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Ridles

Article Summary   by:MandM     Original Author: gb
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The more you take the more you leave behind. Footsteps I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. Pencil lead What goes round the house and in the house but never touches the house?The sun What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone else? Your word What gets wet when drying? A towel What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? The letter M Who spends the day at the window, goes to the table for meals and hides at night? A fly It stands on one leg with its heart in its head. A cabbage What belongs to you but others use it more than you do? Your name What fastens two people yet touches only one? A wedding ring What is it the more you take away the larger it becomes? A hole What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten? A pack of cards What can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be eaten? Salt Who is it that rows quickly with four oars but never comes out from under his own roof? A turtle I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground; sometimes I leave, but I am always around. What am I? A tree You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What is it? An ear of corn How much will a 33 degree angle measure when observed under a microscope that magifies 10 times? It will still measure 33 degrees. I was carried into a dark room, and set on fire. I wept, and then my head was cut off. What am I? A candle What goes through a door but never goes in and never comes out? A keyhole A farmer, his daughter, the policeman, and his wife won the lottery and divided the prize into three. How can this be? The farmer''s daughter is the policeman''s wife. What can elephants make that no other animal can? Baby elephants Every day, a cyclist crosses the border between France and Germany carrying a bag. No matter how much customs officials investigate him, they do not know what he is smuggling. Do you? Bicycles We are all around, yet to us you are half blind. Sunlight makes us invisible, and difficult to find. What are we? Stars Always old, sometimes new, never sad, sometimes blue. Never empty, sometimes full, never pushes, always pulls. What am I? The moon A black dog stands in the middle of an intersection in a town painted black. None of the street lights are working due to a power failure caused by a storm.
A car with two broken headlights drives towards the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him. It was daylight What five letter word, no matter how you pronounce it, is always pronounced wrong? Wrong I weaken all men for hours each day. I show you strange visions while you are away. I take you by night, by day take you back, none suffer to have me, but do from my lack. What am I? Sleep Though liquid in nature, don''t push me too far; for then I will break, and the damage may scar. What am I? Glass Golden treasures I contain, guarded by hundreds. Stored in a labyrinth where no man walks, yet men come often to seize my gold. By smoke I am overcome and robbed, then left to build my treasure anew. What am I? A beehive Metal or bone I may be, many teeth I have and always bared, yet my bite harms no one and people delight in my touch. What am I? A comb My thunder rolls beneath me, my lightning flares above. I dust the crust, and when I bust, all I touch will I shove. What am I? A volcano If it takes six men six days to dig six holes, how long will it take one man to dig half a hole? There is no such thing as half a hole. I cover what''s real, hide what is true, but sometimes bring out the courage in you. What am I? Fear Walk on the living, they don''t even mumble. Walk on the dead, they muttmble. What are they? Fallen leaves I have a neck, but no head. I have two arms, but no hands. What am I? A shirt I have two arms, but fingers none. I have two feet, but cannot run. I carry well, but I have found I carry best with my feet OFF the ground. What am I? A wheelbarrow. I''m in a window and in a lamp. I am clouded, I am shining. I''m colored and set in white. I say much, but I have no words. What am I? A thermometer Shoot at me a thousand times and I may still survive; one scratch from me and you will find your prospects take a dive. What am I? An eight ball Different lights make me strange, and into different sizes I will change. What am I? I am the pupil of an eye.
Published: May 09, 2007   
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