Saturday 10 January 2009

Yesterdays Brain Teaser - An Apology

Yesterday I set readers a brainteaser. The task was to construct a sentence in which the word and appeared seven times consecutively. Unfortunately, I asked the question wrongly, it should have said five times consecutively. I don't doubt if I had asked the question correctly you would all have got the right answer. I do apologise for the error, but here is the answer had the question been asked correctly.

The landlord at the Pig And Whistle was stood outside looking at his pub sign. It was looking pretty tatty so he called the local sign writer and asked if he would make him a new one and hang it for him. The sign writer made the new sign, took it to the pub and hung it. He then went into the pub and asked the landlord to go outside and tell him what he thought of it. The landlord took one look at the new sign, turned to the sign writer, and said "that looks awful, I can't have that hanging outside my pub" The sign writer looked perplexed and asked the landlord "what is wrong with it". To which the landlord replied "you have left too much space between pig and and and and and whistle"