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Particle Puzzle: Newsletter Challenge (June 2019)

Posted May 31, 2019 5:01 PM
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This month's IEEE GlobalSpec Newsletter Challenge is:

Sixteen sodium particles walk through a door. You greet each one by its nickname. Who is entrant 17?

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05/31/2019 7:15 PM

This is really bad...

BATMAN

Na, Na, Na, Na,

Na, Na, Na, Na,

Na, Na, Na, Na,

Na, Na, Na, Na,

BATMAN!
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05/31/2019 9:11 PM

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06/01/2019 10:10 AM

Neither I, nor Robin, had any part in this...

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06/02/2019 12:50 AM

I guess I missed that episode! But then I never did watch much TV or movies.

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06/02/2019 6:55 AM

OK OK: how does Alfred call Batman for his evening meal.....

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Dinner, dinner;

dinner, dinner;

dinner, dinner;

dinner, dinner;

Batman

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Tonto spots the Lone Ranger riding towards him from the distance; he can see two shiny barrel shaped objects tied to the sides of his horse; as he gets closer he sees that they are dustbins.

"Hey, Kemosabe, where are you going?"

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"To the dump, to the dump;

to the dump dump dump"

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Sorry, but, this question started it.

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06/10/2019 4:47 AM

Thought it was dinner. dinner. dinner.dinner, dinner, dinner, Batman.

Perhaps it ought to have been 11 sodium particles

Na, Na, Na, Na-Na-Na-Na, Na-Na-Na-Na, Hey Jude
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06/02/2019 1:54 AM

Apologies upfront for the blurring of the words ....
"You load 16 tons and whadda get, another day older and deeper in debt" ....
Number 17 is actually a choice "another day older" or "deeper in debt",
or if you want the whole 9 yards, greet entrant 17 with both!

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06/02/2019 3:40 AM

Personally I reckon they would greet him with... "G'day old salt".
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06/02/2019 7:14 PM

He He (goodbye)
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06/03/2019 1:08 PM

Why don't lobsters like to share? . . . . . They're shell fish. Tada Boomp

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06/18/2019 9:28 AM

BATMAN!!!

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