Conference turris::womannotes-v2

    the surgeon is the boy's mother

The first time I heard this was in the early 70's on All in the Family.

Gloria heard it from one of her Activist friends and stumped her family
and friends with it throughout the whole show.

A better riddle is this (and it is sexless):

Two persons are in the middle of a desert.  The person with the full
backpack is dead.  The person with the empty backpack is alive.

  There can be enough information here to surmise what occurred.




























The dead person with the full backpack is someone whose parachute did not open.

Try that on your friends.

Mark

    I remember when the basenote riddle *was* hard to figure out.  You
    could stump all kinds of people with it.
    
    It would be interesting to try it again--maybe I'll experiment.  I'll
    bet people get it faster now.
    
    Briana

re .0, equivalent riddle:

    Two Red Indians are walking down the road together.  One of
    them is the father of the other one's son.  How can this be?
    

    Same answer, of course.  The other Red Indian (I think the
    terminology was used to distinguish them as American Indians,
    rather than sub-continental Indians) was a woman, the child's
    mother.

    -- Linda

    I don't suppose it would be in keeping with the spirit of the joke to
    answer, "Artificial insemination," would it... ;-)
    
    -b

    	I remember a lot of those brain teasers from my old school daze.
    
    
    How far can a black and white spotted dog run into the woods????
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
         Half way. Then it starts running out of the woods
    
    Ken

    
If you find a few minutes.......
    
    
This test does not measure your intelligence, your fluency with words, or
your mathematical knowledge. It will however, give you some guage of your 
menatl creativity and flexibility. In the three years since the test was 
developed, few people could solve the netire test on the first try. Many
will get an answer long after they have given up or put the test away.

INSTRUCTIONS: Each question below contains the first letter of the words that
              will complete the answer. Find the missing words.

EXAMPLE: 16 O. in a P.            ANSWER:  16 Ounces in a Pound

 1.	26 L. of the A.       _________________________________________________
 
 2.	 7 W. of the A. W.    _________________________________________________

 3.   1001 A. N.              _________________________________________________

 4.     12 S. of the Z.       _________________________________________________

 5.     54 C. in a D.(with J) _________________________________________________

 6.      9 P. in the S. S.    _________________________________________________

 7.     88 K. on a P.         _________________________________________________

 8.     13 S. on the A. F.    _________________________________________________

 9.     32 D. F. at which W. F. _______________________________________________

10.     18 H. on a G. C.      _________________________________________________

11.     90 D. in a R. A.      _________________________________________________

12.    200 D. for a P.G. in M. ________________________________________________

13.      8 S. on a S. S.      _________________________________________________

14.      3 B. M. (S.H.T.R.)   _________________________________________________

15.      4 Q. in a G.         _________________________________________________

16.     24 H. in a D.         _________________________________________________

17.      1 W. on a U.         _________________________________________________

18.      5 D. in a Z. C.      _________________________________________________

19.     57 H. V.              _________________________________________________

20.     11 P. on a F. T.      _________________________________________________

21.   1000 W. that a P. is W. _________________________________________________

22.     29 D. in F. in a L. Y. ________________________________________________

23.     64 S. on a C.         _________________________________________________

24.     40 D. and N. of the G. F. _____________________________________________

25.      9 N. in a S. S. N.   _________________________________________________

26.     60 S. in a M.         _________________________________________________
	

    re. -.7
    
    1.  26 L of the A = 26 letters fo the alphabet
    2.  7 W of the A W = 7 wonders of the ancient world
    3.  1001 A N = 1001 Arabian nights
    4.  12 S of the Z = 12 signs of the zodiac
    5.  54 C in a D (with J) = 54 cards in a deck (with Jokers)
    6.  9 P in the S S = 9 planets in the solar system
    7.  88 K on a P = 88 keys on a piano
    8.  13 S on the A F = 13 stripes on the American flag
    9.  32 D F at which W F = 32 degrees Farenheit at which water freezes
    10. 18 H on a G C = 18 hols on a golf course
    11. 90 D in a R A = 90 degrees in a right angle
    12. 200 D for a P G in M = 200 dollars for a Pass Go in Monopoly
    13. 8 S on a S S = 8 sides on a stop sign
    14. 3 B M (S H T R) = 3 blind mice (see how they run)
    15. 4 Q in a G = 4 quarts in a gallon
    16. 24 H in a D = 24 hours in a day
    17. 1 W on a U = 1 wheel on a unicycle
    18. 5 D in a Z C = 5 digits in a zip code
    19. 57 H V = 57 Heinz varieties
    20. 11 P on a F T = 11 players on a football team
    21. 1000 W that a P is W = 1000 words that a picture is worth
    22. 29 D in F in a L Y = 29 days in February in a leap year
    23. 64 S on a C = 64 squares on a checkerboard
    24. 40 D and N of the G F = 40 days and nights of the great flood
    25. 9 N in a S S N = 9 numbers in a social security number
    26. 60 S in a M = 60 seconds in a minute
    
    Thanks for help from Ron, Ellie, and Susan.
    
    Karen

    I remember this question and my answer in my college statistics
    class. The professor called on me because he thought I was dozing
    off (I was, or I wouldn't of had the nerve to answer it as I did).
    
    Q. There are 10 people in a room, 5 men and 5 women; 6 of these people
       are doctors. What is the one assumption that can be made?
    
    Expected A. That at least one of the women is a doctor.
    My A. That at least one of the men is a doctor.
    
    My answer really flustered him; first he said it was wrong, then
    the other female in the class wanted to know why my answer was
    wrong, then he agreed that my assumption could be right (but not
    practical) and that there must actually be two assumptions that you
    could make so that the book that he read the question out of was
    actually wrong. Then he let us out of class early. He never called
    on me again, that semester or the next. (I should point out that this
    was in the early 1970s.)
        
    Deb

>    Q. There are 10 people in a room, 5 men and 5 women; 6 of these people
>      are doctors. What is the one assumption that can be made?

     A. That all the doctors are not of the same gender.

    � Q. There are 10 people in a room, 5 men and 5 women; 6 of these people
    �    are doctors. What is the one assumption that can be made?
    
    A.  Four people are about to get whopping bills. . .
    
    Steve

re .7

    "18.   5 D. in a Z. C."

    I've just done a year's time, er, that is, just finished a
    12-month residency at the US Postal Service.  As far as
    they're concerned, some zips have three digits (!), some have
    five, and some have nine. It depends on how finely you're
    sorting. And there are other situations where they consider
    *all* zips to be nine-digit zips, and if not all the digits
    are written, the software puts enough zeros at the end. 

    -- Linda

    re -1:
    
    The puzzle came from Games magazine; it's been around for quite
    a while -- in fact, it pre-dates nine digit ZIP codes.
    
    					andrew

    Every morning a man walks into the office where he works, walks
    into the lift and presses the button for the 15th floor.
    On reaching the 15th floor he walks out of the lift and proceeds
    to walk up 10 flights of stairs to the 25th floor on which he works.
    On completion of his working day he walks in to the lift on the 25th
    floor and travels all the way to the ground.
    
    Why does he get out on the 15th floor and walk up the final 10 flight
    of stairs?                                       
    
    (the lift does go all the way to the 25th)
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    ANS:: He is too short to reach the button for the 25th floor!!
    

    A man is building a house, each of the four walls has a southern
    exposure.
    A bear walks past, 
    What colour is the bear?
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    ANS:: WHITE, 'cos if all the walls have a southern exposure then
    the house is being built on the north pole, so it must be a POLAR
    bear!

    You walk in to a dark and dingy room, inside you can just make out
    some articles on a table, these consist of an oil lamp, some candles
    some matches amd some firewood.
    
    Which of these would you light first?
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    ANS:: The matches, how else will you light any of the others!

    You drive a bus through the town, at the first stop 12 passengers
    get on, at the second stop 3 get on and 7 get off, at the third
    stop 17 get on and 2 get off, at the forth stop 9 get on and 5 get
    off, at the fifth stop 13 get on and 8 get off and at the final
    stop before the bus depot 4 get off.
    
    What is the bus drivers name?
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    ANS:: What ever your name is - read the first word of the riddle
    again, it clearly says YOU drive a bus....

Anthony and Cleopatra are lying dead in a pool of water surrounded by
fragments of broken glass.

How did they die ?













    
    
    
    
    
    










Someone broke their goldfish bowl.    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    ANS:: What ever your name is - read the first word of the riddle
    again, it clearly says YOU drive a bus....

    This is a nonsense riddle:

    There is a man locked in a prison cell. There is no window in the
    cell and the cell is on the ground floor, in the far corner of the
    prison. He cannot get through the door since it is locked and guarded
    heavily. 
    	The room has only a small table...
    
    How does he escape from the cell?
    
    1/ He bangs his head on the wall until it is sore
    
    2/ He uses the saw to cut the table in half
    
    3/ Two halves make a whole
    
    4/ he puts the hole against the far wall and crawls through it.
    

    HEY - I SAID IT WAS A NONSENSE RIDDLE! ;^)

    
    

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    Linoleum Blown-apart

    in re .20 and .21
    
    if you really enjoy puns try the joyoflex confernce.
    
    Bonnie J
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