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Re: Riddles

Posted: 26 Jan 2008, 03:01
by Zoy64
SwiftSpear wrote:
erasmus wrote:
Adults are holding children, waiting their turn. The children are handed to a man, who holds them while a woman shoots them. Their parents are pleased. Why?
santa
No, the kids are getting shots by a doctor

Re: Riddles

Posted: 26 Jan 2008, 03:07
by SwiftSpear
Zoy64 wrote:No, the kids are getting shots by a doctor
The correct term for giving someone a shot (inoculation) is not "shoots". You never hear the word "shoots" used to speak about medical injection.

Re: Riddles

Posted: 26 Jan 2008, 03:14
by Zoy64
shoot=past form of shot, it would work still

Re: Riddles

Posted: 26 Jan 2008, 14:19
by Boirunner
Zoy64 wrote:shoot=past form of shot, it would work still
you completely and utterly failed at grammar there

Re: Riddles

Posted: 26 Jan 2008, 15:12
by Comp1337
fail

Re: Riddles

Posted: 26 Jan 2008, 16:28
by kiki
SwiftSpear wrote:
erasmus wrote:
Adults are holding children, waiting their turn. The children are handed to a man, who holds them while a woman shoots them. Their parents are pleased. Why?
santa
Zoy64 wrote: No, the kids are getting shots by a doctor

Omg, way too much over-analysis. The parents hate their kids. Duh!

Re: Riddles

Posted: 26 Jan 2008, 17:21
by Peet
SwiftSpear wrote:
Zoy64 wrote:No, the kids are getting shots by a doctor
The correct term for giving someone a shot (inoculation) is not "shoots". You never hear the word "shoots" used to speak about medical injection.
....Heroin. :P

Re: Riddles

Posted: 26 Jan 2008, 23:32
by SwiftSpear
Peet wrote:
SwiftSpear wrote:
Zoy64 wrote:No, the kids are getting shots by a doctor
The correct term for giving someone a shot (inoculation) is not "shoots". You never hear the word "shoots" used to speak about medical injection.
....Heroin. :P
"Shoot up" is slang. And most parent's aren't happy when someone shoots up their kids.

Re: Riddles

Posted: 27 Jan 2008, 02:51
by Weaver
My guesses

8. What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?
Queue


9. If I say "Everything I tell you is a lie," am I telling you the truth or a lie?
Lie

10. What work can a painter never quite finish?

11. Why wasn't Bertha put in jail after killing dozens of people?

12. Why wasn't John able to take a photo of his mother with curlers?

13. If there are three cups of sugar and you take one away, how many do you have?
One

14. What has a mouth but can't chew?
A river

15. How many letters are in the alphabet?

16. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
A towel

17. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

18. Food can help me survive, but water will kill me. What am I?
Fire

19. Take away the whole and some still remains. What is it?

20. What stinks when living and smells good when dead?
Bacon

21. When is it bad luck to meet a white cat?

22. If it has a quart capacity, how many pennies can you put into a empty piggy bank?
None- It won't be empty if you put a penny in it.