Wednesday, 15 October 2014

Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Oct 16, 2014)

Behold The Night



They set forth to behold the night,

Surrounding the dark with their gorgeous sight.

A sailor's guide, a child's fears,

They're lost to sight as daytime nears.

From Heaven, their tears descend,

Make a wish before darkness ends.





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The Dangers of Early Morning Texts

This is a true story.

It happened just the other day.

My good friend Leo, who lives in my town but whose roots are in Gibraltar where his partner Lourdes lives (he visits her every month) sends her a loving text in Spanish every morning from Sussex.

The other morning, bleary eyed, he texted: "Buenos dias te quiero xxxxxx espero descansaras" which is just 'Good morning, I love you, hope you rested well." (Luckily nothing more personal than that!)

Only he didn't. Send it to her, that is. Instead he sent it to another close mutual friend of ours, Steve, who happens to catch a very early train from Brighton to East Croydon each day for his job as editor of a Travel Trade magazine.

So Steve got the message that Leo loved him bright and early. Although Steve does not speak fluent Spanish, he got the drift...and replied: "??? You throwing foreign lingo at me at 5.30 am!"

Explains Leo: "The reason for the mistake is that I communicate with Lourdes on Whatsapp which on the I-phone is a green panel with a white phone on it and with Steve on SMS Messages which is a green panel with a white speech bubble - so when I woke at 5.30 am to visit the loo, in my sleepy state I must have pressed Messages instead of Whatsapps. The last message I had sent was to Steve last Saturday so of course he received it instead."

Leo quickly proceeded to try to rectify matters, explaining : "Lourdes and I always exchange short romantic messages first thing in the morning. Today she had an early start. So it puzzled me when my phone pinged back at 6.02 am with the bewildered message from Steve. That's when I realised my mistake."

He then sent this message back to Steve: "Steve I do love you, though you'll be pleased to hear that I love Lourdes even more and I don't REALLY need to know how well you slept but please DO tell me if you like."

Leo said it was perhaps fortunate that the message hadn't gone to Steve's South African wife Renette or indeed my own Swedish wife Vivianne, who does understand Spanish - Leo does sometimes text them too, as we're all great friends. On this occasion all three lovely ladies were able to have a good laugh about it later. And Leo will doubtless take more care in future about who he texts love letters to. http://ift.tt/eA8V8J



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'Staying Ebola Free' Comedy Video Advises People Not To Lick Up Vomit From The Street

The deadly Ebola outbreak has now killed over 4,000 people.



So you'd have to be pretty brave to makes jokes about it. Glenn Beck, the US conservative commentator and former Fox News host, has really gone for it by creating a whole joke song filled with tips for how to stay 'Ebola free'.



The spoof song (which is undeniably catchy) has a cute cartoon video which illustrates Beck's advice to avoid contracting Ebola, such as "don't touch others' poop and pee", "don't lick vomit off the street" and "keep away from discharge that secretes."



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"Keep away from eyes that bleed" urges the song





Beck played the song for his radio show audience earlier this week. He'll understandably have his critics - some called him a "lunatic" and an "idiot" for crafting the musical number - but the reviews were mainly positive:






















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The Bands Of The US Marines And The South Korean Army Have A Drum Battle, And It's Both Impressive And Uplifting

Things You Don't See Every Day, No.542: A drum-off between the III Marine Expeditionary Force band and the Republic of Korea Army band.



Starting off with that internationally accepted decision-making tool, the 'heads or tails' coin toss, watch the two bands battle it out through the power of drumming.



It's uplifting stuff. Not least because in the end, it's a tie.



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An American Town Just Dropped A Giant Pumpkin On A Truck. Autumn Is Definitely Here.

Well, they don't call it Fall for nothing...



Yes, we've decided to move to Conneaut Lake Park, Pennsylvania. Because they just marked the start of autumn - specifically, the start of their 2014 Pumpkin Fest - by dropping a 1,200-pound pumpkin on a truck. BUT OF COURSE.



What we particularly love about this video is the fact that we don't know where the pumpkin came from. Was it hanging off a crane? Being held in a giant net? Or did it simply come hurtling to Earth like a meteorite? We don't know. And we don't want to know. That's the magic of the Conneaut Lake Park Pumpkin Fest.



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If Major League Ultimate Had British Commentary, It Might Go Like This

Want to watch some "chaps tossing a white plate around like reckless waiters in a Greek restaurant"? You've come to the right place!



Yes, the marvellously bad British commentator Anthony Richardson is back.



This time, he's commentating on Major League Ultimate (that's 'semi-professional frisbee-throwing' to us Brits). Check out his take on games featuring "floaty clay pigeon"-throwers the Seattle Rainmakers, Boston Whistecaps, Portland Stags and DC Current.



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This Hamster Has A Novel Way Of Using His Wheel

Typical. You wait ages for one 'Pet Doing Something In An Unorthodox Manner' video - and then two come along at once.



Yesterday, we brought you the cat who eats her dinner like this.



And now? Now, we find a hamster who is possibly very lazy, very dim or very clever. Or maybe all three.



Either way, it's made our day (yes, it's that easily made).



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Brain Teaser 10/15/2014

1. There are many different world records out there held by many extraordinary people. Like the worlds fastest baked bean eater or the worlds tallest woman. There is a record however that we have ALL held at one point. What is it?



2. Assign every letter of the alphabet its numerical value: A=1, B=2, C=3, and so on, up to z=26. Can you think of a familiar 7 letter word whose letter values total only 21?

HINT: It's edible.

Solution

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Everything Pizza





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Race The Tube: The Glasgow Version

Remember the man who got off a London Underground train at Mansion House, ran through the streets to Cannon Street station, and managed to hop back on the same train again?



Well, here's the Scottish version.



Specifically: the Glasgow version.



(Even more specifically: the Hillhead to Kelvin Bridge version.)



Watch Tennent's take the Mickey out of the original video - and the slowness of Glasgow Subway trains - in the very funny 'Race The Tube: Glasgow-Style'.



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A woman named Rifca Stanescu became the world’s…

A woman named Rifca Stanescu became the world’s youngest grandmother at the age of 23. Rifca, from the Romanian town of Investi, was 12 years old when she gave birth to her daughter, Maria. Maria, in turn, had her first child, her son Ion, at age 11.






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Bar Terrifies Its Customers With Haunted Photo Booth Prank

For most of us, going into a photobooth is already a scary experience. Nobody, it has to be said, looks good in their passport photo.



But for these customers at the Ham & Eggs Tavern in Los Angeles, it was particularly terrifying. Because the bar set up a photobooth with a trick back door and.... well, you can watch the results in this video.



Halloween has arrived already, folks!



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The reason today’s artificial banana flavoring…

banana The reason today’s artificial banana flavoring for candy tastes so differently than an actual banana is because it is based on the Gros Michel Banana, which was nearly wiped out in the 50’s due to a fungus. The bananas we eat today are from the Cavendish family.






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In 2001, the United States Court of Appeals upheld the right…

In 2001, the United States Court of Appeals upheld the right of Alice Randall to publish a parody of ‘Gone with the Wind’ called ‘The Wind Done Gone’, which told the same story from the point of view of Scarlett O’Hara’s slaves, who were glad to be rid of her.






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Scientists have confirmed that…

Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.






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Hitler comedy “Heil Honey, I’m Home!” was a British…

Heil-Honey Hitler comedy “Heil Honey, I’m Home!” was a British sitcom featuring Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun and the Jewish couple next door. It was canceled after one episode.






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Johnny Cash’s truck caused a massive forest fire…

Johnny Cash’s truck caused a massive forest fire that nearly wiped out an endangered species of condor. Upon being sued by the U.S. national government, Cash proclaimed: “I don’t care about your damn yellow buzzards.”






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The potato chip was believed to have originated…

potato-chip The potato chip was believed to have originated in 1853 when a chef had his fried potatoes sent back by an annoyed customer multiple times because the potatoes were “too thick”. He was fed up, cut the potatoes razor thin, and put extra salt on them. The customer, to his surprise, loved it.






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Today in History for 15th October 2014

Historical Events


1598 - Spanish general strategist Bernardino de Mendoza occupies fort Rhine

1864 - Confederate troops occupy Glasgow, Missouri

1937 - Rather than accept any trade offers, the Yanks release Tony Lazzeri

1953 - WJNL (now WFAT) TV channel 19 in Johnstown, PA (IND) begins

1964 - NY Yankees appears in 14 and win 9 of last 16 World Series

1972 - Omni in Atlanta opens - Hawks beat NY Knicks 109-101


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Famous Birthdays


1879 - Jane Darwell, [Patti Woodward], Palmyra MO, actress (Huckleberry Finn)

1884 - Arch Hoxsey, pioneer aviator (d. 1910)

1957 - Stacy Peralta, American director

1966 - Jorge Campos, Mexican footballer

1970 - Eric Benét, American singer

1977 - Patricio Urrutia, Ecuadorian footballer


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Famous Deaths


1002 - Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)

1524 - Joachim Patinir, Flemish landscape painter, dies at about 45

1730 - Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (b. 1658)

1914 - Aleksander Rozycki, composer, dies at 69

1960 - Clara Kimball Young, actress (Return of Chandu), dies of stroke at 70

2005 - Jason Collier, American basketball player (b. 1977)


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