A winter riddle is:
Q: What flies when it’s born, lies when it’s alive, and runs when it’s dead?
A: Snow.
The riddle was posted on the newsgroup alt.rec.spot on May 5, 2000, and has been printed on several images.
Google Groups: alt.rec.spot
Tonights question #1
Fred Agnir
5/5/00
(...)
Easy one:
What flies when it’s born, lies when it alive, and runs when it’s dead?
Yahoo! Answers (May 3, 2007)
What flies when it’s born, lies when it alive, and runs when it’s dead?
Answers
Best Answer: snowflake
goncarlo
Twitter
Hoodie B the Müse
@IamBrianJ
What flies when it’s born, lies when it alive, and runs when it’s dead? #Riddle
6:03 PM - 28 Aug 2009
30 July 2017, The Daily Telegraph (Surry Hills, New South Wales), “Laugh till your face hurts,” pg. 3:
Q. What flies when it’s born, lies when it’s alive and runs when it’s dead?
A: Snow!
Reddit—The Puzzle Network
What flies when it’s born, lies when it’s alive, and runs when it dies? (self.riddles)
submitted August 4, 2017 by freepopper
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#Riddle of the day:
What flies when it’s born, lies when it’s alive, and runs when it’s dead?
6:30 AM - 2 Oct 2017
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
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.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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