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Five Riddles----Brain Food

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14 April 2008, 19:49
xgrunt
Five Riddles----Brain Food
> 1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three
> rooms.
> The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with
> loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years.
> Which room is safest for him?
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> 2. A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5
> minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out
> together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?
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> 3. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you
> throw it away ?
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> 4. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday,
> Friday, or Sunday?
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> 5. This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious as to just how quickly you
> can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary and plain
> that you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong
> with it! It is highly unusual though. Study it and think about it, but
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> 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!
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> THE ANSWERS TO ALL FIVE THE RIDDLES ARE BELOW:
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> Answers:
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> 1. The third room. Lions that haven't eaten in three years are dead.
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> 2. The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband,
> developed it, and hung it up to dry (shot; held under water; and hung).
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> 3. Charcoal, as it is used in barbecuing.
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> 4. Sure you can name three consecutive days, yesterday, today, and
> tomorrow!
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> 5. The letter e, which is the most common letter used in the English
> language, does not appear even once in the paragraph.
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> how did you do?
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14 April 2008, 20:16
LRH270
6. Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

7. What do they pack styrofoam in?
14 April 2008, 20:29
Alan R. McDaniel, Jr.
1, 2, and 4 were easy. I would have gotten 3 eventually but probably would have grown old thinking about #5.

Alan


But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.-Thomas Jefferson
15 April 2008, 00:26
Tailgunner
You throw away the outside
You cook the inside
You eat the outside
You throw away the inside

What is it?

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Corn
15 April 2008, 04:45
MT Gianni
quote:
Originally posted by Tailgunner:
You throw away the outside
You cook the inside
You eat the outside
You throw away the inside

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Corn


I thought that was a brand of humor on the old Hee-Haw show.