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   1.
   A halfpenny wet and a halfpenny dry,
   Fourpence halfpenny and a halfpenny by,
   A halfpenny behind and a halfpenny before,
   Fourpence, halfpenny and a halfpenny more.
   Answer = A shilling.

   2.
   What wave is never crossed by a ship or a boat.
   Answer = Permanent wave.

   3.
   What has teeth and never eats with them,
   Answer = A comb

   4.
   Why is a room full of married people like an empty one,
   Answer = There's not a single person in it

   5.
   Four s's four i's one m and two p's put them together and spell them for me
   Answer = Mississippi

   6.
   Why do we go to bed,
   Answer = Because the bed wont come to us.

   7.
   What runs from Belfast to Dublin without moving
   Answer = A railway line

   8.
   What sleeps with its finger in its eye
   Answer = The crook

   9. What sleeps with its tail in the water,
   Answer = A boat

   

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