Riddles

[Schiehallion]

Who let's Norah see Sharon's telegram?

Marge?

Spot on!

[duck]

This is a most unusual paragraph. This writing may annoy you until you find out why it is so unusual, for you won't find a solution instantly. But don't go into a tailspin about it or go crazy, for it isn't that difficult. But you will admit that it is most unusual. This writing looks so ordinary that you might think that nothing is wrong with it. And, in fact, nothing is wrong with it. But it is unusual, and you must ask why. If you study and think about it, you may find out why, but you must do it without any coaching of any kind. No doubt if you work at it for long, it will dawn on you...who knows?

[Schiehallion]

This is a most unusual paragraph. This writing may annoy you until you find out why it is so unusual, for you won't find a solution instantly. But don't go into a tailspin about it or go crazy, for it isn't that difficult. But you will admit that it is most unusual. This writing looks so ordinary that you might think that nothing is wrong with it. And, in fact, nothing is wrong with it. But it is unusual, and you must ask why. If you study and think about it, you may find out why, but you must do it without any coaching of any kind. No doubt if you work at it for long, it will dawn on you...who knows?

There is no 'the'

[duck]

Schiehallion wrote

There is no 'the'

mmmm.............that's true, but it's not actually "it"

[nuttytigger]

there is no letter "e"

[duck]

nuttytigger wrote

there is no letter "e"

Well done!!
Another one and then I'd better get back to work!!

A man gets up in the middle of the night for a pee. When's he done he switches the light off and goes back to bed. The next morning he looks out the window, screams and kills himself.
Why?

[nuttytigger]

he peed on the wire? and looks out the window and gets eltrocuted?

[AlanM]

He's a lighthouse keeper and a great big boat has crashed on the rocks because he turned the light off!

[duck]

Too clever by half AlanM!!!
I'll need to dig out some juicier ones- how about

The music stopped - she died.

Why?????

[nuttytigger]

she was on of those wee figures in a music box

close the lid, she stops moving

[duck]

Sorry Tiggs, she was real!

[Tamandee]

A father and son were involved in a car accident. They were both taken to hospital. The father was released and sent home. The son had to have an operation. The surgeon, on seeing the boy on the operating table said: "I never thought I would be operating on my son tonight."
What is the relationship of the surgeon to the boy on the operating table?

[cheesylion]

He IS the boys father. Although it was a father and son involved in the accident they were not each others father and son.

[Tamandee]

Sorry Cheesylion, but no.

[duck]

The surgeon was his mother