What to Add?
The same five-letter word can be added to either the front or back, but not both, of the following words to create four new words. Can you determine what the five-letter word’s identity is?
KEY
WALL
GEM
WASHED
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“On yer plates, lads!” might sound (almost) like a shout from a baseball coach to the ears of people on one side of the Atlantic. However, in parts of London it would have a quite different meaning: “Stand up, boys!”
Cockney rhyming slang takes an expression that rhymes with a word and then uses the expression instead of the word.
Thus, ‘feet’ become PLATES OF MEAT.
Often the whole phrase is used but sometimes the rhyming word is dropped.
See how many of these you know – or make an educated guess! Remember, the rhyme is at the end of the slang expression.
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adj :: Saturated with dust and stale odors. Musty.
The motel room was very small and fusty. We didn’t want to stay there.”
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This is an example of an easy icebreaker to try with a small group:
Going around a group, each person should say one true statement about themselves and one that is false. After each person has said their two statements, the group takes a vote to determine which is which. People should be encouraged to make the false statement sound plausible to make it more fun. You can learn a lot about people with this exercise, and it’s fun too.
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The items that you are associating together should be visualized as interacting in some way. If you are trying to associate a stapler with a dog, it is not going to do you much good to picture a dog standing next to a stapler. A much better association would be to have the dog eating the stapler, or picture a dog with a stapler mouth. Not only does this interaction make the image more interesting, but by grouping both objects into one association, you are effectively chunking the material.
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If you’re like most people, you probably said that the top row in this diamonds illusion is the darkest. It certainly looks darker than the bottom row after all. But, what if I told you that each of the gray diamonds was exactly the same?
Each gray diamond in the illusion above is created with a slight gradient of light to dark gray. The top row of diamonds only looks darker than the lower rows. I don’t really have any way to prove it to you other than to tell you to test it yourself in an image editor. Use the color picker tool to check the top of the gray diamonds in the upper rows and compare it to the top of the gray diamonds in the lower rows. You can also select and copy the right half of the image and move it up and down. You’ll see that color in each of the gray diamonds matches up perfectly.
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Photo courtesy of Richard Miller.
Found in Tokyo coffee shop back in 1990.
Awkward translation of “taking a load off your chest”.
1183 – Battle of Mizushima.
1888 – Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony premieres in St Petersburg
1936 – Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy become overnight success on radio
1945 – New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF
1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini frees most black and female US hostages
1979 – NY Stars (WBL) home opener at Madison Square Garden in NYC
1980 – John Lennon releases “Double Fantasy” album in UK
1993 – US House of Representatives approve Nafta
1998 – Whitney Houston releases “My Love is Your Love”
2006 – Official naming of element 111, Roentgenium (Rg).
The Breakfast Challenge
You are enjoying your breakfast after having put some salt on your scrambled eggs when your nerdy brother presents you with an ice cube floating in a glass of water and a short length of string. He challenges you to remove the ice cube from the glass using the string without tying any knots. What strategy do you use to remove the ice cube from the water glass?
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Do you need Ursula to help you with these lyrics?
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