Community Magazine June 2012

walked over to the dead rabbit, and sprayed the contents of the can on it. Miraculously, the rabbit came to life, jumped up, waved its paw at the two humans and hopped down the road. The man was astonished. After watching the rabbi hop away and waving back all the while, he ran over to the woman and asked, “What in the world was in that spray?” The woman turned the can around so that the man could read the label. It said: “Hare Spray” Restores life to dead hare, adds permanent wave. Sarah Dweck MIRACLE OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY I saw an advertisement in the Brookstone catalogue for a “Body Fat Analyzer.” The ad piqued my interest and so I stopped off at the local Brookstone store to pick one up. When I saw the “Body Fat Analyzer” I was shocked to find myself standing in front of a good, old fashioned mirror. Abhu Cohen PILLS WITH A PURPOSE A man goes to the doctor and says that he hasn’t been feeling well. The doctor examines him, leaves the room and comes back with three different bottles of pills. He tells the patient, “Take the green pill with a glass of water when you get up. Take the blue pill with a glass of water after lunch. Then just before going to bed, take the red pill with another glass of water.” Startled that he is being put on so much medicine, the man stammers, “Say doc, exactly what’s my problem?” The doctor says, “You’re not drinking enough water.” Steve Shweky THE SNORING SOLUTION A woman was having a medical problem – her husband snored. So she called the doctor one morning, and asked him if there was anything he could do to relieve her suffering. “Well,” the doctor said, “there is a treatment I can implement that will cure your husband, but it is really rather expensive. It will cost $1,000 down, and payments of $450 for 24 months, plus incidental extras.” “My goodness!” the woman exclaimed. “That’s as much as the lease for a new sports car!” “Hmm,” the doctor murmured, “too obvious, huh?” Nathan Harary VERIFIABLE VITALS I am five feet three inches tall and pleasingly plump. After I had a minor accident, my mother accompanied me to the emergency room. The triage nurse asked for my height and weight, and without even thinking I blurted out, “Five foot eight and 125 lbs.” “Sweetheart,” my mother gently chided, “this is not the internet.” Jack V. Grazi MERLIN MEETS HIS MATCH A man who thought he was Merlin the Magician was disturbing the neighborhood, so for public safety, he was committed. He was put in a room with another crazy fellow and immediately began his routine, “I am Merlin the Magician – King Arthur has sent me!” The other guy looks at him and declares, “I did not!” Michael Levy Riddle: Self Segregation SUBMITTED BY: Eddie Gindi A group of 80 people are given hats to wear that are either white or black. Each person does not know the color of his or her own hat, but they can see the colors of everyone else’s hats. The people must then separate themselves into separate groups of white hat wearers and black hats wearers. Each per- son can only decide which for himself or herself which group to join and may not direct others. Using only logic (and no cheap mirror tricks or signals, how do they know to separate? Last Month’s Riddle: Phones of Falsehood Morris has two iPhones that were I infected with software viruses. His white iPhone gives out false results every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and the other days in week it is accurate. His black one outputs corrupt data on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, however on other days of the week, it functions depend- ably. Morris uses Siri to find out if the phones were working correctly yesterday. White iPhone: Yesterday I was lying. Black iPhone: So was I. What day was it? Solution: Thursday. There is no day when both phones would be giving false results, so at least one of them must have been correct. If the black iPhone was functioning correctly, then it would have to be Sun- day – but this is not possible because then the white iPhone’s statement would be false. Thus, the statements must have been made on Thursday. Solved by: Daniel Dilamani, Ezra Sitt, Isaac Sasson, Moshe Sutton, Hadassah Newman, Yael Panzok, Michael Rosen, Victor Grazi Junior Riddle: The Baseball Mystery SUBMITTED BY: C. Gerwitz During a world series game, the bases were loaded with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning with the score tied at zero. After taking three balls and two strikes, the batter hit a long fly ball that sailed over the centerfield wall. The home team won the game, but no man scored, and no man was out. How is this possible? Last Month’s Junior Riddle: Holy Goblet What is designed to hold water, but is full of holes? Solution: a sponge. Solved by: Daniel Dilamani, Rachel Cohen, David Delrahimnia, Ezra Sitt, Isaac Sasson, Yitzy D, Jimmy Betesh, Rajel Erani, Moshe Sutton, Daniel Shweky, Sherman Lazar Kahn, Akiva Blum, Vivian, Sonny Chehebar, Aryeh and Michoel Panzok, Penina Stollak, Victor Grazi Trivia: Facebook Facts 437 million • • Estimated number of women who are annoyed by their Facebook friends – 85 percent of Facebook’s 901 million users. (Source: Ziff Davis) $ 9,687,500 : Estimated value of the average Facebook software engineer’s shares – of which there are over 3200, after the company’s $105 billion IPO last month. (Source: Facebook IPO disclosure) SEND YOUR SOLUTIONS! mobile: Scan the QR code at right online: go.CommunityM.com/riddle email: riddles@Community M .com facsimile: 718-504-4246 postal mail: 1616 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11223 Correct solutions received by the 20 th of each month will be noted in the next issue. ! 88 COMMUNITY MAGAZINE