Since starting a new session on MindTrap Friday this past September, participation has gone from slow, to not as low, to kind of medium, then to medium, then decent, to good, which brought us to last week which, as described by the New York Times, was “A great ride, fun for the whole family, a 5 star performance.”

I’ll be honest with you, I thought the NYT’s exaggerated a wee bit, but who am I to criticize their creative license regarding these types of things.

Now that we started off by me making little or no sense, let’s look at the winners from last week who made an awful lot of sense:

The answers to last week’s MindTrap Friday are…

1) Skyrocket, Octopus, Mock Turtle

2) Birds of a feather

3) $81.00

Which means that Larry and Andy are the MindTrap Friday Smarty Panted Winners of the Week.

Since the prize bank has been robbed and the sub-prime fiasco has screwed up our funding from the bank, this means that your prize for the week is that you get to walk around Mitchieville with your head held high, knowing that you two gentlemen are smart as the day is long, and cute as the ears of a bug. I never really understood that whole bugs ear thing, but I don’t doubt for a moment that both of you are cutey patooties.

I can also say that last week we had so many people go 2/3 it was incredible. And it’s not as if everyone missed the same question either, it was a sight to behold, I can’t stop looking.

Let’s have a look at this week’s questions:

1) Four men sat down to play,
They played all night ’till break of day.
They played for gold and not for fun
With separate scores for everyone.
When they came to square accounts,
They all had made quite fair amounts.
Can you the paradox explain,
If no one lost, how could all gain?

2) Can you translate the following?

Y Y U R Y Y U B I C U R Y Y 4 M E

3) Barney Dribble fell asleep after dinner one night. When he awoke he realized that he would have to rush in order to make last call at the Soul Ace Hotel. He grabbed a t-shirt and put it on inside-out, with his left arm in the right sleeve. Where is the label?

I’d have to say that all three questions are a mystery, the past is history and the present is a gift. Yes, a gift of love.

If you can’t see the beauty in that last sentence, then you have no heart. Please leave this website immediately, you heartless buffer of the party lamp.

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