Oh man, I bet Arthur is brilliant at lateral thinking riddles
like one day Douglas comes in armed with a bunch of simple ones he learned from his daughter for the sole purpose of messing with Martin, because of how he is and he starts off with Martin like,
“Here’s a little riddle for you, how many letters are in the alphabet?”
“Wrong. There’s 11 letters in the phrase ‘the alphabet’.”
and Martin just gets this look on his face like he doesn’t quite know how to react and Douglas gives him a couple more with similar results before along comes Arthur all “Hi chaps what are we doing and why has Skip’s face gone all funny?" and Douglas is like "Just having some fun with riddles.”
“Ooh brilliant, I love riddles, let me try!”
“Oh alright, what 5 letter word becomes shorter when you add 2 letters to it?”
“The word 'short’, right?”
“What? How?”
“Well it’s like Douglas said, what 5 letter word becomes shorter…”
and Martin and Douglas look at each other, before Douglas just tosses out a bunch like rapid fire
“If a plane crashes on the Italian/Swiss border, where do you bury the survivors?”
“You don’t bury survivors, Douglas!”
“If a red house is made of red bricks, and a blue house is made of blue bricks, what is a green house made of?”
“Well, glass, right? That’s what mum’s green house is made of.”
“A clerk at a butcher shop stands five feet ten inches tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?”
“Oh, uh, butchers weigh meat, right?”
“If you were running a race and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?”
“I’d be in second.”
“How many times can you subtract the number two from the number fifty?”
“Once, cause then it’s not 50 anymore!”
“What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?”
“Um, incorrectly is always spelled incorrectly…right?”
“A truck is carrying apples, oranges, and peaches and hits a sharp curve, what drops first?”
“It’s speed, probably, right Douglas? Oh, I needed to get coffee, thanks chaps, this was fun!”
And Douglas and Martin sit there like what the hell as Arthur bounces off, because clearly he’s not stupid he just thinks in a different way.
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