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Good one Scott. My guess is that he
adjusted the engine idle speed screw so that the engine would keep running when
he put it in gear and got out and pushed from outside/ rear of the
microbus. Just a guess. Donnie.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:11
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Subject: Puzzler of the week
This week's puzzler:
Many years ago, I lived
in Vermont. One Saturday morning, the phone rang. It was one of my fellow
teachers, and he needed a hand moving a cast iron stove into his
house.
He explained that he was going to pick it up at the factory, and
he'd be back in a few hours. He asked if I could help. I said, "Sure. Go get
the stove. I'll be waiting."
I immediately got dressed and engaged in
every manner of household activity, hoping that I'd have some kind of an
accident. Nothing worked, and as I waited, I noticed a wonderful thing began
to happen: the snow that was falling down changed to freezing rain.
I
said to myself, "This could be good. He's never going to be able to get up his
steep driveway when he returns." I'd be off the hook. And maybe by tomorrow,
when the ice has melted, his brother-in-law will be home to help.
So,
sure enough, there I was, hiding behind the drapes when he pulls up. I'm
peeking out, and I see that he's slipping and sliding and can't get up the
driveway. Every time he lets the clutch out, the wheels spin like crazy, even
with the additional weight of that cast iron stove.
He gets out and
throws some sand under the wheels, but it doesn't help.
He gets out
again. This time, he opens that little engine compartment door that the VW
Microbus had in the back. He does something that takes a second or two, then
he closes the engine compartment door. The next thing I know, he's climbed his
driveway -- and he's on the phone, telling me to come over and help him move
the stove!
What did he do?
Last week's
puzzler:
There's a fancy French restaurant cafe called Cafe
Pretension. They had started a new promotion. On their anniversary, a married
couple purchasing an entree at full price would get the second entree free.
The promotion turned out to be a huge success.
Of course, the
restaurant required diners to bring some proof of the date of their
anniversary to receive the discount.
One Wednesday night a waiter came
to Francois, the owner, and said, 'Boss, that couple over there is claiming
that today is their anniversary, but they don't have any
proof.'
Francois went over and introduced himself and engaged in a
little tete-a-tete with them. Francois asked the woman, 'Tell me a little bit
about your wedding day.' She said, 'It was a beautiful Sunday morning, the
birds were chirping as I opened my window to prepare to get ready for my
wedding. I saw the flowers in bloom. It was spectacular.' She goes on to
explain to Francois that today was their 28th wedding
anniversary.
Francois says, 'How charming! But, unfortunately, you do
not qualify. I don't believe that today is your 28th wedding anniversary.' 'In
fact,' he says, 'You're a bold face liar!' And he slaps her across the face,
spilling her vichyssoise onto her lap.
How did Francois know that today
was not their wedding anniversary?
Last week's puzzler
answer:
How did Francois know it was not their 28th wedding
anniversary? Well, it turns out that the calendar exactly repeats itself every
28 years, so if, in fact, they had gotten married on a Sunday, then it would
be Sunday now. So he knew they were lying because 28 years ago, it had to also
have been a Wednesday, and it couldn't have been a Sunday.
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