The One Shot Joke Thread.

Originally Posted by Moon

2. Is it legal for a man to marry his widow's sister?

3. A ball of yarn that is 3 inches in diameter costs 30 cents. By the same pricing system, how much should a ball of yarn 6 inches in diameter cost?

2. No, because to be married, you have to be alive.

3. 1 dollar, 20 cents.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Oh, damn, I did it by circumfrence, not volume. Whoops. I'll try to do better next time.

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Originally Posted by Lythial

Just some random riddles.

1. Do they have a fourth of July in England?
2. How many birth days does the average person have?
3. Some months have 31 days; how many have 28?
4. Where are potatoes grown?
5. Divide 30 by a half and add 10. What is the answer?
6. If you have 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
7. A clerk at a butcher shop is 5'10" tall. What does he weigh?
8. On what side of the cup does the handle belong?
9. What weighs more, a pound of pennies or a pound of dimes?
10. What is it that people who make it don't want it; the people who buy it don't use it; the people who use it don't know it?

1. Yes, they have a fourth of July everywhere that uses the Roman calendar, but it's not celebrated as "Independence Day" except in America.
2. Just one - when they're born.
3. All of them.
4. Underground.
5. (60 / 1/2) + 10 = 70
6. Two apples.
7. He weighs meat.
8. Cups have handles? Well, I'd assume you mean mugs and say the outside.
9. They both weigh the same - one pound.
10. A coffin.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Lythial

The original question was divide 30 by a half and add 10....I think they put 60 by accident. Jumping the gun, so to speak.

70 is the correct answer - the solution should read 30/(1/2)+10=70

Yeah, I jumped the gun when I posted "60". I meant "30". I'm weird sometimes, I guess.

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