Posted on 11/24/2017 1:17:22 PM PST by sodpoodle
Something for seniors to do to keep those "aging” grey cells active!
1. Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's name? 2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh? 3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world? 4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet? 5. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly? 6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible? 7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not? 8. What was the President's Name in 1975? 9. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now? 10. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"? 11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field? Here are the Answers: (No peeking!) 1. Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's name? Answer: Johnny, of course. 2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh? Answer: Meat. 3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world? Answer: Mt. Everest; it just wasn't discovered yet. [You're not very good at this are you?] 4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet? Answer: None. There is no dirt in a hole. 5. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly? Answer: Incorrectly 6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible? Answer: Billy lives in the Southern Hemisphere. 7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not? Answer: You can't take pictures with a wooden leg. You need a camera to take pictures. 8. What was the President's Name in 1975? Answer: Same as is it now – Donald Trump [Oh, come on...] 9. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in? Answer: You would be in 2nd. Well, you passed the person in second place, not first. 10. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"? Answer: Neither, the yolk of the egg is yellow [Duh] 11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field? Answer: One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big one.
IMPOSSIBILITIES IN THE WORLD 1) You can't count your hair. 2) You can't wash your eyes with soap. 3) You can't breathe through your nose when your tongue is out. Put your tongue back in your mouth, you silly person. Ten (10) Things I know about you. 1) You are reading this. 2) You are human. 3) You can't say the letter ''P'' without separating your lips. 4) You just attempted to do it. 6) You are laughing at yourself. 7) You have a smile on your face and you skipped No. 5. 8) You just checked to see if there is a No. 5. 9) You laugh at this because you are a fun loving person & everyone does it, too. 10) You are probably going to send this to see who else falls for it. You have received this e-mail because I didn't want to be alone in the idiot category.
TO ALL MY INTELLIGENT FRIENDS (Sorry Ike I forgot I sent this to you) Keep that brain working; try to figure this one out... See if you can figure out what these seven words all have in common? 1. Banana 2. Dresser 3. Grammar 4. Potato 5. Revive 6. Uneven 7. Assess Give it another try.. Look at each word carefully. You'll kick yourself when you discover the answer. REMEMBER I ONLY SENT THIS TO MY SMART FRIENDS NOW DON'T LET ME DOWN No, it is not that they all have at least 2 double letters.... Answer is below! Answer: In all of the words listed, if you take the first letter, place it at the end of the word, and then spell the word backwards, it will be the same word. Did you figure it out? No
One of his feet are both the same.
Yes, I did, but I don’t understand the “Johnny” answer to number 1. The rest were fine. April, May, Johnny? I don’t get it.
“Johnny’s Mom” named the kids. Only one kid left, so it must be Johnny.
You wrote “there are no words in English that rhyme with ‘silver’ or ‘orange’.”
“Pilfer” and “sliver” rhyme with “silver.”
On “orange” I think you’re right.
Too funny. I know the trick is get the person to miss information given, but I fell for it big-time, and not just once! Thanks. :)
““Pilfer” and “sliver” rhyme with “silver.”
No they don’t.
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Sorry!
“Range” rymes with “Orange.”
So does “Strange.”
So does “Grange.”
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I fell for it too. (Blushing)
Sure they do. Rhyme doesn’t mean a perfect match. If it did, half the poetry in existence that utilizes rhyming couldn’t exist. At least they rhyme in my pronunciation of English.
“Rhyme” rhymes with “dime” and “time” and also “fine.”
That’s my view, anyway. Perhaps you speak in a different American dialect. Maybe you say “pilfa,” but if you did, you’d likely also say “silva.”
It would be interesting to hear what others think.
Too easy. I got them all.
You think so? I can’t see it myself.... The only word I can think of that even remotely rhymes with “orange” is “porridge.”
He sat and gazed at the dimpled orange,
While his mother said, “Now eat your porridge.”
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As always, a proper ryme is dependent upon the preceeding phrase.
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Bookkeeper
Or purple
get off my lawn
It may be because I’m old or something, but I can breathe through my nose with tongue out and lips open
Yeah. Had to figure it out. Old. Yep.
Hillary Rodham was named after Sir Edmund Hillary.
How many years later did the world first hear of Sir Edmund Hillary?
“”Bookkeeping””
That works too...
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