- They serve it food, it stands on four feet, but it can't eat.
- I enter white, I come out mulatto.
- Three very large men are standing under a single little umbrella. But, not one of them gets wet. Why?
- When I sit, I am taller than when I stand.
- How many coconuts can you put into an empty sack?
The answers are under the fold...
Ou bwa seche? (You give up?) The answers are:
- A table.
- Bread.
- It's not raining.
- A dog.
- Only one. After that the sack's not empty.
You'll find more Haitian riddles and proverbs here.
Technically, you could put as many as you could fit at one time into a sack. The answer’s only one if you put the coconuts in sequentially, not simultaneously.
And I don’t understand the mulatto one?
“When I sit, I am taller than when I stand.”
Aren’t dogs the same height, sitting and standing?
I think the table one loses something in the translation.
Obviously, the average Haitian is more clever than the average commenter here.
Good grief…
you’re 14.28% of the problem philosophking
I got them all, except I used Mick H’s interpretation on 2, and number 4 was “a tennis umpire”
Obviously, the average Haitian is more clever than the average commenter here.
Good grief…
Thats the point. Common people around the world are smart. enough. But bad institutions ,or the lack of , distorting incentives beside bad luck ( earthquakes , tsunamis, floods) sink them into poverty.
yes , another country could answer better to an earthquake but 7 points …
I’ve never commented on this blog but I’ve been a reader via RSS feed for some time now.
They were good riddles. I love the blog but after today I won’t be coming back to read the comments.
dogs necks point forward when standing, they point up when sitting
Why do Haitians only eat one egg? Because un oeuf is enough.
I’ve never commented on this blog but I’ve been a reader via RSS feed for some time now.
They were good riddles. I love the blog but after today I won’t be coming back to read the comments
2. I thought it would be milk in coffee
“Ou bwa seche?”
What is the French equivalent to this? “Ou” is clearly from “vouz,” but what about “bwa” and “seche”? Is the latter “dry”?
This seems like a barely disguised attempt to distract from the fact that the average haitian IQ is 75.
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