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Brother Rat

I’m the smallest of my kind, no doubt about that;
Compared to my brothers, I seem like a rat.

A blue face have I, a blue face, you know;
It’s awfully cold here, with poisonous snow.

My name came from a god, a god with great might;
Although you know of me, I’m way out of your sight.

What am I?

A science teacher told his after school class, “Whoever can get this egg into this smaller glass bottle will win no homework for a week! The rules are: the egg has to go into the bottle in one piece, and you can’t break the bottle. You can also use anything in the science lab. So, [...]

Lotta Bling

My rings tell such a story
Of years past with gracious glory
Where I live is where I stay
From that spot I cannot stray
From my home man taketh me
So they can erect another home, you see
Many others bore into my sides
These things that crawl and things that glide
I weep with beauty or stand with grace
Every year I [...]

Noisy Zombies

What makes more noise when it is dead than when it is alive?

Arrow Logic

Consider an arrow in flight towards a target.

At any given moment of time, a snapshot could be taken of this arrow. In this snapshot, the arrow would not be moving. Let us now take another snapshot, leaving a very small gap of time between them. Again, the arrow is stationary. We can keep taking snapshots [...]

A Valentine’s Day Love Story

A teenage boy smitten with a teenage girl in his high school freshman class makes his feelings known. Overjoyed at finding them reciprocated, he took a pen knife to a young hardwood tree in the vicinity and carved their initials within a heart five feet up on the tree’s trunk, as boys will do.
They go [...]

Feeling Groovy

Which is greater, the number of grooves on one side of a vinyl record (if you can remember them!) or the number of days in the year?

Tower of Power

I was on a road trip with a friend when we drove past a very tall radio tower. I told my friend “That thing has to be at least a thousand feet tall!” He looked out the window for a moment, and said “No, it’s actually about 1500 feet.” We stopped at a gas station [...]

Mice Twice Thrice

Mice are famous for their ability to multiply at breakneck speeds. The type of mouse we have here gives birth once a month, birthing 12 babies each time. Baby mice mature and can give birth two months after they are born.

You picked up one of these cute baby mice at the pet shop and brought [...]

The Elephant in the Room

This is a real story from “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” which happened in ancient China almost 2000 years ago:

One day, Sun Quan gave king Cao Cao an elephant as a present. Cao Cao was very pleased and he rushed to see the arrival of the elephant with his seven year old son and his [...]

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