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1) Where is the world-famous Spanish Riding School located?

2) What animal is used in the manufacture of catgut?

3) What do US folk do on a parkway? A driveway?

4) What vehicle carries cargo? What carries shipments?

5) What color is Mars to an artist?

6) When does 'fat' and 'slim' mean exactly the same thing?

7) When does 'up' and 'down' mean exactly the same thing?

8) What is the significance of 'Three Musketeers' as the name of a US candy bar?

9) Why can a dog wolf its food, but a cat can't tiger its?

10) What do you do when you foot the bill?

11) How are cats and dogs alike?

12) How many inchworms fit on a yardstick?


1) Vienna, Austria
2) Generally sheep/goats. Never cats.
3) Drive. Park.
4) Ships. Cars (trucks, mostly).
5) Black. (It's a paint color).
6) Fat chance and slim chance are identical.
7) Slowing up and slowing down are identical.
8) Originally it was packaged as 3 small bars, one chocolate, one strawberry and one vanilla flavored.
9) Because the best a cat can do is claim the lion's share.
10) Handle it.
11) They both have canine teeth.
12) It depends on how large the sticks are in your yard.

Date: 2007-04-30 03:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] linda-joyce.livejournal.com
It depends on how large the sticks are in your yard.
And how big your inchworm is.
5 and 8 were my puzlements.

Date: 2007-04-30 05:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] entropy-house.livejournal.com
A lot of these things make sense if you go back in history, but not all of them.

Date: 2007-04-30 03:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snowgrouse.livejournal.com
I only knew 1, 2 and 4, and would've added trains to 4, since my dad works with the cargo department...

Date: 2007-04-30 05:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] entropy-house.livejournal.com
Ah, but trains wouldn't have been punny. :^)

Date: 2007-04-30 05:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] executrix.livejournal.com
Bwahaha, but surely it's mars VIOLET?

Date: 2007-04-30 05:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] entropy-house.livejournal.com
Mars bars are mostly brown. And the rain in Spain stays mainly in the plaiiiiiin. :^)

I woke up silly, and it hasn't receded yet.
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