SIX RIDDLES

1. Why are Time Magazine and Tide detergent impulse buys?

2. What can you always hear but never see?

3. What do you call a compassionate Crown Prince?

4. What do you call a university lecturer who is very strict about attendance?

5. What's one good thing about going to the dentist?

6)

   So far away and yet so near,

   I cannot speak, I cannot hear.   

   I'm friendly as a friend can be,

   Though I cannot smell, nor taste, nor see.

Answers:

 

1. Because time and tide wait for no man

2. Your voice

3. Heir on the side of mercy

4. An absent-minded professor

5. The dentist doesn't weigh you before he starts.

6. Your shadow

 

Credits: 

3: Anna Carson

4-5: Reader's Digest

4: Contributed by Rick Schwartz

5: Contributed by Dorothy D. Parlette