ESTONIAN DROODLES

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Question: A donkey is on the island. Around it there is water. The donkey knows, that tomorrow there will be a flood. How should the donkey act to survive? It wouldn’t be able to climb up the palm tree.
Answer: Even the donkey itself doesn’t know, what it has to do.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 14, 441 (5)
Location: Hps Haapsalu San Internaatk, 8. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: monkey
Question: How can a donkey get to the land?
Answer: The donkey didn't know either.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 14, 408 (39)
Location: Trt Haapsalu San Internaatk, 8. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: monkey
Question: On one sea there is a solitary island, around which there is a very thick forest. In the middle of the forest there is a meadow, where a donkey is grazing. Suddenly the forest gets on fire everywhere and already the fire threatens also the donkey. It cannot run through the forest to the sea and the grass is so dry that the fire spreads around quite fast. What will the donkey do?
Answer: To this riddle the usual answer is that I don't know. The answer: The donkey doesn't know either. (This is like hint that the ignorant is the donkey.)
Archive reference: RKM, KP 2, 635 (12)
Location: Nrv Narva Eesti Kk, 12. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: monkey