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[RichardB]

Question 1

A man was found murdered on Sunday morning. His wife immediately called the police. The police questioned the wife and staff and got these alibis:

The Wife said she was sleeping.
The Cook was cooking breakfast.
The Gardener was picking vegetables.
The Maid was getting the mail.
The Butler was cleaning the closet.

The police instantly arrested the murderer. Who did it and how did they know?

Question 2

A man walks into a his bathroom and shoots himself right between the eyes using a real gun with real bullets. He walks out alive, with no blood anywhere. And no, he didn't miss and he wasn't Superman or any other caped crusader.

How did he do this?


Question 3

Old Mr. Tidy was found dead in his study by Mr. Fiend. Mr. Fiend recounted his dismal discovery to the police. "I was walking by Mr. Tidy`s house when I thought I would just pop in for a visit. I noticed his study light was on and I decided to peek in from the outside to see if he was in there. There was frost on the window, so I had to wipe it away to see inside. That is when I saw his body. So I kicked in the front door to confirm my suspicions of foul play. I called the police immediately afterward." The officer immediately arrested Mr. Fiend for the murder of Mr. Tidy. How did he know Mr. Fiend was lying?

Question 4

If you touch me, you will die, but you can only live without me. I am a big part of your life, and will eventually be the only thing left. You will learn to embrace me finally at rest. What am I?

[ShamuLovesMe]

My answers are here, but to preserve the fun for others, I typed in white text. Highlight the following with your mouse to read my proposed answers (I didn't get #4).

1. The Maid did it -- no mail delivery on Sunday.

2. The man shot his reflection in the mirror.

3. If there was frost on the window outside, there would be condensation on the interior of the window, ergo, Mr. Fiend wouldn't have been able to see inside.

4. This one temporarily stumped me, so I'll let someone else tackle it.

These are fun, go find some more and post them!

Edited by ShamuLovesMe, 13 May 2005 - 06:14 PM.

[drdiver]

Question 1.

The Maid. There's no mail delivery on Sunday.

[drdiver]

Good one. I'm stumpted.

[RichardB]

Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go????

[chinacat46]

Well you are right that each payed $9 but the room cost $25. So $27 - $25 = $2.

[RichardB]

A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys. How can this be possible?

[RichardB]

There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

[steelemagnolia6]

good grief richard those jokes are so old that I kicked the training wheels of my 2 wheeler...

[ShamuLovesMe]

A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys. How can this be possible?

They're all boys?

[RichardB]

good grief richard those jokes are so old that I kicked hte training wheels of my 2 wheeler...

I'm selecting the easy ones....playing for the lowest common denominator. Just kidding, they aren't THAT easy, LOLOLOL. But if you'd like some that are a tad more difficult, I can arrainge that too! LOL

[RichardB]

A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys.  How can this be possible?

They're all boys?

YES!

[RichardB]

My answers are here, but to preserve the fun for others, I typed in white text. Highlight the following with your mouse to read my proposed answers (I didn't get #4).

1. The Maid did it -- no mail delivery on Sunday.

2. The man shot his reflection in the mirror.

3. If there was frost on the window outside, there would be condensation on the interior of the window, ergo, Mr. Fiend wouldn't have been able to see inside.

4. This one temporarily stumped me, so I'll let someone else tackle it.

These are fun, go find some more and post them!

You got them! All but 4...but I think you may have already figured it out...your good at this!

[ShamuLovesMe]

good grief richard those jokes are so old that I kicked hte training wheels of my 2 wheeler...

I'm selecting the easy ones....playing for the lowest common denominator. Just kidding, they aren't THAT easy, LOLOLOL. But if you'd like some that are a tad more difficult, I can arrainge that too! LOL

I think you need to come up with a hard one for Ms. Smartypants. If she feels brave enough to think without her training wheels, let's see what she can do.

[maninthesea]

I am wondering what 4 is. I would post my guess in white but its not on the drop down list and I dont know any other way.

Could you post the answer in White?

Cheers Jim