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I am slim and tall, Many find me desirable and appealing. They touch me and I give a false good feeling. Once I shine in splendor, But only once and then no more. For many I am "to die for". What am I?
A Cigarette

He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he?
A priest.

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees. Up, up, up it goes, And yet never grows?
Mountain.

A rooster was injected with strong fertility inducing injections that could yield an average production of 10 score eggs over a period of 10 months. How many eggs would it deliver in a single day?
A rooster does not deliver eggs, it's the hen who does that!

Why did the boy go to his bedroom with a pencil?
He wanted to draw the curtains.

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?
At first, there were 2 pears on the tree. After the wind blew, one pear fell on the ground. So there where no pears on the tree and there were no pears on the ground.

Two lawyers were fighting against each other in a case in a courtroom. One of them is the father of the other's son. How are they related?
They are husband and wife.

The anagram of this phrase is an instrument used in the orchestra. What is it? A bliss nectar
Bass clarinet

What comes twice in a week, once in a year, but never in a month or a day?
The Letter 'E'.

I am an English word. I have three consecutive double letters. Who am I?
Bookkeeper

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