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Bob Tallent
Thursday 8^th December 2011

I picked up a bad cold last Monday.  It’s now Thursday and I’m still dying.  I woke up on Monday with a sore throat and by that afternoon I was starting to collapse and went to bed at 6 o’clock.  I had to take a truck load of hot whiskeys.  Because I had to give a presentation yesterday, I had to get up.  All I wanted was to get back to bed.  Now for a guy who goes to bed at 1 or 2 am, that’s unusual (you could write a song about that) and on top of that, here I am writing an article.  I must be a martyr!

My wife doesn’t see my condition as being serious so I decided to check it on the internet and discovered that 52% of women lose sympathy with their sick partner within five minutes of him starting to complain. A further 18% do not even make it that long – they start off unsympathetic and continue in the same vein.  Getting the picture? Now, if you put the shoe on the other foot, 70% of men claim to be sympathetic if their partner is complaining of a cold with 64% of men claiming they will cook dinner for their sick partners and 60% claiming they will do the housework.  Aren’t we brilliant?

“Man Flu is a crippling and debilitating disorder indiscriminately striking down male members of the human species without warning. The illness is often referred to pejoratively by female members of the species who are in fact immune from the illness as man flu is now known to exclusively attack the XY chromosome carrier. If Man Flu is kind enough not to kill the infected party it will definitely leave him weak, sick, hurting everywhere and in dire need of TLC. “

“It is a rare strain of flu so powerful and so deadly it can only be matched by the Bubonic Plague and Aids. An incurable virus which has adapted to only effect the "XY" gene found in men. The virus attacks the immune system 10,000 times harder than the average flu virus, causing excruciating pain for the victim. Man Flu has no cure and prayers can save the forsaken life of the infected. The often deadly virus is mostly laughed at by women who sadly cannot contract Man Flu”

Woman: Is he ok?
Doctor: I'm afraid not, I'm sorry to say he has Man Flu

“Man flu, a term used to address a flu-like illness exclusive to men. Often 'man flu' is a term that is subject to ridicule and scepticism, the actual existence of it doubted. It is often assumed by others, namely women, as a namby pamby excuse used by their boyfriends, fathers, male work colleagues and sons to get out of their responsibilities.“

“It is not the female equivalent of the menstrual cycle, but that won't stop men afflicted with it to act like they need to be babied constantly or sympathised with. Men are expected to be strong and dependable: the stereotype of what a real man is. For men to claim to have a moment of weakness for one moment in the eyes of a woman, God forbid, will raise the question - are you a man or a mouse? “

Before all you women out there get smug and think that we long suffering men are faking it let me give you the REAL FACTS.

The University of Queensland carried out a survey of 63 healthy volunteers and published their findings after lab tests to examine the immune responses. The bugs that usually cause the common cold are called rhinoviruses and the Australian researchers found that female volunteers had a much stronger immune response to them.  However, after the menopause, that protection disappeared.

Prof John Upham, of the University of Queensland, said: “It makes sense from a biological point of view because women are more likely to ensure the survival of the species. We noticed that when women reached menopause, their improved resistance to rhinoviruses faded away. So hormones obviously play a huge part in helping fight viruses."

So there you have it, we do suffer from Man Flu.  Don’t we?

And, to top it off, my wife sent me this video. . .

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The Questions to these answers are in the previous article

Answer 1

The base word is Startling - starting - staring - string - sting - sing - sin - in - I

Answer 2

Take two (2) of the nines (9) and make them a fraction which is 9/9 which equals one (1) and add it to the other two (2) nines (9) which will be 99+1=100!

Answer 3

The facts in this riddle are clear: There is an initial €30 charge. It should have been €25, so €5 must be returned and accounted for. €3 is given to the 3 friends, €2 is kept by the bellhop - there you have the €5.

The trick to this riddle is that the addition and subtraction are done at the wrong times to misdirect your thinking - and quite successfully for most.

Each of the 3 friends did indeed pay €9, not €10, and as far as the friends are concerned, they paid €27 for the night. But we know that the clerk will tell us that they were charged only €25 and when you add the €3 returned with the €2 kept by the bellhop, you come up with €30.

Answer 4

27

Answer 5

Plant them in shape of a star:

Answer 6

Tilt the barrel until the wine barely touches the lip of the barrel. If the bottom of the barrel is visible then it is less than half full. If the barrel bottom is still completely covered by the wine, then it is more than half full.

Answer 7

Sally was blind... she was reading a book in Braille.

Answer 8

There are six F's in the sentence.  One of average intelligence finds  three of them.  If you spotted four, you're above average.  If you got five, you can turn your nose up at most anybody.  If you caught six, you are a genius.  There is no catch.  Many people forget the OFs.  The human brain tends to see them as "V's" instead of "F's".

Answer 9

The trawler rises with the waves so no step will go under water.

Answer 10

From the base to the summit, the volcano Mauna Kea in Hawaii is the tallest.  Most of it just happens to be underwater

Mt McKinley in Alaska is tallest on land

Mt Everest is the highest, but not the tallest because it starts on the high Tibetan Plateau.

Answer 11

935.  With all the other numbers, the 3^rd digit equals the product of the other 2.

Answer: 12

Because then it wouldn't be a nose any more; it would become a foot! (12 inches and above - easy!)

Answer: 13

1113213211. After the first line, each line describes the previous line as follows:
one 1
2 Ones
One 2, One 1
(and so on...)

Answer 14

Fill the 3 gallon container with beer and pour it into the 5 gallon container. Then fill the 3-gallon container again and keep pouring it into the 5-gallon container till the latter is full to the brim. One gallon will be left in the 3-gallon container.

Answer 15
There are three possible solutions for this - 51 and 15. 42 and 24. 60 and 06.

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The answers to these teasers are in the next article

Question 1

There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

Question 2

Can you make four (4) nines (9) equal 100??

Question 3

Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is €30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk €10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by €5. He asks the bellhop to return €5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make €2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing €5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only €3, giving a euro back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover €2 and goes home for the day!

Now, each of the three friends gets a euro back, thus they each paid €9 for the room which is a total of €27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed €2 and adding that to the €27, you get €29, not €30 which was originally spent.

Where did the other euro go?

Question 4

There was a shipwreck at sea and Buck, Lance and Jack were washed ashore on a small island. Upon reaching shore they promptly fell asleep from exhaustion. A short time later, Buck awoke and saw that a box of bananas had been washed ashore. Buck ate one third of the bananas and went back to sleep. Lance soon awoke and upon seeing the bananas, ate one third of what was left and then fell asleep. Jack woke up next and assumed that the other two hadn't eaten any bananas, so he ate one third of what remained. When Jack finished, there were eight bananas left over. How many bananas were in the box originally?

Question 5

You have 10 trees and you have to plant them in five rows but each row must contain 4 trees. How is this possible?

Question 6

There is a barrel with no lid and some wine in it. "This barrel of wine is more than half full," said Curly. "No it's not," says Mo. "It's less than half full."

Without any measuring implements and without removing any wine from the barrel, how can they easily determine who is correct?

Question 7

Sergi and Sally where sitting in their family room one night. While Sergi was watching TV his wife Sally was reading. All of a sudden the power went out and Sergi decided to go to bed, but Sally kept on reading. With no use of artificial light, Sally kept on reading. How?

Question 8

Read this sentence[MP1] :

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.

Now count aloud the ' F' s in that sentence.

Count them ONLY ONCE; do not go back and count them again.

Question 9

There is a fishing trawler with a ladder in it leaning against a wall at the harbour. There are 5 oars and 2 fishing nets in the trawler. The distance between two consecutive steps on the ladder is 1 metre. If waves lashing against the wall rise half metre in every half hour, in how much time will 6 steps of the ladder get under the waves?

Question 10

What is the tallest mountain in the world?

Question 11

Which is the odd number out 428, 236, 177, 800, 935?

Question 12

Why is the longest human nose on record only 11 inches long?

Question 13

What would be the seventh rung of the following pyramid?
1
11
21
1211
111221
312211

13112221

Question 14

You have a barrel of beer and you need to measure out just one gallon. How do you do this if you only have a three-gallon container and a five-gallon container?

Question 15

The ages of a father and son add up to 66. The father's age is the son's age reversed. How old could they be?

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A woman takes a lover home during the day while her husband is at work. Her 9-year old son comes home unexpectedly; he sees them and hides in the bedroom closet to watch.

The woman's husband also comes home. She puts her lover in the closet, not realizing that the little boy is in there already.

The little boy says, 'Dark in here.'

The man says, 'Yes, it is.'

Boy: 'I have a baseball.'

Man: 'That's nice'

Boy: 'Want to buy it?'

Man: 'No, thanks.'

Boy: 'My Dad's outside.'

Man: 'OK, how much?'

Boy: '$250'

In the next few weeks, it happens again that the boy and the lover are in the closet together.

Boy: 'Dark in here.'

Man: 'Yes, it is.'

Boy: 'I have a baseball glove.'

The lover, remembering the last time, asks the boy, How much?'

Boy: '$750'

Man: 'Sold.'

A few days later, the Dad says to the boy, 'Grab your glove, let's go outside and have a game of catch.'

The boy says, 'I can't, I sold my baseball and my glove.'

The Dad asks, 'How much did you sell them for?'

Boy: '$1,000'

The Dad says, 'That's terrible to over charge your friends like that...that is way more than those two things cost. I'm taking you to church, to confession.'

They go to the church and the Dad makes the little boy sit in the confessional booth and closes the door.

The boy says, 'Dark in here.'

The priest says, 'Don't start that shit again; you're in my closet now.'

LORRAINE ELLIOT