School: Cnoc na Sná (B.), Mainistir na Féile (roll number 12368)
- Location:
- Knocknasna, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Conchobhair
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- 14 What kind of tea makes ones head the lightest?
Insanity.
15 What is the difference between sixteen ounces of tea and a girl using a typewriter? One weighs a pound and the other pounds away.
16 Why was Adam a good runner? Because he was the first in the human race.
17 Why is a policeman like an aeroplane?
They both take people up.
18 What is the difference between a bankrupt and a feather bed? One is hard up and the other is soft down.- Collector
- Denis Leahy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crataloe East, Co. Limerick
- 19 What comes twice in a moment, once in a month and never in a thousand years?
The letter m. 20 What turns without moving?
Milk21 'Tis black, 'tis white and 'tis read all over?
A newspaper. 22 Why is the letter I the happiest of all letters?
Because 'tis in the middle of bliss. 23 What can you fill a barrel with and still can't make it heavier? Holes. 24 What goes from Cork to Dublin without moving?
The road. - 25 Why does the cow look over the ditch? Because he can't look under it.(continues on next page)