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Puzzles for week of January 19-23, 2009.

Posted Monday, January 19, 2009, at 11:25 AM

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THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT ANSWERS TO THE RIDDLES MAY BE POSTED IN THE COMMENT SECTION. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW ANSWERS, PLEASE DON'T READ COMMENT SECTION. I WILL POST ANSWERS ON FRIDAY.

Happy Monday to everyone. Hope you had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed the sunshine while it was out! Lets start this week off on a cheerful note. I know Mondays can be very humdrum sometimes, but with a positive attitude we can make it through another week and enjoy the weekend AGAIN! So enough said about Mondays...let's get some puzzles started. Enjoy them and don't forget to take time to relax and enjoy the week a bit! See you on Friday with answers to this weeks puzzles.

BRAIN TEASER:

What word in the English language, when written in all capital letters, is the same forward, backward and upside down?

RIDDLES:

1. What is round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, and still the oceans couldn't fill it up?

2. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

3. What goes round and round the wood but never goes into the wood?

4. I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall.

5. A cloud was my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place, and I'm the torment of man.

6. A white dove flew down by the castle. Along came a king and picked it up handless, ate it up toothless, and carried it away wingless.

SAY WHAT YOU SEE: (Pic on top right side of blog)

A Little Trivia Puzzle. Which of the following were not dances in the '60s?

1. The Frug

2. The Watusi

3. The Twist

4. The Mashed Potato

5. The Swim

6. The Shaggy Dog

7. The Monkey

8. The Jerk

9. The Skate

Happy Friday to all! Hope your week was productive and filled with a bit of fun. Now...here are the answers to this weeks blog.

BRAIN TEASER ANSWER: NOON

RIDDLE ANSWERS:
1. A Sieve
2. Footsteps
3. The bark of a tree
4. A chicken in an egg
5. Rain
6. Snow melted by the sun.

SAY WHAT YOU SEE ANSWER: Read between the lines

TRIVIA PUZZLE ANSWER: All of these WERE dances in the 60s.

Have a great weekend and I will see you on Monday with more fun!



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Betty is a single parent of two young adults. She is a former graphic designer for The Marshall Democrat-News and enjoys drawing, painting, nature and the arts. With the internet being a vast informational tool, please don't cheat when solving for the answers. Just have fun and enjoy!
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