SUNDAY FUNDAY - SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

 SUNDAY FUNDAY SEPTEMBER 15 

Tricky questions (but you’ve seen many of these before):

1. How many letters are in the alphabet?
11. (“The alphabet.”)

2. If you build a fort, drive a Ford and fill out a form, then what do you eat soup with?
A spoon.

3. You have two coins that equal 30 cents, and one of them is not a quarter. Which coins do you have?
A quarter and a nickel. (The nickel is the one that isn’t a quarter.)

4. A man once said he went 35 days without sleep. How is that possible?
He slept at night. (My father bragged he could get by on 4 hours of sleep a night.  But, then he added - as long as I get another four hours during the day).

5. What thrives when you feed it but dies when you give it something to drink?
A fire.

6. What kind of button can’t be unbuttoned?
A belly button.

7. What is the answer to this question?
“What.”  (I had a friend who would ask “Guess What?”.  I would answer “What”, and he would say “You got it”!!)

8. If Mrs. Smith’s rooster lays an egg in Mr. Brown’s yard, who owns the egg?
No one. Roosters don’t lay eggs.

9. Ted is the father of Sam, but Sam is not the son of Ted. How is that possible?
Sam is not a boy - but Samantha.

10. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, and is often found between banks?
A river.

11. The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Darkness.

12. A deli worker in a grocery store is described as being 6’1″ and wearing size 10 shoes and a medium-sized shirt. What does the deli worker weigh?
Lunch meat.

13. A suspected burglar is brought in for questioning for a robbery that happened on the 4th of July. He tells the police he has an alibi, as he was home at the time of the robbery. A mailman verifies that he saw the suspect at home at the time of the robbery while on his mail route. The police, however, immediately know the mailman is lying. How?
The mail doesn’t run on the 4th of July, so there’s no way the mailman could have seen the suspect on his mail route.

14. What babbles but never talks?
A brook.

15. What’s something that has teeth but can’t chew?
A comb.

16. If the assistant captain of a sports team were to die, who would lead the team?
The captain.

17. What’s something that always wants an answer but doesn’t have a question?
A phone.

18. You can catch me, but I can’t be thrown. What am I?
A cold.

19. A woman quickly realizes there is no air in her driver’s-side tire, but she finds something else in the tire instead. What is it?
A hole.

20. What’s something that gets wetter the more it dries?
A towel.

21. When you put your socks on, why are you sure to make a mistake?
Because you put your foot in it.

22. Let’s say you have to lift a hippo with one finger. How would you do it?
You wouldn’t because you can’t find a one-fingered hippo.

23. What happens when you throw a blue rock into the Red Sea?
It sinks to the bottom.

24. How can you drop a glass vase on a concrete floor and not crack it?
Concrete floors are hard to crack.

25. Which word in the dictionary has an odd spelling?
“Odd.”  (I would question my students about a word - “What word is always pronounced ‘WRONG’ - the answer is “WRONG”)

26. What’s something that copies your looks but not your sounds?
A mirror.

27. I wave, even if you don’t say hello. What am I?
A flag.

28. Bill fell from a 30-foot ladder but didn’t get hurt. How is that possible?
He fell from the bottom rung.

29. What word becomes longer after you add two letters to it?
“Long.”  (Or the other form - “What word becomes shorter when you add ‘er’ to it?” - Shorter)

30. What’s something that has a lot of holes in it but can still hold water?
A sponge.

31. A train pulls up to the station. You notice that one car is full of people, but there isn’t a single person on board. How can that be?
Everyone in that train car is married. There is a similar one - a man buys a drink in a bar and gives the bartender a five, the bartender says “Sorry, I can’t take that, this is a singles bar”

32. Sandy claims she saw an ocean without water, and it turns out, she was being honest. How is that possible?
She was looking at a map.

33. What’s something you can break but can’t put back together?
A promise.

34. How many times can you cut a cake in half?
Technically, only once.

35. What’s something that gets warmer the more it cools?
An air conditioner.

36. What are two things you can’t eat for dinner?
Breakfast and lunch.  (Actually, not quite right.  Occasionally I have eggs for dinner - and eggs are generally for breakfast)

35. What’s something that has a lot of problems not many people are eager to solve?
A math book.

38. If you were in a race and passed the person in third place, what place would you be in?
Third place.

39. A woman goes into the forest and sees 10 trees. She then proceeds to snap all their branches at once. How is this possible?
She took a picture of the trees.

40. What was the president’s name in 1990?
The same as it is today.  “The President”

*****

From Friends:  

Where do bad rainbow go?  To prism!!  It is a light sentence, but it gives them time to reflect!!!  (So Cute)

What do you get when a hen lays an egg on the roof of a barn?  An egg roll!!

Why did the tomato blush?  Because it say the salad ‘dressing’.

What did the grape say when it got stepped on?  Nothing, it just let out a little “wine” (whine)

What is the one room in a house a ghost doesn’t need?  The ‘Living Room’!!!

What o clouds wear under their shorts?  “Thunder” pants.

Hey - are you registered to vote?  There is an election coming.  You can go to https://www.wilcotx.gov/294/Voter-Registration to check.  If you have moved, you should still update your information (the poll workers can do that, but that delays the voting process).

NEXT TIME - FALL 

LOVE WINS!!

Karen White, September 15, 2024