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Brainercise: Hot Dog! I’m going on vacation! edition

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I’ll leave it to Danny to tell you guys what the answer to last week’s brainteaser is.  Here is this week’s:  What is described by the following poem?

The first letter, a question eternally pending, 

The second forms a line never ending, 

The third, what I am called, but never me, 

The fourth, upon which a ball perches for thee.

The fifth, what Heaven and Hell in common hold, 

But alas, the rub: This riddling grows old.

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Hammad

March 20, 2009

youth


Lauren

March 20, 2009

Wow Hammad, that was good!


Danny The Only Bloke

March 20, 2009

Hammad, you ROCK

I’d have NEVER got that. Well done, did you figure it out or did you already know it?

LAST WEEKS ANSWER

The sequence, in order is NOTABLE, all that changes is the spacing.

the NOTABLE surgeon was NOT ABLE to operate becase she had NO TABLE to operate on.

You can blame my uncle Jim for that, he told it to me so long ago that at least SOME of our participants (Please take a bow Miss Taylor Nicole) wouldn’t have been born at the time, yet still I remember the damn thing……. It’s ingrained more permanantly that the ill advised tattoo I had done on my arm when I turned 18.

I’m just ranting now aren’t I?

I think I best just go……


Hammad

March 20, 2009

I figured it out myself. I got the first letter right away. The word “why” came to my mind, so I immediately thought of the letter “y”. Then the second statement initiated the thought “circle” because I knew in my past math studies that a circle was a line that had no end. However, the letter “c” is not a vowel, so “yc” didn’t make much sense to me. So, I thought of the vowels “aeiou”, and the only object that I could think of that was similar to a circle was “oval”, and so I chose “o”. The third was easy for me to figure out because I was already thinking of vowels and so “called me” but “not me” initiated the thought of “you”, and thus the letter “u”. So, I had the letters “you”. I did not know the fourth statement’s letter, so I skipped it and went to the fifth, which I did not know immediately. I thought for a little bit, and “God” entered my mind, so I had “you”-” “-”g”. When I read the last statement, and it said the riddling gets old I knew I was on the right track because the play on words initiated the thoughts of “young” and “youth” which came to my mind. The letter “h” for the last one made more sense to me than “g” for “God”, because “God” is associated with Heaven and not Hell, and “h” is in common with both, so I determined it was “youth” even though I did not know the fourth letter.

LOL. I feel like “Jamal” in “Slumdog Millionaire” for explaining how I knew the answer. He wasn’t any smarter than anyone else, but it was his past history that made him know the answer.


kristina

March 20, 2009

Very impressive, hammad. i wouldn’t have figured it out haha it’s spring break my brain’s on pause at the moment.


Emma-Lu

March 21, 2009

I am highly impressed Hammad! Go you good thing!!


Ayman Mohsen

March 21, 2009

Ladies and the few gentlemen here, i give u the one and only ”HAMMAD” nice one bro.


MarilyneL

March 22, 2009

Youth youth!