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Miss Molly Mule
"I don't understand, Doc," complained Benny Jackson, a man who dedicates his life to trying to impress women, but has yet to succeed.
"What happened this time?" Doc Jim asked as he sat down beside the troubled youth.
"You know Samantha Wilcox? Her father owns several prize horses and has won countless racing medals with them, so Samantha won't look at a guy twice unless he's got a heart bigger for animals than himself. I thought I had my story down right. Will you tell me where I went wrong?"
"Sure, what'd you tell her?"
"A few years back I decided I'd take my mule, Miss Molly, out with me to go gold mining. Several months went by and I found nothing, but I kept looking. One day, I struck the motherlode. It was cold, miserable weather, and Miss Molly wasn't feeling too good. So, instead of gettin' all that gold I found, I stayed with her for weeks. Poor girl was pregnant, and after a few months of waiting and nursing, she gave birth to a healthy baby. I didn't get the gold, I just brought the two home."
"Well, Ben, You're just lucky she didn't throw you out a window with a story like that!"
What was Benny's mistake?
"What happened this time?" Doc Jim asked as he sat down beside the troubled youth.
"You know Samantha Wilcox? Her father owns several prize horses and has won countless racing medals with them, so Samantha won't look at a guy twice unless he's got a heart bigger for animals than himself. I thought I had my story down right. Will you tell me where I went wrong?"
"Sure, what'd you tell her?"
"A few years back I decided I'd take my mule, Miss Molly, out with me to go gold mining. Several months went by and I found nothing, but I kept looking. One day, I struck the motherlode. It was cold, miserable weather, and Miss Molly wasn't feeling too good. So, instead of gettin' all that gold I found, I stayed with her for weeks. Poor girl was pregnant, and after a few months of waiting and nursing, she gave birth to a healthy baby. I didn't get the gold, I just brought the two home."
"Well, Ben, You're just lucky she didn't throw you out a window with a story like that!"
What was Benny's mistake?
Hint
Miss Molly was a mule.Answer
Although mules are normally sterile (although there have been several instances where they have become pregnant) the fact that Benny claims to have spent several months looking for the gold and then another few months nursing the mule through pregnancy is longer than the pregnancy cycle would have been, so if it could get pregnant, which is doubtful, then what made it pregnant?Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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WOO 1st to post...i didnt under stand it...still dont
Good teaser!
....so u meeen it was wasnt the mules baby it was his? they made love?
nice one!
kinda stinks to be him though
kinda stinks to be him though
this was an easy but fun teaser
Good teaser! Got it right off but then not everyone knows that Mules are sterile.
jhonertwert, are you sayin the dude was doin a mule?...or am i just missin something?
easy, but funny
firefly, u like to read the Encyclopedia brown series, huh? Nice teaser.
im lost!!!!!!
i sooooo did not get that? why cant mule's have children. if someone would pm me and tell me why that would be great?
The point of the teaser is the guy had made up the entire story, there is no way it could be true because a mule cannot have babies. They are a product of a horse and a donkey and as a result are unable to reproduce.
that was good. I got it!!! So happy. And uh... Duh mules cannot have babies. A baby refers to a human not some animal. Like what if someone said omg you have a beautiful puppy, wouldn't you think of a dog? So by saying baby you would think of a human.
oh i got it!! so he made up the story!!
sweet teaser!
I got it! I just learned today in school that mules can't have babies, too! Good job.
He's still trying to impress someone somewhere probably.Very good.
LOVED IT!
read something like this about a llama in the trick thing, it hink, good teaser.
fun teaser. i liked it
Got it once he said that the mule was pregnant. Mules are scientifically freaks of nature horse/donkey, just goes to show science class is useful outside the classroom.
Funny how many people don't know the life cycle of a mule. Good job!
I sure don't know the life circle of a Mule. I had no idea they were sterile. Good teaser. Stumped me good.
i didnt get it, but i like horses, so i guess if i thought real hard i probably would have. but since when do blones think hard!? good one!
lol, i liked this one, pretty ez but can be overlooked ez too
Great teaser fire fly!!
For those who didn't understand, let's give it one more try. When a horse and a donkey mate, the resulting offspring is a crossbreed, called a mule. It is neither a horse nor a donkey. As a result of this crossbreeding, mules are sterile (unable to produce offspring of their own.) So it was impossible for Miss Mollie the mule to have been pregnant. Hope this helps!
For those who didn't understand, let's give it one more try. When a horse and a donkey mate, the resulting offspring is a crossbreed, called a mule. It is neither a horse nor a donkey. As a result of this crossbreeding, mules are sterile (unable to produce offspring of their own.) So it was impossible for Miss Mollie the mule to have been pregnant. Hope this helps!
Got it!ya!
I could fool lots of people with this one. Loved it , but it was pretty easy.
Pretty easy for me...
I thought that was pretty hard....
Ha ha! Loved the teaser I had forgotten that about mules, but I got the second part right.
OMG!!! So mules are kinda like ligers! I get it now
I didn't get it until I read some other comments on this teaser. Never knew that! Great teaser, but maybe you should explain the answer better.
I knew that mules were sterile, i just didn't think about it.
Good teaser. The same thing happened to me, bookwrmKP funny. Very funny.
Your teaser really, really reminds me of this other one I saw in Two-Minute Mysteries (with Dr. Haledjian!) Anyway, it was pretty easy (since I knew that fact about mules)
fun teaser and thank you for all the facts i didnt know aout mules
it was nice, but the answer wasn't very explanitory. To have a mule you breed a horse to a donkey, and out come s a mule, but i have heard numoreous times that Mules can't even have ANYTHING!!!
so it ws a nice teaser, but a Very Bad Answer.
so it ws a nice teaser, but a Very Bad Answer.
An easy one, but if I had to guess, it's taken from a book, because it's written in the style of Donald J. Sobol's non-Encyclopedia Brown stuff. Either way, this somments thread makes em cry.
Understanding is lacking here, I am to believe that this Mule had an Emaculate Conception or the owner was too lazy to leave the Mule and Claim his claim...
Either way this should have been a Situation Teasers; there is nothing Mysterious about the birthing process, even for animules...
Either way this should have been a Situation Teasers; there is nothing Mysterious about the birthing process, even for animules...
Aug 27, 2012
It is rare but not impossible for a Molly Mule to get pregnant. If she did, he would not have known it for many months, as gestation is about 12 months. So his search for a few months, taking care of her for several months would still let Molly have been bred as much as 6 months before he went on his trip. Amazing...but entirely possible!!
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