{"id":9161,"date":"2011-10-20T21:35:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T10:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=9161"},"modified":"2011-10-20T21:35:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T10:35:31","slug":"nursing-home-readiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/10\/20\/nursing-home-readiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing home readiness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having recently celebrated another year on this earthly planet, my accountant sent me this test to assess\u00a0readiness for a nursing home. (It&#8217;s good to have friends who care!)<\/p>\n<p>I will be advising my results via letter one month prior to moving!<\/p>\n<p>1. Johnny&#8217;s mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child&#8217;s name?<\/p>\n<p>2. There is an assistant at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?<\/p>\n<p>3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?<\/p>\n<p>4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?<\/p>\n<p>5. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly?<\/p>\n<p>6. Sally was born on December 28th, yet her birthday is always in the winter. How is this possible?<\/p>\n<p>7. In Canada , you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?<\/p>\n<p>8. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?<\/p>\n<p>9. Which is correct to say, &#8220;The yolk of the egg are white&#8221; or &#8220;The yolk of the egg is white&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>10. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are the Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. Johnny&#8217;s mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child&#8217;s name?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: Johnny of course<\/p>\n<p>2. There is an assistant at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers.\u00a0 What does he weigh?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: Meat.<\/p>\n<p>3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: Mt. Everest ; it just wasn&#8217;t discovered yet.<\/p>\n<p>4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: There is no dirt in a hole.<\/p>\n<p>5. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: Incorrectly<\/p>\n<p>6. Sally was born on December 28th, yet her birthday is always in the winter. How is this possible?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: Sally lives in the Northern Hemisphere<\/p>\n<p>7. In Canada , you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: You can&#8217;t take pictures with a wooden leg. You need a camera to take pictures.<\/p>\n<p>8. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: You would be in 2nd. Well, you passed the person in second place, not first.<\/p>\n<p>9. Which is correct to say,<br \/>\n&#8220;The yolk of the egg are white&#8221; or &#8220;The yolk of the \u00a0egg is white&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: Neither, the yolk of the egg is yellow<\/p>\n<p>10. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big stack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having recently celebrated another year on this earthly planet, my accountant sent me this test to assess\u00a0readiness for a nursing home. 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