Missing Letters and Math Code Joke
A playful puzzle asks to fill in missing letters in a mom themed joke and then use the resulting numbers as a code to reveal the punch line. The item blends wordplay with basic arithmetic as a light brain teaser.
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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1985
Page
11
A playful puzzle asks to fill in missing letters in a mom themed joke and then use the resulting numbers as a code to reveal the punch line. The item blends wordplay with basic arithmetic as a light brain teaser.
Uranus, named for the Greek god of the skies, has a 15 hour day and a 32 000 mile diameter at 1 781 600 000 miles from the sun. Voyager will return first Uranus data and pictures in January 1986. Uranus has five moons and may have more. Neptune is the farthest planet now, with Voyager II set to visit in 1989.
The text notes the brain sorts about 100 million messages per second, surpassing the largest computer. It cites the mother ostrich laying an 8 inch egg as largest, and the mother hummingbird with 1/2 inch eggs as smallest. It also asks what Paul McCartney, Jimmy Connors, and Gerald Ford have in common, stating they are left handed along with 1 in 20 people worldwide.
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