From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
[mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Brian D Williams
>Since we were talking about GATTACA I thought I'd share the first
>lateral thinking puzzle I was ever told:
>A man hates his job.
>One day he comes home and begins to drink...
>He drinks till he passes out.
>He gets up in the middle of the night, and goes to the bathroom.
>Then he turns out the light, and goes back to bed.
>When he wakes up in the morning, he looks out his window and see's
>hundreds of people laying there dead.
>The man kills himself.
>Q. What did the man do for a living?
Hah ... that one's easy.
He writes boring lateral thinking puzzles and when he sees that everybody
who reads the puzzles dies of boredom he kills himself.
What is the idea of a puzzle like that? And why should he be a lighthouse
keeper? I expected it to be a clever quiz, and then it's only really a real
poor poem that doesn't even rhyme ...
Regards
Max Rasmussen
Max M. W. Rasmussen, Denmark. New Media Director
private: maxmcorp@worldonline.dk work: maxm@normik.dk
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