Riddle: You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
Answer: An ear of corn.
Riddle: In 2000, a 40-year-old doctor told his son that when a little boy he decided to be a doctor by seeing a internet web site about performing a heart transplant on a puppy with a defective heart so that the puppy would live a normal life. I then thought that I would be a doctor so that I could help people in a similar way. What is the defect in this story?
Answer: The internet did not exist when the doctor was a little boy.
Riddle: At the sound of me, men may dream. At the sound of me, they stamp their feet. At the sound of me, women smile but sometimes weep. What am I?
Answer: Music.
Riddle: Weight in my belly, Trees on my back, Nails in my ribs, Wheels I do lack. What Am I?
Answer: a ship
Riddle: A father and son were in a car accident where the father was killed. The ambulance brought the son to the hospital. He needed immediate surgery. In the operating room, a doctor came in and looked at the little boy and said I can't operate on him he is my son. Who is the doctor?
Answer: The Mother.
Riddle: Railroad Crossing, look out for the cars. Can you spell that, without any R's?
Answer: That.
Riddle: When set loose I fly away, Never so cursed As when I go astray. What am I?
Answer: A fart.
Riddle: Where is there no south, west, nor east, and weather is not fit for man or beast?
Answer: The South Pole.
Riddle: General Gasslefield, accused of high treason, is sentenced to death by court-martial. He is allowed to make a final statement, after which he will be shot if the statement is false or will be hung if the statement is true. Gasslefield makes his final statement and is released. The Question: What could he have said?
Answer: General Gasslefield said: "I will be shot." If this statement was true, he would have been hung and thus not be shot. But then his statement would be false, which implies that he should be shot, making the statement true again, etc... In other words: the verdict of the court-martial could not be executed and the general was released.
Riddle: An electric train is going south at 98 mph. The wind is blowing northeast. Which direction is the smoke blowing?
Answer: There is no smoke. it's an electric train!