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      Unsolved Problems &
      Unanswered Questions
      by Steve Klusmeyer - 1/13/2004

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      Problem Solving

      While visiting Annapolis, a group of tourists noticed several students on their hands and knees in a campus courtyard. Each one was hurriedly making calculations and recording them with pencils and notepads. "What are they doing?" one visitor asked the tour guide. He replied with a grin, "Each year, the upperclassmen ask the freshmen how many bricks it took to finish paving this courtyard." "So what's the answer?" another tourist asked after they were out of earshot of the freshmen. The guide replied, "One."

      I was once a naive freshman, too. I couldn't see the obvious answers and made everything more difficult than it was. Of course now that I am older and wiser, solutions just seem to pop into my mind whenever I'm faced with a tough situation. Yeah, right!

      Unanswered Questions

      The truth is, there are many problems whose solutions have eluded me. And there are many questions whose answers remain just beyond my reach. For example:

      • What is an occasional table and what is it the rest of the time?
      • Why is it ok to be a wise man, but not a wise guy?
      • Is a centipede an inchworm that's gone metric?
      • If space is a vacuum, who changes the bags?
      • You know that little indestructible black box that they search for after a plane crashes? Why don't they make the airplane out of the same material?
      • If you dig a tunnel to the other side of the earth, will you come out feet first?
      • Why are there 10 hotdogs in a package, but only 8 buns in a package?
      • How do "Do Not Walk on the Grass" signs get there?
      • Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds" fee on money they already know you don't have?
      • If a man is talking in the forest and there is no woman there to listen, is he still wrong?
      • When someone asks you, "A penny for your thoughts," and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?
      • Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
      • If the pen is mightier than the sword, and a picture is worth a thousand words, how dangerous is a fax?
      • Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of the song?
      • If a cow laughed really hard, would milk come out her nose?
      • What did cured ham actually have?

      And the most important unanswered question that I have . . .

      • What if the Hokey-Pokey really is what it's all about?

      It's a wonder I can sleep at all with such pressing issues going thru my mind. You probably have questions that keep you awake at night, too. But maybe they are a little more intense than mine. Find the answers to some of Life's Greatest Challenges.



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