After the weight lifting event, the announcer said “Either Holland was better than Italy, or Greece won gold.”

An Italian reporter heard that, and commented that even knowing his own country’s final place, he wasn’t able to deduce the other places.

Curiously, a Dutch reporter who knew Holland’s final place, and who hadn’t heard the other reporter, made exactly the same remark.

Which were the final places?

holland won the gold. if italy won the gold, holland is not better than italy. but if it is not true that holland was better than italy than greece winning the gold assumed, but this cannot be true that both italy and greece win the gold.

Posted by megan on 2003-10-13 17:41:42