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"A Cowboy rides into a village on Friday, he leaves the same village three days later on Friday"

Awesome! [] What's full of holes but still holds water? || Answer: a sponge || **February 27, 2009** What building has the most stories?
 *  **March 1, 2009**


 * Answer: A Library ||

**July 2, 2006** Why is an island like the letter T?


 * Answer: It is in the middle of "waTer". ||

**March 22, 2005** Pronounced as one letter, And written with three, Two letters there are, And two only in me. I'm double, I'm single, I'm black, blue, and gray, I'm read from both ends, And the same either way. What am I?


 * Answer: an eye ||

**March 14, 2005** My life can be measured in hours, I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick Fat, I am slow Wind is my foe.


 * Answer: A candle ||

**February 12, 2005** What other letter fits in the following series: B C D E I K O X?


 * Answer: The letter H. All of the letters in the series flipped vertically remain the same. ||

**January 20, 2005** What is the next letter in the series: "B, C, D, E, G, ..."? And Why?


 * Answer: The next letter would be P. They all rhyme. ||

**August 23, 2004** Two mothers and two daughters go to a pet store and buy three cats. Each female gets her own cat. How is this possible?


 * Answer: There is a grandmother, a mother, and a daughter.The grandmother is also the mother's mother, so there are 2 daughters and 2 mothers, but only a total of 3 people. ||

**March 8, 2004** What has wheels and flies, but is not an aircraft?


 * Answer: A garbage truck ||

**January 27, 2004** What is the best month for a parade?


 * Answer: March ||

 **September 29, 2003** What's white when it’s dirty?

|| Answer: A blackboard || ||  **August 14, 2003** Which is faster, hot or cold? **June 16, 2003** Six glasses are in a row. The first three are full of juice; the second three are empty. By moving only one glass, can you arrange them so empty and full glasses alternate?
 * Answer: Hot’s faster. You can catch a cold. ||


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: Pour the juice from the second glass into the fifth glass. ||

**May 15, 2003** Two fathers and two sons went duck hunting. Each shot a duck but they shot only three ducks in all. How come?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: The hunters were a man, his son and his grandson. ||

**March 30, 2003** When is your mind like a rumpled bed?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: When it is not made up. ||

**March 16, 2003** What can you put in a wood box that will make it lighter?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: holes ||

**Feb. 20 2003** What is it that everybody does at the same time?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: grow older ||

**Jan. 20 2003** Take away my first letter; take away my second letter; take away all my letters, and I would remain the same. What am I?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: The postman (mailman) ||

**Jan.14 2003** A doctor and a nurse have a baby boy. But the boy's father is not the doctor and the mother is not the nurse. How can it be?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: The doctor is the mother (female doctor) and the nurse is the father (male nurse). ||

**Jan.11 2003** What gets wet when drying?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: A towel ||

**Jan.7 2003** The more you take away, the larger it becomes? What is it?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: A hole ||

**Jan.3 2003** You can keep it only after giving it away to someone else. What is it?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: Your word ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;"> **Jan.1 2003** What goes up a chimney down, but won't go down a chimney up?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">|| <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: An umbrella ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;"> **Dec. 30** What seven letters did Old Mother Hubbard say when she opened her cupboard?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">|| <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: O I C U R M T ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;"> **Dec. 29** What is so fragile even saying its name can break it?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">|| <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: Silence ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;"> **Dec. 26** How could a cowboy ride into town on Friday, stay two days, and ride out on Friday?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">|| <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: His horse is named Friday! ||

**Oct. 27** What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: The letter M ||

**Oct. 23** The more you take the more you leave behind.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: footsteps ||

**Sept. 25** A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one, and twelve is what remains.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: dozens ||

**Sept. 18** This runs fore to aft on one side of a ship, and aft to fore on the other. What is it?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: The name of the ship ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;"> **August 25** I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they can unlock your soul. What am I?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">|| <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: A Piano ||

**June 16** What turns everything around, but does not move?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">|| <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: a mirror || While walking across a bridge I saw a boat full of people. Yet on the boat there wasn't a single person. Why? || <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: Every one on the boat is married. || **May 30** Here on earth it is true, yesterday is always before today; but there is a place where yesterday always follows today. Where?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;"> **June 4**


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: In a dictionary ||

**May 26** I am an insect, & the first half of my name reveals another insect. Some famous musicians had a name similar to mine. What am I?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: beetle ||

**May 19** What relation would your father's sister's sister-in-law be to you?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: Your mother. ||

**May 12** There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters." What is the word?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: "therein": the,there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein. ||

**May 5** Brothers or sisters have I none, but that mans father is my fathers son. Who is that man?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: I am my fathers son, so that mans father must be me. So that man must be my son. ||

**April 21** What word looks the same upside down and backwards?

**April 11** When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: SWIMS ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: When you add two hours to eleven o'clock, you get one o'clock. ||

**April 2** How far can a dog run into the woods?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: Halfway through the woods. After halfway the dog would be running out of the woods, not "into the woods." ||

**March 27** Two legs I have, and this will confound: only at rest do they touch the ground! What am I?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: A Wheelbarrow ||

**March 21** It goes up, but at the same time goes down. Up toward the sky, and down toward the ground. It's present tense and past tense too, come for a ride, just me and you. What is it?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: A See-Saw ||

**March 19** Which word from Group B belongs with the words from Group A? A. blast, paper, box, bank B. juice, bag, cradle, carpet


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: BAG. All of the words in group A can begin with the word SAND ||

**March 17** I am a path situated between high natural masses. Remove my first letter & you have a path situated between man-made masses. What am I?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: valley (-v = alley) ||

**March 15** What can you hold without ever touching or using your hands?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: your breath ||

**March 14** What 7 letter word becomes longer when the third letter is removed?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: lounger ||

**March 10** Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. And whoever knows it wants it not.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: counterfeit money ||

**March 7** You can see nothing else When you look in my face, I will look you in the eye And I will never lie.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: your reflection ||

**March 6** I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: few ||

**March 3** What are the next 3 letters in this riddle? o t t f f s s _ _ _

The first seven letters stand for - one two three four five six seven ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: e n t

**Feb. 28** He starts and ends 2 common English words. One painful in love, one painful in everyday matter. Do you know what 2 words I must be?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">|| <span style="font-family: Arial,Times New Roman;">Answer: Heartache and Headache || ||