Me: Hello.
Stranger: Hello.
Me: Er... who are you?
Stranger: No, who are you?
Me: You called me, so I'm asking who are you?
Stranger: I dunno... I think the number is correct...
Me: ......
A very short conversation, but it's very funny if you heard it.
Anyway, a very happy birthday to Ah Su and Xu.
Now...
SPOILER WARNING (especially Jia Jun): Below contains the answer of the riddles. So if you still want to figure it out by yourself, don't read the below.
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1. What's the capital of Earth?
Ans: E (Earth)
2. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word?
Ans: language (3 words: the English language)
3. You have a dog, and a forest. How far can the dog run into the forest?
Ans: Only to the middle. After that it is running out of the forest.
4. What did the upper teeth say to the lower teeth?
Ans: Meet you next meal.
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1.
I can be measured, though I have no height or weight.
I can be spent, though cannot be bought.
I cannot be seen, though you will know it when I flow.
What am I?
Ans: Time
2.
Even if they are starving, natives living in the Arctic will never eat a penguin's egg. Why not?
Ans: Because penguin lives in Antarctic
3.
If you divide thirty by a half and then add ten what is the answer?
Ans: 70
4.
When I am young, I am tall.
When I am old, I am short.
What am I?
Ans: Candle
5.
I'm at the beginning of ending,
And the end of life.
What am I?
Ans: E
6.
Forward I'm heavy, backward I'm not. What am I?
Ans: Ton (From front: ton, means heavy. From back is not, reverse of ton)
7.
What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
Ans: M
8.
There was a murder in a circular house. The man murdered was a person who was filthy rich and there was only 3 suspects. The butchers, violently cutting meat. The maid, reading in the corner, or the gardener cutting the hedges with a chainsaw. Who killed the filthy rich man?
Ans: The maid, because there is no corner in a circular house.
9.
1. There are 5 houses of different color side by side in a street.
2. In each house lives man of a different nationality.
3. Each man has a different pet, favors a different drink and smokes a different brand of cigarettes.
4. These characteristic are unique for every man, no two man share anything in common.
QUESTION: Who owns the fish as his pet?
HINTS:
1. The British man is living in the red building.
2. The Swede owns a dog.
3. The Dane is drinking tea.
4. To the left of the white house lies the green house.
5. The man in the green house drinks coffee.
6. Pall Mall is smoked by the man with the bird.
7. In the house in the middle lives a man who loves to drink milk.
8. The man in the yellow house smokes Dun Hill.
9. The first house is inhabited by the Finn.
10. Malboro is smoked by a man living next to the person who owns a cat.
11. And next to the person smoking Dun Hill lives the man with the horse.
12. The beer drinker is smoking Winfield.
13. To the right of the Finn's house lies the blue house.
14. The German is smoking Rothmanns.
15. Water is the favorite drink of the man living next door to the one smoking Malboro.
Ans: German
1 - yellow/Finn/water/DunHill/Cat
2 - blue/Dane/tea/Marlboro/horse
3 - red/British/milk/Pall Mall/bird
4 - Green/German/coffee/Rothmanns/Unknown(fish)
5 - White/Swede/beer/Winfield/dog
10.
First think of a person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.
Next tell me what's always the last thing to mend,
The middle of middle and end of end?
And finally give me the sound often heard
During the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now sring them together, and answer this,
Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?
Ans: Spider (Spy-der)
Good job for those who did it! :)
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