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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.englishforums.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Words, Puns &amp; Jokes</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/WordsPunsJokes/Forum15.htm</link><description>Where an utterly useless word is submitted on a regular basis– and now we've thrown in a pun and a joke.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>XMOD (Build: 3607.32596)</generator><item><title>Re: The Calendar Trick..</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheCalendarTrick/crcgd/post.htm#175589</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:18:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:175589</guid><dc:creator>Dj Bueno</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheCalendarTrick/crcgd/post.htm#175589</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments15-175589.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Dj Bueno wrote:      
 This trick makes you look like you've got the most awesome mental power. All you need is a calendar which has the dates lined up under the days of the week, so the numbers are arranged something like this:   .   .   1   2   3   4   5  6   7   8   9  10  11  12 13  14  15  16  17  18  19 20  21  22  23  24  25  26 27  28  29  30  31 
 
 
 The "9 number" trick 
 
  
 Ask a friend to draw a 3x3 box around ANY nine of the numbers on the calendar. 
 Almost immediately you can say what the nine numbers all add up to! 
 See how long it takes your friend to check the answer on a calculator. (Yawn...snore...zzzz...)  
 For instance, let's say the &lt;</description></item><item><title>Re: The Calendar Trick..</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheCalendarTrick/crcgd/post.htm#170904</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:18:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:170904</guid><dc:creator>YoHf</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheCalendarTrick/crcgd/post.htm#170904</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments15-170904.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>For sure more clever than me...</description></item><item><title>Re: The Calendar Trick..</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheCalendarTrick/crcgd/post.htm#170566</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:18:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:170566</guid><dc:creator>Dj Bueno</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheCalendarTrick/crcgd/post.htm#170566</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments15-170566.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Hey! My dearest English teacher guessed the trick at once!! It was unbelievable..She glanced at the paper,did some calculations and in 19 seconds she told us that the only thing to do was "to multiply the number in the center of the box by 9." lol.. What a clever woman..</description></item><item><title>Re: The Calendar Trick..</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheCalendarTrick/crcgd/post.htm#170558</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:18:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:170558</guid><dc:creator>YoHf</dc:creator><slash:comments>3</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheCalendarTrick/crcgd/post.htm#170558</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments15-170558.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Eheh... None of them was smart enough to guess the trick...</description></item><item><title>Re: The Calendar Trick..</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheCalendarTrick/crcgd/post.htm#169892</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:18:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:169892</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheCalendarTrick/crcgd/post.htm#169892</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments15-169892.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>ur clasdsmates will proberly think it is cool write bk</description></item><item><title>Re: The Calendar Trick..</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheCalendarTrick/crcgd/post.htm#168417</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 08:18:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:168417</guid><dc:creator>YoHf</dc:creator><slash:comments>5</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheCalendarTrick/crcgd/post.htm#168417</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments15-168417.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Cool!!! My classmates will go crazy...</description></item><item><title>Re: The Calendar Trick..</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheCalendarTrick/crcgd/post.htm#168198</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:18:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:168198</guid><dc:creator>Eargasms</dc:creator><slash:comments>6</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheCalendarTrick/crcgd/post.htm#168198</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments15-168198.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Nice one Dj 
 I like it  
 I will have to remember those!</description></item><item><title>The Calendar Trick..</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheCalendarTrick/crcgd/post.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:18:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:167725</guid><dc:creator>Dj Bueno</dc:creator><slash:comments>7</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheCalendarTrick/crcgd/post.htm</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments15-167725.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>This trick makes you look like you've got the most awesome mental power. All you need is a calendar which has the dates lined up under the days of the week, so the numbers are arranged something like this:   .   .   1   2   3   4   5  6   7   8   9  10  11  12 13  14  15  16  17  18  19 20  21  22  23  24  25  26 27  28  29  30  31 
 
 
 The "9 number" trick 
 
  
 Ask a friend to draw a 3x3 box around ANY nine of the numbers on the calendar. 
 Almost immediately you can say what the nine numbers all add up to! 
 See how long it takes your friend to check the answer on a calculator. (Yawn...snore...zzzz...)  
 For instance, let's say the red numbers are chosen.   .   .   1   2   3   4   5  6   7 &amp;n</description></item></channel></rss>