Are you the Weakest Link?

[Shane Mage]

>Here is a very simple little test comprising of four questions to 
>determine the level of your intellect. Your replies must be 
>spontaneous and immediate, with no deliberating or wasting time. And 
>no cheating. Marks, set....GO!!!
>
>........
>
>2 : If you overtake the last runner, what position are you now in?
>
>  Answer: If you answered second-last, once again you're completely wrong.
>
>Think about it...How can you over take the person coming last? If you're
>behind them then they can't be last. The answer is impossible!! It 
>would appear
>that thinking is not one of your strong points. You would make a good weak
>link!!!
>......

No, *you're* the weak link.  If you overtake the last runner, you've
obviously lapped the field and must be *first*.

Shane Mage

"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all 
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even 
downright silly.

When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all 
things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true."  (N. 
Weiner)

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