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 Posted: 01/12/06 - 12:12 Post subject:
ahh T-D-S-X=6
that's where i buggered.... i had the formulas right, i just didn't set the total package up properly...
good call.
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Posted: 01/12/06 - 12:17 Post subject:
After doing some of these it is very evident to me why I am in engineering. The mathematical problems I can do fair enough, but when it comes to the verbal I can't do one to save my 
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Posted: 01/12/06 - 12:19 Post subject:
| Running Brewer wrote: | | After doing some of these it is very evident to me why I am in engineering. The mathematical problems I can do fair enough, but when it comes to the verbal I can't do one to save my |
i have a healthy balance of mediocracy...
at least these give me a chance to brush up my math skills. i always liked those questions.
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Posted: 01/12/06 - 12:32 Post subject:
Tree fiddy! 
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Posted: 01/13/06 - 08:33 Post subject:
Fill in each blank below with a word that fits the definition on the left when read normally and fits the definition on the right when read backwards.
A legal term ______ Horse’s gait
A specific location ______ Highest points
A vegetable ______ Part of a boat
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Posted: 01/13/06 - 08:44 Post subject:
A legal term __tort / trot____ Horse’s gait
A specific location __spot / tops <??>____ Highest points
A vegetable __leek / keel____ Part of a boat
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karlene
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Posted: 01/13/06 - 09:15 Post subject:
| prohemp wrote: | A legal term __tort / trot____ Horse’s gait
A specific location __spot / tops <??>____ Highest points
A vegetable __leek / keel____ Part of a boat |
DING DING
I had a hard time with Leek/Keel. What is a Keel?
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Posted: 01/13/06 - 09:34 Post subject:
| Karlene wrote: | | prohemp wrote: | A legal term __tort / trot____ Horse’s gait
A specific location __spot / tops <??>____ Highest points
A vegetable __leek / keel____ Part of a boat |
DING DING
I had a hard time with Leek/Keel. What is a Keel? |
A keel looks like a rudder but it's more towards the center of the bottom of the boat.
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Posted: 01/13/06 - 09:39 Post subject:
| prohemp wrote: | | Karlene wrote: | | prohemp wrote: | A legal term __tort / trot____ Horse’s gait
A specific location __spot / tops <??>____ Highest points
A vegetable __leek / keel____ Part of a boat |
DING DING
I had a hard time with Leek/Keel. What is a Keel? |
A keel looks like a rudder but it's more towards the center of the bottom of the boat. |
Yup. Keeps the boat from rolling over, like a weight. Usually on yachts and the like.
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Posted: 01/13/06 - 09:51 Post subject:
| prohemp wrote: | | Karlene wrote: | | prohemp wrote: | A legal term __tort / trot____ Horse’s gait
A specific location __spot / tops <??>____ Highest points
A vegetable __leek / keel____ Part of a boat |
DING DING
I had a hard time with Leek/Keel. What is a Keel? |
A keel looks like a rudder but it's more towards the center of the bottom of the boat. |
No, it is the center...you might say, it's the spine of the ship/boat. I mean, where do you think that the word "keelhaul" originated?
1 a : the chief structural member of a boat or ship that extends longitudinally along the center of its bottom and that often projects from the bottom;
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Posted: 01/16/06 - 10:36 Post subject:
Here are a few:
1. A line from a nursery rhyme has been put into very fancy language below. Can you put it back into everyday English?
Small individual dressed in the color of a clear sky, please use your mouth to force sound from a metal instrument.
2. If three men can paint a wall in an hour and a half, how long will it take nine men to paint six walls?
3. Each of the following words can be rearranged into a different means of transportation. Can you find them all and ride off happily?
OATBRRFEY OTOCCLEMRY VEOOMLCOTI XBIAACT
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Posted: 01/16/06 - 10:42 Post subject:
1. Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn." - Really now, how does that get into a Mensa problem? Mensa-Lite?
3. Yes. No. (Edit due to the fact that I don't like to get off my locomotive, get into the taxicab, transer to the ferryboat, and hop on my motorcycle...I'll just walk.)
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Posted: 01/16/06 - 10:43 Post subject:
| msparks wrote: | | 1. Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn." - Really now, how does that get into a Mensa problem? Mensa-Lite? |
Correct. 
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Posted: 01/16/06 - 10:53 Post subject:
2) 'bout 60 minutes, depending.
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Posted: 01/16/06 - 10:57 Post subject:
| msparks wrote: | | 2) 'bout 60 minutes, depending. |
No...
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