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RIDDLES
RIDDLES
In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish,
a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower–
everything was pink! What color were the stairs?
There weren’t any stairs, it was a one story house!
I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A candle
Take away my first letter, and I still sound the same. Take away my last letter, I still sound the same. Even take away
my letter in the middle, I will still sound the same. I am a five letter word. What am I?
EMPTY
If an electric train is traveling south, which way is the smoke going?
There is no smoke, it’s an electric train!
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?
None of them, because you can’t get a banana from a coconut tree!
Two fathers and two sons go on a fishing trip. They each catch a fish and bring it home. Why do they only bring
3 home?
The fishing trip consists of a grandfather, a father and a son.
What is round on both sides but high in the middle?
Ohio.
Buddy-Uhhh
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Summer 2014, Volume 7, No. 34