A snowman riddle is:
Q: How do you scare a snowman?
A: You get a hairdryer!
The joke was posted on Twitter on November 9, 2011.
Twitter
Hannah
@HannahTweetsWWE
.. How do you scare a snowman? You get a hairdryer!
3:23 PM - 9 Nov 2011
Twitter
Cois Ceim Creche
@burrenxmasfayre
How do you scare a snowman?.....
Get a hairdryer!
1:56 AM - 12 Nov 2011
Twitter
Kaimata Retreat
@KaimataRetreat
Q. How do you scare a snowman ? A. you get a hairdryer ! (well i thought it was funny) #jokes
11:02 PM - 30 Nov 2011
Google Books
Christmas Crackers
By Matt Wilce
Lulu Press (Lulu.com)
2012
Pg. ?:
How do you scare a snowman?
You get a hairdryer!
Google Books
March 2012, Boys’ Life, “Think & Grin,” pg. 60, col. 1:
George: How do you scare a snowman?
Tom: I don’t know.
George: Show him a hair dryer!
John Faust, Tulsa, Okla.
10 December 2012, Daily News (Warwick, Queensland), “Joke of the Day,” pg. 2:
Q: HOW do you scare a snowman? A: You get a hairdryer.
Twitter
Jyn 💫
@leilaspeluche
@Harry_Styles ‘Do you want to frighten a snowman? Take the hair dryer ‘ The only understands you!
7:37 AM - 28 Nov 2013
Google Groups: Clean Humor
Christmas One-Liners
KB
12/3/13
(...)
Q. How do you scare a snowman?
A. You get a hairdryer!
Google Books
Gigglers: Christmas Jokes
By Toby Reynolds
London, UK: Scholastic Fiction
2015
Pg. 70:
Q. How do you scare a snowman?
A. Show him a hairdryer!
Twitter
lorraine Jo King
@LahLahBean
🎅 #christmasjokes How do you scare a snowman? You get a hairdryer! ☃️
12:14 PM - 6 Dec 2017
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Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
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