ESTONIAN DROODLES

7 variants

Question: How can a gammer/a mole (i.e. a pun) get across the river?
Answer: A gammer/mole (i.e. a pun, since a gammer and a mole are expressed by the same word in Estonian) digs the hole from under the ground over the river.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 14, 420 (3)
Location: Hps Haapsalu Sanat Internaatk, 8. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: mole across the river
Question: How can a gammer/a mole (i.e. a pun) get to the shop, if there is a steep trench on the way, that is full of water and she cannot swim?
Answer: A gammer or a mole (i.e. a pun, since a gammer and a mole are expressed by the same word in Estonian) digs a hole very deep through the ground.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 14, 429 (3)
Location: Vll Haapsalu Sanat Internaatk, 8. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: mole across the river
Question: Here a gammer/a mole (i.e. a pun) is standing. Ahead is a steep and wide river. How can she go to the shop the in the quickest way?
Answer: Makes a tunnel from under the river.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 14, 212 (7)
Location: Tln Haapsalu Sanat Internaatk, 7. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: mole across the river
Question: Along a railway track a train is running really fast. How can a gamer/a mole (i.e. a pun) get across the railway track?
Answer: From under the ground, because it is a gammer/mole (i.e. a pun, since a gammer and a mole are expressed by the same word in Estonian)
Archive reference: RKM, KP 14, 100 (4)
Location: Hps Haapsalu Sanat Internaatk, 5. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: mole across the river
Question: A train is running all the time. A gammer/a mole (i.e. a pun) is there in the middle, how can she get out?
Answer: Goes through the ground under the railway.
Archive reference: EFA II 8, 16 (3)
Location: Tln Pääsküla Kk, 6. kl
Date: 1994
Subject: mole across the river
Question: A gammer/a mole (i.e. a pun) is in prison. Everywhere around the walls there are guards. How can the gammer/a mole get out?
Answer: Digs itself through, because it was not meant particularly an old gammer (but a mole – i.e. a pun, since a gammer and a mole are expressed by the same word in Estonian)
Archive reference: RKM, KP 24, 38 (4)
Location: Vln Viljandi 4. Kk, 10. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: mole across the river
Question: How can a gammer get to the other side of the railway track?
Answer: Digs.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 20, 352 (4)
Location: Han, Virtsu Virtsu Pk, 6. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: mole across the river