Choose your new look

By Uthpala Gunethilake

These are the times when you wish that there was some way for you to find out which haircut suits you best without leaving it all to your imagination. Well, folks, this is the age of the computer when some of our most far-fetched wishes come true. 

Many of us would consider it heaven-sent if we could check out beforehand how various haircuts suit us, and decide what to go for. Beau Monte at Colombo's Millenium Park is where all those who fit the above description can allay their doubts. At Beau Monte, a digital image of your face is fed into the computer, and a special computer package will give you hundreds of different hairstyles at the touch of a button. What's more, you can check out as many colours as you like. You will see yourself in all those daring haircuts in all the fascinating colours that you wouldn't dream of suggesting to your mother, let alone really trying them out.

After browsing through the numerous haircuts, you can select four that you like best, and in a minute you will receive a colour printout of these. So the next time you decide it's time for a haircut, you'll be armed with something more definite than optimism and faith in a good hairdresser ! 

Brides are for all time

Mind- benders

1.) A plane crashes on the US/Canadian border. The first class cabin is on the Canadian side, the main cabin is on the US side. Where do they bury the survivors? 

Usually, the survivors are the ones who don't get buried! 

2.) What are the next two letters in this sequence? 

O T T F F ........

SS....each letter corresponds to the first letter of each number starting from 1, 2, 3..... 

i.e. One, Two, Three, 

3.) How many of each animal did Moses take on the ark?

None. Noah was on the ark, not Moses. 

4.) A cat jumped from the window of the top floor of a 32 storey building, but it did not die. Why ?

The cat jumped from the window toward the room inside (not toward outside). 

5.) A woman drops her ring in her coffee. When it is removed it is dry. Why?

The coffee is still in a powdered form. 

6.) A dog is tied to a leash (rope) which is twenty feet in length, yet is able to run to a bone lying fifty feet away. The leash does not stretch or break in any way. Why ? 

Nobody said that the other end of the leash was tied to anything

7.) An organism, which in the morning has four legs, at noon has two legs, and in the evening has three legs. What is it ?

The Human Being 

Infant stage: 4 legs (2 hands and 2 feet to support movement). 

Adult stage: 2 legs (2 feet to support movement). 

Old age: 3 legs (2 feet plus a "stick" to support movement). 

8.) You are dead and you go to the entrance of heaven. You find that there are two angels keeping two different doors. One leads to the heaven and the other leads to hell. On the other hand, one of the angels always tells lies and the other always tells the truth. However, you don't know which door leads to heaven and which angel tells the truth. If you are only allowed to ask ONE question and the angel will only reply "yes" or "no", what question would you ask in order to go to heaven ?

Ask one of them: 

"Will the other angel tell me that you are keeping the door to heaven ?" 

If the answer is yes, then that means the door leads to hell.

If the answer is no, then that means the door leads to heaven. 

9.) What is the longest word in the English language?

Smiles. There is a mile between the first and last letter of the word.

10.) A lamp and a candle are in a dark room. What should you light first?

A match

11.) As I was going to St.Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Every wife had seven sacks. Every sack had seven cats. Every cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, wives- how many were going to St.Ives?

Only one person was going to St.Ives. Only "I" .

12.) I live in a house where each side of the house faces south. Where do I live?

The North Pole. 

13.) A man who loves cigarettes found a way to make cigarettes using cigarette butts. He uses 6 cigarette butts to make 1 cigarette. If he has 36 cigarette butts how many cigarettes can he make?

Seven. 

(36 butts make 6 cigarettes which leave 6 butts to make another cigarette.) 

14.) An extremely clever rebel leader is caught by imperial soldiers. His execution is immediately scheduled. Since the rebel is so respected, the jealous, yet honorable, Imperial 

Commander decides to ridicule his intelligence. On the day of the execution the commander tells the rebel that he is allowed to make a statement before he is executed. If the statement is true, he will be hanged. If the statement is false, he will be shot. The rebel then makes his statement and is set free. What did he say?

He said, "I will be shot." If the statement is true, then he will be hanged, which makes the statement false, so he will be shot, which makes the statement true, so he will be hanged.... get the drift? 

Baffled and respectful, the Imperial Commander sets him free. 

15.) A clerk at the butcher shop is 5'10" tall, what does he weigh?

Meat.

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