riddles

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How about including some riddles? I love the things! I'll go first.


Q: What has a foot but no legs?
A: A snail

Q: Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?
A: Nothing

Q: What comes down but never goes up?
A: Rain

Q: I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A: A candle

Q: Mary’s father has 5 daughters – Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth daughters name?
A: If you answered Nunu, you are wrong. It’s Mary!

Ingredients:


24 ounces bite-size pretzels

1 (1 ounce) package dry onion soup mix

1 cup butter, melted


Directions:

1. Preheat an oven to 275 degrees F (135 degrees C).
2. Combine the melted butter and onion soup mix in a bowl; stir. Add the pretzel pieces; toss to coat. Spread the coated pretzels into the bottom of a large baking dish.
3. Bake the pretzels in the preheated oven for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes. Allow pretzels to cool completely before storing in an airtight container.

how do you keep fish from smelling?

you put something over their noses!


Have you ever seen a man eating fish?

yes, I used to see my father eat fish all the time.

In Spring I look happy,
Deck'd in comely array,
In Summer more clothing I wear;
When colder it grows,
I fling off my clothes,
And in Winter quite naked appear.

A tree

little nancy etticoat
in a white petticoat
the longer she lives
the shorter she grows

(she is a candle)

what is something that you can lose but you never want to find again?





your temper.

Question: A monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree. Who will get the banana first, the monkey, the squirrel, or the bird?



Answer: None of them, because you can’t get a banana from a coconut tree!

which side will the rooster lay an egg on, the North or the South side of the roof?




roosters don't lay eggs

What is the quickest way to double your money?

fold it in half (I know ewww!)

i think i will try that--it couldn't hurt.

This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong with it - and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why? Study it, think about it, and you may find out. Try to do it without coaching. If you work at it for a bit it will dawn on you. So jump to it and try your skill at figuring it out. Good luck - don't blow your cool!



The letter e (the most common letter in our language), does not appear in the paragraph.

in the old days on the Green Board, there was a game called No Fifth Symbol in which people had to write without using the letter E.

That sounds like a really tough game! They used to have one where you had to name a tune too but I could never guess them so I didn't play much.

Question: A smooth dance, a ball sport, a place to stay, an Asian country, and a girl's name.

What's her name?


Answer: Juliet, all of the listed things describe a part of the NATO phonetic alphabet: Foxtrot, golf, hotel, India, and finally Juliet

i learnt those in my Dragon Dictate

hotel echo Lima Lima Oscar, Mike Oscar Romeo golf alpha November

Question: A monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree. Who will get the banana first, the monkey, the squirrel, or the bird?


Answer: None of them, because you can’t get a banana from a coconut tree!

what question are you unlikely to answer truthfully?
Are you asleep?

True, very true!

How about the loaded question, "Are you busy?" How many of us answer that honestly?

Question: You are awoken at 3 A.M. by a knock on your door. Your parents call you to let you know that they are there for breakfast. You are confused but quickly think of what food you have. You have bread, jam, butter, and eggs. What do you open first?

Answer: The door for your parents.

no--i would call the cops if anyone claiming to be my parents came to the door at 3 am
1) i don't accept visitors at that time
2)my parents have been dead a long time

When i first arrive I bring joy to peoples eyes, once you lose me people seem to never smile the same again.

Teeth

teacher: what are the sets of teeth everyone gets?
student: baby teeth, adult teeth, and false teeth!

Question: I'm teary-eyed but never cry.
Silver-tongued, but never lie.
Double-winged, but never fly.
Air-cooled, but never dry.

What am I?

Answer: Mercury. The element looks shiny, silver, and is wet. The god Mercury has two wings but only uses them to run.

What is hot and cold at the same time?
Mercury, the planet, because it is so close to the sun and one side gets very hot and the other side remains very cold.

Question: What has a single eye but cannot see?

Answer: A needle

when the woman went to the beauty shop her hair started laughing.
Why? because they teased it.

EWWW!

Q. What belongs to you but is used more by others?


A. Your name

iit was a very cold morning and the fourth grade teacher was waiiting for her class.
one by one they came with jackets and coats.
finally a child came in with no jacket or coat, although she was fully dressed otherwise.
she said to her teacher: i came to school with nothing on!