| On behalf of SanFranciscoBoy |
Mar 5, 2007 4:30 pm
Mood: hopeful, 161 Views | |
On February 17, our friend SanFranciscoBoy posted a game called Live Jive Five on his blog, SanFranciscoBoy, saying that the answers would be posted today.
You may know that in the meantime, SanFranciscoBoy had to be admitted to hospital for a few days see Don't Worry, Be Happy. Provident and thoughtful as he is, and realizing he might not be back home in time to post the answers he had promised, he deposited these in my mail for me to post them today just in case, he said.
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Allan, I am both sad and happy  to do you this favour. Most of all, I hope you will feel fine very soon
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SOLUTION
Celestial Garden Night Club hosted an audience of 50 people (clue 10).
The Luk Kwok Hotel, then, hosted an audience of 125 people, and the club at which BestAsiaGuys song was performed had an audience of 25 people (clue 3).
BestAsiaGuys song was sung on Wednesday (clue 5 ), Little Darlin was performed on Thursday (clue 8 ), the show that only 10 people attended was on Friday, and the group sang at the Jazz at Pearls on Saturday (clue 1).
They didnt sing at the Luk Kwok Hotel on Sunday (clue 9) so they did so on Thursday.
They performed at Celestial Garden Night Club on Sunday, and the Jazz at Pearls had an audience of 75 people.
Chi_Forces favorite was performed on Saturday (clue 10).
Mindtraps favorite wasnt performed on Friday or Sunday (clue 7), so it was performed on Thursday, Long1899s favorite was performed Friday, and BestAsiaGuys song is Up On The Roof (clue 7).
By elimination, SanFranciscoBoys song was performed on Sunday.
Chi_Forces favorite is My Girl (clue 6), so they did so on Wednesday, and, by elimination, they sang at Nam Kok Hotel on Friday.
In summary:
Wednesday, BestAsiaGuy, Up On The Roof, Forbidden City Night Club, 25.
Thursday, MindTrap, Little Darlin, Luk Kwok Hotel, 125.
Friday, Long1899, Beatles Medley, Nam Kok Hotel, 10
Saturday, Chi_Force, My Girl, Jazz at Pearls, 75.
Sunday, SanFranciscoBoy, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow, Celestial Garden Night Club, 50. |
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| How about roast man in shrimp sauce? |
Mar 4, 2007 3:30 pm
Mood: hungry, 184 Views | | What is a Long Pig?
And where was the expression used?
This is the question our friend Curious asked me in my PIG QUIZ post an interesting question indeed!
As a fan of African music, I had heard about long pigs in African songs and had wondered about them; so I do know what they are
Instead of explaining about long pigs in my own awkward words, It is the prose version of a poem called Long Pig, by titus Munson Coan, published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine in May 1888. titus Munson Coan (1836-1921) was a physician, journalist, and poet. His father, titus Coan, was a missionary to the Hawaiian islands who converted at least 13,000 Hawaiians to Christianity.
The early missionaries to Polynesia found a great difference in the resisting power of the various kinds of savages to their efforts. In the Hawaiian Islands, for instance, all went well. Nine-tenths of the natives were converted; they went to school and to church; they wore clothes on Sundays, went naked and caught colds on Mondays, and generally took to their beds so soon after their conversion that there was very little time for back-sliding, which was mostly confined to the younger and friskier converts. The spiritual crop was thus gathered in as soon as it was ripe; it was the surest and the most satisfactory way; and the Board of Missions felt that a great work had been accomplished, especially as no trouble had then been made about the probation of the heathen.
But affairs did not move so happily as this in all the missions. The Feejee group, in particular, was inhabited by a stubborn and unregenerate race, and they held on to their own things with great perverseness. There were some sad backslidings.
About the year 1865 there was much rejoicing over the conversion of the little island of Pili-PoliI think I have the correct namein the eastern Feejees. It had been a hard pull; the people had resisted long and stoutly but the most virulent opponents of the new creed, having been persuaded to wear red flannel shirts for eight or ten months, had succumbed to pulmonary disease; and the other natives were very tired, for they had a persistent Calvinist from New Jersey among them, a Mr. G. The remnant gave up resistance at last; they put up a church, and a little jail for Sabbath-breakers, and all went well for nearly a year. Sunday services were held regularly, the natives were awakened to the impropriety of going without clothes, and that unfortunate old habit of cannibalism was not so much as mentioned among the faithful. The missionary reported a most promising state of spiritual things, and sent all the Pili-Polian idols home to Boston by Adams's Express.
Who could have foreseen what was about to happen? About fifteen miles to windward there was an unconverted island called Lani, and the Lanians had an ancient feud against the Pili-Polians. Hearing that the latter had been decimated by disease since the arrival of the missionaries, the Lanians planned a raid upon time remnant, and they timed the attack so that they landed while the Pili-Polians were to a man inside of the thatched church, singing the last hymn of the morning service. But as the discourse had been very long, preached as it was by a young Feejeean student in the absence of the pastor, the congregation was restless and hungry, and had begun to let their eyes wander out of the windows. The enemy was promptly espied by the head deacon; the alarm was given, and the converts got out-of-doors between two verses. Led by the deacon, they fell upon the enemy with wild yells. It was a lively fight; but after a time the church-militant prevailed, and smote the pagans hip and thigh under the cocoa-nut trees.
Then, alas! came a sad relapse. The rapture of battle was still burning within the victors; they were atrociously hungry after the long sermon, and it was dinner-time anyway. What did these reckless savages do but roast their enemies on a fire of drift-wood? Then they spread fresh ti leaves on the very steps of the church door; the senior deacon, forgetting nothing, had prepared a good sauce with shrimps and salt-water. This, I should explain, is the correct thing in the cannibal islands for long pig, as the natives call their favorite article of food, while for the farm animal, which they distinguish simply as short pig, a plain sauce of green sea-moss with limpets is considered quite sufficient. Almost before they knew what they were doing these forgetful pagans had devoured all of their enemies except a few very tough old warriors, whom they reserved to put into the fish-ponds; for your Feejeean of the good old times well understood Lucullus's methods of fattening lampreys.
The festivities were greatly enjoyed. All was over by half past four. Then, like a glint of lightning, this recollection flashed into the mind of the head deacon: the New Jersey missionary had said that he would return at five o'clock to hold an afternoon service.
All those happy cannibal faces were instantly clouded. Every one made haste to clear up the remains of the banquet before Mr. G should arrive; and the time was short enough. At five sharp his canoe touched the coral beach. He thought he noticed a certain constraint in the manner of the deacon; this, however, would not itself have given the combination away, for he was not a man of very sharp perceptions. But how hard it is for mortals to cover their tracks! The missionary saw a shrimp on the door-step. One only; but that was enough.
Cannibalism is nearly a taboo in Western cultures, where it only very rarely occurred in the case of starvation. Two famous cases are the Donner Party crossing the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California during the winter of 1846-1847, and the 70-day survival of sixteen members of a Uruguayan soccer team, after their airliner crashed in the Chilian Andres Mountains in 1972.
What about long pigs in eastern cultures?
Is it a taboo as well?
Are there any specific words, idioms or stories you'd like to share on the subject?
Some animals can participate in cannibalism: wolves are known to eat injured members of their packs; rats and pigs have been seen eating young of their species; the female spider eats the male after mating; larger mantes often eat smaller ones, and the female mantis devours the male.
Well, lets hope this Chinese
Year of the Pig
will not be the
Year of the Long Pig!
The poem Long Pigs was originally from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 76, no. 456, pp. 973-974, May 1888. It is part of Empire, which is part of Harper's Archive, which is part of Harpers-dot-org |
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| P.I.G. Q.U.I.Z. |
Feb 25, 2007 8:48 am
Mood: restless, 347 Views | | I was wondering about pigs, so I went looking for pig facts and found most interesting enough to share. Then it occurred to me I could turn a few into quiz data for the playful ones to ponder and wonder and look up and suppose and hurray about, so this is a hybrid post shaped in a half trivia-half quiz fashion.
As usual, players can
email me their answers.
The missing information will be published
on SpLoTcHbLoG
on Sunday, March 4th.
I hope you enjoy these piggies!
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Pigs are raised mainly for ??? production.
Piglets weigh ??? to ??? kilos when they are born.
Piglets are born with eight needle-sharp teeth.
Sows are placed in special pens in which they give birth to their piglets and nurse them. The pens protect the piglets from injury and allow the farmers to give each animal special care.
Piglets are weaned when they are between ??? and ??? days, when they weigh 5 to 6 kilos.
16-week old pigs weigh 60-75 kilos, which is a good size for pork meat production.
22-week old pigs weigh 80-100 kilos, which is a good size for ??? production.
26-week old pigs weigh 90-120 kilos, which is best for pork pies and ???.
Pigs were among the first animals to be domesticated, possibly as far back as ?000 BC.
Pigs came to North America in 1539, when Hernando de Soto brought 13 to the Florida mainland.
??? is the country that produces the most pigs.
Do you know the difference between the Large White, the Landrace, the Duroc and the British Saddleback?
The Large White has a long body with pink skin and "pricked" ears. It grows very quickly.
The Landrace is white and it has heavy drooped ears which cover much of its face.
The Duroc's colour ranges from red-brown to almost yellow. It's got floppy ears.
The head and back half of the British Saddleback are black, and the rest of it is white.
Most pigs used on commercial pig farms are ??? or crossbreeds derived from two or more pure breeds of pigs.
Pig breeds come in all sizes, including the small ??? hog, which stands 1 foot tall at the shoulder and weighs 13 pounds.
Wild pigs eat roots, fungi, bulbs, tubers, fruit, earthworms, snails, reptiles, eggs, young birds, small rodents and carrion.
A sow can give birth give birth twice a year, each time to 8 to 12 piglets.
A sow's pregnancy lasts for ??? days that's 3 months, 3 weeks and 3 days.
The largest number of piglets born in a single litter was 34.
People suffering from ??? used to use insulin made from the pancreas of pigs to control their disease.
The largest pig recorded in history was Big Bill, a 5-foot high, 9-foot long Poland China hog that weighed 2,552 pounds.
Bud, a crossbreed barrow from Texas, became the world's most expensive pig when he was sold for $56,000 on March 5, 1985.
Making the movie "???" involved using 48 piglets.
Other famous pigs include the ??? of the Muppets, the Three Little ???, ??? from Winnie the Pooh, and ??? from the TV show Green Acres. |
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| The Year of the P.I.G. IDIOMS |
Feb 18, 2007 4:42 am
Mood: adventurous, 509 Views | | Right now I feel kind of piggy in the middle, sitting here on a banal Swiss night and sending New Years wishes for a great Year of the Fire Pig, that will last from 2007 Feb 18 to Feb 6, 2008. Pigs might fly by the time we Europeans have animal years, so I hope I wont make a pigs ear (out) of this event, quite new to me
I do know about hogs, boars, sows, piglets, swines and guinea pigs but Im not quite sure of what a fire pig is. I trust someone out there can tell me
I guess a lot of you are going to pig out on special food and drinks today, looking their best in evening dresses or pig tails. A few greedy pigs may even go the whole hog. Those will hog the buffet and make real pigs of themselves there. But watch out
the pigs will be lurking on your way home, and it could well turn into a pig of a night if you drive your HOG too fast or stop at some blind pig for a last one!
To witness CNY the right way, I guess Id have to travel to China. That would mean feeding my piggy bank for a while, buying a brand new pigskin suitcase and preparing things carefully. Avoid going hog wild and buying a pig in a poke!
Well until then, I wish you all a very rewarding Year of the Fire Pig
Kung Hei Fat Choy
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In a traditional children's game called pig, or piggy in the middle, two or more players throw a ball to each other, trying to keep it out of the reach of the child who stands in the middle, trying to catch the ball. By extension, the context of use can be rival politicians, factions in an office, etc. Someone who feels between groups, trapped and pressured from two or more sides, is piggy in the middle. In the original game, children might choose to be the piggy; in the adult version, it is not an enviable situation.
The idiomatic phrase "when pigs fly" or Pigs might fly refers to something that is unlikely to ever happen. The saying has been traced back to 'Proverbs of Scotland' (1862). The Walrus in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), by Lewis Carroll, questioned whether pigs had wing. First attested in the United States in Green Thicket World (1934) by H. Vines, the adage is found in varying forms: If a pig (pigs) had wings, one could fly; If that happens, then pigs can fly; When pigs fly, that's when
, etc. It may be reversed: Pigs could fly if they had wings. As a phrase suggesting that something impossible may happen, it is usually abbreviated to when pigs fly or if bunny rabbits grow wings. The popularity of the phrase also showed up in Pink Floyds album animals.
The phrase make a pigs ear (out) of something, meaning to do sth badly, to make a mess of sth, can probably be coined back to the 16th century proverb You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, to say that you cannot make something good out of inferior materials, in which the sow's ear figures something useless or valueless.
The word guinea pig may well date back to 1664 and be native to South America. Guinea pigs are so called either because they were first brought back to Britain aboard Guinea-men, ships that plied the triangle trade between England, Guinea, and South America, or because of a confusion between Guinea with the South American region of Guyana. The extended sense of "one subjected to an experiment" was first recorded 1920, because guinea pigs were commonly used in vivisection experiments.
According to the Online Etymological Dictionary, the fig. sense of "gluttonous person" for hog was first recorded in 1436. The English language abounds with unflattering references and idioms involving pigs. Pigs are commonly associated with greed ("as greedy as a pig" ) and obesity, gluttony: to pig out (on sth), pig oneself, make a pig of oneself or pig something.
The term pigtail appeared in English in the American colonies in the 1600s to describe a twist of chewing tobacco. One of the steps in processing the tobacco was to twist a handful of leaves together to form a compact bunch that would then be dried, either with or without smoking. The term pigtail was applied to the bunch based on its resemblance to a twisted pig's tail. From the later 1600s through the 1800s, the term came to be applied to any braided hairstyle. The British army also adopted a single pigtail or "queue" as its standard dress for long hair. Robert Louis Stevenson mentions pigtail referring to hair and then to pigtail tobacco in the first and fourth chapters of Treasure Island.
The phrase go the whole hog 1828 is sometimes said to be from the butcher shop option of buying the whole slaughtered animal (at a discount) rather than just the choice bits. But it is perhaps rather from the story (recorded in Eng. from 1779) of Muslim sophists, forbidden by the Quran from eating a certain unnamed part of the hog, who debated which part was intended and managed to exempt the whole of it from the prohibition. Another origin has it that in the 18th century, the English shilling was called a hog. Thus, a person willing to spend an entire shilling on the entertainment of a friend was willing to go whole hog.
A hog is also someone or something that monopolizes time, resources, or processes, e.g. a road hog or server hog. Hence hogging something is using or keeping most of something to yourself and stopping others from using or having it: you hog the road when you drive so that other vehicles cannot pass, and you hog the bathroom when you spend a long time in it, preventing others from using it.
The OED2 has pig being used as a term for a contemptible person as early as 1546. The earliest cite for a police officer in particular is from the Lexicon Balatronicum of 1811, which defines pig as a China Street Pig, a Bow Street officer. The Bow Street Runners were an early police force of London, named after the street that housed their headquarters. The Lexicon Balatronicum also offers floor the pig and bolt, meaning to knock the policeman down and run. According to Partridge, by 1873 the terms usage was restricted to plain-clothes officers. The term was an underground term, part of the criminal argot, until it emerged into the mainstream in the 1960s.
When you have a pig of a something, you have a difficult or unpleasant thing or task.
Beginning in 1920 a Harley-Davidson team that consistently won races had a hog, a pig, as their mascot. Following a win, they would put the pig (a real one) on the back of their Harley and take a victory lap. In 1983, an organization was formed, taking advantage of the long-standing nickname by turning hog into the acronym H.O.G., for Harley Owners Group. Harley-Davidson attempted to trademark hog, but in 1999 ultimately lost the case, with the appellate panel ruling that hog had become a generic term for large motorcycles, and is therefore unprotectable as a trademark. On August 15, 2006, Harley Davidson Inc. had its NYSE ticker symbol changed from HDI to HOG.
Blind tiger and blind pig are American slang terms for an illegal drinking establishment. Blind tiger is most commonly found in the South while its synonym, blind pig, is more common in California, in the Northwest and in the Northern Tier states. The terms apparently arose from the fact that it was illegal in many areas to sell alcohol by the drink or because the term was used to avoid licensing fees. Proprietors of drinking establishments would advertise animal curiosities and give customers who paid to see the animals a complimentary drink. Often, there were no actual animals to be displayed and it was a thin facade that law enforcement officials winked at.
Why do we save our coins in a piggy bank? In Middle English, pygg referred to a type of clay used for making various household objects such as jars. People often saved money in kitchen pots and jars made of pygg, called pygg jars. By the 18th Century, the spelling of pygg had changed and the term pygg jar had evolved to pig bank. This name may have caught on because the pig banks were mostly used by children, and the pig is a child-friendly shape that is easy to fashion out of clay. Once the meaning had transferred from the substance to the shape, piggy banks began to be made from other substances, including glass, plaster, and plastic. Another reason for the name piggy bank that has been put forward is based upon the idea that the coins given to the piggy bank represent the food fed to a pig by the farmer. It costs the farmer money to feed the pig which he does not get back until the pig is slaughtered for the meat (represented by breaking the piggy ban) which the farmer can then sell.
Pigskin luggage is obviously made of leather from pigs. But the word pigskin also stands for an object
animal bladders were once kicked around in various games of football, pigskin was never used to make a football. Nevertheless, pigskin has been a word for a football since at least 1894, when the term was used by Amos Staggs University of Chicago Maroons, the great football team of that era. Footballs are made of rubber bladder covered with a casing of leather.
You become wildly excited or irrational due to excitement, anger or happiness when you go hog wild. This Americanism probably originated in the mid 19th century, though it isnt recorded until about 50 years later. It obviously refers to the way hogs become wildly excited when aroused and is just as obviously another phrase from the farm, still hanging in there long after most Americans began buying their bacon wrapped in celophane.
Dont buy a pig in a poke is a very old phrase that remains good advice. The advice given is don't buy a pig until you have seen it. This remains the guiding principle of commerce in many countries and, in essence, supports the view that if you buy something you take responsibility to make sure it is what you intended to buy. A poke is a small sack or bag and is the origin of the word pocket. The word is still in use in several English-speaking countries, notably Scotland and USA. A poke is just the sort of bag that would be useful for carrying a piglet to market. A pig that's in a poke may turn out to be no pig at all. If a merchant tried to cheat by substituting a lower value animal, the trick could be uncovered by letting the cat out of the bag. Fraser's Magazine 1858 reprinted a piece from Richard Hill's (or Hilles' ) Common-place Book, 1530, which gave this advice to market traders: "When ye proffer the pigge open the poke." |
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| WHY WORRY? |
Feb 16, 2007 3:46 pm
Mood: worried, 548 Views | | There are only two things to worry about:
Either you are well or you are sick.
If you are well, there's nothing to worry about.
But if you are sick,
There are only two things to worry about:
Either you get well or you die.
If you get well, there's nothing to worry about.
But if you die,
There are only two things to worry about:
Either you go to heaven or you go to hell.
If you go to heaven, there's nothing to worry about.
But if you go to hell,
You'll be so busy shaking hands with friends
You won't have time to worry.
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| Of not so good a mother |
Feb 15, 2007 2:29 pm
Mood: amused, 582 Views | | It is not as if I were someone neat, tidy and organized by nature. I tend to spread things a little all over the house, picking them up in one place and putting them down in another. As I live on three different floors, using the staircase as much as I do for things that ought to be here or there does keep me reasonably fit
But then again, I'm not that patient when it comes to finding something I have mislaid... and I'm not that good either at putting up with an untidy place. In short, I have to struggle to please myself. Especially with piled up papers.
Teachers often work at home, so I have a room I call the office where I have been keeping billions of texts for my students of English to read and enjoy or pest on that does not always depend on the text. I try to keep them neatly organized and there's this particular file I like better than the others, in which I've been sticking unusual writings things kind of unexpected or funny, disturbing or puzzling. That's where I keep the first text I wrote on SpLoTcHbLoG, back in September 2006, called A striking coincidence.
And that's where I have now put the one I found yesterday at the bottom of a drawer, where it was hiding away cunningly Although you may have read it, you may enjoy reading it again as much as I did. It's a letter from a mother to her son only that mother surely wasn't a fairy
Dear son,
Just a few lines to let you know that I am still alive. I am writing this slowly because I know that you can't read fast.
You won't know the house when you come home we've moved. But I won't be able to send you the address because the family that lived here took the house numbers to avoid changing their address. The place is really nice, it even has a washing machine. I'm not sure it works well though: last week I put a few shirts in and pulled the chain but I haven't seen them since.
Your father has got a lovely new job with 500 men under him. He cuts grass at the cemetery. Your sister had a baby this morning. I haven't found out yet whether it's a girl or a boy, so I don't know if you're an aunt or an uncle.
John drove me to the doctors on Thursday and your father came with me. The doctor put a small tube in my mouth and told me not to talk for 10 minutes. Your father offered to buy it from him. When we got back John locked his keys in the car. It took him two hours to get us out we were getting quite worried.
Last week Uncle Ted fell in a vat of Irish whiskey at the Dublin brewery. Some of his workmates tried to pull him out but he fought them off bravely and drowned. We had him cremated and it took three days to put the fire off. Then we had a letter from the undertaker. He said if the last payment on your grandmothers plot wasnt made in 7 days, up she comes.
The weather isn't bad here, it only rained twice this week first for three days, then for four days. About that coat you wanted me to send you well, your aunt said that it would be too heavy to send in the mail, so we cut the buttons off and put them in the pocket.
Not much else. Write more often.
Love,
Mom
P.S. I was going to send you 5 pounds but I have already sealed the envelope.
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| R.I.D.D.L.E.S. # 3 ANSWERS |
Feb 13, 2007 4:06 pm
Mood: optimistic, 645 Views | |
Here are the answers to R.I.D.D.L.E.S. 3
I HOPE YOU ENJOYED PLAYING!
My next riddle post will be splotched on this blog
Towards the end of February
SEE YOU THEN!
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1.
What is so fragile that when you say its name you break it?
Silence
2.
It is as light as a feather, and yet no man can hold it for long.
What is it?
Ones breath
3.
When one does not know what it is, then it is something.
But when one knows what it is, then it is nothing.
What is it?
A secret
4.
The following people met at a family reunion:
one grandfather, one grandmother, two fathers, two mothers, four children, three grandchildren, one brother, two sisters, two sons, two daughters, one father-in-law, one mother-in-law, and one daughter-in-law.
How many were there, and who were they?
There were less than 21 people!
There were seven people: two little girls and a boy, their parents, and their father's parents.
5.
What is it that when you take away the whole, you still have some left over?
The word wholesome
6.
On a fine sunny day a ship was in the harbor. All of a sudden the ship began to sink. There was no storm and nothing wrong with the ship yet it sank right in front of the spectators eyes.
What caused the ship to sink?
The Submarine captain ordered the crew to dive.
7.
BCDEIKOX?
What other letter fits in the following series, and why?
The letter H.
All of the letters in the series remain the same when flipped vertically.
8.
You can find me in darkness but never in light.
I am present in daytime but absent at night.
In the deepest of shadows, I hide in plain sight.
What am I?
The letter D
9.
1
1 1
2 1
1 2 1 1
1 1 1 2 2 1
3 1 2 2 1 1
1 3 1 1 2 2 2 1
What numbers come on the next row?
The next row is 1 1 1 3 2 1 3 2 1 1
Starting with the second line, every line describes the line before it.
In writing, it is:
One one
Two ones
One two, one one
etc.
10.
A classical one:
You are standing by a river with a 5-gallon jug and a 3-gallon jug, but you need exactly 4 gallons of water. Using only the 2 jugs you have, how can you measure out 4 gallons?
1 Fill up the 5-gallon jug to the top.
2 Using the 5-gallon jug, fill up the 3-gallon jug.
3 Empty the 3-gallon jug and pour the 2 gallons left over from the 5-gallon jug into it.
4 Fill the 5-gallon jug again.
5 Fill the 3-gallon jug again to the top.
6 You now have exactly 4 gallons left over in your 5-gallon jug.
There are simpler ways for you to find out!
11.
WATNTLITFS??
What are the next two letters in the following series, and why?
A and W (
and why?)
The pattern is the first letter of each word in the sentence.
12.
Now here is a test to gauge your mental flexibility, creativity and cunning. Good Luck!
Example: 12 = M_ _ _ _ _ IN A Y _ _ _
Answer: 12 = MONTHS IN A YEAR
26 = LETTERS IN THE ALPHABET
7 = WONDERS OF THE WORLD
1001 = ARABIAN NIGHTS
12 = SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC
54 = CARDS IN A DECK
9 = PLANETS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
This one was confusing since there are now officially
8 regular planets and 3 dwarf planets
in our solar system
thank you for that, Peregrin
88 = PIANO KEYS
13 = STRIPES ON THE AMERICAN FLAG
18 = HOLES ON A GOLF COURSE
90 = DEGREES IN A RIGHT TRIANGLE
Another possible confusion here:
although there are 90° in a right angle,
hence in the right angle of a right-angle triangle,
there are actually always 180° in a triangle!
again, thank you Pere
8 = SIDES ON A STOP SIGN
4 = QUARTS IN A GALLON
24 = HOURS IN A DAY
1 = WHEEL ON A UNICYCLE
11 = PLAYERS IN A FOOTBALL TEAM / SOCCER TEAM
1000 = WORDS THAT A PICTURE IS WORTH
29 = DAYS IN A LEAP YEAR
64 = SQUARES ON A CHECKERBOARD
3 = BLIND MICE (SEE HOW THEY RUN)
101 = DALMATIANS
9 = INNINGS IN A BALL/BASEBALL GAME
66 = BOOKS IN THE BIBLE
360 = DEGREES IN A CIRCLE
50 = STATES IN THE UNION
20,000 = LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
1760 = YARDS IN A MILE |
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| R.I.D.D.L.E.S. # 3 |
Feb 6, 2007 10:04 am
Mood: rushed, 957 Views | |
End 2006, I announced that throughout 2007, I would add a monthly riddle post to SPLOTCHBLOG.
This is the January edition, with my apologies for running a little out of schedule
Before I leave you to deal with the brain teasers below, Id like to mention that being fairly new to English riddles, I have not made them up. All of these were scattered on various web sites, ready for me to copy and paste into a personal, funsplotch selection mixing classical riddles and a few more modern ones. Should you find them too easy or too tricky, please remember I tried to balance difficulties on account of the bloggers heterogeneous language abilities and guessing skills.
Well, I hope many of you go nuts for a while all the same!
All players are kindly requested
to send their answers
to my A-F-F-mailbox.
NO ANSWERS ON THE BLOG, please.
The answers will be splotched on this blog
on Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
GOOD LUCK!
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1.
What is so fragile that when you say its name you break it?
2.
It is as light as a feather, and yet no man can hold it for long.
What is it?
3.
When one does not know what it is, then it is something.
But when one knows what it is, then it is nothing.
What is it?
4.
The following people met at a family reunion:
one grandfather, one grandmother, two fathers, two mothers,
four children, three grandchildren, one brother, two sisters,
two sons, two daughters, one father-in-law, one mother-in-law
and one daughter-in-law.
How many were there, and who were they?
Hint: there were less than 21 people!
5.
What is it that when you take away the whole,
you still have some left over?
6.
On a fine sunny day a ship was in the harbor. All of a sudden the ship began to sink. There was no storm and nothing wrong with the ship, yet it sank right in front of the spectators eyes.
What caused the ship to sink?
7.
BCDEIKOX?
What other letter fits in the following series, and why?
8.
You can find me in darkness but never in light.
I am present in daytime but absent at night.
In the deepest of shadows, I hide in plain sight.
What am I?
9.
1
1 1
2 1
1 2 1 1
1 1 1 2 2 1
3 1 2 2 1 1
1 3 1 1 2 2 2 1
What numbers come on the next row?
10.
And now for a very classical one:
You are standing by a river with a 5-gallon jug and a 3-gallon jug, but you need exactly 4 gallons of water. Using only the 2 jugs you have, how can you measure out 4 gallons?
11.
WATNTLITFS??
What are the next two letters in the following series, and why?
12.
Now here is a test to gauge your mental flexibility,
cunning and creativity.
Example
12= M _ _ _ _ _INAY _ _ _
>>>
12= MONTHS IN A YEAR
26= L _ _ _ _ _ _INTHEA _ _ _ _ _ _ _
7= W _ _ _ _ _ _OFTHEW _ _ _ _
1001= A _ _ _ _ _ _N _ _ _ _ _
12= S _ _ _ _OFTHEZ _ _ _ _ _
54= C _ _ _ _INAD _ _ _
9= P _ _ _ _ _ _INTHES _ _ _ _S _ _ _ _ _
88= P _ _ _ _K _ _ _
13= S _ _ _ _ _ _ONTHEA _ _ _ _ _ _ _F _ _ _
18= H _ _ _ _ONAG _ _ _C _ _ _ _ _
90= D _ _ _ _ _ _INAR _ _ _ _T _ _ _ _ _ _ E
8= S _ _ _ _ONAS _ _ _S _ _ _
4= Q _ _ _ _ _INAG _ _ _ _ _
24= H _ _ _ _INAD _ _
1= W _ _ _ _ONAU _ _ _ _ _ _ _
11= P _ _ _ _ _ _INA F _ _ _ _ _ _ _T _ _ _
1000= W _ _ _ _T _ _ _AP _ _ _ _ _ _ISW _ _ _ _
29=F _ _ _ _ _ _ _D _ _ _INAL _ _ _Y _ _ _
64= S _ _ _ _ _ _ONAC _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
3= B _ _ _ _M _ _ _ (S _ _H _ _T _ _ _R _ _)
101= D _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
9= I _ _ _ _ _ _INAB _ _ _G _ _ _
66= B _ _ _ _INTHEB _ _ _ _
360= D _ _ _ _ _ _INAC _ _ _ _ _
50 = S _ _ _ _ _INTHEU _ _ _ _
20,000=L _ _ _ _ _ _U _ _ _ _THES _ _
1760= Y _ _ _ _INAM _ _ _
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| Weird Ones 2 |
Jan 28, 2007 7:38 am
Mood: amused, 1416 Views | | It looks like a lot of you enjoy those weird, misleading things the English language sometimes generates. Here are a few more I'd like to share with you for fun
Shouldn't we call
a butterfly a flowerfly?
a fireman a waterman?
marriage patrimony instead of matrimony?
the army infantry the army adultery?
How come
it is fruitful to eat vegetables?
the word funeral starts with the word fun?
church music isn't considered organic?
you don't act hostile as a host, nor take your guests hostage?
you don't get a precaution before getting a caution?
lipstick never sticks to your lips?
a good steak is rarely well done?
half-baked ideas aren't rare?
you can orient yourself out west?
caregiver and caretaker mean the same thing?
we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
people recite at a play and play at a recital?
we call cargo what is sent by ship and shipment what is sent by truck?
we put cups into a dishwasher?
we don't usually leave a banquet feeling fed up?
people sit in the stands, in a stadium?
missiles aren't called hittiles?
the bigheaded are usually also small-minded?
And just think of it
Isn't kidnapping normal in kindergartens?
Isn't the center of register the gist of the word?
If you ceased to be and came back to life, would you be deceased?
How do you get off a non-stop flight?
Why do we iron our clothes and paper our walls?
Does an army general do anything specific?
Isn't it strange that to tell the time, you should look at hands on a face, on your wrist?
What does it mean, when the odds are even against you?
Why do you chop down a tree, and then chop it up?
When you cash a check, do you check the cash?
And how the heck did "how come" ever become a question starter?
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