riddles

[RichZ]

Echo?

[Amanda]

sooooo witty

[hr][s]"don't frown...you never know who might be falling in love with your smile..."[/s]

[help!]

ok so call me stupid but then please can u explain the language one that started all this off!

[Nickel]

"Think of words ending in -gry. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everybody uses everyday. If you have listened carefully , I've already told you what it is."

The answer of course being "language".

Feel free to think of words ending in gry, or dont, whatever. But there are 3 words in the english language:
1. The
2. English
3. Language

language being the 3rd.

--
nickel

[Emma]

One for lovers of classic children's books;

A houseful, a holeful
But you cannot carry a bowlful

[Moyersy]

mice?

[Anon.]

What has it got in its pocketses?

[RichZ]

[s]Unregisted User help! wrote on 09:33, 14th May 2003:
ok so call me stupid but then please can u explain the language one that started all this off!

HaHa!

Though I must admit it did take me a couple of minutes to work it out!

[jennyo]

[s]Emma wrote on 18:34, 14th May 2003:
One for lovers of classic children's books;

A houseful, a holeful
But you cannot carry a bowlful



I remember hearing this before and I think the answer was something abstract like love. Although why is love in a hole? It ought to be something like air/nothing, but then you could have an empty bowl and it would be full of nothing.

[cheimon]

found a good answer for how a raven and a writing desk are alike-- because poe wrote on both.

courtesy of The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde, which is a hilarious book that everyone should read.

[Dee]

A few quick, simple ones:

1. I can carry the weight of a full grown man, but a mere child can carry me.

2. But for my head I should be complete, but the more you take away the bigger I become.

3. I am the brother of fire, that brings tears without sorrow.

4. We are soliders, armoured in black. We are hundreds strong. We march through your streets, claiming the very ground you walk on as our own. But still you do not fear us.

5. A conundrum fit to puzzle a primate. The remains of a bonfire. A sweet green fruit. An unwell lover if you enjoy puns. You forget our names, yet all but one of us remain as sweet. What are we?

[James]

[s]Emma wrote on 18:34, 14th May 2003:
One for lovers of classic children's books;

A houseful, a holeful
But you cannot carry a bowlful


AIR?

And now ...

Long and lanky, deaf and dumb, has no legs but yet can run. What is it?

[Thackary]

[s]James wrote on 15:52, 15th May 2003:
[s]Dee wrote on 15:29, 15th May 2003:[i]
A few quick, simple ones:

1. A Chair

2. A hole (in the ground)

3. Wind

4. Ants?



[s]Emma wrote on 18:34, 14th May 2003:

Long and lanky, deaf and dumb, has no legs but yet can run. What is it?


Water!

[Dee]

1. A Chair

Yes. (Rope and net work as well)

2. A hole

Yes

3. Wind

No.

4. Ants?

Yes.


[s]Emma wrote on 18:34, 14th May 2003:

Long and lanky, deaf and dumb, has no legs but yet can run. What is it?


Runner bean plant?



[hr]
"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."
- Jean-Paul Sartre

[James]

Well I was thinking "river" rather than simply water, but who cares?

[James]

What is it that gets wetter as it dries?

[Biitchboy]

[s]James wrote on 12:33, 17th May 2003:
What is it that gets wetter as it dries?


A towel.

[hr]
If I gave a shit, you'd be the first person I'd give it to.

[Emma]

Not abstract, not love, not air.

[Pussycat]

[s]Emma wrote on 18:34, 14th May 2003:A houseful, a holeful
But you cannot carry a bowlful


Smoke?

[Emma]

Yes. Well done.