Gourmet Graffiti

Came across a nice little trick I thought I should pass on. Very neat little trick.

You get the participant to choose a random 5 digit number, multiply by 10, subtract the original number and add 234. They will get a 6 digit number. Ask them to hide one digit and tell you the rest of the five digits. I suppose the digits given can be in any order.

If the six digits of the answer are added together, they will give a multiple of nine, so adding the rest of the five and subtracted from the next multiple of nine will give you the digit that they are hiding.

There is just one flaw, if the addition of the five digits given come to a multiple of nine then the answer can be either 0 or 9 as both added to the total of the five digits will give a multiple of nine.

eg.

52378

52378*10= 523780

523780-52378=471402

471402+234= 471636

If say 6 is hidden so add 4+7+1+3+6=21, next multiple up of nine is 27, so 27-21=6, the number hidden is thus six

Hope you like it, have fun!

The Spray Can

You know something. When a person tries to show off too much, things do get ugly. No, no, I am telling the truth, I’ve seen it happen.

When it rains, things get wet, when things get wet, they get slippery, when stuff gets slippery, unimaginable stuff happens. No kidding.

I was sitting down in the bus, thinking to myself, what I’d do when I get to school. The bus stops to pick up passengers, on comes a lovely young chap. He pays his fare (he’s the good part), he tries to walk down the passage in an extremely cool way, slips (whoa) and nearly whacks his nuts on a support bar along the passage.

He clambers to his seat while I try to hold my laughter. If only I had a camera on me, you could see exactly what I mean. Could have won some prize or something I reckon.

The Spray Can

It was an ordinary shopping night one would think. Except for when we checked out that is. A very fishy amount of over $300 said so. We were not as shocked since we had not done the shopping the prior weak and were down in supplies but this was exceptional still. We had never in our lives had had a bill of over $300.

Coming home and having had put the groceries in the kitchen I examined the receipt carefully; scanning the amount column carefully. I came to realize that the bill included over 3 kilos of parsley that we certainly had not bought. I made my parents aware of the situation immediately. After having spent a few moments to think, the thought of either potatoes or onions being incorrectly classified came to mind. I quickly got my brother to check the onion and potato bag for their weight. Guess what. The potato had been entered as parley@ $30 a kilo vs potato at dollar thirty, I think.

Well I hope that doesn’t happen again. We were refunded the $90 or so that was overpaid. We now check our bills thoroughly for correctness. I guess no one is perfect

The Spray Can

Very funny stuff I heard recently. If you live in Fiji like I do then you will certainly know of the village six and four cinemas. The story as such is of the local shareholders. They would be deemed fairly wealthy people, it doesn’t look it from where I see it. Their family members or even visitors to their homes are not allowed to eat more than 2 pieces of bread. Tea leaves are recycled and used more than once, who knows how many times they would be using them.

I have also heard of this one incident where the daughter-in-law accidentally ate a prawn to taste the meal and since there were only 3 prawns per person, they fell short of a prawn. Some people in the house were quite furious that night, I hear.

Since then the daughter-in-law had to seek a divorce. Just goes to show you how some wealthy people are just so “mamagi” and can’t spend money on even feeding themselves. I found the fact that they use the same tea leaves twice quite humorous really. What about you guys? Post your comments.

Ciao