Fw: New Car Talk Puzzler: A Very Speedy Dougie!

[Thaddeus Weakley]

All of the regular cyclists on this list should know the answer to this NPR Car Talk Puzzler: --- On Mon, 10/26/09, Car Talk Plaza <Lac...@cartalk.com> wrote: From: Car Talk Plaza <Lac...@cartalk.com> Subject: New Car Talk Puzzler: A Very Speedy Dougie! To: thadw...@yahoo.com Date: Monday, October 26, 2009, 4:27 PM If you're having trouble viewing this email, you may see it online. Become a Car Talk Sponsor A Very Speedy Dougie! RAY:  This was from my continuing series, “The Adventures of Doug Berman.”  Recently our very own Dougie decided to go green and ride his bicycle back and forth to work every day. And the fact that he was just a few bean burritos from that 200-pound mark, may have had something to do with it. Anyway, Dougie is one of our fair city’s few law-abiding cyclists. In fact, he’s kind of a fanatic about it. He obeys all the rules of the road. He signals for all of his turns, obeys the speed limits, obeys all the traffic signs and  stop lights and even yields to pedestrians. He’s a saint!  Well, lately, he has started to record his time for his trips both to and from work and here’s the interesting part: When there is moderate traffic on the road, he can make his trip either to or from work a few minutes faster than he can when there is little or no traffic. How could this be? Now he’s not hanging onto the bumpers of passing cars or drafting city buses, so what’s the story?

Puzzling Pigskin RAY: This was from my pigskin series and as you may have noticed the football season has descended upon us with the subtlety of an avalanche. Football is played by big and small schools all over the country and often some schools simply don’t have any players in their school who are capable of place kicking. Place kicking is when somebody holds the football and another guy comes up and kicks it, like when you kick a field goal or an extra point. These teams without a place kicker are therefore incapable of kicking extra points and/or field goals because they don’t have anyone who’s courageous enough to hold the ball or who can kick it when it’s being held. They can score touchdowns but when they do they have to run the ball for two extra points every time. Now, a team that can’t convert a place kick can do just about everything that a team that can convert one can do.  They can certainly win all their games, if they are capable, or they can lose all their games. They can score touchdowns; they can score no touchdowns. But there is one thing that they simply cannot do, something that they can’t accomplish.  And what is that thing?

The puzzler winner this week is:   John Kaye from Seattle, Washington!

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[CycloChemist]

I'm gonna propose that Dougie gets more through green lights in
moderate traffic because the presence of cars on the roads is detected
by induction loops that feed traffic flow information to some sort of
computer controlled system. I don't experience this in my commute
'cuz I ride so s_l_o_w_l_y. I'm always catching red lights. Which I
prefer, because it offers me quality teaching moments to motorists
(See? I'm a cyclist who conforms to vehicle codes) and cyclists (I
stop for red lights, why don't you?). Stops also allow traffic to
read my Crate Ads, promoting the WBWC, the RAT!, and our advocacy
work.

I may be a doofus cyclists, but I'm fanatical about it!

On Oct 26, 10:38 pm, Thaddeus Weakley <thadweak...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> All of the regular cyclists on this list should know the answer to this NPR Car Talk Puzzler:
>
> --- On Mon, 10/26/09, Car Talk Plaza <Lac...@cartalk.com> wrote:
>
> From: Car Talk Plaza <Lac...@cartalk.com>
> Subject: New Car Talk Puzzler: A Very Speedy Dougie!
> To: thadweak...@yahoo.com
> Date: Monday, October 26, 2009, 4:27 PM
>

> If you're having trouble viewing this email, you may see it online.
>

> Become a Car Talk Sponsor
>

> A Very Speedy Dougie!
>
> RAY:  This was from my continuing series, “The Adventures of Doug Berman.”  Recently our very own Dougie decided to go green and ride his bicycle back and forth to work every day. And the fact that he was just a few bean burritos from that 200-pound mark, may have had something to do with it.
> Anyway, Dougie is one of our fair city’s few law-abiding cyclists. In fact, he’s kind of a fanatic about it. He obeys all the rules of the road. He signals for all of his turns, obeys the speed limits, obeys all the traffic signs and  stop lights and even yields to pedestrians. He’s a saint! 
> Well, lately, he has started to record his time for his trips both to and from work and here’s the interesting part: When there is moderate traffic on the road, he can make his trip either to or from work a few minutes faster than he can when there is little or no traffic. How could this be? Now he’s not hanging onto the bumpers of passing cars or drafting city buses, so what’s the story?
>  
>  
>
>  
>

> Puzzling Pigskin
>
> RAY: This was from my pigskin series and as you may have noticed the football season has descended upon us with the subtlety of an avalanche.
> Football is played by big and small schools all over the country and often some schools simply don’t have any players in their school who are capable of place kicking. Place kicking is when somebody holds the football and another guy comes up and kicks it, like when you kick a field goal or an extra point.
> These teams without a place kicker are therefore incapable of kicking extra points and/or field goals because they don’t have anyone who’s courageous enough to hold the ball or who can kick it when it’s being held. They can score touchdowns but when they do they have to run the ball for two extra points every time.
> Now, a team that can’t convert a place kick can do just about everything that a team that can convert one can do.  They can certainly win all their games, if they are capable, or they can lose all their games. They can score touchdowns; they can score no touchdowns. But there is one thing that they simply cannot do, something that they can’t accomplish.  And what is that thing?
>

> The puzzler winner this week is:
>  
> John Kaye from Seattle, Washington!
>  
>

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>

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[Bonnie Nolan]

I was thinking better drafting opportunities ...

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