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So I guess the questions have stopped coming. That's just fine with me. I'm having trouble coming up with good answers for some of them. I was arguing last night about some of the connotations of one of the questions. We could not agree if "pressing the reset button" on one's life meant "it was so great I want to do it all again" or "that was so dismal I wish none of it had ever happened." Which you can see really effects the nature of the answer.

Still considering there.

I guess we can deal with my Dad's questions though.

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I have to say, I must have gotten each of these things a dozen or so times over the years by email. I really never did like them much. Especially the animal one. First, I always get it confused with other jokes. So I am thinking "giraffe in a refrigerator?" Cuisenart!

No, that's dead babies into a VW bug. Umm, take off their hats!

No, that's popes in a Volkswagen. Maybe... Label it "Break Room!"

No, that's 100 American workers in a shoebox.

Then I remember the gag. I must say that if the question is "How to you put a giraffe in a refrigerator" that the answer can't have "put in the giraffe" as a component. So this particular gag has always irritated me. I mean how big a giraffe? How big a refrigerator? A sleeping giraffe?

All of a sudden I am thinking "African or European Swallow?"

I will say that rather than swimming the river because the crocs are at the animal meeting I prefer the James Bond version from Live and Let Die. But its rough to get them to line up that way.

The second group I tend to get right, although I think they are poor questions too. How can you assume you've lapped the last person unless you know the race has laps? Maybe you were just real late starting. I tend to bomb the last one from reading too fast, but get it if I go slow - which I guess is part of the point and is somewhat reminiscent of the "read everything before doing anything" quizzes we had in third grade.

There is, on that second page a great link to The Meatrix which is about how we manufacture meat in the US as narrated by "Moopheus." I saw it a while back. Check it out, its cool.