MENSA Friday
The Mayor was bicuriouscurious when the first MENSA Friday started in Mitchieville, so he had his outsourced, overseas IT Team look into it, and they found that November 4, 2005 was the first day MENSA was played in these parts. Imagine, 2005 – that’s nearly 15 years ago. A long time.
The Mayor was amused by the first post; it was a time of innocence, a time of curiosity, a time for every season under the sun – turn, turn, turn. And now, here we are 15 years later, with over 300 MENSA posts behind us, and what have we learned? Yes, we have learned not to anger The Mayor. You are fantastic constituents. And fast learners.
Last week there were a multitude of winners’, and those winners have names. Names like:
Mr Fnortner
Andy of the Red Letter variety
And that’s it. That’s the multitude of winners’. The Mayor wishes he actually knew what the word multitude means.
Andy and Mr Fnortner – youze be the MENSA-Headed Winners of the Week (MHWotW)!
Where’s the confetti? The Mayor asked that after he announced the winners’ that confetti would fall from the ceiling. There is no confetti falling. Heads will roll. Heads will roll.
Today’s questions, when typed out, in English, look strikingly like the questions below:
1) You have two credit cards, each with a four digit number. The first number is four times the second. The first number is the reverse of the second. What is the first number?
A) 8644
B) 8888
C) 8712
D) 9440
2) What is the least synonymous with DISGUSTING?
A) Scornful
B) Sickening
C) Loathsome
D) Odious
It looks as though MENSA #312 went off without a hitch. That calls for some confetti. Oh right.
Heads will roll. Heads will roll.
February 24th, 2012 at 10:01 am
1) C) 8712
2) A) scornful
February 24th, 2012 at 10:44 am
1.C; 2.A.
Yes, I used a calculator. Then, I typed 5318008.
So they were given the sheriff badges, but no six shooters? Makes it tough to play a rousing game of Cowboys & Indigenous…
February 24th, 2012 at 11:01 am
Thanks again for the MHWotW (pronounced muh-watt-wuh, I believe) award. Sounds like something from “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”
I have to go with A and C. Frankly, #1 shouldn’t have been a multiple choice since it reduces to a simple matter of dividing each of the four choices by 4, something that could be done by inspection without any real arithmetic. Also, 0000 would be an answer.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:01 am
Carp. C and A.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:15 am
“muh-watt-wuh”
“Sounds like something from “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”
Not bad, Mr Fnortner, not bad at all.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:38 am
I just want to say, I really appreciate “White Atrocity Month.” I feel like I’ve been getting away with a lot.
February 24th, 2012 at 12:38 pm
So… how DO you get the coin outta the bottle without removing the cork? Enquiring Minds™ wanna know.
February 24th, 2012 at 1:01 pm
T ‘n’ A
Er, I meant C & A.
Wait, no, sorry, I did mean T ‘n’ A.
February 24th, 2012 at 1:15 pm
It seems that “without taking the cork *out* of the bottle” is the critical phrase, putatively finessed by pushing the cork *into* the bottle. How this is accomplished is not specified, perhaps something involving the nether regions of the University Admissions Orificers. Sounds like the kind of experience that could lead a man to develop a preference for boxed or screw-top wines.
February 24th, 2012 at 11:32 pm
math and english questions, what_ever.
Great motivational poster though.
February 25th, 2012 at 8:47 am
These were WAY too easy. I’m not even bothering to answer them.
February 27th, 2012 at 2:14 am
I was going to answer, but my head started rolling.
March 2nd, 2012 at 1:34 pm
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