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Did the one New Yorker have really long hair?
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No

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No

Clue: The New York hairdresser had nothing against New Yorkers and no particular love of Canadians.

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Did he bury it, cover it up some, then bury another 'treasure' above it?
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YES!  Point to 80scheerleader, to be tallied when I get home from work.

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YES!  Point to 80scheerleader, to be tallied when I get home from work.
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In my defense, I WAS asleep :D

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SILENCE IS GOLDEN
A distinguished speaker once gave a very interesting talk to a packed and enthusiastic audience.  However, after the talk finished there was no applause whatsoever.  Why?


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Was it a eulogy?

Did the audience have no hands?

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Was it a eulogy?

Did the audience have no hands?
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I was thinking along the same lines only the "speech" was given in sign and the audience was deaf. Or mute. Or both.

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Did he not have a full tank of gas?

fast fingers Rice beat me to it!   ;D
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Indeed he did, Princess!  Since that one was knocked down so quick, I'll post another before I go.

TRUCKLOAD
It was a long bridge and the weight of gasoline used in reaching the center of the bridge exceeds the weight of the flock of starlings.  The truck still weighs no more than 10 tons.

Tally-
Rice Cube - 2
80s Cheerleader - 1
Tangle - 1

FRUITLESS SEARCH
A man was searching for blue-back frogs in an area where they were very common.  He caught one.  It started to rain and he became frantic.  The rain grew stronger and the man left, disconsolate.  Why?

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Okay, so did he have them shipped over, REFUSE to pay the duty, then have the buyer get them at the impound auction?
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HAND IN GLOVE
The manufacturer sent 5,000 right-hand gloves to Miami and 5,000 left-hand gloves to New York.  He refused to pay the duty on them so both sets of gloves were impounded.  Since nobody claimed them, both lots were subsequently sold off at auction.  They went for a very low price (who wants 5,000 left-hand gloves?).  Naturally, it was the clever Frenchman who won with a very low bid at each auction.

Tally-
Rice Cube - 4
80s Cheerleader - 1
Tangle - 1
Taoist - 1

THE SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
A visiting school superintendent noticed that whenever he asked one class a question all the children would put up their hands.  Moreover, although the teacher always chose a different child to answer, the answer was always correct.  Why?

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THE SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
A visiting school superintendent noticed that whenever he asked one class a question all the children would put up their hands.  Moreover, although the teacher always chose a different child to answer, the answer was always correct.  Why?

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Did the teacher just ask all the children to raise their hands, then single one out?

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Did the teacher tell them (before the super came)to raise their right hand if they knew the answer, and their left if they didn't or vice versa?
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Bingo!  Score tallied when I get home!

Quoting:Did the teacher do a very unteacherly thing and give each child the answer to one of the questions beforehand, then pick the child she knew to have the answer? End Quote

Shame... ::) :D

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THE DEAD MAN
A man lies dead in a room, with a cord tied tightly around his neck.  The door has been locked from the inside.  Outside of the body, there is nothing else in the room.  Remembering that one cannot choke oneself (one would pass out before dying), how did he die?
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Starving himself doesn't explain the rope though...I'm thinking he soaked the rope in water and then allowed it to shrink around his neck so it'd do the choking for him even after he passed out.

Hmmm, I just realized that Tangle said the same thing (I didn't read your post when I posted, sorry dude).  So if that's the right answer, he should get the point.

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A leather cord, which he soaked in water prior to entering the room?
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BINGO!  Very well done!  Tally when I get home from work.

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Presumably he knew where he was travelling from, so he could have placed the sign using that knowledge.
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THE FALLEN SIGN
The man knew the name of the town he had left that morning.  So he replaced the sign so that it correctly named the direction he had come from.  It would then be correct for all other directions.

Tally-
Rice Cube - 4
80s Cheerleader - 3
Tangle - 3
Taoist - 1

EGGS
Ornithologists now agree that there is a very good reason why birds' eggs are generally narrower at one end than the other.  
What is the reason?

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Also, thinking about it, they don't roll in any given direction when they're shaped that way - they just weeble about in a vague circle.
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EGGS
A spherical or oval egg would roll in a straight line.  However, an asymmetrical egg, which is narrower at one end than the other, will tend to roll in a circle. (Try it with a normal hen's egg.) If the eggs are on a cliff edge or other precarious place, the tendency to roll around rather than straight is a distinct advantage.

Tally-
Rice Cube - 4
Tangle - 4
80s Cheerleader - 3
Taoist - 1

Easy one as I head off for a while...
THE GUARD DOG
A landowner boasted that nobody could enter his orchard because of the fierce dog he had guarding it.  How did a crafty boy gain entrance without damaging the dog in any way?

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Kaching!

He found a dog of the opposite sex and raided the orchard when the fierce dog found itself with better things to do!
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BINGO! LOVE WAS IN THE AIR FOR THE GUARD DOG!  Point tallied when I get home.

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BINGO! LOVE WAS IN THE AIR FOR THE GUARD DOG!  Point tallied when I get home.
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THE CELLAR DOOR
A little girl was warned by her parents never to open the cellar door or she would see things that she was not meant to see.  One day while her parents were out she did open the cellar door.  What did she see?


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Oh wait, how about gifts for a surprise party?
Meow meow meow meow
Meow meow meow meow
Meow meow meow meow
Meow meow meow meow

::) :D

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The cellar?

Or the outside world, depending which side of the door she'd been living on.
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THE CELLAR DOOR
When the girl opened the cellar door she saw the living room and, through its windows, the garden.  She had never seen these before because her parents had kept her all her life in the cellar. (This is a true lateral-thinking puzzler as nearly everyone makes the assumption that anyone opening the cellar door does so from outside the cellar.)

Tally-
Tangle - 6
Rice Cube - 4
80s Cheerleader - 3
Taoist - 1

THE DEADLY SHOT
A man lay dead in a field.  Next to him was a gun.  One shot had been fired and because of that shot the man had died.  Yet he had not been shot.  In fact, there was no wound or mark on his body.  How had he died?

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And if that turns out to be right, I'll wear a penguin costume for the whole of tomorrow!
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Please oh please tell him it's right ;D

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Slightly more plausible than the last (and thankfully my penguin costume can stay in the cupboard)

He unwittingly caused an avalanche by firing the gun and suffocated under snow. The next spring, the snow thawed and he was found next to his gun.
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If that is right, I bow before you and hope that you have a penguin costume picture posted somewhere on this board tomorrow :)

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Here's an easy math problem:
FLAT OUT
A driver whose car had no brakes was approaching a level crossing at 60 miles per hour while a train was approaching the same crossing at 60 miles per hour.  The crossing was unmanned and had no barriers.  The train was 100 yards long and 50 yards from the crossing.  The car was 100 yards from the crossing.  Neither train nor car stopped or changed direction or speed.  The driver did not get out of his car.  How did he survive the crossing?


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It was a bridge.

And Tangle has 7 points.

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Probably being overly literal about the wording here, but was the driver sitting on the train while his car (which had suffered a minor accident due to brake failure) happened to be sitting 100 yards from the crossing?
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Man, you are so GOOD at these!  :D

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Probably being overly literal about the wording here, but was the driver sitting on the train while his car (which had suffered a minor accident due to brake failure) happened to be sitting 100 yards from the crossing?
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FLAT OUT
Who said that the car was on the road?  The car was being transported on the train

Tally-
Tangle - 8
Rice Cube - 4
80s Cheerleader - 3
Taoist - 1

Last one for a while:
FREE MAPS
At some stage between the two world wars, the British government decided that it would be desirable to produce accurate maps of the whole country by using the new technique of aerial photography.  They were very concerned that the cost of the project would be high as it involved many flights, much film, and long hours of painstaking matching of photographs.  In the end the whole process ended up costing the government nothing.  Why not?

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FREE MAPS
At some stage between the two world wars, the British government decided that it would be desirable to produce accurate maps of the whole country by using the new technique of aerial photography.  They were very concerned that the cost of the project would be high as it involved many flights, much film, and long hours of painstaking matching of photographs.  In the end the whole process ended up costing the government nothing.  Why not?
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Let's see...

Did someone else do it and just submitted their map to the Brits?

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Well, THAT'S lame ::)

How the hell were we supposed to know THAT?  :D
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I dunno.  But, you did figure out the undertaker was the person he saw, so I don't think it would have taken too much longer to figure out who the shockee was.

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I dunno.  But, you did figure out the undertaker was the person he saw, so I don't think it would have taken too much longer to figure out who the shockee was.
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Says the guy with the (*#&%ing answer book ::)  ;D