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Pizza Party

If Giuseppe can make one pizza in 15 minutes and Gaetanno can make one pizza in 12 minutes. How many pizzas will they accumulate in a day if they work together?  Bearing in mind that Maximus takes 20 minutes to eat a pizza and he eats all day long!

Finger Food

If you multiply together the number of fingers on one person’s right hand to another person’s to another person’s till you get the product of the fingers on the right hands of everyone in the world, what is the most likely product?

For instance, one person has 5 fingers, and his friend has 5 fingers. The [...]

Arrow Logic

Consider an arrow in flight towards a target.

At any given moment of time, a snapshot could be taken of this arrow. In this snapshot, the arrow would not be moving. Let us now take another snapshot, leaving a very small gap of time between them. Again, the arrow is stationary. We can keep taking snapshots [...]

Leader of Men Face

I wear the face of a leader of men. My financial worth is small and my
appearance not impressive, yet my presence is a passport to any country
and society. I have the entree alike to the boudoir and the armed; I
penetrate to royal palaces and to the far corners of the earth. In my
youth I am [...]

Concealed Proverb

In each sentence a word is concealed, such as the word no in sentence five. If you can find the buried words and read them in order from 1 to 6, they will form a well-known proverb.

1. The word buried here has only one letter.
2. Did you find a jelly roll in Gaskin’s Bakery?
3. It’s [...]

A Valentine’s Day Love Story

A teenage boy smitten with a teenage girl in his high school freshman class makes his feelings known. Overjoyed at finding them reciprocated, he took a pen knife to a young hardwood tree in the vicinity and carved their initials within a heart five feet up on the tree’s trunk, as boys will do.
They go [...]

Feeling Groovy

Which is greater, the number of grooves on one side of a vinyl record (if you can remember them!) or the number of days in the year?

Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields, where once was blood,
From battles for so few yards of mud,
I woke from such slumber deep,
And mocked the blood the havoc wreaked.

But now I show our future hope,
And enable veterans to cope,
By provoking memories of blood,
Before new battlefields can flood.

What am I?

Snippy Brits

In 1415, English king Henry V invaded France. After months of battle without victory, Henry decided to pack his bags. His army was tired, ill, and desperate for a proper cup of Earl Grey.

The French outnumbered the Brits four to one. They pledged to smash the invaders, then take the surviving Brits and remove certain [...]

Weird Door

Weird Door

originally published on January 12, 2010

Last weekend, I was doing a little shopping and some little errands in our little village, so to speak — downtown in Our Fair City. And, as you might expect, I was going from one business establishment to another. Opening doors, closing doors, going in, transacting business. Upon opening [...]