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Riddle: Only one color, but not one size, Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies. Present in sun, but not in rain, Doing no harm, and feeling no pain. What is it?
Answer: It's a shadow!
Riddle: I'm not clothes but I cover your body; The more I'm used, the thinner I grow. What am I?
Answer: Bar of soap.

Death Of A Relative

ROD: 01-25-2026

Riddle: What animal is most likely to eat a relative?
Answer: An ant-eater!
Riddle: Why do chickens lay eggs?
Answer: Because if they drop them, they will break.
Riddle: Some try to hide, and some try to cheat, but time will show, and we always will meet. Try as you might, to guess my name, I promise you'll know when you I do claim. Who am I?
Answer: Death.
Riddle: I have no voice and yet I speak to you, I tell of all things in the world that people do. I have leaves, but I am not a tree, I have pages, but I am not a bride or royalty. I have a spine and hinges, but I am not a man or a door, I have told you all, I cannot tell you more. What am I?
Answer: A Book.
Riddle: A black dog stands in the middle of an intersection in a town painted black. None of the street lights are working due to a power failure caused by a storm. A car with two broken headlights drives towards the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him. How could the driver have seen the dog in time?
Answer: Who said this happened during the night?
Riddle: Who can shave three times a day and still grow a beard?
Answer: A barber. He could shave other men three times a day and still grow his own beard.
Riddle: I am a 5-letter word. Take away the first letter and I am a place's name. Take away the first two letters and I become the opposite of the 5 letter word. What am I?
Answer: Woman, oman, man.
Riddle: A pet shop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said "Parrot repeats everything it hears". Davey bought the parrot and for two weeks he spoke to it and it didn't say a word. He returned the parrot but the shopkeeper said he never lied about the parrot. How can this be?
Answer: The parrot was deaf.

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