Do the Garbage Pail Kids hate Canadians?

[Drev]

I was looking, and I just saw this.

http://img42.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Drev1/1082020050665.jpg

I'm not Canadian, but it make me think that the makers did. :(

[thebiggameover]

125...

[Mockery]

Drev,

Thank you for bringing up a point that I brought up last Halloween (http://www.i-mockery.com/halloween/bag/hurricane.asp). Your valuable contribution to this message board has been noted.

Sincerely,

-The I-Mockery Staff

[Drev]

......oh.

I remember reading that, but I forgot about the match part.

Sorry. :(

Still discuss. >:

[Big Papa Goat]

Some guy on soulseek called me a snow ****** because he found out I was Canadian :lol :(

[Dr. V]

Hmmm, now I just don't get that one.

[AChimp]

Canadian law requires a skill testing question in order to give things away for free in a contest. If there was no skill-testing question, then it would be classified as a game of chance (ie. gambling) and subject to a whole bunch of other laws.

They put simple math problems on to avoid the paperwork.

EDIT: Some contests ask you the question when you go to pick up your prize rather than putting it on the entry form.

[Jixby Phillips]

I was looking, and I just saw this.

http://img42.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Drev1/1082020050665.jpg

I'm not Canadian, but it make me think that the makers did. :(

^^^ WHAT THA FUCK???

[davinxtk]

AChimp, you ruined an awesome fucking awesome with a perfectly reasonable answer. >:

[AChimp]

I'm such a ruiner. :(

[kellychaos]

125...

Or 53? I can't remember whether division takes mathematical precedence over mulitiplication in an equation ... or does it depend on the order?

[AChimp]

Goes by the order. Those questions never mess with order of operations, though.

[ziggytrix]

(a*b)/c = a*(b/c), you math noob!

and, yeah, the answer is 53.

[AChimp]

No, it's 125. Trust me. Just read it right to left. There's never a trick with those questions (like going into negatives).

EDIT: Chances are they have a couple different "right" answers, though, just in case someone interprets the question differently.

Like I said, it's a token math question. They're always powers of 2 or multiples of 5. If they meant to divide 30 by 10, they would have put brackets around the 2 x 5.

[kellychaos]

(30/2) X 5 = 75

30/(2 X 5) = 3

and 75 is not equal to 3. The associative law doesn't work for multiplication and division.

[FartinMowler]

I can't believe you guy's are argueing aboot a math question.

[Ghost of Fraiser]

Order of operations, jerks

30/2 is 15

15x5 is 75

75-10 is 65

65 + 60 is 125

The order of operations are Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication or Division (whichever comes first), then addition and subtraction. [whichever comes first also.]

Keep in mind this was a question for fucking kids.

[kellychaos]

Aboot? I can't believe Fartin knows how to speak Canadian.

[ziggytrix]

i am ashamed

please don't tell my math teachers :(

[kellychaos]

The order of operations are Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication or Division (whichever comes first), then addition and subtraction. [whichever comes first also.]

That's, pretty much, all I was trying to remember. I, too, feel ashamed for not knowing simple math. :(

And the answer to life, the universe, and everything is ...





IS ...





42

[davinxtk]

Thank you kellychaos.

If I have to sit through the 42 bit one more time, I think I might stab someone.

[ArrowX]

I got 12 for an answer. WOW they really must be out to get us canadians!

[Jixby Phillips]

I think half the people who get the "42" reference only get it from it being referenced so fucking goddamn much and have never read the book.

I get the reference, and I've never read the book.

[davinxtk]

There are six books. >:
Nobody fucking gets the 42 reference. I don't think Douglas Adams himself understood why that took off so fucking well. It's such a minor fucking detail. Fucking fuck fuck.
:hhgg superfan

[Pub Lover]

You really are stupid, '42' is explained in the final book, & you had a clue to it by the frog guy in which ever book Adams hamfistedly slammed him in. >:

:true hhgttg superfan >:

[davinxtk]

Argh. You totally missed the point of my post, jackass.

[Pub Lover]

Fuck You! >: :matthartystyle

[Matt Harty]

Fuck You! >:




:kisses

[Pub Lover]

Kiss You! >:



:fucks

[kellychaos]

Cheese and crackers! I think my idiotic math flub made an excellent counterpoint to Deep Thought's ultimate answer. That's why I used it. Sorry to insult all you Hitchhiker nerds ... and, yes, I did read the books ... I sass where my towel is at! :)