DEAD RECKONING
Credit: GAMES Magazine
November, 2000
Christopher T. McColl

Postal workers have to deal with dead letters. What dead things do the following workers have to deal with?

1. Bodybuilder
2. Butcher
3. Canal worker
4. Chef
5. Geometry teacher
6. Ornithologist
7. Percussionist
8. Riveter
9. Doorbell repairman
10. Translator of Virgil's Aeneid 

Answers:

1. Dead weight (or lifts)
2. Dead meat
3. Deadlocks
4. Deadpans
5. Deadlines
6. Dead ducks
7. Deadbeats
8. Deadbolts
9. Dead ringers
10. Dead languages