Mind Challenge

[SDsalsaguy]

Pandora, Harry, Alec, Gemima, and Geoffrey are all animals in a zoo. The other day one of them ate an animal called Tabitha. Who - and what type of animal are they - was it?

[pygmalion]

Meerkats?!? :shock: :P

Just kidding. I'm much too lazy to apply myself to such puzzlers. :oops: :lol:

[SDsalsaguy]

Meerkats?!? :shock: :P
:lol: No silly Jenn, a Meerkat is much too cute to be the guilty culprit! :D

[delamusica]

I can't believe nobody googled this . . .

alec ate her = aligator . . .

ha . . . haha . . . ha . . . :roll: :D

[pygmalion]

As you know, google is my passion. But with these puzzles, it's much more fun to take my time and figure 'em out. Googling a mind challenge is like looking at the crossword puzzle solution page. ( :oops: Oops. I do that.) It's like flipping to the last page to see what happens before reading the whole book. ( :oops: Oops! I do that.) It's like taping the whole week of soap operas so you can fast forward to the end and see the Friday cliffhanger. ( :oops: Oops. I do that.) It's like ordering dessert first. ( :oops: Oops. I do that.)


Hmm. I guess googling a puzzler's not all that bad. :lol: :lol:

[SDsalsaguy]

As you know, google is my passion. But with these puzzles, it's much more fun to take my time and figure 'em out.
Well, it was posted as a mind challenge and not a keyboarding/google one... :tongue:

[delamusica]

:P well, seeing that none of you minds cared to volunteer an answer . . . :wink:

[Swing Kitten]

but that doesn't say what the rest of the animals were-- bah!

[etchuck]

I can't believe nobody googled this . . .

alec ate her = aligator . . .

ha . . . haha . . . ha . . . :roll: :D

How do we know Tabitha wasn't a male? :wink: :?

[pygmalion]

:P well, seeing that none of you minds cared to volunteer an answer . . . :wink:

We didn't have a chance. :oops: Somebody who shall remaain nameless had an itchy google finger. :P :lol: :wink:

[etchuck]

Well, I suppose it will take some of you a long time if I posted... say... "Prove Fermat's Last Theorem using only algebraic techniques (instead of Andrew Wiles' proof)."

Of course, that would be neither fun nor inspiring... except for those 0.001% of us that think it is.

[pygmalion]

:shock: Yes. I suspect that might take a little longer to get answered. :? :lol:

[Genesius Redux]

How do we know Tabitha wasn't a male? :wink: :?

Because there's no such thing as an alligatim, dork. :wink:

Jenn--you can save yourself a lot of unnecessary hassle by looking at the last page of a book. Anna Karenina, for instance. 8)

[Flat Shoes]

but that doesn't say what the rest of the animals were-- bah!
It's Pandora the Panda, Harry the Horse, Alec the Gator, Gemima the Platypus, and Geoffrey the Goat! :wink:

Yep, that's it. :D

[pygmalion]

Perhaps, but then you lose out on the sense of accomplishment that comes from reading every page of an outrageously long novel. :lol: :lol:

[Genesius Redux]

Accomplishment??? :o

I'd rather accomplish my tan at the beach. I say rent the movie. It's less expensive and less time! :wink:

[pygmalion]

LOL. That's what I used to do, back in the day when I had required reading lists. I'd rent the movie or read the Cliff's notes, THEN read the book, whatever it was. Classic literature is almost always good stuff, but the language wasn't always approachable for a teen. Knowing what was going to happen made it a heck of a lot easier to actually read the darn thing.

[Genesius Redux]

Too bad they didn't have google back then. But I bet you sat in the front row and participated in all the discussions. Heck, you probably even went to office hours to talk about what you'd read. And then go off on long, non-intellectual binges. Am I close to right? :wink:

[pygmalion]

Dangerously close to right. :wink: :lol:

[Bob]

I was going to say shoot the hostage, but that may only work in bad action movies.

Still, it beats having to think or anything regretable like that...

[SDsalsaguy]

OK, here's a new one for you all:

"Gaze at this sentence for just about sixty seconds and then explain what makes it quite different from the average sentence."

[cl5814]

OK, here's a new one for you all:

"Gaze at this snetence for just about sixty seconds and then explain what makes it quite different from the average sentence."

ok, so there is 1 spelling/typo mistake. IIs that it ?

[Vince A]

OK, here's a new one for you all:

"Gaze at this snetence for just about sixty seconds and then explain what makes it quite different from the average sentence."
It contains every letter of the alphabet at least once in it???

[pygmalion]

Ha! It'd be difficult to google that one! :lol: Probably not impossible, but difficult. (Of course, one could always pay ask google ten bucks to find the answer for you. :twisted: :lol: )

[SDsalsaguy]

ok, so there is 1 spelling/typo mistake. IIs that it ?
Nope, that was me just being careless... :oops:

Vince got it... it includes every letter of the English alphabet.

(And yes Jenn, I'm having to try coming up woth more google-proof chalenges for some... :lol:)