Anxious wait for Cornwall's full General Election results as St Ives count is postponed

Cornwall Live ^ | 12/13/19 | Gayle MacDonald

[Redmen4ever]

Cornwall will have to wait until this afternoon to see if the Tories will retain all six seats in the county.

The count for the St Ives constituency, which covers Penzance, Helston and the Isles of Scilly, has been postponed because ballots boxes from the Scillies have not yet been collected from the islands due to bad weather.

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[Redmen4ever]

While on my way to St. Ives, I saw a man with 7 wives. Each wife had 7 sacks. Each sack had 7 cats. Each cat had 7 kittens. Kitten, cats, sacks, wives, How many were going to St. Ives?

[Cowboy Bob]

Do they still have pirates in Penzance?

[Spktyr]

One too many.

[Fresh Wind]

An old trick question. How many going to St. Ives?

It depends on whether the the man he saw was going to St. Ives, returning from St. Ives, going somewhere else, or not going anywhere at all.

And since he had 7 wives, he was probably a Muslim, so he would have had 7 scimitars as well.

[RedMonqey]

Not good at riddles, are you?

One can only go on the very word of the riddle. In this case we only know of one person definitely going to St. Ives.

[ronnie raygun]

Heard there were siting’s of Al Franken in a beat up Oldsmobile in the trunk he has the votes HA!

[Fresh Wind]

The purpose of this ancient riddle is either to fool you into assuming that all of the people (and cats) are going to St. Ives or to fool you into assuming that only one person is going to St. Ives.

Neither solution can be deduced from the vague information provided.

Lacking essential information, anyone who claims to be able to answer the riddle is actually the fool.

[RedMonqey]

"The following version is found in a manuscript (Harley MS 7316) dating from approximately 1730:[1]

"As I went to St. Ives
I met Nine Wives
And every Wife had nine Sacs,
And every Sac had nine Cats
And every Cat had nine Kittens”

A version very similar to that accepted today was published in the Weekly Magazine of August 4, 1779:[2]

"As I was going to St Ives,
Upon the road I met seven wives;
Every wife had seven sacks,
Every sack had seven cats,
Every cat had seven kits:
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were going to St Ives?”

In modern usage, 'to meet someone on the road' may include the sense of 'passed' or 'overtook'; while the older usage may have referred exclusively to those going in opposite directions

://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_I_was_going_to_St_Ives

[Larry Lucido]

If it was Laz, did he ever make it to St. Ives?

[Redmen4ever]

On my way to St. Ives, I saw a man with 7 wives. Each wife had 7 totes. Each tote had 7 votes. Each vote had 7 preferences. Preference, votes, totes, wives. How long will they take to count St. Ives?