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The Missing Thermostat
Are you ready to get a new puzzler? Here it is.
A customer came in the other day. And he said, "Hey, guys," he said, "I was looking under the hood of my car. And I noticed something interesting."
He said, "I decided it was time to flush the cooling system and all that. And I've done this in other cars and when I usually do it, I take the thermostat out and I put a can of fast flush in there. And I let the environmentally unsound ingredients from the flush and antifreeze go down the sewer."
But he said, "Here I am, ready to take the thermostat out and I can't find the thermostat!"
Now for about a millennium or maybe a little longer, thermostats have always been located right where the top hose attaches to the engine, the top radiator hose. So if you wanted to find the thermostat, you'd find the radiator, which is that big black thing in the front of the car. And you would find the hose that attaches to the top of that. And you would follow it to the engine and voila, under that little water outlet, or thermostat housing as it's sometimes called, there is the thermostat.
(That's why it's called the thermostat housing--it houses what the thermostat.)
He finally does find it but it is located in the bottom hose. He follows the bottom hose to the engine and there is the thermostat.
So after saying, "Sonja Henie's Tutu!" he wonders: why is the thermostat in this car (and this there are many cars that have it like this I mean all Hondas and many Toyotas and there are many, many cars on the road, modern cars that have the thermostat located in the bottom hose and not the top hose) why this change? I mean for so many years it was the other way around. Why did they change? And there were two reasons.
Reason 1 and reason B, and we want both of them!
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The Surprised Brain Surgeon
It's time again for another puzzler. This was sent to us by a guy named Joe Grendola from Greensboro, North Carolina.
Now here it is, in its entirety. A man and his son are driving 20 miles an hour around a gentle curve, in a Suzuki Samurai when the vehicle flips over and rolls down a steep hill.
Oh, get Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe all ready. Or maybe they're gonna sue Joel. He said it, not us!
The man is badly injured and launched into a coma and his son is seriously injured, as well. The boy is rushed to a hospital where he is examined in the emergency room.
The doctor determines that the boy's life can be saved only by immediate very complicated brain surgery. Fortunately, one of the few qualified surgeons in the country lives nearby and is summoned yet that yeah, this brain surgeon rushes into the operating room takes one look at the boy on the operating table, and says "GASP!!!, my son!"
How is this possible?
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puzzler winner: Kristen A.
Hood River, OR
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