Frank Morgan

Riddle 1. If you take a cab to the airport at 3:30 am Sunday morning and you get stuck in a traffic jam, where are you?
Answer. In Manila.
Riddle 2. If you take a direct flight from Manila to Detroit, why do you go through security twice?
Answer. When you stop in Nagoya, Japan, you have to get off the plane and take everything with you through security again. (In airline parlance, “direct” does not mean “nonstop.”)
Riddle 3. What do they do if you leave a CD on your seat on the plane?
Answer. They throw it away.
Riddle 4. Why do you change your money back in the US?
Answer. First of all because you can’t use pesos in the US. Second of all, because if you start with a cab at 3:30 am in Manila nothing’s open, and if you try to change it in Japan you have to change pesos to yen first and pay two commissions.
Riddle 5. Why doesn’t the day change when you cross the 180 meridian of longitude?
Answer. Because the date line doesn’t follow the meridian exactly.
Riddle 6. Why doesn’t the day change when you cross the date line?
Answer. Because you cross at midnight (if you start with a cab at 3:30 am in Manila).
Riddle 7. Where should they have the best avocado ice cream?
Answer. Granada, Spain, where it is a traditional delicacy.
Riddle 8. Where do they have the best avocado ice cream?
Answer. In Manila.
Riddle 9. What is the most popular ice cream in Manila?
Answer. Queso (the Tagalog word for cheese, from the Spanish).