From: danny@westford.ccur.com Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: Lateral Thinking Puzzles Revisited Date: 19 Aug 90 23:30:04 GMT

In article 5522@uwm.edu bnk@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Bob N Keenan) writes:

Scene: There is a dead man in a garage surrounded by >51<
bicycles and an over turned table. What happend?
[Answer: The bicycles were playing cards and a fight ensued after
cheating was discovered. ]

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Other classics:

Scene: A man is found dead in a locked room in a puddle of water.
Answer: The poor guy died of starvation; the room was locked, right?

The water? Oh, the roof leaked.

Scene: A man gets out of bed, and kills himself. Answer: The man was a midget for the circus, and had just gotten fed up with his bleak and demeaning lifestyle.

Scene: There is a dead man in a cage surrounded by 51 cats, an overturned table, and an empty gun. What happened? Answer: A depressed midget switched blanks for the live ammo in the lion tamer's gun.

Scene: A man goes into a restaurant and orders some albatross. After some delay, the food arrives. He takes a taste, and then kills himself. Why? Answer: Obviously a whacko. I mean, who orders ALBATROSS in a restaurant?! I say "good riddance to bad garbage!" –