WELCOME to THURSDAY JULY 24th, 2025

Here’s The Story….
Dad is from the old school, he always kept a rather large wad of what he liked to call
’emergency cash’ in his underwear drawer. One day I bought my dad an unusual personal
safe–a can of spray paint with a false bottom-so he could keep his money somewhat less
obviously in this basement workshop. Later I asked Mom if he was using it.
“Oh, yes,” she replied, “he put his money in it the same day.”
“No burglar would think to look on the work shelf!” I gloated.
“They won’t have to,” my mom replied. “He keeps the paint can in his underwear drawer.”
 That’s my story and I’m sticking to it! Have a GREAT THURSDAY people, stay safe,
and whatever you do, don’t forget to laff it up! Peace, I am outta here! Eucman! 😁

q u o t e s o f t h e d a y

 
“Emerson College officials said that starting in 2027 they will offer students the opportunity
to major in comedy. Or, you can just take your tuition money and burn it in front of your parents.” -Seth Meyers

“According to a new study, 88 percent of Facebook users have admitted to spending some time l
ooking at their ex’s profile. While the other 12 percent have admitted to spending
ALL of their time looking at their ex’s profile.” -Jimmy Fallon

“According to a new survey that just came out, the issue most on the minds of college students
is whether they’ll be able to find a job when they graduate. Experts say it’s silly for college students
to worry about whether or not they’ll be able to find a job – because the answer is no.” -Conan O’Brien
 
 
 
 
 

 
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Guaranteed to Roll Your Eyes
“Information? I need the number of Caseway Insurance Company.”
“Would you spell that, please?”
“Certainly. That’s C as in cadence. A as in aye. S as in sea.
E as in eye. W as in why. A as in are. and Y as in you.”
“Just a minute, sir. I’ll connect you with my supervisor.”
 
 

Wednesday*’s’ Movie Trivia of the day!  
The 2013 film was directed by Paul Greengrass and stars Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abadi. Hanks plays Captain Richard Phillips, a ship commander whose vessel is taken over my Somali pirates off the coast of the horns of Africa. The movie’s most famous line is arguably the timeless “I am the captain now.”, spoken by the Somali lead pirate Abduwali Muse, as he and his allies are able to take over the ship.
 
Answer:  Captain Phillips! 

Thursday Movie Trivia of the day!  
The 2012 film is based on the novel by Canadian author Yann Martel and was directed and produced by Ang Lee. Starring Suraj Sharma and Irfan Khan, the movie follows Pi, a young Indian man who was the victim of a shipwreck, who survived by staying on a small lifeboat with several animals, including a full grown tiger, Richard Parker.
At the end of the movie, it is revealed that his survival on the lifeboat with the animals may have been an allegory of much darker events.

Wednesday’s Quizzler is….​
It appears that you have angered the spirit of Halloween by failing to revere the Great Pumpkin, and now a curse has befallen you. On the walkway to your house is a Ward of Seven Jack O’Lanterns arranged in a circle. If midnight comes and any of the seven are still lit, a dark reaper and seven dark horses with seven dark riders shall visit thy abode. They shall surround thy domicile and, while circling it, they will proceed to pelt thy dwelling with eggs and cream of shaving. And come morn there will be a great mess to be reckoned with. Verily. So you better get those lanterns out.

You quickly discover something odd about these lanterns. When you blow out the first one, the lanterns on either side extinguish as well! But there is more. If you blow out a lantern adjacent to one that is extinguished, the extinguished one(s) will relight. It seems that blowing on any lantern will change the state of three – the one you blew on and its two neighbors. Finally, you can blow on an extinguished lantern and it will relight, and its neighbors will light/extinguish as applicable. After trying once and finding all seven lit again, you decide, being the excellent puzzler, you sit down and examine this closer. But hurry, I hear the beating of many hooves…

ANSWER:  If you examine the setup carefully, you’ll note a number of facts which make the puzzle easier to solve by deduction. First, blowing on a lantern is a commutative property; blowing on lanterns 1, 5, then 3 is the same as blowing on 3, then 1, and then 5. No matter what order the lanterns are blown on, if the same lanterns are blown on the same number of times, the result won’t change. For that reason, blowing on a lantern twice is as good as not blowing on it at all. And three times is as good as one time. So, it seems that it should be able to be done in seven steps or less.

What else can we tell about the solution? Since each operation changes the state of three lanterns, and there are 7 lanterns, and each lantern must change its state an odd number of times, it’s a safe bet that there will need to be an odd number of steps. We can easily see it can’t be done in 1 or 3 steps, so it must be 5 or 7. Trying 5 steps comes up with 3 different patterns that are not symmetrical and fail to leave all lanterns extinguished. So that leaves 7 steps and to your surprise, based on the commutative property, the easiest solution is to blow on each one in order! So doing this, the Great Pumpkin has decided to give you a treat for figuring this out and you find all seven lanterns full of candy the next morning! Congratulations!

Thursday’s Quizzler is….​😎😎
Four men met in a bar, and they soon found that all four of them had been to the Amazon Jungle. After a few more beers, they also realized that they had all been captured at least once, by fierce natives who ruled amazing fortresses. They soon got around to talking about their experiences, and their escapes. The first man said, “Well, I was once caught by natives who ruled a diamond palace. They caught me and took me to their king. He decreed that I was to die in one month. They threw me into a cell. Thank God that they didn’t take my equipment. I had stolen a quartz file from one of the natives. I filed away the bars (it had curtains so they couldn’t see) and escaped mere hours before I was to die.”
The second man said, “I was also captured, but they took me to a simple copper structure. I did not have any such luxury of a month to escape, instead, a single day. Luckily they did not count on my desperation, and I was able to claw my way out of there using only my fingernails and pure adrenaline.”
The third man said, “I was taken to the most amazing fortress of all. It was made out of black topaz. I was also the smartest of all of you,” he bragged, “for I had brought with me a steel file. I was out in a jiff, and I was able to steal some of the topaz as well,” he said as he showed everyone a piece of topaz hanging from a string around his neck.
The fourth man had been looking amused at the first and second men’s stories, but as the third man finished he threw up his head and laughed. The other three men were looking slightly peeved, and asked him what he found so funny. He declared that they were all liars, and he could prove it.
How could he prove it, and when did each of the three men lie?

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