PUZZLES: THE MISSING DOLLAR

The Missing Dollar

Three students checked into a hotel and paid the clerk $30 for a room ($10 each). When the hotel manager returned, he noticed that the clerk had incorrectly charged $30 instead of $25 for the room. The manager told the clerk to return $5 to the students. The clerk, knowing that the students would not be able to divide $5 evenly, decided to keep $2 and to give them only $3.

The students were very happy because they paid only $27 for the room ($9 each). However, if they paid $27 and the clerk kept $2, that adds up to $29.

What happened to the other Dollar?

WORDPUZZLE: ENGLISH is FUN

 

Daddy Fell into the pond!

Famous Funny Poem by Alfred Noyes

Everyone grumbled. The sky was grey.
We had nothing to do and nothing to say.
We were nearing the end of a dismal day,
And then there seemed to be nothing beyond,
Then
Daddy fell into the pond!

And everyone’s face grew merry and bright,
And Timothy danced for sheer delight.
“Give me the camera, quick, oh quick!
He’s crawling out of the duckweed!” Click!

Then the gardener suddenly slapped his knee,
And doubled up, shaking silently,
And the ducks all quacked as if they were daft,
And it sounded as if the old drake laughed.
Oh, there wasn’t a thing that didn’t respond
When
Daddy Fell into the pond!

FUNNY LIMERICKS

A limerick fan from Australia

regarded his work as a failure:

his verses were fine

until the fourth line

?

 

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A gourmet dining at Crewe

Found a rather large mouse in his stew.

     Said the waiter, “Don’t shout

     And wave it about,

Or the rest will be wanting one, too.”

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Said an ape as he swung by his tail,

To his offspring both female and male,

  “From your offspring, my dears,

  In a couple of years,

May evolve a professor at Yale.”

 

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There was a young lady named Rose

Who had a large wart on her nose.

  When she had it removed

  Her appearance improved,

But her glasses slipped down to her toes.
 

 

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An elderly man called Keith

Mislaid his set of false teeth -

  They’d been laid on a chair,

He’d forgot they were there,

Sat down, and was bitten beneath.

 

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QUOTES by SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

 

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

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There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

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Sir Winston Churchill

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