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Riddle:
What's black and white and red all over?

Answer: Iapetus and Mars.

The idea behind this answer may be little obscure. For example, not everyone knows that one of Saturn's moons, Iapetus, has a very dark hemisphere and a very bright one. I have provided a hyperlink from the word "Iapetus" above to a site that gives good info about that. My question to you is whether I should provide links on every page to "explain the joke". On one hand, I'd like the opportunity to be instructive, but, on the other hand, if a joke needs explaining, then it's not a joke.


Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that we're in this hobby for FUN. This new section on our website is intended to help serve that need.

If you have an original contribution or if you see something that is particularly appropriate for this section, please send it to Ray Shapp. Thanks for the input!

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Page last updated 03/22/2004