I thought I would post the answers for my questions now. 12. The traditional answer is "Grant", there are some technical problems involved (see link at post #17). I think "Grant" is good enough, though. 13. Survivors usually object to being buried. :^) 14. The boat will rise with the tide and the ladder with the boat, so the water will never rise above the bottom rung. 15. The men throw one cigarette overboard and make the boat a cigarette lighter. I said it was a pun. :^)

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy