Ok, just for some nonsense, answer this if you can.......................
What goes up a chimney down, but not down a chimney up?
Anyone smart enough to get it right will get my official "kuddo's to you!"
(it's not fair to anounce it if you've already heard the answer)
Yeah, I know this has nothing to do with anything at all, but I'm missing all of you these days. After experiencing a beautiful new grandbaby, our son moving his family to Branson (sniff), another sons' WONDERFUL wedding, a blessed Christmas, and "happenin" New Years parties (all within a month!).........well, it's kind of quiet here.
Yup! I know how to enjoy it, but I also know how to think into the summer. And that brings me to missing you all!
Hoping 2009 is mighty fine,
Love to all!
8 comments:
Probably Santas Jacket. I really feel sorry for you. You need to be kept busy. Have you sewn any buttons on your clothes yet since they popped off with all your activities this last month. I'll bet Doris could find something for you to do?
Why,it's an um,er,ah,....parasol. But depending on size, it might do both.:-)
I agree with both of you. But that means you must define the correct answer to specify a small parasol. A proper analysis would consider the size of the chimney. If X= size of chimney, and Y= size of parasol open, and Z = size of parasol closed, then in the limit when Y is < X, it can go up or down. But if Z is > X, then the correct conditions are not met and it is a no go which negates the proposition. The idea is only correct for Y > X and Z < X. And, then of course, there is the case where the parasol can be partially collapsed to fit and still be considered open. Here we can define a variable a to be the partially collapsed unit, but I leave that as an exercise for the student.
Only Tom would overanalyze a joke. I think Debbie has too much time on her hands. I, on the other hand, being retired, am way too busy for this nonsense.
Why...Mr. Rickert! Please tell me you thought that up on your own! If you've heard that one before, then phooey on you. If you figured it out, then you're the first one I've EVER come across to get it right, and I've been telling that one for YEARS! I know you're a very clever man, so...which is it?
And Thomas! WHO has too much time on their hands??? (you at least have enough time to contradict yourself silly boy!)
Hi John,
Thank you SO much for explaining that!!! Here all this time I thought the buttons were a casualty of the holiday menus!
To be honest Deb, (not that I'd be any other way :-)) I had heard that one before but it took me a while to recall the answer from my "rememberer". Actually, what I recalled was the word "umbrella", but I thought maybe I could send someone to the dictionary by using the word parasol. It's the devil(ment)in me. I didn't mean to send Tom off into space!
Here's one for you: When you see ducks flying in V formation, one leg of the V is most always longer than the other. Do you know why that is?
I have another one for you but it'll have to wait for the reunion.
Ray, I know the answer to that. But I will wait till Deb answers before I fess up.
Now, Deb, you've tattled my little secret! Now you've told everyone that I'm a silly boy (as if they hadn't already figured that out).
Usually, I see geese flying like that. We saw a huge flock coming back from Iowa. As to the V, if one leg is longer than the other, then it simply is not a V and it is a trick question. Nevertheless, we can analyze it in the following way: If X = leg 1 and Y = leg 2, then in the limit where X > Y = not V and if X = Y = V. But if X & Y . . . . . . . .
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