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Submitted by Mr Bob on

One of these statements is true. Guess: 1. My favourite colour is pink and/or purple 2. I once wrote a poem that started, 'My friend, I'd rather eat an electric torch...' 3. I'm a baritone usually, but when I have a cold I can get the third B flat below middle C, 4. I have a poodle called White and a cat called Pink.

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ossiukko -

Right answer is: 1,2,3 AND 4.

ossiukko -

Come on Bob, 1C, do itttt!

Mr Bob -

geesh, didn't even realise that was do-able. I now realise that, but haven't done it. Managed to 2-c it though.

Jeff -

Possibly all are true, but I'll pick just one. I say #2, which if it isn't true, it SHOULD BE true. And this level is googolplex/5.

Mr Bob -

you get the prize for being the only one to guess. And the prize for getting it right. My little brother's favourite colours until the age of 4 were pink and purple, and then he discovered they were girl's colours, and went right off them. Even with a cold I'd struggle to get the D above that. My only pets are the wild birds outside my house which I give birdseed etc to. I wrote the poem aged about 14 I guess. The meaning of it came down to: if marriage is awesome and very nearly perfect, that's still not perfect enough for me (i.e. I'd rather eat an electric torch than get into a marriage that was anything less than utterly perfect.) I have a slightly more evolved sense of rightness now I'm in my forties than then, but I still hold many of the same thoughts regarding what-is-sensible and what-is-right. And still single to this day. Perhaps I'm fractionally wiser now than I was, but not more mellow. But I'm mostly happy about that decision. For me (so far) it has been the right one.

Jeff -

I'd like to read that poem. Sounds like a good one. I never married either, but I can't chalk it up to wisdom. It's just the way things went. I declined a couple of good ones who wanted me, and pursued a couple of bad ones who didn't. Now I have no desire whatsoever to even consider it. Maybe when I'm 70 and need to combine Social Security checks with another 70 year old, but other than that, nope.

Mr Bob -

Frankly I'm wondering if there'll even be a pension/superannuation/social-security when I hit 70 (if I do get there.) We have a 401k sort of thing in NZ called 'Kiwisaver' but it's peanuts and people can draw on it for their first home (a dream that's become unrealistic for a huge percentage of us Kiwis now thanks to generations of National Party governments - thank goodness we got a left-ish government this time around: as of a few weeks ago.) I'm wondering if even that is going to be sufficient to keep me from being kicked to the kerb in these days.

Jeff -

I hope it all works out. Hopefully we'll swing the other way in a few years, but, I dunno. There are as yet no obvious reasons for optimism.

sid -

great level.

Mr Bob -

Time's up. Answer above.