Bilateral Thinking Puzzles
Q: A man went to a party and drank some of the punch. He then left
early. Everyone else at the party who drank the punch subsequently died
of poisoning. Why did the man not die?
A: The man was listening to a radio programme where the DJ calls a
listener and asks them a question for a prize. They announce the name of
the listener they are calling - it is the man's wife, yet another man (her
lover) answered the phone.
This is another thing that seemed funnier a third of the way into
writing it, from
the Surrealist. 19th August 2005.