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Riddle me this....Volume 2.

Posted on 06/08/2018 2:31:47 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

1. What do you have to give before you can keep?

2. Why can’t you marry your widows sister?

3. What word becomes shorter with two letters added onto it?

4. How many birthdays does the average person have?

5. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?

6. Which famous composer is represented by the anagram “He’s tricky! Pitch key viola”?

7. I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

8. There’s is only one other word that can be made from all the letters in the word ‘permissive’. Can you figure what the other word is?

9. If you have been given three pills, one to take every half hour, how long would they last?

10. Who makes it but has no need of it. Who buys it but has no use for it. Who uses it but can neither see nor feel it. What is it ?


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KEYWORDS: brainteasers; clues; riddles; thinking
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1 posted on 06/08/2018 2:31:47 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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2. You’re dead...........


2 posted on 06/08/2018 2:35:11 PM PDT by Red Badger (When Obama and VJ go to prison for treason, will Roseanne get her show back?...)
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To: Bigtigermike

3. Short


3 posted on 06/08/2018 2:35:30 PM PDT by Red Badger (When Obama and VJ go to prison for treason, will Roseanne get her show back?...)
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4. One


4 posted on 06/08/2018 2:35:45 PM PDT by Red Badger (When Obama and VJ go to prison for treason, will Roseanne get her show back?...)
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To: Bigtigermike

7. Pencil


5 posted on 06/08/2018 2:36:26 PM PDT by Red Badger (When Obama and VJ go to prison for treason, will Roseanne get her show back?...)
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To: Red Badger

4. One per year


6 posted on 06/08/2018 2:36:49 PM PDT by freedomlover
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To: Bigtigermike

9. 1 hour


7 posted on 06/08/2018 2:36:59 PM PDT by Red Badger (When Obama and VJ go to prison for treason, will Roseanne get her show back?...)
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To: Bigtigermike

5. corn on the cob


8 posted on 06/08/2018 2:37:42 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (I can't tell if we live in an Erostocracy (rule by sex) or an Eristocracy (rule by strife and chaos))
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To: Bigtigermike

2. Because you’re dead
3. short
4. one
8. impressive
9. one hour


9 posted on 06/08/2018 2:39:55 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Bigtigermike

1. Your word.


10 posted on 06/08/2018 2:45:44 PM PDT by Typelouder
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1. What do you have to give before you can keep?

A: Wedding vows

2. Why can’t you marry your widows sister?

A: Because you’re dead.

3. What word becomes shorter with two letters added onto it?

A: Short.

4. How many birthdays does the average person have?

A: One.

5. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?

A: An ear of corn and also a BBQ pork rib.

6. Which famous composer is represented by the anagram “He’s tricky! Pitch key viola”?

A: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

7. I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

A: A beer, a Century plant, a pencil, a candle...probably a few more things fit this one.

8. There’s is only one other word that can be made from all the letters in the word ‘permissive’. Can you figure what the other word is?

A: That’s an impressive question.

9. If you have been given three pills, one to take every half hour, how long would they last?

A: One hour.

10. Who makes it but has no need of it. Who buys it but has no use for it. Who uses it but can neither see nor feel it. What is it ?

A: Plenty of people have been known to have made their own coffins, caskets, and cremation urns.


11 posted on 06/08/2018 2:45:58 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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1. Your word


12 posted on 06/08/2018 2:47:18 PM PDT by skimbell
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#7 is Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky but there is a “y” left over.


13 posted on 06/08/2018 2:54:43 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Bigtigermike

What relationship to you is your father’s only brother’s wife’s only brother-in law?


14 posted on 06/08/2018 2:56:28 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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You will take the last pill in one hour, but the effects will last for 1.5 hours.


15 posted on 06/08/2018 2:59:08 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Bigtigermike

Tony likes indigo but not blue. He like onions but not turnips. He likes forms but not shapes. According to the same rule, does he like tomatoes or avocados?


16 posted on 06/08/2018 3:01:58 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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Two children were born in the same hour of the same day of the same month in the same year. They have the same biological parents. But they’re not twins. How can this be?


17 posted on 06/08/2018 3:09:02 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: Alberta's Child

They were part of triplets


18 posted on 06/08/2018 3:16:31 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: FatherofFive

Very good! :)


19 posted on 06/08/2018 3:18:21 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: Bigtigermike

1. What do you have to give before you can keep?
Your word.

2. Why can’t you marry your widows sister?
You’re dead, unless you’re a democrat, you’re not doing much.

3. What word becomes shorter with two letters added onto it?
Short.

4. How many birthdays does the average person have?
1.

9. If you have been given three pills, one to take every half hour, how long would they last? 1 hr (take one at 0 min, 1 at 30, 1 at 60).


20 posted on 06/08/2018 3:21:50 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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