Albert Einstein wrote this riddle early during the 20th century. He said
that 98% of the world population would not be able to solve it.
1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke
different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.
1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house ! smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.
Give it a try, it's a fun riddle!
In other news I attened my first Vikings game of the year (I share my season tickets
with a couple of friends, and the other game I had was a preseason game against the Arizona
Cardinals where Emmitt Smith wasn't even going to play, so I went down to the Dome to sell
those tickets. Most scalpers looked at me as if I had just shot their dog when I asked if
they were buying tickets. Thankfully I found one guy who took pity on me and offered $5
for each ticket. Nothing like a preseason game against the worst team in football
(at least the worst team in football not in our division, see: Bears, Lions), to
devaluate my ticket. It's like I had Argentinian Pesos or something.
So, the Vikes lost to the Giants... a 2-4 team. If Kerry Collins could play all of his
games against the Vikings he'd be going to the Hall Of Fame. However, this does get the
obligatory loss out of the way before next Sunday night's game against the much-hated
Green Bay Packers. A victory over Green Bay will just about assure us a divsion title.
In other football news, due to wild fires in southern California (which I'm guessing
were caused by cybernetic organisms from the future who have come back in time to kill
John Connor) tonight's Monday Night Football game has been moved from San Diego, to Tempe
Arizona. I think the over/under on tonight's attendance is about 12,000 people. Which is
more than half of the normal total for most Arizona Cardinal games.
More sports related rambling. I was so sad to hear the Gregg Easterbrook (former ESPN
Page2 columnist) made some vague anti-semetic remarks on his weblog, and got fired. He
mentioned how the heads of Disney and Miramax were Jewish, and later said how they were
only interested in money (his larger argument being about too much violence in media).
I agree with his overall arguement (which he mentioned from time to time in his TMQ column
for Page2) that it's silly that you can have 20, 30, 50, 100 people get killed in a movie
and it gets a favorable rating, but you show too much of a person's body and you get
slapped with an NC-17, which is the kiss of death for making a profit on a movie. However,
media conglomerates putting out violent movies to make money has nothing to do with the
company's leaders being Jewish. Evil businessmen come in all shapes, sizes, and religions.
It's funny how quickly any record of him ever writing for ESPN was wiped clean from their
website.
Also, the Florida Marlins won the World Series...and the rest of the country yawned.
Hockey and Basketball have started their season... and most of the country yawned, and
hit their snooze alarm to wake up in April.
Back to the riddle. The answer: The German owns the fish.
Didn't get it right? Looks like somebody's got a case of the Mondays!
*smack*
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