Riddle time
Q. How do you make a statue of an elephant? A. Get a huge piece of stone. Cut away everything that doesn’t look like an elephant. Q. What is green and flies through the air faster than a speeding bullet? A. Super Pickle. Q. Which has more legs, one cow or no cow? A. One cow has four legs. No cow has more than that. Q. If it took five men a day to dig up a field, how long would it take 10 men to dig up the same field?
A. No time at all. The field has already been dug up. Q. What has four legs and goes “Oom! oom!”? A. A cow walking backwards. Q. What has 18 legs and red spots and catches flies? A. A baseball team with measles. Q. What is black and white and yellow? A. A cowardly zebra. Q. How does a witch tell time? A. With a witch watch.
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Press, 12 November 1985, Page 14
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