Can you solve this week's puzzler?

View in browser » Old Fashioned Coffee We have a non-automotive puzzler for you all today.  This one is about coffee, not about cars.  Here we go. I like to make my coffee in the morning the old-fashioned way.  I still use a percolator. None of these K-cups, espresso machines or drip stuff with timers and internet connections. None of that. I just like the pure bubbling coffee that comes from a percolator. Anyway, imagine you use a percolator too. You're getting up in the morning, getting ready to go to work. You've made yourself a boiling pot of coffee. And as soon as it finishes its last perk, you remove it from the stove. And while it's still boiling, you pour yourself a cup. It's probably on the verge of boiling and still 210 degrees. Very hot. You realize it's too hot to drink. And as luck would have it, you have to go and shave.  So, you got 5 minutes in which to shave, while you're coffee is still boiling hot. And you like to put cream in your coffee. So here is the question. Do you take the cream and put it in the coffee now, while you go shave, as the coffee is boiling hot? Knowing that the cream will start to cool off the coffee now, while you're shaving.  Or do you go and have your shave, and then when you returned, you put in the cream and stir it and drink it down? Which scenario will make the coffee the coolest, so you can drink it after that 5 minutes? Add cream and then shave for 5 minutes? Or let it alone, shave for 5 minutes, and then add the cream? Good luck. Answer the Puzzler » Remember last week's puzzler? Rusty Oil Pans We have a great new puzzle for everyone. A very automotive puzzler. Here goes. A while back, a long time ago back in the 1980s at our shop, an odd thing happened. We had occasion to replace not one, not two, but three oil pans. Three! Now the oil pan is that stamped steel reservoir that holds the motor oil that's in your engine. And from the beginning of time, oil pans are made in the same fashion.  Okay, listen. All three of these were replaced because they rotted away. Now, you might say how could an oil pan rot away? After all, throughout its entire life, it's bathed in oil.  So the inside always has oil in it, so these rusted from the outside.  There we were, we had just completed the third oil pan replacement and the guys and I was standing around, which we did a lot back then. We were looking at the brand new oil pan, admiring our work.  It should be noted that the oil pan replacements were not working on the same car. It was three different cars. But the cars don't matter in this one. Anyway, we were looking at the new oil pan, and thinking about how years ago, there were oil pans that have never rotted away. So one of the guys says, "Boy these oil pans must be made out of real cheap junk that they rot away this quickly." And one of the other guys said, "That's not it at all." And as soon as he said that, I said, "You know, you're right. It has nothing to do with the quality of the steel. There's some other factor involved." I'll give you a hint. The hint is that all three of these cars were front wheel drive cars. What is going on here? Good luck. Find out here » Congratulations to this week's puzzler winner: dgaige Congratulations! This correct answer was chosen at random by our Web Lackeys. Cartalk.com Community This Week's Show Podcast Add to address book Unsubscribe from list Email preferences Shameless Commerce Care of WBUR, 890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 Contents © 2023, Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe.

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Can you solve this week's puzzler?

View in browser » Rusty Oil Pans We have a great new puzzle for everyone. A very automotive puzzler. Here goes. A while back, a long time ago back in the 1980s at our shop, an odd thing happened. We had occasion to replace not one, not two, but three oil pans. Three! Now the oil pan is that stamped steel reservoir that holds the motor oil that's in your engine. And from the beginning of time, oil pans are made in the same fashion.  Okay, listen. All three of these were replaced because they rotted away. Now, you might say how could an oil pan rot away? After all, throughout its entire life, it's bathed in oil.  So the inside always has oil in it, so these rusted from the outside.  There we were, we had just completed the third oil pan replacement and the guys and I was standing around, which we did a lot back then. We were looking at the brand new oil pan, admiring our work.  It should be noted that the oil pan replacements were not working on the same car. It was three different cars. But the cars don't matter in this one. Anyway, we were looking at the new oil pan, and thinking about how years ago, there were oil pans that have never rotted away. So one of the guys says, "Boy these oil pans must be made out of real cheap junk that they rot away this quickly." And one of the other guys said, "That's not it at all." And as soon as he said that, I said, "You know, you're right. It has nothing to do with the quality of the steel. There's some other factor involved." I'll give you a hint. The hint is that all three of these cars were front wheel drive cars. What is going on here? Good luck. Answer the Puzzler » Remember last week's puzzler? The Arena It has all the elements that it needs to be considered a great puzzler, in my opinion.  A while back, years ago, I was going to get my hair cut. And the place had reading materials laying around to look at while you wait. I came across a book on tremendous buildings or something like that, it was about great architecture throughout the ages.  So I'm flipping through this thing, and it describes the Alhambra in Spain, the Taj Mahal in India, and of course, one of the things the book talks about is the Colosseum in Rome as the most magnificent arena ever built. It goes on and on about the history of it, gladiator battles, Christians and lions, and all that stuff.  I never knew this, but a little known fact is there were even mock naval battles in the Colosseum. They used to flood the floor of the arena and put ships in there and everything. Really interesting stuff.  So while reading all about this, of course, they were calling the Colosseum an 'arena' which is a word we use today, all the time. I was interested in this word, and I was wondering where it came from. I looked it up and I was amazed to find out what arena means in Latin, it means 'beach' or 'beach sand.' And I thought, how strange. Why would they call the Colosseum something that means 'beach' or 'beach sand'? Good luck. Find out here » Congratulations to this week's puzzler winner: Roland Wells Congratulations! This correct answer was chosen at random by our Web Lackeys. Cartalk.com Community This Week's Show Podcast Add to address book Unsubscribe from list Email preferences Shameless Commerce Care of WBUR, 890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 Contents © 2023, Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe.

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