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1. Why are 2011 dollar bills worth more than 2010 dollar bills? 

 
2. Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's name?




 
3. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?

 



 
4. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world? 

 



 
5. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?
 



6. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly? 
 



 
7. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?  

 



 
8. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?
 

9. What was the President's Name in 1975?

10. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

11. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"?

12. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field?

 

Here are the Answers

 

1. Why are 2011 dollar bills worth more than 2010 dollar bills?
Answer:  It's a dollar more.

 

 

2. Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's name?
Answer:  Johnny of course

 

3. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall,and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
Answer:  Meat.

 

4. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
Answer: Mt. Everest; it just wasn't discovered yet.

 

5. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?
Answer: There is no dirt in a hole.

 

6. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly?
Answer:  Incorrectly

 

7. Billy was born on December 28th, yet her birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?
Answer: Billy lives in the Southern Hemisphere

8. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?
Answer: You can't take pictures with a wooden leg. You need a camera to take pictures.

 

9.  What was the President's Name in 1975?
Answer: Same as is it now - Barack Obama

 

10. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
Answer: You would be in 2nd. Well, you passed the person in second place, not first.

 

11. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"?
Answer: Neither, the yolk of the egg is yellow

 

12. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field?
Answer: One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big stack

5 tips for solving a Rubik’s Cube

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5 tips for solving a Rubik’s Cube

By Mike Smith | Plugged In – 

Sorry, Monopoly. No offense, Barbie. Apologies, Mr. Potato Head.

Rubik's Cube (Getty Images)

The world's best-selling toy isn't a game, a doll or a spud: it's a humble arrangement of 26 cubes, invented by a Hungarian architecture professor back in 1974.

In the 37 years since Erno Rubik first created his famous cube, it's sold over 350 million units, making the man himself a household name and propelling his cuboid conundrum into the history books. Although its three-dimensional nature makes it a tricky prospect for beginners, pros can solve it well under a minute. The world record? A mere 5.66 seconds.

Hard as that may be to believe, mathematicians have proved it's always possible to solve absolutely any cube arrangement, no matter how scrambled, in 20 moves or less. Deciding which 20 is the hard bit -- but we're here to help.

Squaring up to the Cube

It's natural to think of the cube as having six faces, each with nine cubes. But don't. Instead, think of it as 26 cublets, grouped into three categories: centers, edges, and corners.

Centers have one colored side, and are fixed together by the cube's internal spindle. They can move around but can't swap places, and there are six of them, one per face. Get in the habit of thinking of these as fixed points that indicate the proper color for each face.

The twelve edge cubes have two sides and can be found in the middle of a face. Corners, meanwhile, have three sides, and there are eight of them -- four on the top, four on the bottom.

Start at the beginning

There are lots of good methods for solving a Rubik's Cube, but some are easier than others. Most of the beginner-appropriate ones start the same way: solve the top face.

How? Pick a color (any color), and find the corresponding center cublet. Then move out the cublets that don't fit, and move in the ones that do. If you get one in the right place but with the wrong orientation, move it out and come back to it later. Once you're done, you'll have not only the top face one uniform color, but the top three cublets on each side face will also match; if not, you have an edge or corner in the wrong place.

Go "through the keyhole"

Having solved one face, you're probably pretty reluctant to undo your good work. But sometimes you need to step backwards to move forwards, and that's the principle behind this handy tip.

After solving the top face, the standard next step is to tackle the bottom, opposite face. One good way to do that is to deliberately move an edge piece out from the already finished top, making a "keyhole." As you maneuver pieces to solve the bottom face, you'll find that if you move them through the keyhole each time, you won't disturb the rest of the top. Once you're done with the bottom, it's a simple matter to move the keyhole piece back into place.

Develop your intuition

Stuck? That's not surprising. Once you've got the top and bottom faces down, matters get more difficult.

We suggest stopping there, rescrambling the cube, and starting over. Once you've gone from a complete cubescramble to a couple of finished sides, you'll have absorbed most of the principles and methods you'll need to finish up that elusive middle layer. But if you're still stuck, there are some great, step-by-step tutorials on the Web -- but be prepared to memorize some pretty complex move sequences. If you can hone your own intuition without detailed guides, you'll be a better solver.

Don't forget: lube your Cube

Are your twists just not as smooth as you think they should be? Maybe your cube is running dry. Twist the top face through 45 degrees, and use a flat-bladed screwdriver to gently pry out one of the edge pieces. Spray a small amount of silicon-based lubricant -- available from your local home improvement store -- into the gap. Replace the edge piece, and give your cube a good scrambling. You should find it much smoother, and your solving times should plummet.

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