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Mar 19, 2008 08:27AM
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The more you take the more you leave behind...
Sorry I'm late in getting this up! Hopefully this one isn't too easy.Not a single parent objected when the teacher spanked every child in the class. Why?
All the students were orphans? Hence, no parents to complain.
This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it! In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out! Try to do so without any coaching!
it contains all the letters of the alphabet except 'e', 'j', 'v', 'x' and 'z'???or it doesn't contain the word 'the'???
You got it Aumee! (And then some!)I was just looking for you to mention the lack of e's (ease?) in the passage. Seeing as it's the most common letter in the English language, it usually makes an appearance at least once (usually more) in most paragraphs.
he he he!!!here goes:
You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
Well, obviously 1st place. But that's too easy... is this a trick question?! :)
No, it is not a trick question, but first place is not correct.
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if you pass 2nd from 3rd place then you end up in 2nd place
GAH!! Why didn't i think of that??!! Wes, you are just too smart for your own good. :)
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A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys.How can this be possible?
Ha ha. No. :-) Nice try, though. That was creative.
The woman has 7 sons. If all of them are boys then, obviously, any fraction or subset of them would also be boys.
Good work, Symbol.P.S. When Kenzie brought up tom boys, I was worried that there might be some debate about one of the boys being transgendered. Technically, I suppose that could have been an acceptable answer.
While I was walking to St. Ives,I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks.
Each sack had seven cats.
Each cat had seven kits.
Kits, cats, sacks, wives...
How many were going to St. Ives?
Sorry I never posted a riddle! Got stuck with a lousy internet connection and couldn't get to the site!
Oh, you're so right Charity. It never said that the person met the mans wives or anything. Just that he met the man. Ha, ha. That was a good riddle Symbol.
Sorry about my talk-a-tiveness. Well, type-a-tiveness. I just found that funny.
I put one because it only says I was walking to St. Ives. It doesn't say anything about where the other man was going.
You got it Charity! Very good.Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. I've not been online for a few days. Go ahead and post a new riddle.
A wise King wants an honest child to take his place on the throne. He gives each of his 3 sons a pack of flower seeds and tells them that the one who grows the most beautiful flowers from these seeds will have his throne. Six months pass and the king checks the flowers. The first 2 had beautiful flower beds while the last child had nothing in his plot but weeds and no flowers. Yet, the king chose this child to have the throne. Why?
Were the seeds really for veggies or fruits? Then the only thing that would be sprouting would be a couple of weeds and maybe the tops of the veggie. Then he would know that the other two children took flowers from somewhere else so that they would have beautiful flowers. So, the third child would be honest by not having any flowers at all.
Kenzie, you are basically correct. The answer I have is that the king baked the seeds so that the flowers wouldn't grow, so he knew that the two sons who had beautiful flower beds had to have gotten the seeds from somewhere else. Since the third son had no flowers, he knew that he had only planted the seeds he was given and was the honest child.Good reasoning, Kenzie. You're turn. :-)
Thanks! One can only try.The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?
a coffinum.....didnt we already do this one?
Really, sorry. But you're right Aumee. I forgot to check if it was used already.
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A farmer had nine sheep, and all but seven died. How many did he have left?
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