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- Newspaper_riddle abstract "The newspaper riddle is a riddle joke or conundrum that begins with the question:Q: What is black and white and red all over?The traditional answer, which relies upon the identical pronunciation of the words "red" and "read", is:A: A newspaperBarrick believes this riddle to be "perhaps the most common example of a folk riddle collected in the United States in the twentieth century", pointing out that between 1917 and 1939 it appeared in 15 collections of folk riddles, and in a further six between 1939 and 1974.Alternative, mainly literal, answers to the riddle exist, that parody the canonical form of the riddle, including "an embarrassed zebra", "a sunburned skunk", "a chocolate sundae with ketchup on top", and "a crossword done in red ink". Portnoy describes these answers as "adequate, but not clever", because they lack the homophonic pun.".
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- Newspaper_riddle hypernym Joke.
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- Newspaper_riddle comment "The newspaper riddle is a riddle joke or conundrum that begins with the question:Q: What is black and white and red all over?The traditional answer, which relies upon the identical pronunciation of the words "red" and "read", is:A: A newspaperBarrick believes this riddle to be "perhaps the most common example of a folk riddle collected in the United States in the twentieth century", pointing out that between 1917 and 1939 it appeared in 15 collections of folk riddles, and in a further six between 1939 and 1974.Alternative, mainly literal, answers to the riddle exist, that parody the canonical form of the riddle, including "an embarrassed zebra", "a sunburned skunk", "a chocolate sundae with ketchup on top", and "a crossword done in red ink". ".
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