ANSWER: L.T.Q. #69
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 00:27:59 -0500 (EST)
ANSWER: L.T.Q. #69
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 00:27:59 -0500 (EST)
I was pleased to see that no one gave into Temptation. I guess everyone likes the L.T.Q.'s too much to risk getting "unsubscribed real quick!"
Here is this week's question:
ANSWER:
Lew gets a Spike Jones Bonus Point for identifying the horse. "How about Feedlebaum, the race horse (and jockey)? The horse has four legs and one head. The Jockey has two legs and one head. The horse has the flies... and Cabbage by a head!"
"Of course, it's a man and his dog in an ultralite," said Liz. They were identified by James K. as "Spot the Pilot and Mr. Smith... co-pilot of course." Clever, but not quite accurate since it flies, and the question asked "what has flies."
"Is this another one of those blonde jokes?" asked Andrew. Why, whatever do you mean?
And as usual, oddlystrange gets a Biological Verbosity Bonus Point, even
though she came close to getting "unsubscribed real quick!"
"In keeping with that theme," she wrote, "when I was living in Florida,
we had these things called love bugs. They were these ugly little flying
creatures that looked like they had a head in front and a head in back, they
liked to mate while flying. Meaning they liked to mate or something since
they tended to swarm. We used to sit out there with our Algebra books (it
*was* an excuse to open them after all) and wait until a swarm flew by and
slam the book shut... thereby bringing a Romeo and Juliet ending to these
little lives. The contest was to see how many you could kill in one slam. My
record was like 10 or something. Using a literature book might have been
more appropriate given the poeticness(?) of killing something while it's
procreating, but then again I actually used my lit. books, hence my
knowledge of the Romeo and Juliet like ending."
Well, I think if she had read her algebra and biology books instead of
swatting flies with it, she might realize that flies, as all insects, have
six legs each, but only one head. No matter how you slice it, there's too
many legs or not enough heads or flies or something going on.
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