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THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST FIVE RIDDLES I HAVE SEEN. IT SHARPENS THOSE GENES IN YOUR BRAIN AND STALLS ALZHEIMER'S FOR YEARS!! Can you solve any of these? 1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him? 2. A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be? 3. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away? 4. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday, or Sunday? 5. This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious as to just how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary and plain that you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is highly unusual though. Study it and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching! I'll post the answers in a couple of days. Good luck 
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1. the lions are dead if they haven't eaten in 3 years
2. she took a photograph
4. yesterday, today, tomorrow
one for you...
The man who builds it doesn't want it
The man who buys it doesn't need it.
And the man who needs it doesn't know it.
What is it?
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3. Charcoal (but could have more answers..)
Dave.... A coffin.
Here's another:
They call me a man, but I'll never have a wife.
I was given a body, but not given life.
They made me a mouth, but didn't give me breath.
Water gives me life and sun brings me death.
What am I?
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Jeff, that would be a snowman.
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A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?
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5. This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious as to just how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary and plain that you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is highly unusual though. Study it and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching!
The paragraph doesn't contain the letter E
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Well done, you're all too clever  THE ANSWERS TO ALL FIVE THE RIDDLES: 1. The third room. Lions that haven't eaten in three years are dead. That one was easy, right? 2. The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry (shot; held under water; and hung). 3. Charcoal, as it is used in barbecuing. 4. Sure you can name three consecutive days, yesterday, today, and tomorrow! 5. The letter e, which is the most common letter used in the English language, does not appear even once in the paragraph.
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Time to go for a ride. 
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All right...
Good luck with this one...
A Panda Bear walked into a restaurant. He sat down at a table and ordered some food. When he was finished eating, he took out a gun and shot his waiter. He then left the restaurant. After the police caught up with him, they asked him why he had killed the waiter. He replied, "Look me up in the dictionary." What did the dictionary say?
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Panda: eats shoots and leaves 
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and I haven't heard that one before, but a similar one with a koala bear and girl, and something about eats bush and leaves...
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How much wood .........
Dang woodchucks
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Yep, he gave a quarter to two.
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With only drawing one line can you make 101010 into nine fifty?
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The koala bear eats roots and leaves. 
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They may not understand "Roots" Mate
As Pauline said "please explain "
What goes round comes round
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They may not understand "Roots" Mate
As Pauline said "please explain "
well, "roots" may be sticking your face in it nose first like you're searching for something... at least that's what it is in my dirty mind 
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Okay well rooting is ..... mmmm ... well you know.... umm...its kinda the normal... ummm....this is a family forum...  ....I seem to be lost for words so you can all get rooted. Obviously I mean that in the nicest possible way.  
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Okay well rooting is ..... mmmm ... well you know.... umm...its kinda the normal... ummm....this is a family forum... ....I seem to be lost for words so you can all get rooted.
Obviously I mean that in the nicest possible way.
Try procreate,
that's the family friendliest way I can think of at the moment
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Quote:
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Not original but I saw it somewhere and thought it was pretty clever. Answer: 7-up cans.
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What do these words have in common?
1. Banana
2. Dresser
3. Grammar
4. Potato
5. Revive
6. Uneven
7. Assess
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if it were not for the first letter they would be a palindrome
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They are all six letter words?
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What do these words have in common?
1. Banana
2. Dresser
3. Grammar
4. Potato
5. Revive
6. Uneven
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They are all six letter words?
 really Keith?
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What do these words have in common?
1. Banana
2. Dresser
3. Grammar
4. Potato
5. Revive
6. Uneven
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They are all six letter words?
really Keith?
Ummm, yeah... I think so! Could be wrong though... I don't see so good!
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Why don't you guys just beat him up then stab him. no Keith Dresser, and Grammar are seven letters ole boy.
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If you count the letters using the metric system they are six letters long.
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Fargin' glasses. Maybe I should get someone else to do my jets for me!!
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Must be the exchange rate, had to devalue two words.
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Here's one for you folks....
What's the most common pronunciation of the capitol city of Kentucky? Is it:
(a) Lou-EE-ville
(b) LOU-ah-ville
(c) LOU-is-ville
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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(d) LOU-ah-Frankfort-ville
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What do these words have in common?
1. Banana
2. Dresser
3. Grammar
4. Potato
5. Revive
6. Uneven
7. Assess
Take the first letter of each word and put it at the end of the word. What you read backwards will be the same as the original words.
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What do these words have in common?
1. Banana
2. Dresser
3. Grammar
4. Potato
5. Revive
6. Uneven
7. Assess
Take the first letter of each word and put it at the end of the word. What you read backwards will be the same as the original words.
We have a winner! 
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What do these words have in common?
1. Banana
2. Dresser
3. Grammar
4. Potato
5. Revive
6. Uneven
7. Assess
Take the first letter of each word and put it at the end of the word. What you read backwards will be the same as the original words.
We have a winner!
I think loco nailed that one several posts back!! 
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yes, sort of but they aren't really a palindrome unless you move the letter.
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if it were not for the first letter they would be a palindrome
Palindrome: Where Sarah Palin races her chariot?
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