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Brain Teasers for Geezers
email from a friend | 11/24/2017 | unknown

Posted on 11/24/2017 1:17:22 PM PST by sodpoodle

Something for seniors to do to keep those "aging” grey cells active! 

1. Johnny's mother had three children.  The first child was named April. The second child was named May.  What was the third child's name?    2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall and he wears size 13 sneakers.  What does he weigh?    3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?    4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?    5. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly?    6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer.  How is this possible?    7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg.  Why not?    8. What was the President's Name in 1975?    9. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?    10. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"?    11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field?           Here are the Answers:  (No peeking!)   1. Johnny's mother had three children.  The first child was named April.  The second child was named May.  What was the third child's name?    Answer: Johnny, of course.    2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers.  What does he weigh?    Answer: Meat.    3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?    Answer: Mt. Everest; it just wasn't discovered yet.  [You're not very good at this are you?]    4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?    Answer: None. There is no dirt in a hole.    5. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly?    Answer: Incorrectly    6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer.  How is this possible?   Answer: Billy lives in the Southern Hemisphere.    7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg.  Why not?    Answer: You can't take pictures with a wooden leg.  You need a camera to take pictures.    8. What was the President's Name in 1975?    Answer: Same as is it now – Donald Trump [Oh, come on...]    9. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in?    Answer: You would be in 2nd.  Well, you passed the person in second place, not first.    10. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"?    Answer: Neither, the yolk of the egg is yellow [Duh]    11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field?    Answer: One.  If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big one. 

   

  IMPOSSIBILITIES IN THE WORLD    1) You can't count your hair.  2) You can't wash your eyes with soap.  3) You can't breathe through your nose when your tongue is out.    Put your tongue back in your mouth, you silly person.      Ten (10) Things I know about you.    1) You are reading this.    2) You are human.    3) You can't say the letter ''P'' without separating your lips.    4) You just attempted to do it.    6) You are laughing at yourself.    7) You have a smile on your face and you skipped No. 5.    8) You just checked to see if there is a No. 5.    9) You laugh at this because you are a fun loving person & everyone does it, too.    10) You are probably going to send this to see who else falls for it.    You have received this e-mail because I didn't want to be alone in the idiot category.     

   

  TO ALL MY INTELLIGENT FRIENDS (Sorry Ike I forgot I sent this to you)   Keep that brain working; try to figure this one out...   See if you can figure out what these seven words all have in common? 1. Banana 2. Dresser 3. Grammar 4. Potato 5. Revive 6. Uneven 7. Assess     Give it another try.. Look at each word carefully.  You'll kick yourself when you discover the answer.   REMEMBER I ONLY SENT THIS TO MY SMART FRIENDS   NOW DON'T LET ME DOWN   No, it is not that they all have at least 2 double letters.... Answer is below!     Answer:   In all of the words listed, if you take the first letter, place it at the end of the word, and then spell the word backwards, it will be the same word.   Did you figure it out?   No


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To: dr_lew

One of his feet are both the same.


61 posted on 11/24/2017 4:19:38 PM PST by gymbeau (America...great again!)
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To: knarf

Yes, I did, but I don’t understand the “Johnny” answer to number 1. The rest were fine. April, May, Johnny? I don’t get it.


62 posted on 11/24/2017 4:20:40 PM PST by Technical Editor
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To: Technical Editor

“Johnny’s Mom” named the kids. Only one kid left, so it must be Johnny.


63 posted on 11/24/2017 4:23:06 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: sodpoodle

You wrote “there are no words in English that rhyme with ‘silver’ or ‘orange’.”

“Pilfer” and “sliver” rhyme with “silver.”

On “orange” I think you’re right.


64 posted on 11/24/2017 4:23:44 PM PST by Technical Editor
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To: Billthedrill

Too funny. I know the trick is get the person to miss information given, but I fell for it big-time, and not just once! Thanks. :)


65 posted on 11/24/2017 4:25:05 PM PST by Technical Editor
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To: Technical Editor

““Pilfer” and “sliver” rhyme with “silver.”


No they don’t.

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66 posted on 11/24/2017 4:25:20 PM PST by Mears
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To: Technical Editor

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Sorry!

“Range” rymes with “Orange.”

So does “Strange.”

So does “Grange.”
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67 posted on 11/24/2017 4:26:27 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Technical Editor

I fell for it too. (Blushing)


68 posted on 11/24/2017 4:27:13 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Mears

Sure they do. Rhyme doesn’t mean a perfect match. If it did, half the poetry in existence that utilizes rhyming couldn’t exist. At least they rhyme in my pronunciation of English.

“Rhyme” rhymes with “dime” and “time” and also “fine.”

That’s my view, anyway. Perhaps you speak in a different American dialect. Maybe you say “pilfa,” but if you did, you’d likely also say “silva.”

It would be interesting to hear what others think.


69 posted on 11/24/2017 4:36:37 PM PST by Technical Editor
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To: sodpoodle

Too easy. I got them all.


70 posted on 11/24/2017 4:38:38 PM PST by FXRP (Just me and the pygmy pony)
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To: Technical Editor
From Merriam-Webster's 11th Unabridged Distionary (I'm using definition "c"): rhyme 1 a : correspondence in terminal sounds of two or more words, lines of verse, or other units of composition or utterance: such as (1) also rhyme proper : correspondence of the last accented vowels and all succeeding sounds in two lines or units especially (as in English verse) when the sounds preceding the last accented vowel are different in the two rhyming units (2) : assonance 2b (3) : consonance 2d b : one of two or more words thus corresponding in sound c : correspondence of other than terminal word sounds: such as (1) : beginning rhyme (2) : alliteration (3) : internal rhyme d : rhyme scheme
71 posted on 11/24/2017 4:41:15 PM PST by Technical Editor
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To: editor-surveyor

You think so? I can’t see it myself.... The only word I can think of that even remotely rhymes with “orange” is “porridge.”

He sat and gazed at the dimpled orange,
While his mother said, “Now eat your porridge.”


72 posted on 11/24/2017 4:46:00 PM PST by Technical Editor
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To: Technical Editor

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As always, a proper ryme is dependent upon the preceeding phrase.
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73 posted on 11/24/2017 4:49:40 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Az Joe

Bookkeeper


74 posted on 11/24/2017 4:59:58 PM PST by Figment
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To: sodpoodle

Or purple


75 posted on 11/24/2017 5:01:06 PM PST by Figment
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To: sodpoodle

get off my lawn


76 posted on 11/24/2017 5:04:27 PM PST by Pollard (TRUMP 2016)
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To: Louis Foxwell

It may be because I’m old or something, but I can breathe through my nose with tongue out and lips open


77 posted on 11/24/2017 5:04:47 PM PST by Figment
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To: Figment

Yeah. Had to figure it out. Old. Yep.


78 posted on 11/24/2017 5:07:08 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: sodpoodle

Hillary Rodham was named after Sir Edmund Hillary.
How many years later did the world first hear of Sir Edmund Hillary?


79 posted on 11/24/2017 5:11:33 PM PST by Fireone (Lock Her Up! (and 100 of her accomplices))
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To: HusbandMan

“”Bookkeeping””

That works too...


80 posted on 11/24/2017 5:15:26 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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