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I think there could be some truth in these T-shirts:

A related and simpler problem. You are in a boat with a lead weight. (See diagram. Imagine you are standing next to the weight). The Initial level of water was noted. You throw the lead weight overboard so that it sink to the bottom. What would happen to the water level?

Exactly.

Would it stay exactly the same though since everyone is worried about raising sea levels due to the melting of ice caps?

An old puzzle. You have one or more ice cubes in a glass of water. You use a pen to mark the initial water level. Then you let the ice melt completely. Would the new water level be higher or lower then before? (The red wordings read "original water level")

I am just hopeless with word puzzles. Long live logic and calculation challenges!

I think both spellings can be used but queuing has got more popular in recent decades. "Queueing can also be used as the continuous form" according to online Collins dictionary. Frequency in which the two spelling occur in books over the year.

One of the must have 2020 coin must be the Brexit 50p. Am I alone in thinking that the proposed design is just exceedingly poor. "Peace, prosperity and friendship with all nations" is just some sort of incredibly lame and meaningless sentence. Surely, the Royal Mint could have produced a "British" design that is tasteful, encouraging and can be admired by both Brexiteers and former Remainers, Remainers etc. They really should leave out the date as well - that's not necessary in my view. My top choice would be a detailed engraving of the Parliament and the Thames. Something looking like: A crown size piece is needed to do it justice. One of my regrets is that we never made a cityscape coin. This would be the ideal time to make one. I did also thought about the merits of bringing back a classical design like the Gothic crown reverse. However, it is important to look forward and not back and so I think we should do something new. Any ideas on a design? (Let's not get heated discussions on the pros and cons of Brexit since it is definitely going to happen later in the month. And no more shooting in the foot design since we had seen them already. 😃 )

Didn't think the BBC would be that desperate.

It certainly makes the set more interesting and stand out from the other routine year sets 🙂 Despite not a fan of modern year sets, I have got to say that the designs do look rather nice this time.

I thought "March" could be referring to the town of March. But I don't what the record refers to.

eat and past tense is ate

The letter m

That medal is not mine. I got an OBE first type instead and it was awarded to the industrialist James Carter Gray. The auction were selling his items and there was a silver salver too. Churchill recommended him for the award and sent him a signed letter of congratulations. The letter was sold at a specialist auction and went for a four figure sum.

I assume the likely option is to post them with a message from the Queen saying that she deeply regrets she is unable to distribute the coins this year. The monarch used to send such messages when the recipients of awards cannot be present at the ceremonies at Buckingham Palace.

By the way, did anyone manage to get a Brexit 50p in your change? I haven't but I have handled very little change in the last few months.

Thanks! I enjoyed doing that.

I tried to write out all the permutations and eliminate. All the RR or GG for student 2 have been eliminated and so I would make it RG for student 2. RR RR GG GG RR RG RG GG RR RG GG RG RR GG RR GG RR GG RG RG RR GG GG RR RG RR RG GG RG RR GG RG RG RG RR GG RG RG RG RG RG RG GG RR RG GG RR RG RG GG RG RR GG RR RR GG GG RR RG RG GG RR GG RR GG RG RR RG GG RG RG RR GG GG RR RR

The puzzle didn't say that each musician cannot part with their beloved instrument.

Man takes rabbit across. Then goes back and take dog across. Take Rabbit on second journey back. Leave Rabbit and take cabbage across. Go back and take Rabbit across.

C with D (10 minutes) D returns without his instrument (1 min) B and A (2 minutes) A returning (1 minutes) A and D without his instrument (1 mins) And you have 2 minutes to spare!

He might think that the barber with the neat hair cut used the other barber since there are only two of them in town.

No, that's not quite your style. If it came from Paddy, I might have done. :-)

You can try to get as much of the string to be in contact with the ice as possible. Might be start off a water that's a bit cooler. Trial and error a few times? If that still doesn't work, I think after you have left the string in contact with the ice for a minute or two, you can dip more string into the water to wet it and place the wet string on the string already on the ice. This will help to dilute the salt water on the top of the ice more?