{"id":6395,"date":"2025-05-06T05:17:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T04:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=6395"},"modified":"2025-05-06T05:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T04:17:04","slug":"the-ticket-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=6395","title":{"rendered":"The Ticket Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three Scots and three Irishmen are traveling by train to a conference.<\/h2>\n

At the station, the three Irishmen each buy tickets and watch as the three Scots buy only a single ticket.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow are three people going to travel on only one ticket?\u201d asks an Irishman.<\/p>\n

\u201cWatch and you\u2019ll see,\u201d answers a Scottish man.<\/p>\n

They all board the train.<\/p>\n

The Irishmen take their respective seats but all three Scots cram into a bathroom and close the door behind them.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the bathroom door and says,\u201dTicket, please.\u201d<\/p>\n

The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes it and moves on. The Irishmen see this and agree it was quite a clever idea.<\/p>\n

So after the conference, the Irishmen decide to copy the Scots on the return trip and save some money (being clever with money,and all that). When they get to the station, they buy a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment, the Scots don\u2019t buy a ticket at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow are you going to travel without a ticket?\u201d says one perplexed Irishman.<\/p>\n

\u201cWatch and you\u2019ll see,\u201d answers a Scot.<\/p>\n

When they board the train the three Irishmen cram into a bathroom and the three Scots cram into another one nearby. The train departs. Shortly afterwards, one of the Scots leaves his bathroom and walks over to the bathroom where the Irishmen are hiding. He knocks on the door and says,\u00a0\u201cTicket, please.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Three guys, one Irish, one English, and one Scottish are out walking along the beach together one day.<\/h2>\n

They come across a lantern and a Genie pops out of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will give you each one wish, that\u2019s three wishes in total,\u201d says the Genie.<\/p>\n

The Scottish<\/strong>\u00a0guy says, \u201cI am a fisherman, my Dad\u2019s a fisherman, his Dad was a fisherman and my son will be one too. I want all the oceans full of fish for all eternity.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, with a blink of the Genie\u2019s eye \u201cpoof\u201d the oceans were teeming with fish.<\/p>\n

The Englishman<\/strong>\u00a0was amazed, so he said, \u201cI want a wall around England, protecting her, so that no one will get in for all eternity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Again, with a blink of the Genie\u2019s eye \u201cpoof\u201d there was a huge wall around England.<\/p>\n

The Irishman\u00a0<\/strong>asks, \u201cI\u2019m very curious. Please tell me more about this wall.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Genie explains, \u201cWell, it\u2019s about 150 feet high, 50 feet thick, protecting England so that nothing can get in or out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Irishman says,\u00a0\u201cPlease Fill it up with water.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three Scots and three Irishmen are traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three Irishmen each buy tickets and watch as the three Scots buy only a single ticket. \u201cHow are three people going to travel on only one ticket?\u201d asks an Irishman. \u201cWatch and you\u2019ll see,\u201d answers a Scottish man. They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6396,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395\/revisions\/6396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}