A funny little ditty

[cnydc]

My father used to pose this to me as a youngster:

"If a chicken and a-half can lay an egg and a-half in a day and a-half, how long will it take a grasshopper with a wooden leg to kick all of the seeds out of a dill pickle?"

If anyone else has ever heard of this or a variation thereof, I would be very interested to know!

And by the way, I don't believe there really is an answer...

[Ethel]

half a day per half seed, except on every half-hour at which time his average speed is cut in half momentarily.

[maxximus]

it would depend on whether his wooden leg was his kicking leg or not and possibly his boot size.

[caz21]

Does your dad make up the Pizza Hut questions about the lady in the purple hat and the meerkat too? ;o)

[jasperthomas]

try a christmas cracker!!!!

[Kingaroo]

Yes, I've heard it, don't know where though. I grew up in the eastern US.

[avern]

"If a hen and a half

takes a day and a half

to lay an egg and a half,

how long will it take a rooster

to hatch a brass doorknob?"

....that's what I remember from my childhood.

[hempsall]

my dad used to say " if a hen & a half laid an egg & a half in a day & a half how long would it take 6 hens to lay 6 eggs". I still can't remember what the answer was.

[doglady]

It would take a day. Each chicken lays an egg a day. Half a chicken lays half an egg, so six chickens would lay one egg each a day.