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#21 Ain't_It_Just_

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Posted 25 January 2009 - 06:29 AM

Can I do one? If someone else's hasn't been asnwered then do mine next.

What goes through water but doesn't get wet?

Suck it Errant!

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QUOTE (KeithF @ Jun 30 2009, 09:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It has been proven beyond all reasonable doubt that the most powerful force on Wu is a bunch of messed-up Malazans with Moranth munitions.

#22 The Drum

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Posted 25 January 2009 - 09:23 AM

Ain't_It_Just_, on Jan 25 2009, 06:29 AM, said:

Can I do one? If someone else's hasn't been asnwered then do mine next.

What goes through water but doesn't get wet?

light?

Dem bones, Dem Bones, Dem Dry Bones.

#23 Ain't_It_Just_

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Posted 25 January 2009 - 11:49 AM

Well done, got it straight off.

Suck it Errant!

"It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum...and I'm all out of gum."

QUOTE (KeithF @ Jun 30 2009, 09:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It has been proven beyond all reasonable doubt that the most powerful force on Wu is a bunch of messed-up Malazans with Moranth munitions.

#24 Mcflury

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Posted 25 January 2009 - 12:16 PM

Stalker, on Jan 25 2009, 12:39 AM, said:

Ok I guess I get next, so this one threw me way off first time I heard it. Hopefully nobody knows it

There is a dead man in the middle of a desert. He is almost completely nude and holds in his hand a broken match.
What happened?

My guess: Some man was walking in the dessert during daytime, only had clothes on him and a match. Then night came, temperature drops and he gets freezing cold. He takes off his clothes so he can try to make a fire with them, but as he tries to strike the match it breaks. He freezes to death.

And then yet another famous one (and thus probably rather easy):

Quote

What walks on 4 legs in the morning, on 2 legs at noon and on 3 legs at the evening?

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#25 MTS

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Posted 25 January 2009 - 02:51 PM

A human?

And I'm agreeing with Mcflury on the desert one.

Anyway: How many 3-cent stamps are in a dozen?

This post has been edited by Mappo's Travelling Sack: 25 January 2009 - 03:12 PM

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#26 Mcflury

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Posted 25 January 2009 - 03:05 PM

Mappo's Travelling Sack, on Jan 25 2009, 03:51 PM, said:

A human?

Correct

It's from Oedipus, he got that riddle from the Sphinx (or whatever it was) and answered it correctly, turning him into the king (eventually)

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#27 Stalker

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Posted 25 January 2009 - 04:02 PM

Both wrong on the desert one.

#28 Mcflury

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Posted 25 January 2009 - 04:14 PM

Stalker, on Jan 25 2009, 05:02 PM, said:

Both wrong on the desert one.

Damn, the 'real' answer to your desert-man riddle is so lame (googled it). I find my solution a lot more realistic and quite possible too.

The real answer to the riddle:

Spoiler

And to the 3-cent in a dozen riddle: 12, right?

This post has been edited by Mcflury: 25 January 2009 - 04:15 PM

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#29 Stalker

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Posted 25 January 2009 - 04:45 PM

hehe not lame, tricky, like it is meant to be.

Its a riddle

#30 Mcflury

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Posted 25 January 2009 - 04:57 PM

Stalker, on Jan 25 2009, 05:45 PM, said:

hehe not lame, tricky, like it is meant to be.

Its a riddle

Yeah, but the thing is, my answer was a good answer too (nothing in my answer doesn't make sense) so it is actually also a valid answer for that specific riddle. Sure, your answer is a tad more farsought, but that doesn't mean it's better (au contraire, one might think).
Ah well, I just don't like riddles with that kind of open answers... every answer is basically a correct one then if it slightly makes sense

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#31 Sparkimus

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Posted 25 January 2009 - 06:53 PM

Stalker, on Jan 25 2009, 11:45 AM, said:

hehe not lame, tricky, like it is meant to be.

Its a riddle

Your riddle is bad and you should feel bad.

QUOTE (Stalker @ Jan 23 2009, 01:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

So last night I was walking downtown for some pizza at like 1am with some friends of mine,
and someone said, "I'm so hungry I could eat a whole pizza."

I said, "I bet I could eat 100 pizzas," and no one understood me. I was sad.

#32 Mentalist

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Posted 25 January 2009 - 08:50 PM

you are on an island, but you cannot swim
there is an island close to you.
on that island, there is a fruit tree
on the tree, there is a monkey

your island has no fruit tree.
you are hungry
how do you get the fruit from the tree on the other island, provided that you may not leave your island?

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard
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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

#33 Topper

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Posted 25 January 2009 - 09:13 PM

Mentalist, on Jan 25 2009, 04:50 PM, said:

Start throwing rocks at the monkey and it will pick up the nearest thing to throw back, and hopefully you'll get a face full of fruit.

‘Keep on like that and I’ll drop a rock on your head while you sleep.’

"I'm harmless, the non-violent kind of psycho."

'"If a tree falls in the woods and there is nobody there to hear it, does it makes a sound?"' the answer is an unequivocal "no." The falling tree simply produces waves of energy. The experience of "sound" is a phenomenon of the auditory system.'

#34 Mentalist

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Posted 25 January 2009 - 09:22 PM

correct
next, plz?

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard
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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

#35 Topper

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Posted 25 January 2009 - 09:57 PM

When bright it's dark
When darkest it's gone
When gone for good, so are you
What am I?

This post has been edited by Topper: 25 January 2009 - 11:13 PM

#36 Minterlint

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Posted 26 January 2009 - 12:15 AM

A shadow.

Take away my first letter and I am unchanged;
Take away my second letter and I am unchanged;
Take away all my remaining letters and I am still unchanged!

What am I?

#37 MTS

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Posted 26 January 2009 - 12:39 AM

A mailbox.

Riddle me this: Take one out and scratch my head,
I am now black but once was red.
What am I ?

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