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| Why did the orange go to the doctor? |
He didn't peel good. |
| What happens when you tell a joke to a duck? |
It quacks up! |
| What gets larger the more you take away? |
A hole. |
| What runs up and down the stairs but never moves? |
The carpet. |
| How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet? |
None. There is no dirt in a hole. |
| A farmer had seventeen sheep, all but nine died, how many did he have left? |
Nine |
| Before the days of motor cars, a man rode into town on his horse. He arrived on Friday, spent three days in town and left on Friday. How is that possible? |
His horse was named "Friday." |
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| Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I? |
A Ton |
| How many of each animal did Moses take on the ark? |
None. Noah had the ark. |
I have a head like a cat. I have feet like at cat. But I am not a cat.
What am I?
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A kitten |
| I know a word of letters three, Add two and fewer there will be. |
Few |
I'm not an airplane, but I can fly through the sky. I'm not a river, but I'm full of water.
What am I?
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A Cloud |
| You can't keep this until you have given it. |
A promise |
| Who can shave twenty-five times a day and still have a beard? |
A Barber |
| What question can you never answer "yes" to? |
"Are you asleep?" |
| What kind of rocks are on the bottom of the Mississippi River? |
Wet rocks |
| What gets harder to catch the faster you run? |
Your breath |
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| The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it? |
Darkness |
| The more it dries, the wetter it gets. What is it? |
A towel |
| In Okmulgee, Oklahoma, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not? |
You can't take a picture with a wooden leg! You need a camera. |
| What do you fill with empty hands? |
Gloves |
| What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in an hour? |
The letter M |
| What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don't want to use it? |
An anchor |
| What letter is never found in the alphabet? |
The one you mail |
| What's colorless, and weightless, but if you put it into a barrel, the barrel would become lighter? |
A hole |
| What kind of water never freezes? |
Hot water |
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| What grows up while growing down? |
A goose |
| If you were in a dark room with a candle, a woodstove, a match and a gas lamp which do you light first? |
The match |
| You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I? |
A telephone |
| What is the longest word in the English language? |
Smiles - there a mile between the first and last letter |
| What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has T in it? |
A teapot |
| What one word has the most letters in it? |
Alphabet |
| What has a foot on each side and one in the middle? |
A yardstick |
| What goes up and never comes down? |
Your age |
| What goes up and down without moving? |
Stairs |
| What can go up and come down without moving? |
The temperature. |
| The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they? |
Footsteps |
| No sooner spoken than broken. What is it? |
Silence |
| If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it? |
A secret |
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| Why did the chicken cross the road? |
To get to the other side |
| Why did the rooster cross the road? |
To cockadoodle dooo something |
| Why did the chicken cross the basketball court? |
He heard the referee calling fowls |
| Why did the turkey cross the road? |
To prove he wasn't chicken |
| Why did the chicken cross the road, roll in the mud and
cross the road again? |
Because he was a dirty double-crosser |
| Why didn't the chicken skeleton cross the road? |
Because he didn't have enough guts |
| Why did the chicken cross the playground? |
To get to the other slide |
| Why did the turtle cross the road? |
To get to the shell station |
| Why did the horse cross the road? |
Because the chicken needed a day off |
| Why did the chicken cross the road half way? |
He wanted to lay it on the line |
| Why did the hen cross the road? |
To prove she wasn't chicken |
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