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Five-Minute
Mystery
The Case of the Elements Separated at Birth
Identical twins were born in Webville a number of years ago and by a
freak accident involving an Internet router malfunction, the twins were
separated shortly after birth. Both grew up without knowledge of the
other, and only through another set of freak circumstances did they later
meet and discover their identity, which they decided to keep secret.
After the discovery, they quickly learned that they shared a surprising
number of things in common. Both were married to wives named
Citation. They also both had a love for quotations. The first twin,
the element, loved short, pithy quotes, while the second,
, loved longer quotes, often memorizing
complete passages from books or poems.
Being identical twins, they bore a strong resemblance to each other, and
so they decided to put together an evil scheme whereby they might stand
in for each other now and then. They first tested this on their wives (the
details of which we won’t go into) and they passed with flying colors
– their wives had no idea (or at least pretended not to).
Next they wanted to test their switching scheme in the work place
where, as another coincidence, they both performed the same job:
marking up quotes in HTML documents. So, on the chosen day, the
brothers went to the other’s work place fully confident they’d pull off
their evil plan (after all, if their wives couldn’t tell, how could their
bosses?), and that’s when things turned bad. Within 10 minutes of
starting the work day, the brothers had both been found to be imposters
and the standards authorities were immediately alerted.
How were the twins caught in the act?
Keep reading for more clues...
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