To solve today's brainteaser puzzle, simply find the word that links the two words given. The dashes indicate the number of letters in the word you are looking for. Good luck!
ARM (-----) LIFT
CREAM (----) ADDER
WOOD (----) BENCH
SHOULDER (-----) POCKET
CANDY (----) WASHER
Answers in tomorrows Journal.
Friday, 5 June 2009
Waves
These incredible images were taken by the No.1 photographer of surf, Clark Little. He has dedicated his life to photographing the waves and has published a selection of the best images of his career. He captures magical moments inside the 'tube', as surfers say.
Latex Gloves
A dentist noticed that his next patient, a little old lady, was very nervous, so he decided to tell her a joke as he put on his gloves.
"Do you know how they make these gloves?" he asked. "No I don't", she replied.
"Well,," he spoofed, "There's a building in Canada with a big tank of latex, and workers of all hand sizes walk up to the tank and dip in their hands, let them dry, then peel off the gloves and throw them into boxes of the right size."
She didn't crack a smile. "Oh well, I tried," he thought. But five minutes later, during a delicate part of the procedure, she burst out laughing.
"What's so funny?" he asked.
"Oh, nothing" she replied. "I was just envisioning how condoms are made!"
Be afraid of old ladies! Be very afraid!!!
They have been there and done everything!
Who Am I? - Yesterday's Answer
Yesterday I set a very topical 'Who Am I?' puzzle for you to solve. Did you manage to work out who our mystery person was?
Answer
HAZEL BLEARS
Thursday, 4 June 2009
Looking Back - Tiananmen Square Massacre
On this day in 1989, tanks rumbled through the streets of Peking (later to become Beijing) to quash a democratic protest. When they reached Tiananmen Square the Chinese army randomly fired on the unarmed demonstrators. At least several hundreds of civilians, many of them students, were shot dead in a bloody military operation. The injured were rushed to hospital by any means available including private bicycle-rickshaws.
The demonstrators, seeking democratic reform, had been protesting in Tiananmen Square for seven weeks, refusing to move until their demands were met. The protest began with a march by students in memory of Hu Yaobang who had died a week before. Soon they were joined by millions of supporters, eager to show their anger at widespread corruption.
When peaceful attempts to persuade the demonstrators to leave failed, the government threat to do whatever it saw necessary to clamp down on 'social chaos' was carried out and the military offensive began.
The events in Tiananmen Square were described as the greatest challenge to the communist state in China since the 1949 revolution. It was suggested that the communist leader Deng Xaioping personally sanctioned the attack to shore up his leadership.
The precise number of dead may never be known but hundreds and possibly thousands perished in the slaughter.
The demonstrators, seeking democratic reform, had been protesting in Tiananmen Square for seven weeks, refusing to move until their demands were met. The protest began with a march by students in memory of Hu Yaobang who had died a week before. Soon they were joined by millions of supporters, eager to show their anger at widespread corruption.
When peaceful attempts to persuade the demonstrators to leave failed, the government threat to do whatever it saw necessary to clamp down on 'social chaos' was carried out and the military offensive began.
The events in Tiananmen Square were described as the greatest challenge to the communist state in China since the 1949 revolution. It was suggested that the communist leader Deng Xaioping personally sanctioned the attack to shore up his leadership.
The precise number of dead may never be known but hundreds and possibly thousands perished in the slaughter.
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