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Daily Thinking ExercisesGetting Across
Ms. Waters and her twins, Danny and Anny, want to cross from the east side of the river to the west side in a canoe. But the canoe can hold no more than 200 pounds. Ms. Waters weighs 160 pounds, and Danny and Anny weigh 100 pounds each. How can all three of them reach the other side of the river in the canoe?

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Can You Explain?
To answer these questions, you have to let your brain think in different ways than you may be used to. Here’s an example: Question: A girl who was just learning to drive went down a one-way street in the wrong direction, but didn’t break the law. How come?
Answer: She was walking.
See if you can let your brain switch directions to answer these questions:

  1. Two students are sitting on opposite sides of the same desk. There is nothing in between them but the desk. Why can’t they see each other?
  2. Two students are sitting on opposite sides of the same desk. There is nothing in between them but the desk. Why can’t they see each other?
  3. There are only two T’s in Timothy Tuttle. True or false?

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Great Story


On Wisconsin
“On Wisconsin” is the official state song of Wisconsin and the fight song of the University of Wisconsin. It was composed in 1909. It was inspired by a 18 year-old Civil War hero named Arthur MacArthur.
Arthur McArthur was a first lieutenant in the 24th Wisconsin serving under General Grant at the battle of Chaatanooga on November 25,1863. The 24th Wisconsin was part of an assault on an impossible postion called Missionary Ridge. During the assault, when the soldier assigned to carry the battle flag of the 24th Wisconsin fell to an enemy bayonet, another soldier rushed forward to hoist the flag. The roar of cannon fire filled the ridge and the second color bearer fell, decapitated by a cannon ball. Bloody and wounded, Arthur MacArthur retrieved the colors himself. Raising the already battle-scared flag high he turned to his troops with the shout “On Wisconsin!” and proceeded up the ridge. As MacArthur reached the summit he firmly planted the staff of the flag in the ground. Below him the advancing soldiers saw their flag, battered and scarred, waving in the breeze at the top of the precipice. Their hearts filled with inspiration they surged forward, doing the improbable, achieving victory at Missionary Ridge.

 

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Men And Women
* A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he wants. A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn’t want.
* A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
* A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
* To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
* Married men live longer than single men - but married men are a lot more willing to die.
* Any married man should forget his mistakes - there’s no use in two people remembering the same thing.
* Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed. Women somehow deteriorate during the night.
* A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn’t. A man marries a woman expecting that she won’t change and she does.
* A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
* There are two times when a man doesn’t understand a woman - before marriage and after marriage.

 
Daily Thinking ExercisesJanice has $2.46 worth of coins in her pocket. The coins are of four different denominations, and she has the same number of each denomination. What are the four denominations, and how many of each does she have?Answer

The following people were at a family gathering: a grandfather, a grandmother, two fathers, two mothers, four children, three grandchildren, one brother, two sisters, two sons, two daughters, one father-in-law, one mother-in-law, and one daughter-in-law. What is the smallest number of people who could have been at the gathering? (Hint: The answer is not 23.)

Answer

  pledgeInspirationCharles Plum, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, was a jet fighter pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected & parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured & spent six years in a Communist prison.
He survived that ordeal & now lectures about lessons learned from that experience.

One day, when Plumb & his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a man at another table came up & said, “You’re Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!”
“How in the world did you know that?” asked Plumb.

“I packed your parachute,” the man replied. Plumb gasped in surprise & gratitude. The man pumped his hand & said, “I guess it worked!”
Plumb assured him, “It sure did-if your ‘chute hadn’t worked, I wouldn’t be here today.”

Plumb couldn’t sleep that night, thinking about that man. Plumb says, ‘I kept wondering what he might have looked like in a Navy uniform-a Dixie cup hat, a bib in the back, and bell bottom trousers. I wondered how many times I might have passed him on the Kitty Hawk. I wondered how many times I might have seen him & not even said good morning, how are you or anything because, you see, I was a fighter pilot & he was just a sailor.
Plumb thought of the many hours the sailor had spent on a long wooden table in the bowels of the ship carefully weaving the shrouds & folding the silks of each chute, holding in his hands each time the fate of someone he didn’t know. Now, Plumb asks his audience, ‘Who’s packing your parachute?’ Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it through the day. Plumb also points out that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down over enemy territory-he needed his physical parachute, his mental parachute, his emotional parachute, & his spiritual parachute.”

He called on all these supports before reaching safety. His experience reminds us all to prepare ourselves to weather whatever storms lie ahead..


 

 

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