20/11/2015

UNEXPECTED ANSWERS

He's made everyone wait a whole day for the answer, but this morning Wilson swept into the kitchen and announced, 'The answer to yesterday's fANTastic! question is: constANT.'

I had to interrupt him, telling him that one or two guesses had arrived on-line... and they seemed to be correct... but different.


W frowned, musing 'How can that be? What, pray, are these, um, counterfeit so-called solutions?'


I replied that one of his friends in New Zealand had submitted two answers, dormANT and stagnANT.


He considered my news in silence for several minutes, before picking up his marker pen and — rather grudgingly I thought — appending two alternative answers to this card.


Then he selected another card from his pack and intoned, 'Today's fANTastic! question is an easy one, with an unambiguous answer: These ants sit on a deer's head — what ants are they?'






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