Happy Invade the Natives and Give Them Syphilis Day.

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(Is it any wonder they celebrate this nowadays, primarily, by not letting civil servants deliver the mail?)

Rather than ranting about that (or anything else), I thought I'd share a mind-numbing puzzle from LJ's own squonk_npl. Unlike ones I come up with, which occasionally wind up on a friend's weekly emailed brain tease, Scott gets to send his puzzles to the likes of NPR's Will Shortz. One of these made it onto Weekend Edition Sunday yesterday.

Here tis, as Will presented it online:

From Scott Weiss of Walkertown, Md.: Name the sixth thing in a well-known series. Change its third letter to the next letter of the alphabet. Then rearrange all the letters, and you'll get the seventh thing in the series. What names are these?

I got it on about the eighth try. I then commented on Scott's entry concerning the puzzle, not with the answer (his comments weren't screened), but with this self-satisfied-and-ever-so-slightly-hinty response:

Heh.

Think of all the silly grins you've put on the faces of 13-year-olds-at-heart with that one.

Invariably accompanied by a reference to a nonexistent but extremely well-known species.

Well, gwon. Get out a piece of paper and see what happens when you try to rearrange "Saturday" into "Sunday." (You can't, but it's the right track.)  THESE comments are screened, at least guesses will be until it's been multipl-y guessed correctly and people are screaming for the answer.

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[schmedgar.livejournal.com]

People in Baltimore celebrate this all year round by contonuing to give people syphilis!