Palindromes + Peculiarities

Tarun · 10-11-2001, 05:57 PM

Last week we experienced a numerical palindrome.
October 2, 2001 = 10022001.
Flip it 180 degrees what do you get? Same thing.
Yesterday, Thursday it happened again in another way.
October 11, 2001 = 10/11/01.
Flip it 180 degrees, same thing.
Who in 1964, designed/invented/introduced the Ford Mustang?
How did he, Lee Iacocca, become Head of Chrysler?
Was it destiny? In his cards? Could be. Must be.
I = I
A = am
C = Chairman
O = of
C = Chrysler
C = Corporation of
A = Amerika

Tarun · 10-22-2001, 02:12 PM

Recently we gave a vocabulary test to 7th graders.
We included a few 'hard ones' for extra credit.
We encouraged them to 'guess' if they weren't sure.
For 'pucilanimous' (based on sound) we received the following:
1) an extreme case of acne;
2) a smelly extinct dinosaur;
3) when we all agree to throw up.

Caitanyachandra · 10-22-2001, 05:17 PM

siour jokes make not non-sense.

valaya · 10-22-2001, 05:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Caitanyachandra:
siour jokes make not non-sense.

Maybe it's cause they're mostly pucilanimous...

Tarun · 11-04-2001, 08:55 AM

Halloween won't coincide with PurnimA = Full Moon again till 2020. So what?

Tarun · 11-18-2001, 11:52 PM

Why do we say "pretty ugly"?
To soften the 'ugly'? Or to dampen the 'pretty'?
Why was NYC WTC attacked on 9/11?
So phoning 911 would not be necessary? Already built in?
Sen. Leahy's office was targetted for Anthrax.
Sen. Leahy now has a bill in Congress challenging Bushel's & Ashcraft's phone-tapping + attorney/client right to privacy intrusion.
Any connection? Hello! Who is this? Anybody home?

These are the questions no one should be asking.
And rightly so. So what.

Tarun · 12-07-2001, 10:31 AM

Angry, hungry...
I'm still searching that 3rd English word ending in 'ngry'.
Have America's vaizyas made "Business Ethics" an oxymoron?

Tarun · 12-12-2001, 10:25 PM

December 12 = 12/12.
So in the year 2121 we'll have ourselves another palindrome.
December 13th's palindrome?
We can cheat, switch/use Eurasia's system instead.
date/month/year
So 13/12/2131 in only 30 yrs.
Where will you be in 30 yrs?
++++++++++++++++++++==
Peculiarities this week:
1) A Filipino man cut off his own #$%^.
Not in one slice. It took several slits.
His mother testified her son was obsessed with the Bible verse which states:
"If your eye (or any other body part) offends thee, pluck it out."
2) A dog bit off a man's ear. They tried to retrieve his ear.
Dog swallowed it. Dog owner agreed to allow dog to be operated on.
Ear was recovered from dog's stomach, but it was too damaged by dog's stomach acid to be reattached.
3) 14 yr old boy was arrested for breaking in houses to put on woman of the house's underwear.
4) A crotch fan has been designed to cool down human rajogun.
Available soon at a sahajiya store nearest you.
5) A woman at Stockholm airport was detained due to her fidgeting.
When frisked, she was found to be smuggling 75 snakes in her brassiere.
No, not 74, 75.
6) A man performs a transvestite act during which:
a) he stuffs 47 live rats in his stockings
b) he eats 36 cockroaches
7) A man performs an act with 75 birds, some of whom he sits on.
8) An anti-shyness drug will be marketted from Glasgow.
Dr Martin Turner developed it.
He says, "For some, attending a meeting is a horrifying ordeal."
Drug's content seratonin stimulates brain.
Drug's name sounds like 'escitol'?
9) Last but not least...
A Tampa man has been arrested for...
looking up women's skirts with...
a camera hidden in...
his shoe.
He was accused 3 times.
He was caught the last time in his probation officer's office.
The 12 women he filmed belonged to his church.
Police confiscated his 45 video tapes.
Judges are reviewing evidence over and over, again and again...

Tarun · 12-16-2001, 09:30 PM

One famous Amerikan writer's name contains 6 letters.
Its 3rd & 4th letters are identical.
Its 2nd & 5th letters are identical.
Its 1st & 2nd syllables have opposite meanings.
Email your answer into puzzle@npr.org

Tarun · 12-21-2001, 03:33 PM

Today is a mini 4 decimal partial palindrome worldwide.
Depending on where you live, 21Dec is either 12/21 or 21/12.
Next mini? 10Jan2002.
Next maxi? For most of this planet,
excluding Amerika:
20Feb2002 = 20/02/2002
Peculiarity?
Why do we park in driveways, yet drive on parkways?
What's the only even prime number?
Hints: What's a mata ji? Same as a mataji ji? Ji hai!
Don't b a frayed. Goa head; don't b chai; pudding your 2 sense.

Tarun · 12-28-2001, 07:54 PM

We chant at Timessquare with LochanAnanda Prabhu.
He can recall, while being ISKCON Amsterdam Temple President, signing a check dated 7/7/77.
At either 718-654-0181 or 456-0181 you can hear a detailed numerological explanation of 9/11 including:
New York City consists of 11 letters.
Mohammed Ata consists of 11 letters.
WTC Twin Towers themselves formed an eleven = 11.

Tarun · 01-06-2002, 09:21 PM

This entire Gregorian calendar year is a palindrome: 2002
20Feb2002 = 20/02/2002
Here's a challenge:
try to find 3 palindromes of at least 2 digits each which, when multiplied together, equal 20022002.
Pseudo-examples: 11x22x66 = ? or 101x33x44 = ?
Email your answer to puzzle@npr.org
Deadline Thursday 10Jan2002 3pm.
Don't forget you know Whom.

Tarun · 01-14-2002, 06:32 AM

1) Every year women compete in so many beauty contests.
This year French women are using a new technique to qualify:
"Spine Stretching"
2) One couple was keeping cats & dogs instead of kids.
All in one house. How many?
81 dogs, 14 cats.
Anyone else hear about this?
The dogs were flea-infested, bitten, infected, sickly...
Their house had not been cleaned since the Gulf War.
Police found... piled up on top of... stacked on top of...
Of course, a transcendentalist would not be disturbed.
One can chant the Holy Name in a humble state of mind...

valaya · 01-14-2002, 10:25 AM

I only have one small cat, but with maybe 20 more and perhaps a few dogs I wouldn't have to bathe at all! Can't say this isn't a clean joke, though probably not a very good one...valaya a la maya

[This message has been edited by valaya (edited 01-14-2002).]

Tarun · 01-15-2002, 09:14 AM

You forgot to ask me why the French "Spine Stretching"?
Can you guess?
Will you believe it when I tell you? Will I?
Shall I?

Tarun · 01-24-2002, 10:07 PM

Whatta country! Whatta country!
Mariah Carey was just offered $28 million to break her contract.
Just imagine.
Getting paid so much for NOT recording & NOT performing.
Truly amazing!
Hey, but wait! You think that's something! Get a load of this:
Enron just offered Arthur Anderson an even better deal:
A cool $30 million not to 'SING' either.
*********
It's been further reported that Mariah Carey plans to invest her newly 'hard-earned' cash in US Farmland for which she'll be paid, that's right, handsomely rewarded for NOT growing any crops at all!
(just to keep her momentum & tradition going strong).
Sound familiar? Sound just? Like I said: Whatta Country!

valaya · 01-25-2002, 03:28 PM

I've been known to collect a pocketful of change at parties by promising not to pass gas...come to think about it, for the right price I'll promise not to post! Now that should be worth a tidy sum, eh?

valaya a la maya

[This message has been edited by valaya (edited 01-25-2002).]