ALGEBRAIC EIGHT-BALL: MEN, WHAT’S YOUR SEX APPEAL?

• T = If you can see your toes while standing, enter zero. If not, enter the inches of reduced belt size needed to restore podiatric vision.

• HH = Percentage of scalp showing through hair.

• HB = Percentage of body below neck showing through hair.

• M = Go to a park. Smile at ten mothers. How many smile back? Subtract from this the number of children who cry.

• O+ = How many of the following do you have or have you had: a gym membership, a cat or dog, silk boxer shorts, a motorcycle, shoes that cost more than 100 bucks, sex in the past month, massage oil and/or bubble bath.

• O- = How many of the following do you have: snake or rat, underwear with holes, a videogame machine, Velcro shoes, a condom past its expiration date, any personalized or joke beer paraphernalia, your mother’s phone number on speed dial.

• SS = Your shoe size.

• X = Subtract five if you actually solved this equation.

INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS

90–100 Filet mignon
70–89 Porterhouse
40–69 Sirloin
10–39 Ground round
0–9 Jerky

Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.

—Widely misattributed to Bill Gates

Psy-Op: Veggie Math

For this trick to work, you gotta do it like you mean it. Start at the top and do the math in your head as quickly as possible. Then follow the instructions. Ready? Go!!

What is:

Now think of a vegetable! Quick!! Flip to the answers section at the back.