16 December 2012

Probability of a son

Strictly speaking, it is not puzzle time since I am flying out of Atlanta not to Atlanta. But what the hell, it is holiday season… so, here goes..
I was addressing a large audience this morning and asked those who have two kids to raise their hands. Then I asked – of all the people who have their hands raised – to keep their hands raised if one of their child is a son born on a Sunday. They rest can put their hands down. Now I picked any one from the ones left with their hands raised. What is the probability that their other child is a son?
(assume equal probability for having a son or a daughter or which day of the week a child is born).

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16 December 2012

More conundrum

“Severe obesity skyrockets” (USA Today).
“3 AA Flights make mid-flight emergency landings” Β (CNN Today)
Anybody else see the connection? We are overworking those poor workhorses πŸ˜‰

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16 December 2012

Humor inflight!

Getting out of Dallas, that was the most hilarious announcement made by a flight attendant to shut down our phones. He named every single type of device, puns on those names, telecom carriers, operating systems, TV brands that I know of and asked us to shut them down. Unless the device kept us alive – which he insisted that we have to prove by shutting it down once πŸ™‚ And then he capped it off by exhorting the pilot “Ok, Captain, let’s go-go-go” πŸ˜‰ Every single passenger was in fits of laughter.

Now here is the twist. I am NOT on Southwest this morning. I am on Delta!!

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16 December 2012

Newton’s law

Seahawk’s Sherman on NFL TV (continuing to diss Patriots’ Brady): “It’s just one of those things where Newton’s third law of motion applies. It’s one of those things where every action has an equal or greater reaction”.
Ummm… I am quite sure that is NOT what Newton said :-).

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