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Maury Maille Puzzler Tower Car Talk Plaza Hahvahd Squayah Our Fair City The puzzler, exhausted from another strenuous puzzler season, is now on a well-earned summer vacation. During this time, he has left us with what he claims are a number of "classic" offerings from years past. We hope you enjoy them. Cordially, Maury Maille Car Talk Plaza This Week's Classic Puzzler: Crusty in Coleslawvania RAY: We decided some years ago to send our loyal and trusty mechanic, Crusty, on a much-deserved vacation. We gave him four days off and booked a flight for Mr. and Mrs. Crusty to Coleslawvania. Of course, they speak no Coleslawvanian. And while they're in flight they realize that none of the other passengers speaks English. When the plane finally touches down in Coleslawvania, they're relieved that they made it. They go through a lengthy customs search, and when they finally emerge into the parking lot it's late at night and there's nobody waiting to meet them. The one cab driver can't communicate with them. They don't speak any Coleslawvanian, and he speaks no English. He throws up his hands. There's practically no one in the airport. They're resigning themselves to sleeping that night in the airport when Mrs. Crusty sees a woman walking toward them whom she recognizes from the plane. She says, "Oh, thank God! We'll be able to get to our hotel tonight!" And, of course, she's right. How does she know that this woman speaks English? Think you know? Drop us a note via http://www.cartalk.com/email/email.html If you're right and we select your answer, we'll ship you a $26 Shameless Commerce Gift Certificate. Want to listen to Raymond obfuscate the puzzler in person? Listen anytime, at http://www.cartalk.com/content/puzzler/ ************ Remember last week's puzzler? An Amber-Colored Conundrum RAY: A few weeks ago, my younger son Andrew, who completed his junior year in college, decided to come home for a few days to reacquaint himself with his parents. TOM: Who, of course, are paying his tuition! RAY: Right. He wanted to refresh his memory in case he had to identify us at the inquest. He and I were driving around town, and he said, "Gee, I hadn't noticed that our town has changed a lot of its traffic signals to the new lights." Now, traffic lights basically consist of a lens, like a green or a yellow, or a red lens, and a light bulb behind the lens. When the bulb goes on, you see the green, or the yellow, or the red light. The new traffic lights, however, are light-emitting diodes. Instead of having one bulb, you have perhaps dozens of diodes that are shining the light. The new lights are much cheaper to operate and they're much brighter. TOM: And they don't all blow out all at once! RAY: Exactly. But, we noticed that there were some of the old lights still around. In fact, where they have put new ones in, they've replaced the green light and they've replaced the red light, but they haven't replaced the yellow lights. I say, "It must be that they don't make light emitting diodes in yellow...maybe that's why they haven't replaced them." We drove along a little farther, and Andrew says... TOM: "Au contraire, piston puss!" RAY: He says, "I think I have a better answer than that." And, I said, "Yeah, it's about time." And he said, "As a matter of fact, it is about time." And that's the hint. Why do we see new green lights and new red lights, but no new yellow lights? And here's the answer: http://www.cartalk.com/content/puzzler/ So, did you figure it out? Yours in weekly puzzler torment, Maury Maille Puzzler Dissemination Specialist Car Talk Plaza ******************* Doing some car research? Via our lousy, little homepage you can... *Check important safety recalls *See what your car is worth right now *Check rebates and incentives on new cars *Search your town for new or used cars for sale *Place an ad to sell your car that'll actually be seen by people in your area *Research and compare new vehicles *Get the latest car news *Kill time until 5:00 p.m. rolls around and you can pack it in *It's all at http://www.cartalk.com *********************************** Got more time to kill? This past weekend's new, lousy Car Talk show is now on the web site, at http://www.cartalk.com/Radio/Show/ ******************** Help Ray lose the night sweats he's been getting, trying to come up with a decent puzzler each week. E-mail him your suggestion any time, via http://www.cartalk.com/email/email.html ******************** Puzzled out? You can unsubscribe to the Car Talk Puzzler Psychic Friends Network anytime at http://www.cartalk.com/ct/maillist.jsp?puzzler_list=subscribe#psychic We'll forgive you.
