A man who lived on the twelfth floor of a high-rise building took the lift to the ground floor each day to go to work. When he returned in the evening, he took the lift to the eighth floor then walked up the stairs to reach his flat. He hated walking, so why did he do it?, The man is very short. He can only reach up high enough to press the button for the eighth floor., An old man who lived all alone went to bed with a terrible headache. Waking up in the middle of the night, he got up and took some aspirins, and switched off the light before going back to bed. In the morning, he switched on the radio. A boat had crashed into rocks, and hundreds of people had drowned. The old man held his head in his hands and burst into tears. Why was he so upset?, The man was lighthouse keeper. He accidentally switched off the lighthouse light!, A woman decided to ride to London on her horse. She went on Friday and came back on Friday, but she only spent two days in London. How could she have done that?, The woman’s horse is called Friday., Napoleon and Josephine are lying dead on the floor in a pool of water in the living room. A small window is open, which is too narrow for a person to climb through, but there are footprints on the white rug. How might Napoleon and Josephine have died?, Napoleon and Josephine are goldfish in a bowl. A cat has climbed in through the window, and taken them out of the bowl., A man and his son were in a terrible car accident. The man died on the way to the hospital, but the boy was rushed into surgery. However, on seeing the boy, lying on the operating table, the surgeon broke down in tears, and said, 'I can't operate on this boy — he's my son!' How could this be possible?, The surgeon is the boy’s mother., One day, a man walked into a restaurant that he had never been to before, and sat down at a table. The waiter, who had never seen the man before, walked up to the table, and said, 'Good evening, General.' Why did the waiter call the man 'General'?, The man was wearing the uniform of a general., A thief, dressed all in black, and wearing a black face mask and black gloves, jumped out of a window and ran across a road to escape. There was no moon in the sky, and no streetlights were on, and, at that very moment, a car, with no headlights on, came around the corner at speed, heading straight towards the thief. The driver, however, saw the thief and was able to avoid him quite easily. How was that possible?, It was two o’clock on a sunny afternoon., A plane crashes in the desert on the border between Mexico and the United States. Everybody on board is European. Rescuers race to the scene. When they get there, where do you think they might decide to bury the survivors?, Nowhere – you don’t bury survivors, only dead people..

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