School: Currans (B.), Fearann Fuar (roll number 4459)

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1. Riddles (continued)

   

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   Q. Why is a train like a burglar?
   A. Because it runs without disturbing the sleepers.
   Q. What is the lightest county in Ireland?
   A. Cork.
   Q. The man that made it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it.
   A. A Coffin.
   Q. Long legs, crooked thighs, long legs and no eyes.
   A. A tongs.
   Q. What is it you cut a bit off to make it longer.
   A. A grave.
   Q. If a man fell off a high wall what would be face again?
   A. His Will.
   Q. If a man had twenty patches in his pants, what time would it be?
   A. Time to get a new one.
   Q. What walks with its head turned down?
   A. A nail in your boot.
   Q. What is taken to the table, cut and never eaten?
   A. A pack of cards.
   Q. A housefull, a roomful and cannot get a spoonful.
   A. Smoke.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Terence Mac Mahon

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ardcrone, Co. Kerry