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An old fashioned bike wheel has 21 spokes. How many spaces are between the spokes - 20, 21, or 22?
Answer: 21; draw it and count them. 

Where did Pilgrims land when they arrived in America?
Answer: On their feet. 

Who succeeded the first President?
Answer: The second one! 

When is the best time to have lunch?
Answer: After breakfast! 

When should you strike a match?
Answer: Only when it becomes violent.

What makes a man bald-headed?
Answer: Lack of hair.

What always ends everything?
Answer: The letter "g."

What is it that one needs most in the long run?
Answer: Your breath.

What animal keeps the best time?
Answer: A watchdog.

Why should you always carry a watch when crossing a desert?
Answer: Because it has a spring in it.

A man went on a trip on Friday, stayed for 2 days and returned on Friday.  How is that possible?
Answer: Friday is a horse!

What has 4 wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck!

How do you make a Venetian blind?
Answer: Poke him in the eye!

How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
Answer: Practice, practice, practice!

Think fast: There's an electric train traveling south. The wind is from the north-west. In which direction would the smoke from the train be blowing?
Answer: An electric train has no smoke!

What is the second most used letter in the English language?  Hint: it is also the first letter of the most used word in the English language.
Answer: The letter "T."

How can you avoid hitting your fingers when driving in a nail with a hammer?
Answer: Hold the hammer with both hands.

Why did the bubble gum cross the road?
Answer: It was stuck on the bottom of the chicken's foot.

What walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs in the afternoon, and 3 legs in the evening?
Answer: A man - crawls as a baby, then walks on 2 feet, then uses a cane (3 legs) as an old man.

What 5 letter word can have its last 4 letters removed and still sound the same?
Answer: QUEUE, remove "UEUE", say Q. Q and queue are pronounced the same.

If you see a bird sitting on a twig, how could you get the twig without disturbing the bird?
Answer: Wait until the bird flies away.

When is a yellow dog most likely to enter a house?
Answer: When the door is open.

What has a head like a cat, feet like a cat, a tail like a cat, but isn't a cat?
Answer: A kitten.

When is a doctor most annoyed?
Answer: When he is out of "patients."

Why isn't your nose twelve inches long?
Answer: Because it would then be a foot.

What has five eyes, but cannot see?
Answer: The Mississippi River.

What is it that by losing an eye has nothing left but a nose?
Answer: The word NOISE.

What has a foot on each end and one in the middle?
Answer: A yardstick.

Which one of our Presidents had the largest shoes?
Answer: The president with the largest feet.

Some months have thirty days and some months have thirty-one days.  How many months have twenty-eight days?
Answer: All twelve months have 28 days. Some have more as well.