EIGHT RIDDLES

1. Why is a bride always unlucky on her wedding day?

 

2. Why did the man call his sweetheart "P.S."?

3. When is a chair like a kind of fabric?

4. What herb is the best healer?

 

5. Why is a rooster on a fence like a coin?

6. What part of a  new clock has been used before?

 

7. Why does a nobleman's title sometimes become extinct? 

8. Why does the north wind in winter never blow straight?

Answers:

 

1. She doesn't marry the best man. 

2. Her name was Adeline Moore.

3. When it's sat in.

4. Thyme

5. It's head is on one side and its tail on the other.

6. The second hand

7. A king can make a man a peer, but he can't make him a parent. 

8. It's so bleak.

 

Notes:

7. a peer - appear

    a parent - apparent

8. so bleak - oblique