The following short quiz consists of 4 questions and tells whether you are qualified to be a "professional" leader.
Scroll down for each answer. The questions are not that difficult.

1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?>
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The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe and close the door. This question tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way.

2. How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?
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Wrong Answer: Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant and close the refrigerator.
Correct Answer: Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put in the elephant and close the door. This tests your ability to think through the repercussions of your actions.

3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals attend except one. Which animal does not attend?
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Correct Answer: The Elephant. The Elephant is in the refrigerator. This tests your memory. OK, even if you did not answer the first three questions correctly, you still have one more chance to show your abilities.

4. There is a river you must cross. But it is inhabited by crocodiles. How do you manage it?
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Correct Answer: You swim across. All the Crocodiles are attending the Animal Meeting. This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes.
According to Andersen Consulting Worldwide, around 90% of the professionals they tested got all questions wrong. But many preschoolers got several correct answers. Anderson Consulting says this conclusively disproves the theory that most professionals have the brains of a four year old.

Ich brech gleich ab vor lachen...
Danke siebengscheit...übrigens ich wär' durchgefallen!! Hab vergessen die Giraffe aus dem Kühlschrank zu nehmen!
lg ines

numbers 1, 2 and 3 right, but I goofed with number 4.
Does this tell me that I don't learn quickly from my mistakes??

By the way:
How do you know that there was an elephant in the refrigerator????








You can see the footprints in the butter...

For most of us, Chinese is a very difficult language to learn or understand. Hopefully, these simplifications will help you understand the Chinese language just a bit better!

Ai Bang Mai Ne - I bumped into the coffee table

Chin Tu Fat - You need a face lift

Dum Gai - A stupid person

Gun Pao Der - An ancient Chinese invention

Hu Flung Dung - Which one of you fertilized the field?

Hu Yu Hai Ding - We have reason to believe you are harboring a fugutive

Jan Ne Ka Sun - A former late night talk show host

Kum Hia - Approach me

Lao Ze Sho - Dawson's Creek

Lao Zi - Not very good

Lin Ching - An illegal execution

· Choose a number between 1 and 9.
· Multiply it by 9.
· You should have a 2 digit number (09 if you chose 1 originally).
· Add the 2 digits.
· Subtract five.
· Find the letter of the alphabet that corresponds to the number (a-1,b=2,etc).
· Think of a country in Europe that starts with that letter.
· Think of a fruit that begins with the last letter of that country's name.





Now see the answer below:






The answer is...
There are no kiwis in Denmark!


Siebengscheit

Moon Lan Ding - A great achievement of the American space program

Ne Ahn - A lighting fixture used in advertising signs

Shai Gai - A bashful person

Tai Ne Bae Be - A premature infant

Tai Ne Po Ne - A small horse

Ten Ding Ba - Serving drinks to people

Wan Bum Lung - A person with T.B.

Yu Mai Te Tan - Your vacation in Hawaii agrees with you

Wa Shing Kah - Cleaning an automobile

Wai So Dim - Are you trying to save electricity?

Wai U Shao Ting -- There is no reason to raise your voice

A widow is supposed to wear a veil during mourning to hide from death and to prevent others from catching death from her. Since the widow was the person closest to the deceased, she probably has some death vibrations around her, so she'd better conceal them.

Death, you know, is contagious.

There is an old idea that close relatives must not wear jewelry or appearin public places for weeks after a death in case the evil spirits that hadtaken the deceased were still around.

If you see an ambulance or a hearse you must touch a button or you'll be the next one in it.

If you say the name Mary Worth 100 times into a mirror in a darkened room and she appears in the mirror, you will soon die.

If a dog howls at night and it is facing toward you, you will soon die.

The cry of a curlew or the hoot of an owl foretells a death.

A single snowdrop growing in the garden foretells a death.

After eating boiled eggs, always smash the shells to prevent witches sailing out to sea in them and drowning sailors.

Having only red and white flowers together in a vase (especially inhospital) means a death will soon follow.

Bringing hawthorn blossom into the house will be followed by the death of the mother of the house.

Sailors believe that a sick man on board ship will not die until land hasbeen sighted.

The tapping sound made by the Death Watch Beetle foretells a death in the house.

Any unexplained knocking has been taken as an omen of death or misfortune.

If a dead person's eyes are left open, he'll find someone to take with him.

Mirrors in a house with a corpse should be covered or the person who sees herself will die next.

Pregnant women should not attend funerals.

Nothing new should be worn to a funeral, especially shoes.

When a good life was lived, flowers will grow on the deceased's grave. But if the deceased was evil, weeds will grow.

It is bad luck to meet a funeral procession head on.

Funerals on Friday portend another death in the family during the year.

If a broom is rested against a bed, the person who sleeps there will die soon.

Taking ashes out of a stove after sundown will bring a death in the family.

If you count the cars of a passenger train, you will hear of a death.

When you see large drops of rain, there has been a death.

Seeing a white chicken on your way to a funeral brings bad luck.

If a woman is buried in black, she will return to haunt the family.

One day in heaven, the Lord decided he would visit the earth and take a stroll. Walking down the road, he encountered a man who was crying.

The Lord asked the man, "Why are you crying, my son?"
The man said that he was blind and had never seen a sunset. The Lord touched the man who could then see and was happy.

As the Lord walked further, he met another man crying and asked, "Why are you crying, my son?"
The man was born a cripple and was never able to walk. The Lord touched him and he could walk and he was happy.

Farther down the road, the Lord met another man who was crying and asked, "Why are you crying, my son?"
The man said, "Lord, I work for the school system."

And the Lord sat down and cried with him.

Super!!!!!!!
Ich setz mich auch gleich dazu und weine ein wenig mit - das wäre dann "gelebte Solidarität"!

Will wer mitheulen?

lg ines