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Why are fish so good at watching their weight?
Answer: Because they have lots of scales.
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What is the most useful instrument in a mathematics teacher's tool kit?
Answer: Multi-pilers!
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A pet shop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said "Parrot repeats everything it hears". Davey bought the parrot and for two weeks he spoke to it and it didn't say a word. He returned the parrot but the shopkeeper said he never lied about the parrot.
How can this be?
Answer: The parrot was deaf.
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The more you take, the more you leave behind. "What am I?"
Answer: You take footsteps and leave footprints.
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What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?
Answer: The word is "starting". Remove the middle "T" and you have "staring", Remove the "A" and you get "string", remove the "R" then you have "sting", remove the "T" and you get "sing". Remove the "G", and you get "sin", remove the "S" and you're left with "in", and finally, remove the "N" and you're left with "I".
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What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A Penny.
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David's father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and _____?
Answer: David.
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Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
Answer: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.
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I sleep when you are awake, I am awake when you fall asleep. I can fly but no feathers to support my flight. Who am I?
Answer: The moon.
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Tristen received a phone call late one evening from his old science teacher, Mr. Riddleopoulous, asking him to come over to his house to see a few things he felt would interest him. Tristen remembered Mr. Riddleopoulous, a man of Greek descent, as being a person who always spoke in riddles, and was always vague when asking questions and giving answers and instructions. Tristen arrived at the Riddleopoulous residence just after 9:30 p.m., and was immediately ushered back to the patio of his teacher’s house. “See if you remember how to use this ‘precision instrument’,”said the teacher to his former student, “and locate the following: a Big kitchen utensil, a Little kitchen utensil, the Roman god of war, the Roman goddess of love, a liquid associated with thermometers, and a Candy Bar.” Remembering how Mr. Riddleopoulous interacted with everyone, Tristen was soon able to find all six of the locations requested ——— Can you? First, to solve this brainteaser, you must identify the “precision instrument” used by Tristen; and Second, you must name at least three of the six locations Mr. Riddleopoulous asked him to find. (Extra credit if you can name all six). Good luck!!!
Answer: Being a science teacher, Mr. Riddleopoulous had a great interest in astronomy. He called Tristen to come to the outside patio of his house after dark so he could challenge his former student to use his powerful telescope(the “precision instrument”) to find the Big Dipper, the Little Dipper(big and little kitchen utensils), the planet Mars(the Roman god of war), the planet Venus(the Roman goddess of love), the planet Mercury(a liquid associated with thermometers), and a Candy Bar(the Milky Way galaxy).
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An apple is $.40, a banana is $.60, and a grapefruit is $.80.
How much is a pear?
Answer: Answer: each vowel costs $0.20.apple (a, e) = 2 vowels → $0.40banana (a, a, a) = 3 → $0.60grapefruit (a, e, u, i) = 4 → $0.80pear (e, a) = 2 → $0.40
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Why did the girl bring the tallest ladder to school?
Answer: She brought it so that she could climb to high school!
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What work is it that the faster you work, the longer it is before you're done, and the slower you work, the sooner you're finished?
Answer: Roasting meat on a spit
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A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long bus trip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why?
Answer: An apple a day keeps the doctor away!
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David's father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and _____?
Answer: David.
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What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A Penny.
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What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?
Answer: The word is "starting". Remove the middle "T" and you have "staring", Remove the "A" and you get "string", remove the "R" then you have "sting", remove the "T" and you get "sing". Remove the "G", and you get "sin", remove the "S" and you're left with "in", and finally, remove the "N" and you're left with "I".
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The more you take, the more you leave behind. "What am I?"
Answer: You take footsteps and leave footprints.
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Lucky Bottle Cap Puzzle #23 Series 1
Answer: Lucky Break.
Lucky Bottle Cap Puzzle #30 Series 1
Answer: Strike while the iron's hot
Lucky Bottle Cap Puzzle #48 Series 1
Answer: Pickup litter.
Lucky Bottle Cap Puzzle #55 Series 1
Answer: Back to nature.
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