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What Kind of Coat Can Only Be Put On When Wet?
What Kind of Coat Can Only Be Put On When Wet?
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
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
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: 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?
Answer: The hunters were a man, his son and his grandson.
March 16, 2003 What can you put in a wood box that will make it lighter?
Answer: holes
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?
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?
Answer: The doctor is the mother (female doctor) and the nurse is the father (male nurse).