I think the site went down. I can't access it from a couple of other sites that linked it, either. If it doesn't come back soon, I'll pull it.

Scooter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwz42NeZWHo

To be fair, I guess tea is the normal drink in Britain. I couldn't get brewed coffee in China, either -I was lucky to get instant. But I hear the Middle East has coffee that will blow your socks off!

This is an instrument of torture if I've ever seen one!

Actually, I've never seen one....

The tones are adjustable, but I was in a hurry.

Groucho Marx had a different magic word every day on TV, but in the movies it was "swordfish".

Cab Calloway would say "Hidey-hidey-hidey-ho" and women would magically appear at the backstage door.

Well, of course it's viral advertising, for Australian tourism. I first heard about it on NPR last night. They know what they're doing, and they're doing it well.

just a guy, I guarantee that if anyone wrote it wrong, it would be me!

Ya know, he probably keeps the mice scared away. So he should be classified as a federal employee!

I never needed to measure a man's fingers to judge how masculine he is.

Since this was posted, I found another article with more information. I'll add that link.

I noticed. Sad to think those stereotypes were common as recently as 1965.

Wow, I am just now starting to get comment notification on this. I will correct the spelling. Thanks!

Ali, it's an old joke. Some girl told the story on Jay Leno way back, but there's no evidence that its true. See the entire text here:

http://www.misscellania.com/miss-cellania/2008/1/6/snowfall.html

A friend of mine wrote to the creator of the test about the water question, and received this in return. I got permission to post it because he's really busy stamping out all the fires this quiz has set!

Dear Duke

OK take 100%

I receive more emails concerning this question than all the others together.

The answer given on the web site is, as you say, incorrect and needs adjusting, but then it would not be controversial and I would probably not get any feedback.

The syllogism itself is invalid and can only be considered as a strong inductive argument and not deductive. It is the 'we can predict' part of the conclusion which comes from nowhere, so the argument is not strictly formal. Not everyone agrees with this so I will leave you to draw your own conclusions. I discuss these points in my book if I may put in a plug!

However, just as an aside there are other types of water. Heavy water for example is water in which the hydrogen is replaced by its heavier isotope, deuteruim (D2O). It is chemically almost identical to normal water but looks, feels and tastes exactly the same. But don't drink it. This says nothing about the validity but only about the truth of the conclusion.

Thanks again for the feedback and comments,

Colin Beckley