The Appleland-Bananaville oligarchy has expended a lot of manpower to put up checkpoints every mile along the road between the two cities. Each checkpoint will need at least two shifts of at least two guards each; more likely it'll be three shifts. Actually, add a fourth to account for holidays and weekends (though I suppose those power-hungry plutocrats may not allow their guards to take holidays). Thats eight thousand guards - and eight thousand salaries - along a single road.

So I'll be taking the back-roads, on the assumption that they can't have done such a ridiculous thing on all the routes.

Actually, since Top Gear is off the air again, I'll borrow their music and modify my truck using common objects (readily available in Appleland) to make it suitable for off-road driving. Then I'll go through the countryside.

ALTERNATELY: I start a revolution. The military-industrial dictatorship of the A-B government is not going to be popular in the cities - not if they impose such heavy taxes on any transshipments within their own country. The fact that they've seen it necessary to create such a massive 'guard' force (really, who believes they're anything but professional solders? You've already told us they'll shoot people who try to get a basic education on sight!) is only further proof of this. I trade one whole load of 1000 apples around (fresh food is going to be rare, with those ridiculous transshipment 'taxes'), create a core cadre of dedicated revolutionaries, and spark off a mob riot. While the 'guards' - of which there are doubtless many in the city, to match the ludicrous numbers along the road - confront the protestors in their usual ruthless fashion, the cadre will raid their stations for weapons.

Actually, we might be better to take the mob up against the mile-checkpoints, instead. We know they're fairly lightly-manned, and we can get at least two guns from each. Heck, I'll even transport the revolutionaries in my truck - gives us the advantage of surprise.

Down with the Appleland-Bananaville dictatorship! Power to the people! Fresh fruit for all!

The People's hS

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Step one: First you want to make 3 trips of 1,000 apples 333 miles. You will be left with 2,001 apples and 667 miles to go.

Step two: Next you want to take 2 trips of 1,000 apples 500 miles. You will be left with 1,000 apples and 167 miles to go (you have to leave an apple behind).

Step three: Finally, you travel the last 167 miles with one load of 1,000 apples and are left with 833 apples in Bananaville.

particles have a probability of being any distance from their perceived locale. Therefore, the apples in my truck cannot be taxed, because for all you know they could be anywhere.

~Neshomeh

Credit: Casey and Andy #89.

You don't want to get too upset... Stress causes, well, fear. Panic. And you don't want that, now do you? Unless you fancy being a test subject today?

(Silenthunder here. He's got me locked up. I don't know my location, but he mentioned a test, and you-know-what-that-means-and-I-need-to-be-rescued-right-now!)

The Batman may be coming. Also the answer is 833.

Four, because Elizabeth goes by many names. Lizzy, Beth and Bess are each one of them.

Here's another that I just made up:
When it's hot I am cold
When it's cold I am dead
I peek through the window
or hang over your head.

What am I?

It shows up in Pygmalion in slightly different form, but with the meaning preserved.

And the answer, of course, is: all of them, because the police take a dim view of budding ecoterrorists.

Or: none, because after taking an egg, why would you stay out in the woods?

^_~

hS

How can a baby fall out of 12-story building and live?