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Jane Diaz
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What common English word is 9 letters long but each time you remove a letter it still remains a word, all the way down to a single remaining letter? [Confused]
Try it and I will give the answer later....

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Jane Diaz
Diaz Sign Art
628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764
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Nevman
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Startling -

Starting
Staring
String
Sing
Sin
In
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Pat Neve, Jr.
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Jane Diaz
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DING,DING,DING!! We HAVE a winner!! [Applause]
Does anybody else have a good puzzle/brain teaser?

[ September 18, 2007, 11:07 AM: Message edited by: Jane Diaz ]

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Jane Diaz
Diaz Sign Art
628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764
815-844-7024
www.diazsignart.com
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Ben Diaz
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Two coins equal $.30
One of them is not a nickel.

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Ben Diaz
Diaz Sign Art
628 W Lincoln Ave
www.diazsignart.com < basic site
www.diazsignart.net < flash site
muralmuseum.com < International Walldog Mural & Sign Art Museum
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Graham Parsons
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Yes, but the other one is.. [Wink]

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Graham Parsons
Signs 'n Such Ltd
Swift Current
Saskatchewan
Canada.
www.signsnsuch.com

"Saskatchewan - hard to pronounce, easy to draw"
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Wayne Webb
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quote:
Originally posted by Ben Diaz:
.....One of them is not a nickel.
.......but the other is

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Wayne Webb
Webb Signworks
Chipley, FL
850.638.9329
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Nevman
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I cheated...

snopes.com

[Eek!] [Eek!] [Eek!]

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Pat Neve, Jr.
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Jane Diaz
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Thirty lashes with a wet noodle, Pat!! Bad, Pat! [Wink]
Your punishment is to come up with a better puzzle!

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Jane Diaz
Diaz Sign Art
628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764
815-844-7024
www.diazsignart.com
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Nevman
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Okay...Okay..

Here's one...

A car's odometer shows 72927 miles, a palindromic number. What are the minimum miles you would need to travel to form another palindromic number?

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Pat Neve, Jr.
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Si Allen
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8991 ?

[ September 18, 2007, 06:57 PM: Message edited by: Si Allen ]

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Si Allen #562
La Mirada, CA. USA

(714) 521-4810

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siallen@dslextreme.com

"SignPainters do It with Longer Strokes!"

Never mess with your profile while in a drunken stupor!!!

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Mark Matyjakowski
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110

73037

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Compulsive, Neurotic, Anti-social and Paranoid ... but basically Happy
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Ray Rheaume
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What word has 3 consecutive double letters?

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Ray Rheaume
Rapidfire Design
543 Brushwood Road
North Haverhill, NH 03774
rapidfiredesign@hotmail.com
603-787-6803

I like my paint shaken, not stirred.
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Laura Butler
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Bookkeeping

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Laura Butler
Vision Graphics & Sign
4479 Welch Rd
Attica, Mi 48412
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Chuck Churchill
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Subbookkeeper has 4 consecutive double letters.

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Chuck Churchill,
It's A Good Sign Inc.
3245 Harvester Rd, U-12
Burlington, Ont.
Phone: 905-681-8775
Fax: 905-681-8945
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Ray Rheaume
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sweettooth

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Ray Rheaume
Rapidfire Design
543 Brushwood Road
North Haverhill, NH 03774
rapidfiredesign@hotmail.com
603-787-6803

I like my paint shaken, not stirred.
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Nevman
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What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?

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Pat Neve, Jr.
321-537-8675
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Frank Droog
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charcoal?

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Frank Droog
SignLab
programmer
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charcoal?

[ September 19, 2007, 09:55 AM: Message edited by: Frank Droog ]

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Frank Droog
SignLab
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Nevman
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Yep - Charcoal

What is it that when you take away the whole, you still have some left over?

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Pat Neve, Jr.
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wholesome ?

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Frank Droog
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Nevman
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You're good Frank...

What can go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up?

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Pat Neve, Jr.
321-537-8675
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An umbrella!

..A man lies dead in a field- but 10 feet away from his body lies something which might have saved his life..What is it?

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Wayne Osborne signs
Midhurst W.Sussex U.K
www.osbornesigns.co.uk

"When happiness shows up always give it a comfortable seat"
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Guesses...

Storm Cellar
Bullet-proof jacket
Fox hole
Defibulator
Dead doctor
His murderer
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I think I got it...Parachute!!!

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Pat Neve, Jr.
321-537-8675
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Dana Blair
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What is it that gets wetter as it dries?

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Dana Blair
Blair Signs
Wooster, OH
www.blairsigns.com

If sign makers go on strike, is there anything written on their picket signs?
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Dawud Shaheed
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a towel

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Dawud Shaheed
Sign Scientist
Durham (triangle area) N.C
919 685 7641
signscientist@aol.com
www.signscientist.com
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Jon Jantz
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Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty sdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

Edited for spelling.....

[ September 21, 2007, 02:26 AM: Message edited by: Jon Jantz ]

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Jon Jantz
Snappysign.com
jjantz21@gmail.com
http://www.allcw.com
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Murray MacDonald
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What word possesses more s's than possesses possesses?
MUR

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Murray MacDonald
OldTime Signs
529 Third Ave S
Kenora, ON.
P9N 1Y3
oldtimesigns@gokenora.com
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