a younger sibling?

The final statement gives this clue: “My oldest child was born in New York.”

Where the child was born is irrelevant, but from this it easy to see that a single child is the oldest.

The only solution for the children’s ages is 9, 2, 2.

 Gingerlock Holmes

Computer scan:  Result:  Blarney Banker formula detected.

Initiate subroutine for mathematical correction.

_{Minimize overt BB criticism (this instance).}

Solve using table

\(\begin{array}{|rcll|} \hline \tiny \text { Time (Days) }| & \tiny \text {# of cells} \\ 0 |& 2 \\ 3 |& 4 \\ 6 |& 8 \\ 9 |& 16 \\ 12 |& 32 \\ 15 |& 64 \\ \hline \end{array}\\ \)

Generalized formula for doubling per unit time.

\(\Large N = Z*2^{(t/d)}\)

Where (N) is the number of (cells) after time (t), (Z) is the starting number of (cells) at time zero (0), and (d) is the time required to double (cell) count.

\(\Large (2)*2^{(15/3)} = 64\)

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Update Statistical counters:

Increment BB error count by 1: BB=(6.0244834478561245 E21) + 1

End subroutine.

Resume normal operation.