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Tall When I'm Young Short When I'm Old
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I am tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. I can brighten your day, unless it's windy. What am I?
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Tall When Young
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I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. What am I?
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When Will Water Stop
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When will water stop running downhill?
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Throw Out When Use
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What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don't?
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Twice as Old as Me
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When my father was 31 I was 8. Now he is twice as old as me. How old am I?
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Black When You Buy It, Red When You Use It
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What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
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Useful When Broken
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What is more useful when it is broken?
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Flies When Born, Runs When Dead
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What flies when it's born, lies when it's alive, and runs when it's dead?
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When Can You Add
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When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?
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Up When It Rains
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What goes up when the rain comes down?
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When Leaves Begin to Turn
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When do the leaves begin to turn?
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What Flies When it's Born...
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What flies when it's born, lies when it's alive and runs when it's dead?
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Smells Bad When Living...
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What smells bad when alive but smells good when dead?
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When I am Filled
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When I am filled I can point the way, When I am empty nothing moves me, I have two skins, one without and one within. What am I?
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Stays When it Goes Off
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What stays where it is when it goes off?
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The Short Cut and the Train
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Walking home one day, you take a short cut along the train tracks. The tracks cross a narrow bridge over a deep gorge. At the point you are 3/8 of the way across the bridge, you hear the train whistle somewhere behind you. You charge across the bridge, and jump off the track as the train is about to run you down. As it happens, if you had gone the other way, you would have reached safety just before being run over as well. If you can run ten miles per hour, how fast is the train moving?
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Empty, and Yet...
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When may a man's coat pocket be empty, and yet have something in it?
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When You Went Into the Woods
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When you went into the woods you got me. You hated me yet you wanted to find me. You went home with me cause you couldn’t find me What was it?
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What do you bury when it’s alive?
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What do you bury when it’s alive and dig up when it’s dead?
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When Two People Are Separated By a Web…
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When two people are separated by a web and hate to have love, what are they called?
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When Liquid Splashes Me, None Seeps Through
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When liquid splashes me, none seeps through. When I am moved a lot, liquid I spew. When I am hit, color I change. And color, I come in quite a range. What I cover is very complex, and I am very easy to flex. What am I?
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When a Window Closes...
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A dead body is found at the bottom of a multistory building. Seeing the position of the body, it is evident that the person jumped from one of the floors, committing suicide. A homicide detective is called to look after the case. He goes to the first floor and walks into the room facing the direction in which the body was found. He opens the window in that direction and flips a coin towards the floor. Then he goes to the second floor and repeats the process. He keeps on doing this until he reaches the last floor. Then, when he climbs down he tells the team that it is a murder, not suicide. How did he come to know that it was a murder?
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What Makes You Giddy?
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When young, I am sweet in the sun. When middle-aged, I make you giddy. When old, I am valued more than ever. What am I?
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A Football Player Like a Judge
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When is a football player like a judge?
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