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Why is it so easy to weigh fish?
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Because they have their own scales.
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What question can a person ask all day long, getting a different answer each time, and yet all the answers were correct.
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The question would be: What time is it?
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What are two things you cannot eat for supper?
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Breakfast and lunch!
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What kind of room has no windows or doors?
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Mushroom
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He who has it doesn't tell about it. He who takes it doesn't know about it. He who knows what it is doesn't want it. What is it?
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Counterfeit money
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I have a little house in which I live all alone. My house has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall. What am I?
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A chicken in an egg
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What can pass before the sun without making a shadow?
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The wind.
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What doesn't get any wetter, no matter how much rain falls on it?
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Water.
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I have a face, two arms, and two hands, yet I can not move. I count to twelve, yet I can not speak. I can still tell you something everyday.
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A clock.
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What has four fingers and one thumb, but is not alive?
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A glove
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If you were to take two apples from three apples, how many would you have?
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Two. You'd have the two that you took.
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Who can shave 25 times a day and still have a beard?
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A barber.
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What weighs more—a ton of feathers or a ton of gold?
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They weigh exactly the same, one ton each.
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What did one math book say to the other math book?
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I have a lot of problems!
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You are in a room with 3 monkeys. One has a banana, one has a stick, one has nothing. Which primate in the room is the smartest?
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You are the smartest! Humans are primates too.
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Name three keys that unlock no doors.
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MONkey, DONkey, TURkey
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What fastens two people yet touches only one?
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A wedding ring.
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What happens when you throw a white rock into the Red Sea?
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It sinks
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Mary's father has 4 children; three are named Nana, Nene, and Nini. So what is is the 4th child's name?
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Mary.
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What do you serve that you cannot eat?
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A tennis ball.
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What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?
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Fire.
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What can be swallowed, but can also swallow you?
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Water.
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The one who made it, didn't want it. The one who bought it, didn't need it. The one who used it, never saw it. What is it?
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A coffin.
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The more of them you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
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Footsteps
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Two mothers and two daughters go to a pet store and buy three cats. Each female gets her own cat. How is this possible?
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There is a grandmother, a mother, and a daughter.
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You are pushing your car. You stop at a hotel. At that precise moment you realize that you are bankrupt. What is actually going on?
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You are probably playing Monopoly!
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What is half of 2+2?
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3 (half of 2 is 1, and then 1 plus 2 is 3)
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How can you put you left hand in your right pocket and put your right hand in your left pocket without crossing your arms?
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First put the clothes on backwards.
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How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?
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Only once. After that, you will be subtracting 5 from 20, then 5 from 15, etc.
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If you have it, you want to share it, but if you share it, you don't have it. What is it?
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A secret.
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What kind of cake does a mouse eat on its birthday?
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cheesecake
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What's the difference between here and there?
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The letter T.
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What is better than the best thing, and worse than the worst thing?
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Nothing
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What can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be eaten?
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Salt.
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How many seconds are there in a year?
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12 (January second, February second and so on)
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Which moves faster: heat or cold?
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Heat, everybody can catch a cold.
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If two's company, and three's a crowd, what are four and five?
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Nine.
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What three numbers have the same answer when added together and multiplied together?
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1, 2, 3
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While walking across a bridge I saw a boat full of people. Yet on the boat there wasn't a single person. Why?
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Every one on the boat is married.
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Have you heard the saying what goes up must come down? Well what goes up and never goes down?
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Your age!
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Why can't a man living in Winston Salem, NC, be buried west of the Mississippi?
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Because he is still alive.
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If an electric train is going east at 60 miles an hour and there is a strong westerly wind, which way does the smoke from the train drift.
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Electric trains don't produce smoke
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Where do fish keep their money?
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In a riverbank, of course!
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What needs an answer, but doesn't ask a question?
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A telephone!
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What is put on a table and cut, but never eaten?
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A pack of cards
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What kind of nut has no shell?
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A doughnut
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The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?
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Darkness.
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What goes up and down without moving?
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Stairs.
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I know a word of letters three. Add two and fewer there will be. What is the word?
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Few.
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You enter a dark room. You have only one match. There is an oil lamp, a furnace, and a stove in the room. Which would you light first?
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The match!
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What kind of rocks are on the bottom of the Mississippi River?
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Wet rocks.
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What is in the middle of nowhere?
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H.
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A horse is tied to a 20 foot long rope. The horse wants to get some water that is 30 feet away. The horse gets the water easily. How is this?
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The other end of the rope isn't tied to anything!
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What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?
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Incorrectly!
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What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in an hour?
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The letter M
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What is is that you will break every time you name it?
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Silence
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It lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, and is born in air. What is it?
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An echo
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From what heavy seven-letter word can you take away two letters and have eight left?
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Freight or weights!
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What is bigger when new and grows smaller with use?
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Soap (or a pencil, crayon, chalk, etc.)
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What is the center of gravity?
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V.
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What gets whiter the dirtier it gets?
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A blackboard or chalkboard.
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Do you know why orange juice is so smart?
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It concentrates!
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Here on earth it is always true,that a day follows a day.But there is a place where yesterday always follows today! What am I?
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The dictionary!
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What am I? I am the only thing that always tells the truth. I show off everything that I see. I come in all shapes and sizes. So tell me what I must be!
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A mirror.
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What turns everything around, but does not move?
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A mirror.
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Twelve pears hanging high, twelve men passing by.Each took a pear and left eleven hanging there.How can this be?
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"Each" was the name of one of the men passing by.
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What's colorless and weightless, but if you put it into a barrel, the barrel would become lighter?
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A hole
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What has no beginning, end or middle?
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a doughnut
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What is the moon worth?
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$1 -- because it has 4 quarters.
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What happens twice in a week, and once in a year, but never in a day?
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The appearance of the letter "e"!
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Scientists have proven that cats have more hair on one side then their other side. Which side of a cat has more hair?
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The outside, of course!
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What has a tongue, cannot walk, but gets around a lot?
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A shoe!
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What goes around and around the wood but never goes into the wood?
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The bark of a tree
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If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?
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None, roosters can't lay eggs!
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What did the ocean say to the sea?
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Nothing...it just waved.
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A barrel of rainwater weighs twenty pounds. What must you add to make it weigh fifteen?
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Holes!
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What won't break if you throw it off the highest building in the world, but will break if you place it in the ocean?
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A tissue.
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Take off my skin and I won't cry, but you will, what am I?
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An onion.
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When young, I am sweet in the sun.When middle-aged, I make you gay.When old, I am valued more than ever.What am I?
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Wine.
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What did the rib cage say to the heart?
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Got ya covered!
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What kind of building is the tallest in the world?
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A library; it has the most stories.
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Why did the boy throw butter out the window?
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He wanted to see a butterfly.
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What did one octopus say to the other octopus?
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I want to hold your hand, hand, hand, hand, hand, hand, hand, hand.
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What did the blanket say to the bed?
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Got you covered!
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What does Frosty the Snowman eat for breakfast?
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Snowflakes!
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What two things aren't eaten for breakfast?
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Lunch and dinner.
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Why couldn't the Teddy Bear eat?
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Because he was stuffed!
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What's the difference between a jeweler and a jailor?
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One sells watches and the other watches cells.
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How many hamburgers can you eat on an empty stomach?
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Only one or part of one, because after that your stomach is no longer empty.
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Why can't a bike stand up for itself?
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Because it's two tired.
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What time is it when you see an elephant sitting on your fence?
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Time to buy a new fence.
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What kind of beans can't grow in a garden?
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Jelly Beans.
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Why do seagulls fly over the sea?
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Because if they flew over the bay they would be Bagels!
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Why did the skeleton play the piano?
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Because he didn't have any organs!
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Why is it a bad idea to write a letter on an empty stomach?
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Because it's much better to write on paper.
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What did the mayonnaise say to the bread?
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Close the door, I'm dressing.
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How do you catch a squirrel?
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Climb up a tree and act like a nut.
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Why didn't the lobster share his toys?
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He was too shellfish.
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What did one plate say to the other plate?
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Lunch is on me.
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What does a bee use to brush its hair?
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A honeycomb!
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