Let’s See How Smart You Are….

Answers are at the bottom of page, but don’t cheat!!!!

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered,

…. what was the highest mountain in the world?

4. How much dirt is there in a hole

…that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?

5. What word in the English language

…is always spelled incorrectly?

6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer.

….How is this possible?

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

8. What was the President’s name
…. in 1975?

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

10. Which is correct to say,
….
“The yolk of the egg are white” or “The yolk of the egg is white”?

11. 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?
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Here are the Answers

1. 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

2. 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.

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

Answer: Mt. Everest; it just wasn’t discovered yet. [You’re not very good at this are you?]

4. 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.

5. What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?

Answer: Incorrectly

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

Answer: Billy lives in the Southern Hemisphere

7. 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.

8. What was the President’s name in 1975?

Answer: Same as is it now – Barack Obama [Oh, come on…..]

9. 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.

10. 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 [duh!]

11. 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 one.

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5 Responses to Let’s See How Smart You Are….

  1. Peggy says:

    Would you believe I got them all right? Good, cuz you’d be wrong.

  2. Tina says:

    Apparently Jack was forced to close comments to discourage spam on several threads. Apologies to Jack for posting a short message here for Chris regarding the article linked to at Watts Up With That.

    Chris you have a point about the comparison, however when you consider the government sponsored push for green alternatives have occurred because of fraudulent information and scare tactics the cost to taxpayers for the green industrial complex becomes troubling indeed. This “investment” of government dollars fits more into the government waste category than it does private investment category.

    The government did choose to create tax law for businesses that also affects oil and gas tax returns. Reporting that these are subsidies is incorrect. Gas and oil do not receive money from the government. I would bet the oil industry would gladly give up the tax credits in exchange for more reasonable regulation and taxation but things like that seem never to happen in DC.

    It’s also important to note that tax revenues from gas and oil far exceed profits. Green energy can’t make that claim…not even close.

    In 2005 a “windfall profits” tax was being discussed in Washington. This http://taxfoundation.org/article/oil-company-profits-and-tax-collections-does-us-need-new-windfall-profits-tax“>article from the Tax Foundation makes it clear that governments profit more from the industry that do the oil and gas companies WITHOUT all of the costs…they do nothing but collect the cash:

    over the past 25 years, oil companies directly paid or remitted more than $2.2 trillion in taxes, after adjusting for inflation, to federal and state governments—including excise taxes, royalty payments and state and federal corporate income taxes. That amounts to more than three times what they earned in profits during the same period, according to the latest numbers from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and U.S. Department of Energy. … These figures do not include local property taxes, state sales and severance taxes and on-shore royalty payments. …the 1980s windfall profits tax depressed the domestic production and extraction industry and furthered our dependence on foreign sources of oil … U.S. consumers pay an average of 45.9 cents per gallon in gasoline taxes. The federal gasoline excise tax is 18.4 cents per gallon while the average state and local tax is 27.5 cents. The vast majority of these taxes are levied at a flat rate per gallon—regardless of whether a gallon of gas costs $1.49, $2.49, or $3.49. Thus, the effective rate of these taxes can vary wildly, from roughly 31 percent in the former case to 13 percent in the later.

    Federal and state governments also collect a substantial amount of excise tax from the sale of diesel fuel. In today’s dollars, governments have collected $160 billion in diesel fuel excise taxes since 1977.

    Oil companies also pay taxes to governments for the right to extract oil from public lands and waters. For example, the federal government has collected a total of $48.8 billion in royalty payments from oil companies in exchange for their ability to explore and drill in the U.S. outer continental shelf. Oil companies also pay severance taxes to state governments for the right to drill on state lands. Unfortunately, complete data on state severance tax collections for the period is not available at this time.

    In contrast to excise taxes, corporate income tax payments vary as widely as industry profits. As mentioned above, domestic energy companies earned a total of $630 billion in post-tax profits between 1977 and 2004. Tax Foundation economists estimate that companies paid $518 billion in corporate income taxes to federal and state governments during the same period. These payments varied from a low of $5.1 billion in 1995 to a high of $40.4 billion in 1981.

    Oil and gas (and coal) are under attack but not because of global warming…that’s just a vehicle to gin up demand for government to “do something” through activism. The ultimate goal is to destroy world economies to usher in a world power structure and eliminate borders. The nations of the earth will not survive economically without a strong supply of energy. Wind and solar aren’t going to adequately replace oil and gas…ever!

    I know that sounds fantastic but I haven’t yet heard an argument that would discredit it as untrue and I’ve seen plenty of evidence to suggest it could very well be true.

    Big money guys like George Soros and Bill Clinton have positioned themselves to become the worldwide elites wielding absolute power…Obama will undoubtedly join them following his exit from the White House.

    So you see the article is an important piece of the energy story, valuable for taxpayers and consumers alike.

  3. Peggy says:

    Off topic.

    Our on line search views are being controlled. Read this to understand how.

    Forget bogus voter registration; here’s how the 2016 elections could be RIGGED:

    http://allenbwest.com/2015/08/forget-bogus-voter-registration-heres-how-the-2016-elections-could-be-rigged/

  4. Pie Guevara says:

    1. 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?

    MUHHAMED

    2. 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?
    HIS THUMB

    3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered,

    …. what was the highest mountain in the world?

    MOUNT HILLARY

    4. How much dirt is there in a hole

    …that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?

    DEPENDS. ARE WE TALKING THIS UNIVERSE OR A PARALLEL UNIVERSE?

    5. What word in the English language

    …is always spelled incorrectly?

    INCORRECTLY

    6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer.

    ….How is this possible?

    HE LIVES IN OZ

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

    YOU NEED A GOOGLE PROSTHETIC, THEY HAVE CAMERAS.

    8. What was the President’s name
    …. in 1975?

    CHOOM GANGSTA

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

    BEHIND TRUMP

    10. Which is correct to say,
    ….
    “The yolk of the egg are white” or “The yolk of the egg is white”?

    SCRAMBLED ARE YELLOW.

    11. 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?

    HAYSTACK CALHOUN

    Off topic —

    France Train Jihadi ‘Dumbfounded’ to Be Accused of Terrorism
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/259897/france-train-jihadi-dumbfounded-be-accused-robert-spencer

    • Post Scripts says:

      This is a really funny observation, but also so true: “It is a recurring and increasingly ridiculous feature of jihad terror coverage: every time a Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” plants a bomb or opens fire on a crowd of infidels, mainstream media coverage notes that “the attacker’s motive is not known.” But now Ayoub el-Khazzani, the Muslim gunman who was overpowered by three Americans, including two Marines, on a Paris-bound train last Friday, has gone the media one better by professing to be “dumbfounded” at being accused of terrorism. But the media, not unexpectedly, is happily going along, spreading the fog of disinformation that envelops the West’s response to the jihad threat even more thickly.”

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