MENSA Teaser
Did The Mayor actually forget to post MENSA Teaser last Friday? I do believe he did. Something like that has never happened before on these pages. MENSA Teaser has been posted religiously, every single Friday, for five years now. You could, up until last week, count on coming to Mitchieville every Friday morning and see, staring you right in that beautiful face of yours, the MENSA Teaser. But The Mayor plum forgot to post up last week, he dropped the ball. The Mayor dropped the freakin’ ball.
What’s that? You didn’t even notice? It didn’t even occur to you that MENSA Teaser was missing? Wow, what a relief. What a relief to know that you couldn’t care less one way or another that the most popular segment Mitchieville has ever had wasn’t even posted last Friday. Man, that shore takes the stress off The Mayor. I’ll definitely sleep well tonight knowing that.
Hmmmm, now we’re kind of at that awkward stage, not knowing what to say, staring down at our collective size 11’s. Ya. Sooooo, how about that? Uh huh.
Okay, okay, I’ll break the tension – how about we play MENSA Teaser (the game no one cares about) and get on with our day. Time is money, as the poor folk say.
1) Angelica likes zucchini but not turnips. She likes Granny Smith apples but not Golden Delicious. She likes peas but not carrots. Based on this information, will she lie Brussels sprouts or potatoes?
2) How many common English words can you make from the letters below, using all five letters once in each word? The Mayor found five words (all swear words, too).
A E L P S
And just like that, MENSA Teaser begins.
Exciting times.
Hey, it snowed last night in Mitchieville, aint that something?
Everyone is encouraged to play MENSA Teaser, we have lowered the restrictions this year so that pretty much everyone can play. No longer are certain races and religions banned form playing MENSA Teaser, oh no, now we’re actually encouraging people from various faiths and ethnicity’s to contribute to this most not-cared-about game.
So, whatcha got?
October 22nd, 2010 at 11:11 am
Angelica likes Brussels sprouts. She does not like root crops.
lapse, leaps, pales, peals, pleas
BTW, you forgot to mention that I got both questions right last time, Mayor. But, I played again anyway.
October 22nd, 2010 at 11:52 am
Angel, what we call her the vegetable eating club, doesn’t like vegetables at all, really, but of the ones she doesn’t like, she hates potatoes and tolerates Brussels sprouts. But, it is because the sprouts are green.
SPALE, SLAPE, ASPEL, LPSEA, and another sixty seven that Andy missed.
October 22nd, 2010 at 11:59 am
She seems to like green fruits and vegetables. She’ll like brussels sprouts. Andy? Golden delicious apples are a root crop?
Words: lapse, leaps, pales, peals, pleas, and sepal.
October 22nd, 2010 at 12:54 pm
Mr. Fnortner, Golden delicious apples are obviously not a root crop. The “apple” thing was just to throw you off. It was not relevant to the other two clues…turnips, carrots…root crops.
BTW: Good catch on “sepal.” I missed that one.
October 22nd, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Well, I know that if you combine the zuchini,turnips,and the two types of apples,it makes for a lousy tasting pie.
Believe me, never add turnips to apple pies,pears,okay, but not turnips.
btw, you can’t make any words in the English language out of those letters.
“Sepal”, “one of the leaflike divisions of the calyx”.
I don’t think “calyx” is a word either.
October 22nd, 2010 at 1:38 pm
1 Brussels sprouts
2 fifteen and a half,
October 22nd, 2010 at 1:45 pm
Don, I was gonna throw the bs flag on “sepal,” too. I think it’s Latin, but Americans (and Canadians, too, I bet) use it like it’s English. I mean, those two or three that know about it…
October 22nd, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Angelica is pregnant, she is turning into a bitch and can’t help it for all the raging hormones. She likes potatoes, and a good foot and back rub… don’t worry, things get better after the twins are born.
and this may have something to do with her blood sugar level too.
*don, if you look at the ingredients of the fruit mix that some mom’s use in Christmas / fruit cakes, for the “no-name” varieties it will have rutabagas / turnips as the first ingredient. They’re just flavored to be like some unknown fruit as they’re cheap. But I’ve never had Christmas cake flavored pie, yet.
In the schools nowadays the teachers just give points for trying and so that you know you’re loved and accepted, that you don’t grow up to be the type that breaks windows.
So, I tried.
October 22nd, 2010 at 4:56 pm
Andy, in all the years I’ve conversed with folks,I have never heard the word “sepal” brought up in the conversation.
Come to think of it, no one but me has ever used the word “periphrastic” in a conversation,either!
Perhaps I converse with backward people.
btw,thanks for that Christmas cake recipe marc,though shouldn’t we call it Festive Cake in deference to folks who are offended by Christmas?
October 22nd, 2010 at 7:30 pm
She will like potatoes not the BS. I suspect that if the choice were corn and beans she would take corn … as for the word game … I have no idea. Great site, don’t let it go to your head, either o….
October 22nd, 2010 at 8:40 pm
It’s very true. Getting punched in the mouth is a game-changer.
October 22nd, 2010 at 11:23 pm
Periphrastic is a roundabout way of saying circumlocution. For those who care, Wikipedia says periphrasis is a device by which a grammatical category or grammatical relationship is expressed by a free morpheme (typically one or more function words modifying a content word), instead of being shown by inflection. Thought you’d like to know.
About turnips, eating them requires more nutrients and energy than they provide, for a net negative. Or was that parsnips?
October 22nd, 2010 at 11:51 pm
Sepal launch: http://www.ausairpower.net/SPU-35B-Redut-Sepal-TEL-1S.jpg
Cheers
October 23rd, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Mr.F, I tend to confuse “circumlocution” with “circumcision” which makes for an embarrassing faux pas,so use the other instead.
By the time I get around to such language, most folks have stopped listening anyway.
October 23rd, 2010 at 11:05 pm
Thanks, dm. With me most people stop listening much earlier.
October 29th, 2010 at 10:03 am
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