School: Cill Fhíonáin (roll number 15506)
- Location:
- Kilfinane, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0510, Page 483
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- (continued from previous page)and the other is hard to get down.
If I built a wall from here to Donegal what height would it be? The height of nonsense.
Black and white and read all over? A newspaper.
Chip, chip cherry, all the men in Derry couldn't lift chip, chip cherry? Smoke.
Long legs crooked thighs, small head and no eyes? A tongs.
Why does a hen cross a road? To get to the other side.
Why does a cow look over a ditch? Because she can't look through it.
As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, the half of a woman, the whole of a man? A penny.
As round as an apple, as sharp as a lance, if you were on it, it would carry you to France? The moon.
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- Brendan Ryan
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