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Old 14-05-09, 11:09 AM   #91
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Someone else take my go though, cause I'm meant to be at work
Ditto. Lunch break

easy one

A man and his son are involved in a car crash. The dad dies, the son is taken to hospital for surgery. The surgeon takes a look and says "I can't operate on this boy, he's my son" Both are not stepfathers, how can this be?
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Old 14-05-09, 11:09 AM   #92
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surgeon is a woman
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Old 14-05-09, 11:45 AM   #93
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surgeon is a woman
his mommy to be anal.
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Old 14-05-09, 04:04 PM   #94
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what do the following words have in common?

1. Banana
2. Dresser
3. Grammar
4. Potato
5. Revive
6. Uneven
7. Assess
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Old 14-05-09, 04:14 PM   #95
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what do the following words have in common?

1. Banana
2. Dresser
3. Grammar
4. Potato
5. Revive
6. Uneven
7. Assess
If you remove the first letter of each word, they become palindromes
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Old 14-05-09, 04:17 PM   #96
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If you remove the first letter of each word, they become palindromes
1/2 a point. yes they indeed do, but to have got a complete point you needed to show that remove the first letter from each word, place it at the end the words are then the same read backwards
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Old 14-05-09, 04:22 PM   #97
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1/2 a point. yes they indeed do, but to have got a complete point you needed to show that remove the first letter from each word, place it at the end the words are then the same read backwards
Yes... I thought that was what palindromes obviously do. read the same backwards and forwards I'm happy with half a pint.

Was it a rat i saw.
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Old 14-05-09, 04:29 PM   #98
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Yes... I thought that was what palindromes obviously do. read the same backwards and forwards I'm happy with half a pint.

Was it a rat i saw.
dont thinl ALL palindromes do that do they? you may be right, cant think of any that dont...but then again i've not thought too hard.

Abba. becomes bbaa...
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Old 14-05-09, 04:47 PM   #99
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dont thinl ALL palindromes do that do they? you may be right, cant think of any that dont...but then again i've not thought too hard.

Abba. becomes bbaa...
http://mw1.m-w.com/dictionary/palindrome

: a word, verse, or sentence (as “Able was I ere I saw Elba”) or a number (as 1881) that reads the same backward or forward

Ok next riddle

"I see without seeing. To me, darkness is as clear as daylight. What am I?"
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Old 14-05-09, 04:57 PM   #100
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"I see without seeing. To me, darkness is as clear as daylight. What am I?"
foresight?
a blind person?
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