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Riddle:
A rogue pilot was about to bomb Germany! The commad was given, the hatch was opened and the bomb was released.
Why didn't it ever hit the ground?
Answer: The plane was flying upside down!
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:
Twelve flags stand equidistant along the track at the stadium. The runners start at the first flag. A runner reaches the eighth flag 8 seconds after he starts. If he runs at an even speed, how many seconds does he need altogether to reach the twelfth flag?
Answer: Not 12 seconds. There are 7 segments from the first flag tot the eighth, and 11 from the first to the twelfth. He runs each segment in 8/7 seconds; therefore, 11 segments take 88/7= 12 4/7 seconds.
Riddle:
If Harry's father is Tommy's son, what relation is Dick to Tom?
Answer: Tommy is Harry's grandfather.
Riddle:
When you're driving a car, what is the one thing you are guaranteed to lose when turning?
Answer: You are guaranteed to lose speed.
Riddle:
Granny looked up from her rocking chair and said: As far as I can tell, there is only one anagram of the word trinket.
What is it?
Answer: The word knitter.
Riddle:
My first is in chocolate but not in ham, my second's in cake and also in jam, my third at tea-time is easily found, my whole is a friend who's often around. What am I?
Answer: A Cat!
Riddle:
Why are pirates pirates?
Answer: Because they just Arrrrr!
Riddle:
If a stopper and a bottle cost $2.10 and the bottle costs $2.00 more than the stopper.
Then what does the stopper cost?
Answer: Five Cents.
Riddle:
Lazy Larry agreed to work on a job for his brother-in-law for thirty hours at eight dollars an hour, on the condition that he would forfeit ten dollars per hour for every hour that he idled. At the end of the thirty hours Larry wasn't owed any money and didn't owe his brother-in-law any money either. How many hours did Larry work and how many hours did he idle?
Answer: Lazy Larry worked 16-2/3 hours and idled 13-1/3 hours. 16-2/3 hours, at $8.00 an hour amounts to the same amount as 13-1/3 hours at $10.00 per hour.
