 Cover Item:
"For All You Rocket Scientists"
via Shadowman
Let's find out just how clever you really are.
There are five questions of which the answers are self-evident. Ready? GO!!!
First Question:
You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What
position are you in?
Answer: If you answered that you are first, then you are absolutely wrong!
If you overtake the second person and you take his place, you are second!
Try not to screw up in the next question.
To answer the second question, don't take as much time as you took for the
first question.
Second Question:
If you overtake the last person, then you are...?
Answer: If you answered that you are second to last, then you are wrong
again. Tell me, how can you overtake the LAST Person?
You're not very good at this! Are you?
Third Question:
Very tricky math! Note: This must be done in your head only.
Do NOT use paper and pencil or a calculator. Try it.
Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Add another
1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000
Now add 10. What is the total?
Scroll down for answer.
Did you get 5000?
The correct answer is actually 4100.
Don't believe it? Check with your calculator! Today is definitely not your
day. Maybe you will get the last question right?
Fourth Question:
Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini,
4. Nono.
What is the name of the fifth daughter?
Answer: Nunu?
NO! Of course not.
Her name is Mary. Read the question again
Okay, now the bonus round:
There is a mute person who wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the
action of brushing one's teeth he successfully
expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is
done.
Now if there is a blind man who wishes to buy a pair of
sunglasses, how should he express himself?
He just has to open his mouth and ask, so simple.
The Middle Item:
"Deathbed Confession"
via Buschini
Jake was dying. His wife, Brenda, was maintaining a candlelight
vigil by his side. She held his fragile hand, tears running down her face.
Her praying roused him from his slumber. He looked up and his pale lips
began to move slightly.
"Brenda, my darling" he whispered.
"Hush my love," she said. "Rest, don't talk."
He was insistent. "Brenda," he said in his tired voice, "I have
something that I must confess.
"There's nothing to confess," replied the weeping Brenda,
"Everything's all right, go to sleep."
"No, no. I must die in peace, Brenda. I ... I slept with your
sister, your best friend, her best friend, and your mother!"
"I know, sweetheart," whispered Brenda, "let the poison work."
The Last Item:
"AGE"
via D. Taylor
"Have you been guilty of looking at others your own age and thinking, "Surely I can't look that old?"
I was sitting in the waiting room for my first appointment with a new dentist. I noticed his DDS diploma, which bore his full name. Suddenly, I remembered a tall, handsome, dark-haired boy with the same name had been in my high school class some 40-plus years ago. Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought. This balding, gray-haired man with the deeply lined face was way too old to have been my classmate.
After he examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended Lawton Senior High school. "Yes. Yes, I did. I'm a Wolverine." he gleamed with pride. "When did you graduate?" I asked. He answered, "In 1955. Why do you ask?" "You were in my class!" I exclaimed. He looked at me closely and asked, "What did you teach?"
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