EIGHT RIDDLES

1. What's a perennial?

 

2. Who is one that has little chance of getting married?

 

3. What's a sure way to get people to notice you?

4. Why is are tin can tied to a mongrel dog's tail like taxes"

5. Formed long ago, but made today,

    Employed while others sleep;

    What none would like to give away,

    Yet no one wants to keep?

6. What's the difference between a sailor and the manager of a theater?

7. What's the difference between the earth and the sea?

8. What's the difference between old people and cows?

Answers:

 

1. A plant that blooms every year, if it doesn't die first

 

2. The last man on earth

 

3. Walk into church ten minutes late

 

4. They're bound to a cur.

 

5. A bed

 

6. A sailor likes to see a lighthouse. A theater manager doesn't.

 

7. The earth is dirt-y and the sea is tide-y. 

 

8. Old people live in the past. Cows live in the pasture.

 

Credits:

1: Henry Beard 

2: Leslie Young and Andrea Carla Michaels