MENSA Teaser
I was asked last week through the magic of electronical mail if the questions I pose each and every week are actual MENSA questions and not just random trivia questions, to which I replied, “yes, they are actual MENSA questions”.
That’s a true story, it really happened.
I take these questions from something called, The Big Book of MENSA Brain Teasers. I keep it on my bookshelf next to The Population Bomb, An Inconvenient Truth, Dreams of my Father, and The Communist Manifesto. I keep all my Marxist readings close at hand. I need them in case a union meeting breaks out.
If you are, or know someone that goes by the name of The Daily Bayonet or/and Go_Fish (but not J.M. Heinrichs), tell them they correctly identified last weeks MENSA teaser. Unless that person is you, then celebrate quietly, as if they whole world is looking directly at you and pointing with judgmental fingers.
Because they are, as you tend to embarrass yourself with insane, ear-piercing celebrations. You have the right attitude, you just have to learn to use your inside voices.
Nonetheless, I congratulate you on your mammoth victory, and wonder if you know the answer to this:
Unscramble the letters in each word below, then unscramble the order of words to create a Tom Swifty sentence. (Tom always speaks adverbially.)
FINKE YM SI NI SBSIUNES MIFAYL HTE DIAS RPHSALY MOT
Ah yes, it sounds like the Gaelic my grandma use to speak to me if I actually had any family members that spoke Gaelic.
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:58 am
My family is in the knife business Tom said sharply.
July 2nd, 2009 at 7:05 am
My inside voice says “Are those donuts for everybody?”
My family is in the knife business, Tom said sharply.
July 2nd, 2009 at 7:25 am
My family is in the knife business, Tom said sharply.
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:32 am
In my knife is the family business, Tom said sharply.
The Swifts were well known for getting pissed and knifing anyone they didn’t like.
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Apparently I should have been consulting my “Page-A-Day” 2008 Mensa Calendar irregardless …
Cheers
July 15th, 2009 at 10:24 am
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