WEEKLY WHINE

Do not put it in your shoe

If your airline fucked up and forgot to inspect your aircraft prior to this week, you may still be stuck in some random portion of the world with no local connections and no idea what to do. The crossword? Sudoku? Guess Which Fellow Traveller Will Sue the TSA Claiming Racial Profiling?

We here at GoobNet will be happy to assist you. Below you can find a brand new set of Super Happy Assortment of GoobNet Activities Designed Exclusively for Lagged Individuals and Companions. Print them out and participate in them when you are stuck in your airport terminal wishing that you yourself were terminal.

SPEE-DOKU [NOT AFFILIATED WITH SPEEDO-KU]

Complete this box such that each row, column, and 1×1 square contains exactly one of the numbers 1-1.

WHAT’S DIFFERENT?

Find the differences between the two columns shown below.

THE QUESTIONS

1. In which year did Yuri Gagarin travel in space?

1. The one with digits that add up to 17
2. The one in which Alan Shepard also travelled in space
3. The one that reads the same if you turn it upside down, assuming you write your ones as simple vertical lines
4. The one that came immediately after the one in which John Kennedy was elected US president

2. In which year was Yuri’s Night first celebrated?

1. The one with digits that add up to 4
2. The one that came immediately before the one in which Columbia’s last mission occurred
3. The one in which Brazil won the Men’s World Cup
4. The one that is palindromic

3. In which year did Yuri’s Night first exceed a total of 160 parties?

1. The one with digits that add up to 10
2. The one in which Sergei Volkov also travelled in space
3. The one in which the United Kingdom first observed National Fetish Day
4. The one that can be expressed in hexadecimal as 0x07d8

4. In which year did the total number of humans in space first reach at least 30?

1. The one with digits that add up to 15
2. The one that contains no Is when written in Roman numerals
3. The one in which Lionel Messi scored fifteen goals
4. The one in which Wyoming received a second representative in the US Congress

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