I Can Read Your Mind!

In order to give you a good understanding about the funny(ish) incident that happened yesterday, I'm going to take you through a little mind reading exercise. Maybe you've heard this before, if you have. That's great.

If not, give it a go, you might get a kick out of it. If you do decide to do it, be cool and don't look at the bottom before you're done, okay?

So here goes.

Think of your age. Now double it (so for example if you are 32, it's now 64). Now add 8 to the doubled age. Now divide that by 2. Need a calculator. It's cool. I can wait.


Ready to keep going? Now, once you've divided the number by 2, subtract your original age (32) from it.


Next you need to convert that number to the corresponding letter of the alphabet, so 1 would be A, 2=B and so on.



Got your letter?


Now think of a country that begins with that letter.


Got your country?


Now take the last letter of the country, and think of an animal that begins with that letter.


Got your animal?


Now take the last letter of the animal and think of a color that starts with that letter.


Got your color?


Now I shall attempt to reach through the internet and read your mind. I'm guessing that you came up with (put your mouse over it to highlight the rest of it after the word 'An'):


An Orange Kangaroo from Denmark!

Am I right?


If that's what you got, good for you! You're like 99% of the people out there. I know that's what I got. If you got something different than the letter 'D', you did the math wrong and probably need to go back to school.

So I did this magic trick on Matt. Thinking he'd be awed and mystified by my awesome mind reading skills.

You know what he got? An Aqua Iguana from Djibouti! Seriously, who thinks of Djibouti when naming a country that begins with D?

Needless to say, I didn't dazzle him with my psychic abilities, but he did dazzle me with his level of geekiness.