OT: Riddles from books older than the internet

[Bo Lindbergh]

"Why is Q the most-loved letter in the English language? Because it's followed everywhere by U! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
--Lisa, in the alternate universe where Internet memes have been replaced by 30-year-old riddle books

Q: What is the longest word in the English language?
A: "Smiles", because there's a "mile" between the first and the last letters!

[retrophrenologist]

Q; Why was 6 scared?
A: Because 7 8 9!

HAHAHA OH MY SIDES

[Zanosuke Kurosaki]

Q: Why did the chicken cross the playground?
A: To get to the other slide.

[Ozaline]

Q: Box without hinges, key, or a lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. What am I?

A: An Egg

from the Hobbit

[Captain LeBubbles]

Q: Box without hinges, key, or a lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. What am I?

A: An Egg

from the Hobbit

What does it have in its pockets? (I'm hilarious)

Q. Why did the elephant sit on the marshmallow?
A. To keep from falling in the cocoa.

[svenman]

Can I join?

Q: What is the best way to catch a squirrel?
A: Sit in a tree and act like a nut.

[Ameyal]

Why is a raven like a writing desk?
Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front!

[Louisa]

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Edgar Allan Poe wrote on both.

[Lia S]

Q: How do you get two whales in a Mini?
A: Along the M4 and across the Severn Bridge.

[Doc Harleen]

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Edgar Allan Poe wrote on both.

Your clever wordplay makes me very happy!

Q: When is a door not a door?
A: When it is ajar.

[Alice Macher]

Q: What has four wheels and flies?
A: A garbage truck.

[Louisa]

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Edgar Allan Poe wrote on both.

Your clever wordplay makes me very happy!

Thank you, but I should admit I didn't come up with the wordplay in question. I stole it from a Jasper Fforde novel.

[Captain LeBubbles]

Q. What time is it when an elephant sits on your fence?
A. Time to get a new fence.

[svenman]

Q: Why do elephants paint their toenails red?
A: For camouflage when they hide in a cherry tree.

What, you've never seen an elephant in a cherry tree? Just proves how well it works, doesn't it?

[Captain LeBubbles]

Q: Why do elephants paint their toenails red?
A: For camouflage when they hide in a cherry tree.

What, you've never seen an elephant hide in a cherry tree? Just proves how well it works, doesn't it?

I'm a little embarrassed at how hard I laughed at that.

Q: How do you get down off an elephant?
A: You don't get down off an elephant, you get down off a duck.

(Why are all of my jokes about elephants?)