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Riddles, Puzzles & Jokes

Seven riddles and jokes appear before your eyes in this issue of the newspaper. Here is what you're going to find.

Most of these riddles were created from the heads of our writers, but some are reused. Either way, these riddles are quite unique and should cause a chuckle or two. Please, enjoy the riddles and the rest of the paper.

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Random Riddles - By: Mac-De-Doggy

1. What goes up and down the stairs without moving?

Answer (hightlight to view): A railing

2. Give this food and it will live. Give this water and it will die.

Answer (highlight to view): Fire

3. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

Answer (highlight to view): A towel

Joke: There are 3 kinds of people in the world. People that can count, and people that can't.

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Simple Little Riddles- By: TheAd

1. I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?

Answer (hightlight to view): A shadow

2. What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone else?

Answer (highlight to view): Your word

3. What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?

Answer (highlight to view): Your name

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Mexican Jokes- By: iTopdog

Juan comes up to the Mexican border on his bicycle. He's got two large bags over his shoulders.

The guard stops him and says, "What''s in the bags?"

"Sand," answered Juan.

The guard says, "We'll just see about that get off the bike." The guard takes the bags and rips them apart; he empties them out and finds nothing in them but sand.

He detains Juan overnight and has the sand analyzed, only to discover that there is nothing but pure sand in the bags.

The guard releases Juan, puts the sand into new bags, hefts them onto the man''s shoulders, and lets him cross the border.

A week later, the same thing happens. The guard asks, "What have you got?"

"Sand," says Juan.

The guard does his thorough examination and discovers that the bags contain nothing but sand.He gives the sand back to Juan, and Juan crosses the border on his bicycle.

This sequence of events if repeated every day for three years. Finally, Juan doesn't show up one day and the guard meets him in a Cantina in Mexico.

"Hey, Buddy," says the guard, "I know you are smuggling something. It's driving me crazy. It's all I think about..... I can't sleep. Just between you and me, what are you smuggling?"

Juan sips his beer and says, "Bicycles."

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You've Got Mail - By: iPlayback

A man was in his front yard mowing grass, when his attractive blonde female neighbor, Judy, came out of her house and went straight to the mailbox. She opened it, then slammed it shut and stormed back into the house.

A little later she came out of her house again, went to the mail box, and again opened it and slammed it shut again. Angrily, back into the house she went.

As the man was getting ready to edge the lawn, she came out again, marched to the mail box, opened it and then slammed it closed harder than ever.

Puzzled by her actions the man asked her, "Is something wrong?"

To which she replied, "There certainly is! My stupid computer keeps saying, YOU'VE GOT MAIL."

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Pizza One More Time - By: iPlayback

Three construction workers are on the seventy-fifth floor of a non-finished building. The italian opens his lunch box to find a pizza and says "Man, if I get pizza one more time I am going to jump off this building and fall to my death!" The chinese opens his lunch box to find rice and says "Man, if I get rice one more time I am going to jump off this building and fall to my death!" The blonde opens his lunch box to find a cheeseburger and says" Man, if I get a cheeseburger one more time im going to jump off this building and fall to my death!"

So the next day they all got the same thing and they jumped off the building to their death. That weekend at the funeral, the italian and the chinese wives are crying and saying "I would have fixed him something else for lunch but he never told me." And as the two wives stare at the blondes wife, they both ask why she isn't sad about her husbands death, the blonde replys "Don't look at me, he packs his own lunch."

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Zach's Ridiculous Riddles #2 - By: ZacharyB

1. What goes up, but never comes down?

Answer (highlight to view): Your age

2. Romeo and Juliet were found dead one evening. The accident occurred in a room with only a bed, and a night stand. The only things left at the scene were some glass, and a baseball bat. How did Romeo and Juliet die?

Answer (highlight to view): Romeo and Juliet were fish. Someone accidentally broke their bowl.

A boy and his father were in a car accident. When they were rescued, the father was dead, but the son was in critical condition. When the boy went into the emergency room, the operator said, "I can't operate on him, that's my son." How is this possible?

Answer (highlight to view): The operator is the Boy's mother.

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Punishment Riddle- By: iTopdog

Tom and his younger sister were fighting. Their mother was tired of the fighting, and decided to punish them by making them stand on the same piece of newspaper in such a way that they couldn't touch each other.

How did she accomplish this?

Answer (highlight to view): She put the newspaper under a door and had the siblings stand on opposite sides of the door.

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