A Puzzle (for Logical Du'ers)

[BlueJazz]

Jim bought a new Electric Lawn-mower this morning and 100 ft of extension cord.
He thought to himself "Well, I better get the back yard mowed as my wife is having a party this evening"
Jim plugs in the extension cord at the outlet in the rear of his house and hooks up his new mower and starts cutting the grass...during this time Jim's wife takes their only car and goes shopping for this evenings party.
Unfortunately, Jim didn't buy a long enough extension cord. He sees that it's about 5 ft short to completely finish his lawn.

Rats!, Jim thinks..my wife is gone with the car, there's not any neighbors home to borrow another cord, there's no cords in the house and no other plug outside the house and since the windows are sealed tight, I can't even use a plug closer to the part of the lawn that didn't get mowed.

Jim sits down for a minute...thinks, smiles....get's up and finishes mowing the lawn.

How?

[Wonk]

1. With his old gas (or push) mower that he used to use before he bought

the electric one? :shrug:

[ET Awful]

2. Simple, he gets the old gas mower out of the garage

:)

[Goldmund]

3. He's still got his teeth

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. He pulls more cord out of the mower

[Neoma]

5. finds a goat?

[BrklynLiberal]

9. That was going to be my guess. Borrows the neighbors goat.

[BlueJazz]

6. No X4 ...I'll give you a clue.

It's an ELECTRIC Mower.

[Tummler]

7. He finishes "mowing" by setting fire to the remainder of the yard

Obvious. :eyes:

[Lefta Dissenter]

8. he plugs it in to

the end of the Christmas lights that are still draped in the shrubs. :D

[BlueJazz]

10. That would be at MY house (in June!)

[trof]

11. Easy-peasy

Gets out his Gravely Model 335 Sod Cutter.


Cuts a 5' strip off the back of his lot.
Moves it 5' closer to the house.
Mows it.
Puts the sod back in place.
Works for me.
;-)

[SemiCharmedQuark]

12. HOw long is the plug that comes with the mower?

[BlueJazz]

13. Another Clue

What does a regular Gasoline engine mower do when you turn it off?

[BrklynLiberal]

14. gets the mower gong and then pushes it past the length of the cord

with the blades still going because of the inertia.

[BlueJazz]

19. BINGO!....Good thinking!

[BrklynLiberal]

20. Thank you thank you ...must be all the coffee I drank today.

But I do like jpgrays' answer a lot better!!!

[Wonk]

24. Have you ever actually used an electric mower?

They wind down really quick when the power is cut. The resistance in the magnets is much greater than the inertia in the blade. It might be good for a foot or so, but not five.

[realisticphish]

25. yeah

they have blade brakes for safety purposes

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[BlueJazz]

26. Jim was a cheap Fucker. His didn't have any safety features..

..on his mower....in fact, it came equipped with a GIGANTIC 25,000 Pound flywheel that would spin for hours after you turned off the power.

[BlueJazz]

28. ..In Fact ..since he's MY Jim...I'll tell you something even worse.

He was so cheap that he had alienated his wife and entire family.
You know I posted that his wife was out shopping? Well, I lied to protect Jim's manhood. Actually, She was downtown at sleazy bars picking up "Tricks" to make some extra money so she could buy Jim a longer extension cord and maybe even a Mower that had a safety stop on it.

[Wonk]

31. I thought you said this question was for logical DUers?

"...it came equipped with a GIGANTIC 25,000 Pound flywheel..."

[BlueJazz]

32. Oh..Right..and I suppose you're going to tell me that you.....

...haven't thought about buying a Lawn-mower with a gigantic flywheel mounted in a vacuum enclosure.

[Lefta Dissenter]

15. OK,

I have to leave soon, so wouldya just tell us? Pretty please??? :P

edited to say THANK YOU! I can finally leave! :hi: (though I liked trof's idea the best)

[tridim]

16. Does he have a gas generator in the garage?

All I know is there's no way to get the mower to the extra grass with power from the current extension cord. The power has to come from somewhere else. Did he plug in to someone else's house?

[jpgray]

17. He waits for a lightning storm

Making modifications to the mower in the meantime. When a bolt of lightning strikes it, the 1.21 gigawatts sends him back in time where he smacks the shit out of his past self for not buying a longer extension cord.

[BrklynLiberal]

18. ROTFLMAO!

[auntAgonist]

21. takes the cord and plugs it into the neighbours house ?

[Floogeldy]

22. He plugs it in at the pole holding the electrical lines to his house

[mongo]

23. He cuts the seal off his electric meter

cuts the plug off the extension cord and (carefully) attaches one wire to the ground and one wire to one of the hots?

Two months later, he is prosecuted for theft of electricity.

[Melynn]

27. Jim plugged his extension cord into his neighbors outside outlet

That's my guess.

[hickman1937]

29. Why are Jim's windows sealed tight?

If his wife is having a party, is he invited? Sheesh, I need more information.

[BlueJazz]

34. ...because secretly Jim knows that, all to well, his Wife ....

...is just a two-bit whore who would have strange men crawling through the windows at night if they weren't sealed.

[hickman1937]

35. BlueJazz, you triggered Grovelbot. You buy the next round.

[BlueJazz]

37. No problem..I think a bunch of us are going downtown...

...to a little bar on 5th street. Jim's wife will be there so we're bound to have a great time..

[hickman1937]

38. You gowan ahead, I'll be umm, comforting Jim.

Now where did I put those bungee cords?

[jmowreader]

30. Jim goes to the garage...

where he dips into his coffee can full of nuts & bolts.

He pulls out a Lag Screw and a Fender Washer.

He then takes a crescent wrench off the pegboard.

He flips the lawn mower over and removes one of the blades--electric mowers sometimes have two, and this is what Jim's mower has.

Jim grabs the shovel and sets it on his workbench. Using the crescent wrench, he screws the blade to the butt end of the shovel handle, creating a sling blade.

With the sling blade in hand, he goes to that remote five feet of yard and cuts the grass.

The minute his wife returns from the store, he loads the electric lawn mower into the family car, hauls it back to Lowe's, gets his money back because "this damn thing is too puny for my yard," then buys a Honda.

[DU GrovelBot]

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[Stop_the_War]

36. He pulls the grass out with his hands..