RIDDLES AND JOKES

1. The worse it is, the better it is. What is it?

2. Did you hear about the words of, at, for, the, and?

3. What three words do English teachers use to comfort upset students? 

4. What is the answer to this question? Do you know a good boat builder?

5. Can you think of a three-word phrase that has to do with both navigation and baseball? 

6. Can you think of a four-word, grammatically flawed introduction that makes things perfectly clear? 

7. Latest house flip produced mixed results:

    House flipper: How did the first-floor renovations go?

    Contractor: Great

    House flipper: How about the second floor?

    Contractor: That's another story. 

 

Answers:

1. A pun

2. They're forming a support group for words left out of acronyms. 

3. "There, their, they're" 

4. Noah (know a)

5. Around the Horn (horn) - Sailing around the tip of South America (Cape Horn)

    After a third strike, with no men on base, the catcher throws the ball to third base, and from there it's thrown around the infield. 

6. "Me Tarzan, you Jane."