School: Bouleenshere (C.) (roll number 12865)
- Location:
- Booleenshare, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Mary A. Walsh
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- When is a hat not a hat? When it becomes a pretty woman.
Which is it more easy to spell goose or geese? Geese. You spell it with more ease (e's).
What is the longest word in English language? Smiles, because there is a "mile" between the first and last letter.
What is no good to a car, and it can't go without it? Noise.
What is it that is too short and cut a piece of it it is long enough? A grave.
Could you kill a mouse in an empty bag? No, because when the mouse is in the bag it is not empty.
What is it the more you take out of it the bigger it gets? A hole.
Why is it that the clock does not strike thirteen? Because it has not the face to do it.
How would you make a slow horse fast? By giving him nothing to eat.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Michael Lucid
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Ballylongane, Co. Kerry
