Gerald Hurtubise sent the following along with his solution:

"In a mating ritual, 3 newlywed native couples went to their tepees... one couple made love on a bear skin, and soon had a son another couple made love on a deer skin and also had a son but the third couple made love on a hippopotamus skin and had twin sons... so

"the sons of the squaw on the hide of the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squaws on the other two hides!"

Should I strike his name from the list?

October Puzzle Solvers
(The first ten are listed in the order their solutions were received, the others alphabetically)

1. Elizabeth and Keith Falkner – Sarasota, FL
2. Mike Lessie – Douglassvile, PA
3. Lewis Gee – Poway, CA
4. Dina Fertig – Cherry Hill, NJ
5. Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY
6. Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
7. Darreby Ambler – Bath, ME
8. Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA
9. Steve Tice – Great Falls, VA
10. Kris Green – Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ
Jonathan Belsky – St Louis, MO
Ed Binkowski – New York, NY
Barry Brandes – Purdys, NY
Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM
Patricia Coppersmith – Venice, FL
Henry Cook – Chicago, IL
Jeff Courtright – Normal, IL
Barbara Featherston – St. Louis, MO
Juan Carlos Fernandez – West Hollywood, CA
Matthew Field – London, UK
Stan Francuz – Forster NSW, Australia
Dwight Freund – Sacramento, CA
Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NY
John Gliessman – Seattle, WA
Max Goodman – Chicago, IL
Yohma Gray – Evanston, IL
George Griffin – Las Vegas, NV
Brian Hagen – Millbrae, CA
Dick Holmes – Lake Bluff, IL
Gerald Hurtubise – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Gigi & Tony Janeshek – Lake Jackson, TX
Ralph Jones – Aurora, CO
Wayne Jones – Worcester, NY
Dorothy Juhlin – Hillsborough, NC
Dave Kaplan – New City, NY
Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
Steve Kinsky – Denver, CO
Doug Kouril – XX
Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY
Richard Letourneau – Bonita Springs, FL
Paul Lustig – Lakewood, OH
Roy McLeese – Washington, DC
Jim McNally – Shortsville, NY
Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA
Kiki Neely – Waban, MA
Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS
Patrick D. Phillips – Bainbridge Island, WA
Charles Ray – North Potomac, MD
Stan Rehm – Madison, WI
Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA
Sue Roberts – Tucson, AZ
Joe Rogers – Old Greenwich, CT
Carolyn Roosevelt – Cambridge, MA
Mordy Rosen – Berkeley, CA
Andrew Rosenberg – Brooklyn, NY
Al Sanders – Fort Collins, CO
Arthur Schless – Unionville, PA
Joe Schrader – Hillsboro, OR
Dexter Senft – Bedford, NY
Carolyn G. & Robert M. Smith – Massena, NY
Donald Stanley – Littleton, CO
Edward Stejskal – Raleigh, NC
John Stuelpnagel – Baltimore, MD
Claire Trazenfeld – Crownsville, MD
Korina Tueller – Phoenix, AZ
S Venkatraghavan – Mumbai, India
Margaret Webster – Medford, MA
Thomas Wilson – South Williamsport, PA
Jay Winter – Farmington Hills, MI