Take Time to Think While Eating Lutefisk
Dr. John R. Eggers
December 01, 2006
Take Time to Think While Eating Lutefisk
It’s about this time of year when Minnesotans turn off their thinking caps and curl up for the long winter’s nap—or something like that. You can tell their thinking isn’t what it used to be due to the proliferation of lutefisk suppers.
Let’s admit it, who in their right mind would partake of such an ordeal if their brain was working at full throttle. So what do we need to do? Time to crank out some conundrums to get those brain cells fired up again.
Mary’s father has 4 children; three are named Nana, Nene, and Nini. So what is is the 4th child's name?
Answer: If you said "Nono" then you are wrong. If Mary's father had 4 children, with three named Nana, Nene, and Nini, then the last child's name would have to be Mary!
From what heavy seven-letter word can you take away two letters and have eight left?
Answer: There are at least two possibilities: Freight or weights!
What three numbers have the same answer when added together and multiplied together?
Answer: 1, 2, 3
What is put on a table and cut, but never eaten?
Answer: A deck of cards
I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead
While walking across a bridge I saw a boat full of people. Yet on the boat there wasn't a single person. Why?
Answer: Every one on the boat is married.
What happens when you throw a white rock into the Red Sea?
Answer: It sinks
What happens twice in a week, and once in a year, but never in a day?
Answer: The appearance of the letter "e"!
A man is asked what his daughters look like. He answers, "They are all blondes, but two; all brunettes, but two; and all redheads, but two." How many daughters did he have?
Answer: Three: one blonde, one brunette and one redhead.
What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?
Answer: Incorrectly!
If an electric train is going east at 60 miles an hour and there is a strong westerly wind, which way does the smoke from the train drift?
Answer: Electric trains don't produce smoke.
Who can shave 25 times a day and still have a beard?
Answer: A barber.
What can you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with?
Answer: A chair, a bed, and a toothbrush!
If one child has 6 2/3 sand piles and another has 3 1/3, and you combine them, how many sand piles do you have?
Answer: One (if they are all combined, there is just 1 sand pile)
A horse is tied to a 20 foot long rope. The horse wants to get some water that is 30 feet away. The horse gets the water easily. How is this?
Answer: The other end of the rope isn't tied to anything!
Here on earth it is always true that a day follows a day. But there is a place where yesterday always follows today. What place is that?
Answer: The dictionary!
A railroad crossing, look for the cars. Can you spell all that without any R's?
Answer: Yes, "all that"!
You are pushing your car. You stop at a hotel. At that precise moment you realize that you are bankrupt. What is actually going on?
Answer: You are probably playing Monopoly!
What can you eat without thinking? Answer: Lutefisk. Be careful.
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