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Fun & Games

Fun & Games

From "Outside Jokes" book of wildlife cartoons
(Copyright: Betty C. Grace)


"Go ahead, but remember what happens
to the early worm ."

(Reprinted by permission of artist)

Editor's Note: Copies of the "Outside Jokes" book are on sale through:
The Nature Shop, Missouri Department of Conservation
P.O. Box 180, Jefferson City, MO 65102-018
or call toll free: 887-521-8632

Crossword Puzzles
When you have completed the puzzles, you can click here to find the answers!

Puzzle #1

Across Down

2. studies old cultures
3. digging sites
5. limits placed upon
7. maker of tools
8. an infection
9. branch of math

1. restore to health
4. highly energized
6. people from past


Puzzle #2

Across Down

1. make understandable
3. wind instrument
5. job, type of work
6. show how it works
8. make arts and crafts
9. not religious
10. in its first form

2. keep in production
4. form of dance
7. next generation


Puzzle #3

Across Down

1. game play
2. calls game action
6. before grade one
8. South American mammal

1. can be kept going
3. living close by
4. physical distortion
5. bounce the ball
7. roof of mouth


From book reviews

Across Down

1. to be sorry
5. for a short time
7. lived in
9. heavy cloth
10. interfere with

2. infrequent
3. a closing down
4. common birds
6. a magician
8. poor housing

 

Jokes

How about some "pay close attention" jokes?

Question: If a plane crashed on the border of England and Scotland, where would they bury the survivors?
     Answer: You don't bury survivors!

Question: David's father has three sons - Snap, Crackle, and _____?
     Answer: David, of course!

You are a bus driver. At the first stop four people get on. At the second stop eight people get on. At the third stop, two people get off. At the fourth stop, everybody gets off. The question is what color are the bus driver's eyes...
     The same as yours. Remember that you are the bus driver!

If the red house is on the right side and if the blue house is on the left side, where is the white house?
     Washington, D. C.!

If two's company and three's a crowd, what are four and five?
     Nine!

What is the best hand to write with?
     Neither - it's better to write with a pen!

Plays on words

When is a car not a car?
     When it turns into a garage!

How much do pirates pay for their earrings?
     A buccaneer!

How many ears did Davy Crockett have?
     Three - his left ear, his right ear, and the wild front ear!

Did you hear about the fifty-pound jellybean?
     It's pretty hard to swallow!

How did the soaking wet Easter Bunny dry himself?
     He used a hare dryer!

And, finally

Knock. Knock.
     Who's there?
Dewey.
     Dewey who?
Dewey have to keep telling knock knock jokes?

Knock, knock.
     Who's there?
Ocelot.
     Ocelot who?
Ocelot a questions, don't you?

Knock, knock.
     Who's there?
Olive.
     Olive who?
Olive just around the corner.

 

 


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