Riddles
(Sent in by Audrey Vining, Otakairangi R.D., Whangarei, age 12) If a man and a goose were on a high building, how could they get down? Pluck the goose. i> * Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side. * • What is a hundred times bigger than a football, that you can catch? A bus. • ■» • Who was the greatest athlete? Adam, the first in the human race. .*» * * • What tradesmen find things dull? The scissors grinders.
A cockney was showing an American friend round London, bul without arousing much enthusiasm. “What do you think of that?” he asked.
•Waal." drawled tiie American, “it's not a bad sized building, but there’s only one. I guess there’s hundreds like that in New York. But what is it?” “A lunatic asylum.”
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Northern Advocate, 16 March 1939, Page 9
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131Riddles Northern Advocate, 16 March 1939, Page 9
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