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come fiddle with my riddle ?

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i have the strength of sixty men, i'm over ten feet tall
i'm footed, though i never move, it's said that i can fall

in grand ballrooms i can be seen holding up affairs
and i can bring the house down if i crack up near the stairs

... what am i ?


if you know the solution to this riddle, please make me very happy by posting it :) ... but if you do post the answer, you must post the next riddle to be guessed by the next successful person, and so on. or so i hope.

course, the whole thing could get ignored, too. how embarrasing that would be. hehe. oh, well ... the risks one will take in order to achieve linguistic banter these days apparently know no bounds !!!. somebody guess, dammit ;)
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Reply #76 from JoeUser Forums Top


Bright as Diamonds
Loud as thunder
Never still
A thing of wonder
what am i?



actually alot of people believe that the answer is fireworks, but i'm pretty sure the answer is waterfall
Reply #77 from JoeUser Forums Top


Bright as Diamonds
Loud as thunder
Never still
A thing of wonder
what am i?



actually alot of people believe that the answer is fireworks, but i'm pretty sure the answer is waterfall
Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #78 from JoeUser Forums Top


Bright as Diamonds
Loud as thunder
Never still
A thing of wonder
what am i?



actually alot of people believe that the answer is fireworks, but i'm pretty sure the answer is waterfall
Reply #80 from JoeUser Forums Top
What's black and white and red all over?

Capt. over and out!
Reply #81 from JoeUser Forums Top

You may have seen this before but it's a good one:

3 guys go to a hotel. The front desk clerk tells them a room will cost $30, so they each pull out a ten dollar bill, pay, and go off to the room.

The hotel manager tells the clerk that rooms are actually $25 tonight, not $30. So the clerk goes to the room to give the 3 guys their $5 change. The guys take a dollar each and let the clerk keep $2 as a tip.

How much did each guy pay for the hotel room? 10-1 = $9. So 3 guys paid a total of 3 * 9 = $27. The clerk kept $2 change as a tip. That's only 27+2 = $29.

Where did the extra dollar go?
Reply #82 from JoeUser Forums Top
What's black and white and red all over?


In the words of Peter Coombe "a newspaper mama newspaper mama newspaper mama everyday"

As for DSH's riddle - I'm stumped
Reply #83 from JoeUser Forums Top
That's not a riddle, that's an exercise in poor accounting skills.

To illustrate what I mean, let's say that the clerk kept the entire $5. Then each guy paid $10 for the room, so 3 * $10 = $30. The clerk kept $5 as a tip. $30 + $5 = $35. Where did the extra $5 come from?

If you say "Why the heck would you add the $5 the clerk kept to the $30 the guys paid?" then you are showing good sense. Adding what someone kept (a credit) to what someone paid (a debit) is wrong. One has to be subtracted from the other.


To come at it another way, the disposition of the original $30 is as follows:

$25 in hotel till
$2 in clerk's pocket
$3 in tenants' pockets
-----
$30.

The $27 that the tenants paid is already distributed $25 / $2 (hotel/clerk). Adding the $2 in again is improperly double-booking that money.
Reply #84 from JoeUser Forums Top
Just to beat that one into the ground a little further, why focus on the clerk?
3 guys paid a total of $27. The manager kept $25. That's 27+25 = $52. Where'd the extra $22 come from?

Anyway, since I answered that one, here's another riddle....

I welcome the day with a show of light,
I steathily came here in the night.
I bathe the earthy stuff at dawn,
But by the noon, alas! I'm gone.
Reply #85 from JoeUser Forums Top
See I'm thinking dew - you know frost on the ground in winter and just wet grass in summer
because when the sun comes up you can see it reflected
it occurs by the nighttime
it covers the grass
and it dries before noon
Reply #86 from JoeUser Forums Top
When I first read this in July I was thinking the moon - but I decided that was wrong and I kept checking back and noone said anything until last night/this morning - but I think its dew - if I'm wrong I'm gonna look like a noob again though - second time today

PS - I hope this thread does get resurrected - it's always been my favourite
Reply #87 from JoeUser Forums Top

I hope this thread does get resurrected - it's always been my favourite


thanks, trina. i am so sorry. this thread is my favourite, too. i promise to start solving them again.

and thankyou everyone so much for continuing this, you guys rock ! hehe. i will keep this going. thanks again

grateful mig XXXXX
Reply #88 from JoeUser Forums Top
Well, where is citahellion with the answer?.....hmmm

~Zoo

P.S....I'm guessing dew, too
Reply #89 from JoeUser Forums Top
Well, where is citahellion with the answer?.....hmmm


zoo, i suspect citahellion is stil waiting for my lazy butt to answer !!!!

but i like your guesses, zoo... and trina ... citahellion ... do we have it yet ?

vanessa/mig XX
Reply #90 from JoeUser Forums Top
Sorry, I was off kicking some medieval ass in Disciples II. (Which I am really enjoying--free plug for Totalgaming.net, it rocks!)

Anyway, yes, trina, you are correct! (And you too, zoo.) Dew it is. Now which of you is going to post the next riddle?

p.s. Did you like my explanation of DsH's riddle? Was it clear enough?
Reply #91 from JoeUser Forums Top
Now which of you is going to post the next riddle?


i am, citahellion ! i am !.

here goes ...

above you and you may be dry
beneath you and you will not fly
and raising me can be good fun
as i can pitch but cannot run

... what am i ?


vanessa/mig XX
Reply #92 from JoeUser Forums Top
ooh - my immediate thought was tent (pitch a tent - you're under it and you dont get wet cause it has a roof - the zip on the front is called a fly),
my second thought was umbrella -- but really I have no idea

Yay for the revival of the riddle thread!!!
Reply #93 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'm going for "Roof", although I'm not sure how the second line fits. Perhaps in the context of jumping off the roof. Anyway, for 1), roof above you = dry.
for 3), Raising the Roof = having a party.
and for 4), A roof has its angle of pitch as one of its most important design elements.

So I hope I'm right.

(and I'm still hoping for feedback on my explanation of the previous riddle!)

Contribute to the Exquisite Corpse!
Reply #94 from JoeUser Forums Top
Mignuna,

How could I not be drawn here with such a title...'Come fiddle with my riddle..' ...well I would love to fiddle with your riddle.....


Here's a classic...
Thirty white horses upon a red hill;
First they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still.

I believe the answer is teeth!!

my first is on behalf of you
my second sealess one
my third and fourth together
and your speaker i become

Hmm...I'll have to think about this one..

But I do have one to leave...

Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.

What is it??
Reply #95 from JoeUser Forums Top
Indeed I will fiddle with your riddle....

Here's a classic...
Thirty white horses upon a red hill;
First they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still.

I believe the answer is teeth!
Reply #96 from JoeUser Forums Top
This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it! In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out! Try to do so without any coaching!
Reply #97 from JoeUser Forums Top
Thirty white horses upon a red hill;
First they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still.

I believe the answer is teeth.
Reply #98 from JoeUser Forums Top
trina_p, what is laid out in your post is known as a lipogram. This class of inscription is a form that avoids a common glyph, such as that fifth symbol (that lists post-'D'). It is difficult to do such a thing, as this post can avow.
Reply #99 from JoeUser Forums Top
I have no idea if you're right or not -- but that's not the answer I got given on the site I got this from

Crusaders - you're right the answer IS teeth
Reply #100 from JoeUser Forums Top
this site - http://www.riddlenut.com/ -- has about 800 riddles that people have submitted -- some are really good, some are ok and some are down right silly.

Gaze at this sentence for just about sixty seconds and then explain what makes it quite different from the average sentence. Quick! What is it?

I like the ones with words

this ones really lame - There are seven flies in the kitchen, which one is the cowboy?

It's the one that's on the "Range". yee-haa!