Wednesday Riddles
First, happy birthday to my husband, Artavatar. Love you, sweetie!
After a long day of copy&pasting, “categories” are now “functional”. Both words get quotes because this is, like, the most hacked, spaghetti-programming, crapola way I’ve ever seen of getting category functionality out of a blog. But, it was free, which is the important part. So, you go clickie-clickie on the magic “read more in this category” or “posts by category” links (bottom of the post and side bar, respectively), and you get taken to my snazzy, matching Geocities website, where I’ve listed everything in neat categories, by year.
If it matters, I’ll probably be updating Ye Olde Spaghetti Categories monthly, unless I get in a furious burst of posting mania. Right-o, on to the riddles!
Riddles provided by Riddlenut.
This guy living on the 20th floor in an apartment building got up early each morning to go to work in a downtown store. He always went into the elevator on the 20th floor and rode down to the entrance (1st floor). When he came home he always rode the elevator from the entrance and up to the 8th floor. He walked out of the elevator and walked the stairs up to his apartment on the 20th floor. Why doesn’t he take the elevator all the way up to his apartment?
Highlight for the answer: This guy is a midget and can only reach to the 8th floor button.
A man takes a barrel that weighs 20 pounds, and then puts something in it. It now weighs less than 20 pounds. What did he put in the barrel?
Highlight for the answer: He put a hole in the barrel to make it weigh less.
There is a town in Texas where 5% of all the people living there have unlisted phone numbers. If you selected 100 names at random from the town’s phone directory, on average, how many of these people would have unlisted phone numbers?
Highlight for the answer: None. You will not find unlisted phone numbers in a phone directory.
What gets wetter the more it dries?
Highlight for the answer: A bath towel.
