“What school supply is always tired?”/“A knapsack.”
Do knapsacks take naps? A jocular “daffynition” (daffy + definition) was cited in 1943:
“Knapsack: a sleeping bag.”
A school riddle has been cited in print since at least 2007:
Q: What school supply is always tired?
A: A knapsack!
27 April 1943, Indiana (PA) Evening Gazette, pg. 2, col. 8:
Add descriptions, for WEAF’s new “Definitions” program: Knapsack: a sleeping bag.
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August 1962, Boys’ Life, “Think and Grin,” pg. 62, col. 3:
Daffynishion: Knapsack — A sleeping bag. — Mike Ulmer, Table Grove, Ill.
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