Time For a New Hobby
Science brain teasers require understanding of the physical or biological world and the laws that govern it.
After Duffus McClutski's wife made him give up his used tea bag collection, Duffus decided to start collecting fridge magnets. Eventually, he had enough to cover the entire fridge, much to his wife's dismay. After several failed attempts to get rid of them, she finally gave up until one day, their fridge broke down. They looked at dozens of fridges, but finally settled on a top-of-the-line stainless steel model with two doors, icemaker and the works. Duffus was reluctant to spend so much on a fridge till his wife told him to imagine how great his fridge magnets would look on it. That was all the motivation he needed, but once the fridge was in, he soon realized his wife had put one over on him, and he would only be able to imagine his collection on the fridge from now on.
But why, what had she done?
HintWhat do fridge magnets need to work?
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Answer
She knew that high quality stainless steel like that used in making expensive pots, cooking utensils, and fridges is non-magnetic. Thus the fridge magnets wouldn't stick and Duffus would have to take up a new hobby. But that's another teaser.
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Comments
AXTON   
Aug 12, 2004
| My parents just bought a stainless steel fridge and when my brother put a magnet on it, it scratched the surface really bad. Nice teaser...I enjoyed...Axton |
jimbo   
Aug 15, 2004
| Has Duffis (Duffus) been at it changing the spelling of his name? |
dairycow7
Aug 19, 2004
| talk about an easy one! Must admit, we have a fair few fridge magnets on our fridge (obviously not stainless teel). But it wasn't that hard to figure it out. Loved it.
Em |
I_am_the_Omega  
Sep 13, 2004
| Not very difficult, but I liked the story 
Btw, "indeed" is one word, otherwise we're talking about the insides of deeds... |
Mogmatt16   
Oct 03, 2004
| Poor Duffus . I hope he kept the old one. |
annie9698  
Feb 24, 2005
| really easy, but i love reading about Duffus' sad life  |
kittyloverhan
Mar 16, 2005
| thats cool, poor guy! Diffently(SP) a favorites! |
MrBrainfreeze
Apr 13, 2005
| Awwww! I thought almost had the answer! Turns out I went by the hint and guessed, "metal."  |
shandela  
May 02, 2005
| didn't know steel wasn't magentic but fiured it must not be because it had to be the answer. |
drussel3   
May 20, 2005
| We do have a stainless fridge, and magnets do stick on them. My guess is high quality stainless for other applications is not magnetic, but the quality of stainless on some (most?) fridges do contain iron. |
puppygirl1213   
Jun 14, 2005
| That was easy but really funny. This is my fist one that i am putting on my favorites.  |
sweetime  
Jul 22, 2005
| my ex used to have a stainless steel fridge - used to drive me mad!! made him buy a magnetic whiteboard so i could magnet things of importance to it  |
Ozymandias  
Jul 25, 2005
| Easy, but fun!  |
Warrior_Poet
Jan 19, 2006
| Stainless steel is so called because it is non-ferrous and therefore does not oxidize easily. Non-ferrous metals are generally poor magnets. |
vbguy101   
Aug 20, 2006
| I knew that!
Stainless steel contains, in addition to regular steel, a bit of nickel and chromium.
For you jokers out there, THE ELEMENT NICKEL! |
fedex337   
Jun 30, 2007
| this just happened to my friends parents... they bought a new fridge BECAUSE they ran out of space to put all there magnets |
luckypuppy   
Dec 06, 2007
| you are so funny  |
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