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In French we have "Vingt cent mille ânes dans un pré et cent vingt dans l'autre. Combien de pattes au total ?" = "Twenty hundred thousand donkeys in a meadow and a hundred twenty in the other. How many legs total ?" Answer is six, because it can also be read as "Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré et s'en vint dans l'autre" = "Vincent put the donkey in the meadow and went to the other." So two legs for Vincent and four for the donkey.
We also have "The wheat, or the sheep ?" Answer is "at the mill", because "or the sheep" is pronounced the same as "where does one mill it" (ou le mouton - où le moud-on).