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What do Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, and President Gerald Ford have in common?
All three belong to the Masons. They were 33rd degree Masons, which is
as high as one can go. They were given this honor together in ceremonies on the same night.
What do Steve McQueen, Jane Fonda, Joe Namath and Paul Newman have in common?
They were all on President Nixon's Enemies List.
What do Bill Gates, Bruce Jenner and Julia Roberts have in common?
They share the same birthday October 28.
Why is a paper dollar more valuable than a silver dollar?
Because you double it every time you put it into your pocket.
What runs round and round the house,
And sneaks in through the keyhole?
The wind.
I run smoother than any rhyme.
I love to fall but cannot climb.
I tremble at each breath of air.
And yet can the heavest of burdens bear.
What am I?
Water
You do not want to have it,
But when you do have it,
You do not want to lose it?
What is it?
A lawsuit.
I create my opposite as I destroy it.
Without me, my opposite is nothing.
While I am here, my opposite will always be.
What am I, and what is my opposite?
Light and shadow.
My life is consumed before I'm born.
My life is relished after I'm dead.
What am I?
A chicken.
I can be cut, but I don't bleed.
Teasing doesn't bother me,
It only makes me stronger.
I can be seen in any color of the rainbow.
Some people want to get rid of me,
And others will go to great lengths to keep me.
What am I?
Hair.
I come in different sizes, maybe short or tall.
I am always getting burned, but never feel any pain at all.
I help and support to straighten out things.
What am I?
An ironing board.
With a squeeze,
two comes from one.
With a stab, or slice,
one can become two.
What is being referred to?
Scissors.
I sit near a window,
Off to the right.
But if there is not much in view,
I may be out of sight.
A scroll bar on browser or application window on a computer monitor screen.
I am open when I am closed
And closed when I am open.
What am I?
A drawbridge.
This container has holes in the bottom,
Holes in the top, and holes in the sides.
Yet it still holds water.
What is it?
A sponge.
If you pronounce the first 5 letters of this word,
you will be describing a vegetable (but only one).
If you pronounce the last five letters of this word,
you will be describing the same vegetable(but more than one).
The word contains 7 letters.
What is the word?
APPEASE - The first five letters sound like "A Pea" which is one vegetable. The last five letters sound like "Peas", which is more than one of the same vegetable.
In my face are all men reversed,
Nay not in fortune but in form.
Evil left becometh right and,
Stalwart right the devil's own.
What am I?
A mirror.
An "E" starts me,
And an "E" ends me.
But there is only one letter in me.
What am I?
Envelope
The first two letters of the word is a man.
The first three letters of the word is a woman.
The first four letters of a word is a great man,
And the whole word is a great woman.
What is the word?
Heroine.
Three gentlemen clad in black,
Running forward, never back,
All unknowing where they're going,
Simply following the track.
Who or what are "the gentlemen"?
The hands on a clock.
A motor car is three times as old as its tires
were when it was as old as the tires are now.
When its tires are as old as the car is now,the
car will be a year older than the tires are now.
What are the present ages of car and tires?
The car is 18 months old, the tires are a year.
A mailcarrier needs to cross a bridge that will only
allow him to carry 2 pounds of packages.
He has 3 packages weighing 1 pound each that must
be taken across the bridge in only trip.
How does he cross the bridge with all the packages
in only one trip?
He juggles them. There is always 1 package in the air which does not exceed the 2 pounds limit.
I'm frequently under,
But mostly alone.
I've a thousand ribs,
And only two backbone.
Who am I?
A train track.
Blind to the world,
I have two hemispheres,
And, I store a lifetime of information.
What am I?
The human brain.
Cut me up in pieces and bury me alive,
The young ones will live, while the old ones will die.
What is being referred to?
Potatoes
Many things can create one,
It can be of any shape or size,
It is created for various reasons,
And it can shrink or grow with time.
What is it?
A hole.
It follows us up.
It follows us down.
But it never moves when there's no one around.
If pressured for answers,
Answers are found,
When it's given time to respond.
A weight scale.
What has six faces
But does not wear makeup.
It also has twenty-one eyes,
But cannot see?
Dice.
We are little airy creatures
All of different voice and features;
One of us in glass is set,
One of us you'll find in jet,
Another you may see in tin,
And the fourth a box within,
If the fifth you should pursue,
If can never fly from you.
The vowels - A E I O U and Y
There is a word of plural number
A foe to peace and human slumber
Now any word you chance to take
By adding "S", you plural make.
But if you add another "S" to this,
How strange the metamorphosis!
This word is plural now no more.
And sweet, what sour was before.
What is the word being referred to?
The word is CARES. If you add an S, the result is CARESS.
Two objects carry out the same function.
One object usually has many thousands of moving parts.
The other object has no moving parts.
What are these similiar but very different objects?
The hourglass and the sundial. Both tell time.
I'm always running, never tired.
To some people I'm a life saver,
To others a sure death.
What am I?
A river
I am taller than the trees,
But I can't reach the sky.
I have no roots,
But I will never die.
What am I?
A mountain.
Sometimes people ask for me,
Sometimes they fight my coming.
I can stand still, I can run,
I can transform and it might appear that I am flying,
Can you name me?
Water
There is a certain crime,
that if it is attempted is punishable,
but if it is committed,
is not punishable.
What is the crime?
Suicide
They say it exists,
Yet it's never been seen.
Though disguised as an angel,
It's sometimes a fiend.
Be it the item in question,
Or maybe its "sub".
Most of us have one,
In this vast human club.
A conscience.
This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong with it---and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why?
The entire paragraph does not contain the letter "e".
A man lives in his house. He also works out of his house and his job is very important. Everyday the man must sleep with the lights on to avert from tradgedy. One night the man gets so sick of the light he turns it out for the night. The next moring he reads the newspaper, takes out a gun, and shoots himself. Where did the man live?
A lighthouse.
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