Lyn's Licks & Laughs...with alter egos Bobbie Cole & Sunny

Last Minute Musings

A cheerful note from CJ - and then I got it from Janet as well...passing it on.




Life is short, Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably, And never regret anything that made you smile.

I can live with that.

You can thank Janet for being the pain in the butt who sent me the next one - a test for people who think they know everything. (Hmm...why did she send it to ME?)

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?

6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw" and they are all common words. Name two of them.

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?

8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S."

Oh, and you expect me to post the answers? You'll have to wade through the rest of the post before you get to them. C'mon - instant gratification isn't worth it.

I took some Dr. Phil quiz on how others see you the other day (friends are marvelous creatures, aren't they? - sending things like this...when all they really have to do if they have the guts is to TELL us what they think of us or how they perceive us). I scored 48 - seems Phil got 50-something and Oprah a 38, and at the end of it, I still wasn't sure what I'd taken. The damn thing was only 10 questions, but it seemed to take forever.

Answers To Quiz: 1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends . . Boxing 2. North American landmark constantly moving backward . Niagara Falls (The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.) 3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons . . Asparagus and rhubarb. 4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside . . Strawberry. 5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside the bottle. (The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season.. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.) 6. Three English words beginning with dw: Dwarf, dwell and dwindle. 7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar . . Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses. 8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh Lettuce. 9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with "s". Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

posted by Bobbie (Sunny) Cole @ 1:35 PM 1 comments