1. Zero. Pigs can’t talk.
2. 1,984 pennies is just 16 cents less than $20.
3. Tom’s father is 40 and his grandfather, on his mother’s side, is 46. The grandfather was 20 when Tom’s mother was born and she was 16 when Tom was born. Tom is now 10.
4. He was on a bridge and ran to the nearest end of the bridge.
5. 20 minutes.
6. The big Indian was his mother.
7. "mispelled."
8. He was bald.
9. 12.
10. She is a midget and can only reach as high as the 6th floor button.
11. Her ring fell in a can of ground coffee.
12. He had put sugar in the coffee before he saw the fly. When he tasted the returned coffee, it was already sweetened.
13. It hadn’t dissolved the bottle it was in.
14. They are triplets.
15. The parrot was deaf.

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