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Sunday, October 16, 2011

Riddles

A high speed electric train is traveling south at 90mph.  The wind is blowing westward at 30mph.  In what direction will the smoke from the engine blow?

* Electric trains don't blow smoke  *
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Randy Brown was washing windows on a high-rise office building when he slipped
and fell off a sixty-foot ladder onto the concrete sidewalk below.  Incredibly, he did not injure himself in any way.  How was this possible?

* He was standing on the bottom rung!
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What is greater than God, more evil than Satan, poor people have it, rich people need it, if you eat it you will die.

*  Nothing  *
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A woman marries 10 men. 
They are all from the same state.
She doesn't divorce any of them and none of them have passed away.
How is this possible?

*  She's a priest  *
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What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in an hour.

*  The letter M  *
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How many cubic meters of dirt are there in a hole 6m long,  2m wide, and 1m deep?

*  There is no dirt in a hole!  *
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At night they come without being fetched, and by day they are lost without being stolen.

*  the stars 
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Take one out and scratch my head.
I am now black but once was red.

*  A match  *
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The more there is, the less you see.

*  Darkness  *
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They are Dark, and always on the run.
Without the sun, would be none.

*  Shadow 
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What can fill a room but takes up no space.

*  Light  *
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What goes on four legs at dawn, two at noon, and three at dusk?
* Oedipus gave the proper answer: man, who crawls on all fours in infancy, walks on two feet when grown, and leans on a staff in old age. *
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Pronounced as one letter,
And written with three,
Two letters there are,
And two only in me.
I'm double, I'm single,
I'm black blue and grey,
I'm read from both ends,
And the same either way.

*  eye  *
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You throw away the outside and cook the inside, then you eat the outside and throw away the inside.  What did you eat?

*  an ear of corn  *
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The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place.

*  The letter E  *
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What is worse than finding a worm in the apple you are eating?

*  Finding half a worm!!  *
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A family has 5 kids.  Half of them are boys.  How is this possible?

*  all the kids are boys  *
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Only two backbones, a thousand ribs.

*  A railroad  *
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Two people sharing the same biological (human) parents are born on April 25th 1969.  Yet these people are not twins, how can this be?

*  They are triplets  *
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If it takes six people six days to dig six holes, how long will it take one person to dig half a hole?

*  There is no such thing as half a hole 
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What goes around the world and stays in a corner?

*  A stamp  *
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Forward I am heavy, backward I am not.  What am I?

*  Ton  *
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Light as a feather, there is nothing in it;
the strongest man can't hold it for much more than a minute?

*  Breath  *
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The rich men want it, the wise men know it, the poor all need it, and the kind men show it.

*  Love  *
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