First instance of: “No Shit; All Sherlock”
Warm Up Riddles
I am tall when young and short when old. What am I?
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A candle.
I stink while living, but smell good when dead. What am I?
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A (cooked) pig.
If you lose me, you may cause people around you to lose me too. What am I?
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Your temper.
Main Riddles
A child is born in Boston, Massachusetts, to parents who were both born in Boston, Massachusetts. The child is not a citizen of the United States; how is this possible?
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The child was born before the Revolutionary War.
A father was speaking to his teenage daughter: “You arrived very late, at 3 o’clock in the morning, and you kept your mother and I up waiting anxiously for you. I do not want that to ever happen again.” “But father!” the teenage girl replied, “I will not be able to ever do that again!” What did she mean?
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The father is a robot. No, they had been talking about the girl’s birth.
A shepherd went out into the wilderness in search of 1 lost sheep, rather than looking for the 99 that had returned. Why did he do this?
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The 99 were female, and the 1 was male. He was “concerned” about the long-term health of the herd.
Listener Submitted Riddles
I am loved by a monster, and the best thing to put into me is your teeth. What am I?
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Cookies.
[from Producer, KJ]