Here’s a riddle my daughter told me today:
There were nine copycats on a boat. One fell off. How many were left?
(Answer below.)
But first, here’s a picture my daughter drew to go with it…
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Answer:
None!
Since they’re copycats, they all fell in!
Note: The number of copycats originally on the boat can vary, sometimes it’s 6 sometimes 10.
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May 27th, 2010 at 6:41 pm
When I was a child in France, when a copycat would do the same thing as us we would sing to him/her,
“Tout ce que je fais,
mon âne, mon âne,
tout ce que je fais,
mon âne le refais”
or if s/he was repeating what we were saying…
“Tout ce que je dis,
mon âne, mon âne,
tout ce que je dis,
mon âne le redis”
… meaning “All that I do, my donkey, my donkey, all that I do, my donkey does it too” and “All that I say, my donkey, my donkey, all I that say my donkey says it too”.
May 27th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
In English we say, “Monkey see, monkey do.”