Brain Teaser

Now that's funny!  i actually laughed out loud, thanks.

You went "Little Bill" (Unforgiven reference) on the store owner as if he were English Bob and when you dragged his sorry, bleeding a$$ to the door of the bus and said, "Let me on or your next, Cramden" the driver let you on without saying a word.  You didn't even have to pay the fare so you got to keep the money to buy some giant 2 inch floss to go with your giant toothbrush.

I'm confused.  (not unusual).  How is this different, in essence, from Artemis' suggestion of turning it sideways so it is no longer 5 feet tall?

Because in a linear sense one could still look at the toothbrush and measure it to be 5' tall...or wide...or long...whatever.  5' measurement is what counts.  Encase that 5' long toothbrush in a 4'x3' case, and now, even though there is a linear measurement involved (5' diagonal), the length of said case is now only 4'.  Look at your screen.  Diagonal measurement of say a 19" monitor.  It is neither as long nor as wide as it is diagonally (mine measures about 12x15) .  But if you had a 19" toothbrush in a 12" by 15" box, you'd not know that what's inside it was 19". 

Does that make sense???

If you want to get that technical then how could a toothbrush 5' tall fit in a box with a 5' diagonal measurement?  Is it a flat picture of a toothbrush?   Does it not have width and depth?  Girth, if you will?   

Since I didn't want to get into that, I'm sticking with the "spirit" of the idea and that is that what she posted (my answer too, she typed faster) is basically the same thing presented a different way.  She did the same thing just without the box.  See, we don't just think outside the box, we think without it!

Heehee...sorry, I do this for a living...I'm an engineer dammit!! LOL  I don't think that I able to NOT think like that.  It's a disease...I'm afflicted!! LOL 

Yes, I was speaking two dimensionally.

Being the good engineer, I did not set the parameters for depth.  It could have been a thin 5' toothbrush as it is a Novely Toothbrush.   Plus now that it is in a box, the bus driver cannot be sure that the item is indeed 5' long since that is now the diagonal measurment, not the height (which is forbidden).

 The new first place goes to Misscullen...I want to ride the bus with her!!

YES PLEASE!!!!  Neener neener  

The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, the wheels on the bus go rou.....screeeeeeeech!!!  "Yes Miss, may I help you?"