A fishy accident
A naturist
and a humourist
discussed a fish
with an aquarist,
till a terrorist
of a motorist,
knocked all three down
in a swirling mist.
WHat do you get if you cross an arborist and an atheist? That popped into my head because of the “ist” endings but I don’t know an answer. Can you think of one? There’s a famous(ish) Australian cryptic crossword setter called David Astle. I heard him interviewed on a podcast. He was talking about riddles. Apparently Lewis Carroll had an unanswered riddle in Alice in Wonderland and his readers were furious. There has since been a good answer made up for it. LOL. I can’t remember the riddle or the newly made up answer. Another riddle he told was from one of the Batman movies. THe joker asked “There are three men on a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they get to smoke the cigarettes?” The answer was “They throw one cigarette overboard so the boat is a cigarette lighter.”
was he p?
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Oh yes! The final line remained unwrittenπ
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WHat do you get if you cross an arborist and an atheist? That popped into my head because of the “ist” endings but I don’t know an answer. Can you think of one? There’s a famous(ish) Australian cryptic crossword setter called David Astle. I heard him interviewed on a podcast. He was talking about riddles. Apparently Lewis Carroll had an unanswered riddle in Alice in Wonderland and his readers were furious. There has since been a good answer made up for it. LOL. I can’t remember the riddle or the newly made up answer. Another riddle he told was from one of the Batman movies. THe joker asked “There are three men on a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they get to smoke the cigarettes?” The answer was “They throw one cigarette overboard so the boat is a cigarette lighter.”
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If he was dyslexic, you’d have a tree farmer who didn’t believe in dogs! I loved the silly old joke about the lighter. π€£
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LOL.
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Carrollβs riddle was Why is a raven like a writing desk. π§
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Thank you, Misky. In Carroll’s day, they’d probably both need quills to function. π
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Stark raven crazy! π
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Stone the crows! π
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I wonder where that saying came from.
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π A crowophobe?
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That’s right! And the clever answer discussed online and reported by David Astle was “One is a rest for pens and the other is a pest for wrens.” π
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Clever clogs! π
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I suspect Iβm the odd one out on this – I think that answer is lame. πππ€£
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You don’t like a bit of spooner? What about (this is mine) one is bookish and teaky and the other rookish and beaky.
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That I like! Yes!
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That is very good, Worms. knew we could rely on you for a down-under perspective!
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Never follow the crowd. They don’t usually have a clue.π€£
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The visuals in this poem are like an animated movie π₯ well done!
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Hehehe! Ta!
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So clever ! Just an awesome read ππ
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