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02 January 2008

"Q: What do you get if you cross a cow, a sheep, and a goat?" "A: A milky baa kid."→[More:]

I found that riddle inside the New Year's cracker that I popped open last night, along with an orange tissue crown and a small plastic frog. I was able to fit the crown onto my head by tearing it a bit, and I could make the frog jump by depressing a tab on its rear, but I could not. get anything. out of that damnable joke.

Milky baa kid? What the hell?

If anyone could share some insight into this little koan, I would be infinitely obliged.

post by: Iridic at: 14:30 | 10 comments

(As a little sidebar: Here are some of the other riddles that fell out of my family's favors last night.)

Q. What happened to the man who didn't know the difference between putty and toothpaste?
A. All his windows fell out.

Q. What is yellow and white and goes down a train track at 100 miles an hour?
A. A train driver's egg sandwich.

Q. Why don't elephants like penguins?
A. They can't get the wrappers off.

Q. When do spare parts from Japanese cars start falling out of the sky?
A. When it's raining Datsun cogs.

posted by Iridic 02 January | 14:31

Hahaha! We got the same riddle and we couldn't figure it out either!

posted by crush-onastick 02 January | 14:35

Milky - cows produce milk
baa - sheep go baa
kid - young goats are kids

Milky bar kid.

posted by matthewr 02 January | 14:36

The Milky Bar Kid.

posted by essexjan 02 January | 14:41

Thanks guys! I was completely ignorant of the strong and tough kid. Serves me right for being a Yank.

I don't suppose the elephant/penguin riddle also references a Commonwealth candy?

posted by Iridic 02 January | 14:49

It does indeed. One of the tastier ones, actually.

posted by matthewr 02 January | 14:57

I don't suppose the elephant/penguin riddle also references a Commonwealth candy?

Actually, it does. Well, a chocolate biscuit anyway.

posted by essexjan 02 January | 14:57

Do they still sell cars under the Datsun name in the UK? Nissan hasn't used that name in the states in 25 years. Or were those antique crackers?

posted by octothorpe 02 January | 15:20

They're all Nissan now. They stopped using the Datsun name in 1983.

posted by essexjan 02 January | 15:35

pure awesomeness (with very minor Penguin Biscuits reference in).

posted by lonefrontranger 02 January | 16:43

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