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Puzzles
Is this cup I hold here half empty
Or else, as some would have me think, half full?
A troubling conundrum, eternally insoluble
Yet quickly resolved by simply letting go
Full of confidence, the tortoise
Challenges his friend the hare to a race
“Just give me a ten yard start,” he says
“And you’ll never catch me,” he boasts
And he’s right, for whenever Hare reaches the spot
The tortoise has already gone
Still … When the hare has gone twenty yards
Where is the tortoise then?
Imagine a goose in a narrow-necked glass bottle
How can you get the goose out of the bottle
Without either of them coming to any harm?
Easily … There; it’s free
A puzzle you might find more tricky
History professors can’t answer it
Scientists still haven’t solved it
Which came first: the chicken or the egg?
Just My Luck
JUST MY LUCK
Unfortunately
I have recently
Been befriended
By the well known
Franco-Irish know-it-all
Eamonn Ayviss
Who has undertaken
A fault-finding mission
From here to eternity
Even more unfortunately
He has an annoying habit
Of continually breathing
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Non-franocophilies may need to check out “a mon avis” on their favoured on-line translator.
Every Time You Succeed
EVERY TIME YOU SUCCEED
Every time you succeed
In analysing the whole problem
To the point where you see exactly what’s wrong
And begin to investigate
Just what the answers are
You realise again
That it’s no use
To try and be clever …