Today's Question – Bob asked Ron when he had bought the champagne for the New Year’s party. Ron responded with a puzzle – “It was not the day after Monday or the day before Thursday and it wouldn’t have been Sunday the next day nor was it Sunday the day before, and the day after the next day wasn’t Saturday and the day before the day before wasn’t Wednesday.” What day of the week did Ron buy the Bubbly?

Today’s Question – Disguised Christmas Carols – Can you decipher: A rallying cry for people who don't cheat on their boyfriend or girlfriend How a communist tells his wife he knows the difference between rain and snow Holland - "Sinter Klass" England - "Father Christmas" France - "Le Pere Noel" Tokyo - "Hoteiosho" • •  Cashin’s Comments December 19, 2014 Page 3 of 3 • • • • The acne finally disappeared late one night Are you tuned to the same station I am? Christmas is a time for ove, for fami y, and mis etoe Mom caught showing affection to our cat after it had been on the beach Bonus Question - What were the names of Three Wise Men and what gift did each bring?

Today's Question - We call him Santa Claus but what do they call him in: Bonus Question - An actor once won an Oscar for playing Santa. Who was it? And in what film?

Today's Question - "Where's Santa when you need him." - Little Dick and Jane went to the neighborhood five and dime to get a Christmas present for mom. Dick saw a shiny comb and took it to the register with all his money. "Sorry little boy", said the cashier. "You are 24 cents short!" Jane smiled a sibling grin, grabbed the comb and put it, along with all her money on the counter. "Sorry, little girl", said the cashier, "but you are 2 cents short." After an exchange of ugly faces, they agreed to pool their money. However, the cashier told them that they still didn't have enough. How much did Dick have? Jane...? and how much was the comb? (No taxes involved.)

Today's Question - Bernard, the night-time manager of Ye Olde Elf Cookie Shoppe has pre-packed boxes of assorted cookies. There are 16 pound boxes and 17 pound boxes and boxes of 23, 24, 39 and 40 pounds. A client comes in and asks for 100 pounds of cookies. Without breaking up any boxes, how close can Bernard come?

Today’s Question - What number logically should begin this series: __, 9, 16, 25, 36?

Today's Question - Hats off to you - A group of 10 cadets are on their way to the Army - Navy Game when a gust of wind blows all their hats off. A quick footed young man scoops them up and hands them back randomly. What are the odds that exactly 9 of them received the correct hat? Further Goldwynims - "I'll believe in this color television when I see it in black and white!" - "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." - "I'm willing to admit I may not be right all the time…..but I'm never wrong." - "A verbal contract ain't worth the paper it's written on." And Three Classic Stengelisms - "They say you can't do it…..but sometimes it doesn't always work." And "Three things can happen when you play baseball. You can win. You can lose. Or it can rain.” Lastly, my favorite Casey line – "The key to leadership is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who haven't made up their mind yet."

Today's Question - Late for Thanksgiving dinner, Bob called the baker to see how many pumpkin pies he had left. The overworked baker snapped - "I have 3/4's of the total plus 3/4's of one pie." Assuming he sold only whole pies, how many did he have? There will be no Comments on November 26, 27, 28 as Wonder Woman becomes the Duchess of Domesticity. Holiday Notice Wednesday paring, peeling, and preparing; Thursday Cooking and carving; Friday scraping and scouring. (So, since the brains of the operation is out - I will take off too.)

Today's Question - In the following series of anagrams the number "7" substitutes for the same letter of the alphabet in each case. Find out what letter is replaced by "7" and rearrange the letters to form words. XLYL 7 DFYF 7 RFWD 7 GMDO 7 DLEI 7 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) No Comments Friday Wonder Woman on Special Mission

Today's Question - Look out Starbucks! - Valerie starts a mail order custom coffee shop. She buys variety "A" at 32 cents an ounce and "B" at 40 cents an ounce. She blends them and sells the mix at 43 cents an ounce giving her a profit of 25%. What's the mix in a box of 100 ounces of blend? No Comments Friday Wonder Woman on Special Mission

Today's Question – On a trip to the supermarket, Art was accosted by a bright lad who said as follows: "My uncle is three times as old as I am. He is also the square of my sister's age. I am twice as old as my sister. How old am I? No Comments Friday Wonder Woman on Special Mission

Today's Question - Stop helping me!! - Nick and Dave are rewiring a very large house. Nick is a master electrician and can sometimes work alone. Dave is the assistant and only works in a team. Nick makes $150 per day (non- NYC rates, obviously) while Dave makes $30 less. When they finished the job, the total labor cost was $2,190. How many days did each work? (No fractional days.) 6.0  Cashin’s Comments November 17, 2014 Page 4 of 4

Today’s Question - "Just watch the road will you!" Smiling Sal is driving on the road between Tedium and Oblivion. He is driving at a steady speed. He notes that every three minutes he meets a bus coming toward him and every six minutes a bus overtakes him. How often do the buses leave from the terminal in each town?

Today's Question - Step aside please! - One of these words is different from the others, which one is it?

Today's Question - Oh yeah? But can you spell Budweiser? - At a tailgate party before the game, Art was accosted by a bright lad who said as follows: "My uncle is three times as old as I am. He is also the square of my sister's age. I am twice as old as my sister. How old am I?

Today's Question – At his birthday party, Tucker rattled three dice in a cup. When he rolled, the total on the three dice was a two digit number. The number on top of one of the dice was the sum of two digits in the total. The numbers on the bottoms of the other two dice were the two digits of the total. What did Tucker throw?  Cashin’s Comments November 10, 2014 Page 4 of 4

Today's Question - A monk named Sandy - In teaching his class in Medieval thinking, Brother Eric begins class at 9:00 a.m. by setting a 5 hour hourglass on the window sill. Later when no one is looking, impish novice Sean turns the hourglass over. At 11:30 Abbot Art notices the hourglass looks off and returns it to its original posture. Finally, at 3:00 p.m. the sand runs out and amid student grumbles, the class ends. What time did novice Sean turn the glass?

Today's Question - Robert went into a store and said "I'll buy that calculator for $10 if you lend me as much money as I have in my pocket. The clerk lent him the money and Robert gave him $10 cash. He went to the next store and bought a $10 cap using the same gambit. Then he bought a $10 umbrella with the same strategy. When he paid for the umbrella, he had no money left. How much did he start out with??

Today’s Question – Say that again please – There is a number containing 5 digits none of which is a zero. The 2nd digit is 3 times more than the 1st. The 3rd is one more than the 2nd number. The 4th digit is 4 times as large as the first. The final digit is 50% larger than the 2nd. What’s the number?

Today's Question - Is that a credit card or a debit card? After many lectures from dad (and a few quizzical notes from the bank), Nancy changed her spending pattern. Now she only paid cash (and tried not to spend it all at once). At "Label's R Us", she spent half of what she started with plus $3.00. At "Prices are Zany", spent half the remainder plus $1.00. At "Status Symbol Stores", she spent half of what was left plus $4.00. She was then out of money. Before she calls dad (collect!), how much did she start with??

Today's Question - "Don't hold dinner dear!" Timothy can't get his car started so he grabs a train which takes him halfway home at a speed 20 times faster than he walks. As he gets off the train, he twists his ankle and must ride the rest of the way in a farmer’s cart which travels half as fast as he walks. Would he have been home sooner or later if he had walked all the way?

Today's Question - A kid's trick for Halloween – Mike gave Bob a nickel and a dime. He said - "Put one in each hand but don't tell me. Now....triple the value of the coin in your right hand and double the value in your left. Add those two values together and tell me if the total is "odd" or "even" and I'll tell you which coin is in which hand." What would be the placement for "even?"

Today's Question - What is unique about the names of the first five U.S. Presidents? Bonus Question - What U.S. President gave the shortest Inaugural Address?

Today's Question - Take the word SPARKLING. Take away any one letter so as to leave a new word. Take away any one letter from the new word so as to leave another new word. Continue to do this, letter by letter, until you finish up with just a single letter. After removing a letter, you must not disturb the order of the remaining letters.

Today's Question - There are two words of five letters that are opposites. They both begin with "u" and have all the same letters (but not in the same order -obviously!). What are these antonyms?