It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Monday, January 4, 2021

I'm Not Expecting You To Know Who Owns The Zebra

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Sixty-nine years ago,
what has become
a world-famous
logic puzzle
was published.

Life International
was housed
in Rockefeller Center
and the riddle
was a big topic
of discussion
in the
Sacred Cellar.

That is,
the watering hole
of the restaurant
adjacent to
the world-famous
skating rink

The watering administrator—
otherwise known as
the head bartender—
GUARANTEED
the imbibers
he would have the solution
the next day.
 
His audience included
Time-Life journalists,
photographers and executives.
 
There were
NBC producers and TV personalities,
Shell Oil executives
and other A-list personages.
 
Collectively,
they were non-plussed
by this 
multi-ethnic,
multi-cryptic
multi-information
mystery. 

They bet the bartender
that it
COULD NOT
be done.
 
The bartender's name
was Sam
 and this story
 is continued
 
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