Hee.
I can’t resist adding one that is probably too old to be funny to anyone except a kid who might not have heard it. That said,
What’s green and fuzzy, has six legs, and, if it falls on you out of a tree, will kill you?
A pool table
Coal
Quartz, your Location: Demographic Anamoly is a riddle kinda! My guess: New York City, b/c it’s got way more people than other cities do. Either that or very isolated somewhere.
What was given to you,
still belongs to you,
that you have never lent to anyone,
but is used by all the people you know?
Your Name
What is it that travels
without feet, head, or hands?
Water
In naming me, I am no longer there.
Silence
That is, anomaly
Sorry to disappoint you but it’s just a joke from NADS. Basically my political views were very different from those there. Some wit labelled me a demographic anomaly and it stuck.
This must be a moebius strip.
:dubious:
What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?
The solution: A man, who crawls on all fours as a baby, walks on two legs as an adult, and walks with a cane in old age.
Of course morning, noon, and night are metaphors for the times in a man’s (person’s) life. Such metaphors are common in riddles. There were two Thebes, apparently this Thebes was the one in Greece. And this Sphinx was apparently not the one at Giza, in Egypt.from Jim Loy
P.S. I believe I heard that “Sphinx” means “the one who dismembers”
P.S.S. Tobey…Tobey… Where are you, Tobey?
Anyone remember Unico?
I saw this one around these parts not too long ago. It makes me laugh out loud.
What is orange and sounds like a parrot?
A carrot.
Sorry to be late with the answer, which is:
A ditch.
What has four wheels and flies?
A garbage truck
What’s the beginning of everything, the end of time and space, but doesn’t exist in nothing?
the letter E
A man wants to take a fox, a chicken and a sack of feed across a river. His boat only has room for himself and one thing. He can’t leave the fox and chicken together, because the fox will eat the chicken. He can’t leave the chicken and the sack of feed together, because the chicken will eat the feed. How does he get all three across?
He first takes the chicken across. He then goes back and gets the fox. After he gets to the other side, he lets out the fox and takes the chicken back. He then lets the chicken out and gets the sack of feed. He goes over to the other side, leaves the feed with the fox, then goes back and gets the chicken.
I think I understand why the poor fellow couldn’t guess the answer: it’s a grenade
Daniel
Hmmm… they do keep those for a lifetime don’t they, by defusing them and selling them at army navy surplus stores?
**Left Hand of Dorkness ** reminded me of another one:
What has four legs and a tail, eats oats, and sees equally well out of either end?
A blind mule (or horse or donkey)
What’s green and sings?
Elvis Parsley!
What’s red on the outside, white on the inside, and goes “putt, putt, putt.”
An outboard radish
How many birthdays does the average person have?
One.
Two people are playing checkers (i.e., no tie games). They’ve played five games and each has won the same number of games. How?
They’re not playing each other.
If a plane crashes on the border between the US and Mexico, where do they bury the survivors?
No where – the survivors are still alive.
How many of each type of animal did Moses bring on the ark?
None. Noah built the ark, not Moses.
In baseball, what is the minimum number of players on the field during play? How many outs in an inning?
Ten (don’t forget the batter). Six (top and bottom of the inning)
Name three common English words ending in -gry.
No, don’t hit me!!!
What has four legs and chases cats?
Mrs. Katz and her lawyer!
Maybe so, but I figured the ones you don’t catch you end up having with you for the rest of your (very short) lifetime.
Daniel
Nobody reads the classics anymore! The classic form of the riddle is:
What we caught we threw away. What we missed we kept and The answer is:
Fleas