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WITCH RIDDLES

1. What do you call a wicked woman who lives by the sea?

A sandwitch

2. Why does a witch ride on a broom?

Because a vacuum cleaner is too heavy

3. What's the difference between a witch and the letter M, A, K, E, S?

One makes spells and the other spells makes


RIDDLES

1. Which weather is the worst for rats and mice?

When it's raining cats and dogs.

2. When a man gets into the river, what is the first thing he does?

He gets wet.

3. What makes a road broad?

The letter B.

4. Why ten is afraid of seven?

Because 7 8 9, and 10 is the next on the line.
(seven ate nine)

5. What is higher without a head than with a head?

A pillow.

6. What is it that nobody wishes to have and yet nobody wishes to lose?

A bold head.

7. What has two legs and flies?

A pair of trousers

8. Why are fire engines red?

One and one are two.
Two and two are four.
Three times four is twelve.
There are twelve inches in a ruler.
Queen Mary was a ruler.
Queen Mary ruled the sea.
There are fish in the sea.
The fish have fins.
The Finns fought the Russians.
The Russians are red.
Fire engines are always rushin'.
That's why fire engines are red.

9. What makes more noise than a pig in a sty?

Two pigs

10. Which is correct - seven and five is eleven, or seven and five are eleven?

Neither - seven and five are twelve

11. How many months have 28 days?

All of them

12. What can always be found between town and country?

and

13. In case of an accident, what is better than presence of mind?

Absence of body

14. What does a man love more than life,
Hate more than death or mortal strife;
That which contented men desire,
The poor have, the rich require,
The miser spends, the spendthrift saves,
And all men carry to their graves?

Nothing

15. Why is a man who is always complaining the easiest man to satisfy?

Because nothing satisfies him