Questions..endless questions...

[Silas Thorne]

Here's a question place for all those perplexing questions we need answered. I've got lots, all connected though:

Why is it that people from the U.S. never say they are from the U.S., or North America, and instead say that they are from Colorado, the North West, or from the South? Maybe everyone around the world knows your state's location? Or are the states countries in their own right?

If I switch this round, would this be OK?...
If I said I was from Canterbury, Southland, or the West Coast would most of you know where I was from? Or if I was Chinese, could I tell you I was from Heilongjiang, Guanxi, or Zhejiang?

Just an observation. I'm not dissing you Americans.:)

[LostPrincess13]

Just a few questions on words...:)
Why is a 'wise man' different from a 'wise guy'?
Why is it called a TV set when it's only one?
Why does 'fat chance' and 'slim chance' mean the same thing?
When you say 3 out of 5 people suffer from diarrhea, does that mean 2 of the people enjoy it?
Do 'slippers' cause you to slip?

:lol:

[TheFifthElement]

What's a cotton-picking minute?

[Silas Thorne]

Wait one and maybe someone will tell you :)

[TheFifthElement]

So, I'm guessing a cotton-picking minute is really long :p

[Niamh]

Just a few questions on words...:)
Why is a 'wise man' different from a 'wise guy'?
Why is it called a TV set when it's only one?
Why does 'fat chance' and 'slim chance' mean the same thing?
When you say 3 out of 5 people suffer from diarrhea, does that mean 2 of the people enjoy it?
Do 'slippers' cause you to slip?

:lol:

:lol: :p

[MattG]

Here's a question place for all those perplexing questions we need answered. I've got lots, all connected though:

Why is it that people from the U.S. never say they are from the U.S., or North America, and instead say that they are from Colorado, the North West, or from the South? Maybe everyone around the world knows your state's location? Or are the states countries in their own right?

If I switch this round, would this be OK?...
If I said I was from Canterbury, Southland, or the West Coast would most of you know where I was from? Or if I was Chinese, could I tell you I was from Heilongjiang, Guanxi, or Zhejiang?

Just an observation. I'm not dissing you Americans.:)

Well, culturally we weren't taught to think or act 'globally' until fairly recently. Looking back to my own school curricula I remember a lot of US history and a proportionally much smaller amount of world history. That's not to say that this is representative of all experience, but it is representative of mine and what I would call a norm based on my experience.

There's that and then whenever I tell someone I'm from the US the inevitable follow up is 'really, where in the states?'

Now I say US-Texas.

[*Classic*Charm*]

Why are

"I could care less" and
"I couldn't care less"

taken to mean the same thing??

[Silas Thorne]

Thanks Matt, that gives me an idea of the why now.

[kilted exile]

all these questions & still not the most pressing question of our time:

If bread lands butter side down and cats land on their feet, what would happen if I buttered the back of a cat?

[Niamh]

all these questions & still not the most pressing question of our time:

If bread lands butter side down and cats land on their feet, what would happen if I buttered the back of a cat?

:lol: lmao!

[*Classic*Charm*]

all these questions & still not the most pressing question of our time:

If bread lands butter side down and cats land on their feet, what would happen if I buttered the back of a cat?

HAHAHA

Actually, cats don't always land on their feet. I've witnessed it myself. :sick:
Also, how would one go about buttering a cat's back? I'm curious...

[librarius_qui]

Here's a question place for all those perplexing questions we need answered. I've got lots, all connected though:

Why is it that people from the U.S. never say they are from the U.S., or North America, and instead say that they are from Colorado, the North West, or from the South? Maybe everyone around the world knows your state's location? Or are the states countries in their own right?

If I switch this round, would this be OK?...
If I said I was from Canterbury, Southland, or the West Coast would most of you know where I was from? Or if I was Chinese, could I tell you I was from Heilongjiang, Guanxi, or Zhejiang?

Just an observation. I'm not dissing you Americans.:)

I call people from the US "Uessians" or "Ussians", because being American isn't exclusitity of those born in the United States. I'm from Brasil, Portuguese America, they from the United States of America, English America.

I'm as American (and proud of being so) as them, however VERY (intrinsically, fundamentally (...)) different. I speak Portuguese (Latin), they speak English (barbaric language, yakes!!!).



:lol:



Apart from the barbaric commentary, I mean all the rest. Spanish populations call Uessians, "Estadunidenses" (= "Unitestaters"), and, in Brasil, more and more, (thinking) people prefer to call them Uessians, which is, in Portuguese, Estado-unidenses, but many use the Spanish expression, "Estadunidense".

I call myself, among my own compatriots, a (Portuguese) American, Portuguese (or Modern Latin) speaking, of Italian origin (fifth generation), and proud Carioca (= born in Rio de Janeiro).

Nation is a concept of the late Middle Ages. I hope more and more, cities can be independant from cities, like in the days of Rome and the Greeces, when democracy was practiced, in towns (never in nations ...).

I'm very utopic ...


Libri*
:crash:

[sprinks]

:lol: Some of those questions are just strange! :p

[librarius_qui]

(perhaps I shouldn't have answered, but I couldn't hold the horses here ...)


all these questions & still not the most pressing question of our time:

If bread lands butter side down and cats land on their feet, what would happen if I buttered the back of a cat?

He'd lick himself before landing, no matter time stopped!

[sprinks]

I don't see why you shouldn't have answered, libri. The question was posed and you gave your opinion on it, there's nothing wrong about that! :)
It's interesting for other people as well, not just the person who asked the question, because we get an insight into other peoples thoughts and lives. Well, I do anywho :)

[librarius_qui]

Do 'slippers' cause you to slip?



Only glass ones.


I don't see why you shouldn't have answered, libri. The question was posed and you gave your opinion on it, there's nothing wrong about that! :)
It's interesting for other people as well, not just the person who asked the question, because we get an insight into other peoples thoughts and lives. Well, I do anywho :)

(Once you're encouraging me ... :D )

[Niamh]

:lol: Some of those questions are just strange! :p

Only some? :lol:

[Virgil]

Here's a question place for all those perplexing questions we need answered. I've got lots, all connected though:

Why is it that people from the U.S. never say they are from the U.S., or North America, and instead say that they are from Colorado, the North West, or from the South? Maybe everyone around the world knows your state's location? Or are the states countries in their own right?

If I switch this round, would this be OK?...
If I said I was from Canterbury, Southland, or the West Coast would most of you know where I was from? Or if I was Chinese, could I tell you I was from Heilongjiang, Guanxi, or Zhejiang?

Just an observation. I'm not dissing you Americans.:)

Many people might not realize that this is an international forum. I know I didn't when I joined. I was rather surprised at how international it was. So when you assume it's an American forum, one's natural inclination is to list their home city/state rather than country, country being assumed.

[Thespian1975]

all these questions & still not the most pressing question of our time:

If bread lands butter side down and cats land on their feet, what would happen if I buttered the back of a cat?

My cats just read that and gave me a "Try it and die" look. :lol:

Kilted, my cats have your name now,watch your back!
:lol:

[kilted exile]

Also, how would one go about buttering a cat's back? I'm curious...
Maybe it would be easier to tie the slice of buttered bread on the back instead


He'd lick himself before landing, no matter time stopped!

Nah, I'll get one of those cone things from a vet


My cats just read that and gave me a "Try it and die" look. :lol:

Kilted, my cats have your name now,watch your back!
:lol:

hehehe cats dont scare me, now bunny rabbits thats a completely different matter


:lol: Some of those questions are just strange! :p
Not mine though, I am trying to further science here....

[papayahed]

Who wrote the book of love?

[aBIGsheep]

all these questions & still not the most pressing question of our time:

If bread lands butter side down and cats land on their feet, what would happen if I buttered the back of a cat?

http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_apr2006/CatFlap.gif

[papayahed]

Do you know the way to San Jose?

[aBIGsheep]

Do you know the way to San Jose?

I'd check mapquest (www.mapquest.com)if I were you.

[librarius_qui]

Do you know the way to San Jose?

My simple answer to this is "no". Sorry :D

[Nightshade]

all these questions & still not the most pressing question of our time:

If bread lands butter side down and cats land on their feet, what would happen if I buttered the back of a cat?


HAHAHA

Actually, cats don't always land on their feet. I've witnessed it myself. :sick:
Also, how would one go about buttering a cat's back? I'm curious...

Im fairly certain it depends on what height the cat has been thrown/fallen from.

Who is everyone?

[sprinks]

Not mine though, I am trying to further science here....

Ah, touche :D


http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_apr2006/CatFlap.gif

haha I could watch that for hours! :lol:!

[Joreads]

Why do people say Pigs might fly. Have they ever flown?

[papayahed]

Am I evil?

[aBIGsheep]

Am I evil?

If you have to ask yourself then no, you're not.

[Nightshade]

Sorries :( ...unless you've gone and up he score of course :goof:

[papayahed]

Who's the blonde stranger?

[Thespian1975]

What happened to Old Zealand?

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Questions, questions... You should know by now that the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42. ;)

/Claes

[LostPrincess13]

What happened to Old Zealand?

It went away along with Old Orleans, Old Hampshire, Old York, and all the others.:lol:

[Joreads]

Why do people keep saying that it is hotter than hell. Is hell actually hot and more to the point how on earth do they know that it is actually hotter than hell here today?

[Silas Thorne]

If I travel fast enough, can I arrive before I've left?

[LostPrincess13]

If I travel fast enough, can I arrive before I've left?

I think Spongebob Squarepants did that once...:p

[Silas Thorne]

That's reliable evidence. It must be possible then ;)

[papayahed]

Do you feel like I do?

[pussnboots]

I don't know, how do you feel ? I for one feel with my hands

[MattG]

I don't know, how do you feel ? I for one feel with my hands

*matt tamps down overwhelming urge to post unabashed innuendo*

[mono]

Why is it that people from the U.S. never say they are from the U.S., or North America, and instead say that they are from Colorado, the North West, or from the South? Maybe everyone around the world knows your state's location? Or are the states countries in their own right?
Even as an American, I have noticed this, too. In size comparison, the U.S. does appear a large country to most others, but so does China, Russia, Australia, yet our population does not compare even to countries like India or certain parts of Mexico.
I will not act so bluntly as Socrates when someone asked him where he originated, and he replied 'the world,' but perhaps next time, when someone asks me where I came from, I will say the United States or North America, and test the reaction. :)

If bread lands butter side down and cats land on their feet, what would happen if I buttered the back of a cat?
:lol: I think I laughed for a few solid minutes! :lol:


Okay, I have a few questions:
Even though ATM stands for Automated Teller Machine, why do so many people insist upon calling it an 'ATM machine'?

Many magazine and newspaper ads advertise a 'free gift' with this purchase. Does anyone else find the 'free' part in the term 'free gift' redundant? All gifts are free! Last Christmas, when I bought my younger brother a Wii, I do not remember charging him for it.

I always see car lots selling 'pre-owned cars;' I know, by 'pre-owned' cars, they mean once-owned cars, and again for sale, but does anyone else find the term 'pre-owned' redundant, too? Of course the cars are pre-owned! No one would sell an owned car! :eek2:

I partially stole this from the film Stand By Me, but, seriously, what kind of animal is Goofy?

[JacobF]

Why do I always think of negative or bad when we see red, but positive or good when we see blue?

Why do people buy sweaters for their dogs?

[Silas Thorne]

Why do I always think of negative or bad when we see red, but positive or good when we see blue?


Yes, but do you feel positive when you feel blue?

[JacobF]

Yes, but do you feel positive when you feel blue?

Hm, with this two more questions arise: Why do we attribute colours to emotions? And why do we interpret them differently when they are placed in another context?

[librarius_qui]

Do you feel like I do?


I don't know, how do you feel ? I for one feel with my hands

:lol:

What can I say?? I'm no fan of Star Trek at all ... I hate the movies with the old guys. (I hope I'll like the one that's about to come, but ... lets see.) The only Star Trek movie of the old ones I like is the #4, in which they return to the past to save the whales. I love that movie. It's very funny. Maybe because the director was mr. Spo// erm, Leonard Neemoy.

That's the question the computer at Vulcan asks mr. Spock: [metalic_voice] "how do you feel?", the only question he can't answer! haha!

If Papayahed is a bit like mr. Spock, he won't understand this question as well!

:lol:

[librarius_qui]

Am I evil?

I think you are. You don't have to be too sad about it. Be responsible!

[qimissung]

Well, Silas, I'm from Oklahoma....andmy next questions is where on earth is Carmen SanDiego? Where on earth can she be?

[librarius_qui]

Why do I always think of negative or bad when we see red, but positive or good when we see blue?

Why do people buy sweaters for their dogs?

Red thing is because of the lights out there, on the streets ...
Blue one, I've got no idea, but it's my favourite colour! :) (I know this doesn't help much ...) Maybe because it's the colour of the sky, in sunny days ...

People get sweaters for their dog either because they think they're feeling cold, or because they think they'll look prettier. Eeither reason is silly, anyway. As silly as to collect playmobil after the 15s ...


... Maybe we need silly things to be ourselves :idea:

[papayahed]

:If Papayahed is a bit like mr. Spock, he won't understand this question as well!

:lol:

illogical.

(I'm a she:lol:)


Have you ever seen the rain?

[librarius_qui]

illogical.

(I'm a she:lol:)


Have you ever seen the rain?

It makes sense you're she ... You use Snoopy. I SHOuld have guessed! Man! :lol:

No ... Yes. I don't know: what rain are you talking about?

I HAVE A QUESTION!:

"What has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than the trees,
Up, up, up it goes,
And yet never grows?"

[Dori]

It makes sense you're she ... You use Snoopy. I SHOuld have guessed! Man! :lol:

No ... Yes. I don't know: what rain are you talking about?

I HAVE A QUESTION!:

"What has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than the trees,
Up, up, up it goes,
And yet never grows?"

Oh, oh, I know!

Mountains!

I even have my edition of The Hobbit handy to confirm. :D

[librarius_qui]

Oh, oh, I know!

Mountains!

I even have my edition of The Hobbit handy to confirm. :D

"DOES IT GUESS EASY?? It MuSt HaVe a CompeTition With Us, my preciouss! If precious asks, and it doesn't answer, we eats it, my preciousss. If it asks, and we don't answer, then we does what it wants, eh? We shows it the way out, yes!"

[modulations are by myself, of course ...]

[Dori]

"DOES IT GUESS EASY?? It MuSt HaVe a CompeTition With Us, my preciouss! If precious asks, and it doesn't answer, we eats it, my preciousss. If it asks, and we don't answer, then we does what it wants, eh? We shows it the way out, yes!"

[modulations are by myself, of course ...]

:D I love it!

[librarius_qui]

:D I love it!

(So do I! :) )

*

Why we don't have to work on Sundays, once the day of rest is the seventh (according to the Jews)?



Libri*

[papayahed]

Could you be loved?

[qimissung]

Why is your little finger called a "pinkie"? Why do fools fall in love?

[TheFifthElement]

What happened to Old Zealand?


It went away along with Old Orleans, Old Hampshire, Old York, and all the others.:lol:

Zealand is a Danish island.

Orleans is in France.

Hampshire is a county in the south of England.

York is in the north of England.

[1n50mn14]

Why is there Braille on drive through bank-machines? :confused:

[qimissung]

What is the best time to do things?

Who are the best people to listen to?

What is the most important thing to do?

[librarius_qui]

What is the best time to do things?

Who are the best people to listen to?

What is the most important thing to do?

It depends on the thing.

Your parents.

To live with responsability. Then, to have fun! :thumbs_up


Libri*

[librarius_qui]

Thirty white horses on a red hill,
First they champ,
Then they stamp,
Then they stand still.


big Tim

[Dori]

Thirty white horses on a red hill,
First they champ,
Then they stamp,
Then they stand still.


big Tim

Teeth! teeth! my preciousss; but we has only six!

[Joreads]

Why does the weather affect my moods

[Dori]

Why, Mr. Anderson? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Yes? No? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. The temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?


:argue:

[kiz_paws]

I think Spongebob Squarepants did that once...:p

Ha Ha Ha Ha :lol:

[librarius_qui]

Ha Ha Ha Ha :lol:

Is this one a good thread, Kizzy? ...

:D

[Taliesin]

What does JFGI mean? I have been told it lots of times but I have never bothered to google it.

[imthefoolonthehill]

What has a moon always meant?

Cummings has me stumped.

[dodong]

if vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?...it isn't my original..i just wanna join...hehe

[bazarov]

I HAVE A QUESTION!:

"What has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than the trees,
Up, up, up it goes,
And yet never grows?"

Did you know that Himalaya grows 1cm per year?



Why we don't have to work on Sundays, once the day of rest is the seventh (according to the Jews)?

Libri*

First: seventh day in Jewish calendar is Saturday, not Sunday.
Second: we are not Jews.

[bluevictim]

I apologize ahead of time for being too serious, but I can't resist.

If I travel fast enough, can I arrive before I've left?Actually, the answer is yes, sort of. If you go faster than the speed of light, there are some inertial frames in which you will arrive before you left. Of course, it is supposed to be impossible to go faster than the speed of light.

[weltanschauung]

Did you know that Himalaya grows 1cm per year?

did you know that if an atom were the size of a grain of sand, a soccer ball would be the size of planet earth?

did you also know that if the sun were a grain of sand, the stars in our galaxy would fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool?

did you...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Penubag/Trivia

[PoeticPassions]

What does JFGI mean? I have been told it lots of times but I have never bothered to google it.

I'm not sure if I am really supposed to answer any of these questions... or whether they should just remain forever unanswered, lost in the scuffle and muddle of forum posts?

well, whatever. JFGI means: "Just F*cking Google It"

clever, I suppose

:D


here is mine:

who came up with the bagel? why does it have a hole in it? it makes no sense really...

[bazarov]

did you know that if an atom were the size of a grain of sand, a soccer ball would be the size of planet earth?

did you also know that if the sun were a grain of sand, the stars in our galaxy would fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool?

did you...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Penubag/Trivia

Lux facta est, smarty!

I was answering on his question, wasn't asking anything.

[itsinfinite]

Why are

"I could care less" and
"I couldn't care less"

taken to mean the same thing??

*technically* the first one isn't proper english. it's butchered, lazy american english. :) (And I can say that without apologies since I am american)

[itsinfinite]

Questions, questions... You should know by now that the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42. ;)

/Claes

And here I thought the answer was 5!

[Dori]

*technically* the first one isn't proper english. it's butchered, lazy american english. :) (And I can say that without apologies since I am american)

Bah, I could care less about being lazy and butchering the English language. :p

[itsinfinite]

Bah, I could care less about being lazy and butchering the English language. :p

haha, well there ya go.

P.S. LOVE your icon :)
yay for chocobos!

[Dori]

haha, well there ya go.

P.S. LOVE your icon :)
yay for chocobos!

:banana:
I've found another person who knows what a chocobo is. :D

[PoeticPassions]

I love the dancing banana... it makes me think of the Family Guy episode where Brian dresses as a banana and sings "it's peanut butter jelly time... peanut butter jelly time...peanut butter jelly and a baseball bat, peanut butter jelly and a baseball bat!" HAHA

ok, here is another one...

what is the evolutionary/survival/adaptive function of hair on one's head? By this I mean, why do some cultures have predominantly dark and curly hair, while some have light hair, or like in Japan or China, predominantly straight hair?

Most of our traits have some function (different eye shapes and skin color in accordance with climate; eyebrows and eyelashes to keep sweat or dust out respectively, types of bodies in accordance with the agriculture or labor one has to perform, etc. but I don't see the purpose of curly hair versus straight hair)

[a_little_wisp]

:banana:
I've found another person who knows what a chocobo is. :D

And another!!!

I have a question too though.

What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow??!!?

[bazarov]

ok, here is another one...

what is the evolutionary/survival/adaptive function of hair on one's head? By this I mean, why do some cultures have predominantly dark and curly hair, while some have light hair, or like in Japan or China, predominantly straight hair?

Most of our traits have some function (different eye shapes and skin color in accordance with climate; eyebrows and eyelashes to keep sweat or dust out respectively, types of bodies in accordance with the agriculture or labor one has to perform, etc. but I don't see the purpose of curly hair versus straight hair)

Sun and UV light.
It was very sunny and hot in Africa, so evolution made her job. People got darker skin and curly hair, because UV light in that way can't harm to skin and head that much.
People moved to northern parts, their skin didn't need to be that dark so it became white, and their hair became lighter and straighter. Of course, some still have dark hair :D

I don't know from where you are and if you had noticed it, but here; when people from continental parts go to the seaside during summer, their hair becomes lighter, like they colored upper parts of hair (sorry for lousy haircut terminology :lol:)

[PoeticPassions]

Sun and UV light.
It was very sunny and hot in Africa, so evolution made her job. People got darker skin and curly hair, because UV light in that way can't harm to skin and head that much.
People moved to northern parts, their skin didn't need to be that dark so it became white, and their hair became lighter and straighter. Of course, some still have dark hair :D

I don't know from where you are and if you had noticed it, but here; when people from continental parts go to the seaside during summer, their hair becomes lighter, like they colored upper parts of hair (sorry for lousy haircut terminology :lol:)

Yeah I get that part. But why do many Asians have JET black hair, while a lot of Latin Americans have brown to black hair... and how does the curliness affect that? I get the differences in hair color (just as in skin color, as I noted)... and then you have a lot of Africans, for example, that are pretty hairless, or keep their hair really really short (such as the Bushmen), and don't need the protection from the sun as much necessarily because they already have really dark skin...

[PoeticPassions]

I just wonder what advantage could curly hair or straight hair have?? maybe it is evolution by choice... picking mates we like better and thus passing on that trait.

[bazarov]

Yeah I get that part. But why do many Asians have JET black hair, while a lot of Latin Americans have brown to black hair... and how does the curliness affect that? I get the differences in hair color (just as in skin color, as I noted)... and then you have a lot of Africans, for example, that are pretty hairless, or keep their hair really really short (such as the Bushmen), and don't need the protection from the sun as much necessarily because they already have really dark skin...

Sun beams fight harder against curly hair then straighter.
JET? Evolution is really long, were talking about thousands or millions of years, it's impossible to change some things so quickly. Skin is naturally darker because of Sun, but maybe after 100 000 years, Afroamericans won't be that dark. Same things is for hair, I guess. Too bad we won't live enough to see what will happen.

Why do Africans or Afroamericans keep their hair short - I don't know; I guess that is matter of personal choice. Ask them, if you want.

[PoeticPassions]

Sun beams fight harder against curly hair then straighter.
JET? Evolution is really long, were talking about thousands or millions of years, it's impossible to change some things so quickly. Skin is naturally darker because of Sun, but maybe after 100 000 years, Afroamericans won't be that dark. Same things is for hair, I guess. Too bad we won't live enough to see what will happen.

Why do Africans or Afroamericans keep their hair short - I don't know; I guess that is matter of personal choice. Ask them, if you want.

you misunderstood me... I am not talking about Africans keeping their hair short, but about tribes doing so... tribes that are considered as the first homosapiens (in fact they don't grow really long curly hair either). ahh, it doesn't matter... all traits HAD some purpose I suppose...and some things are useless now like the appendix or the tail bone. And I am sure curly hair was advantageous to people living in hotter climates. Though China can get REALLY hot and really humid, yet they have straight hair (generally).

anyway, enough about this, it was more of a silly question anyway...and not something I need a definitive answer to. :)

[librarius_qui]

why does ev'ry girl want to be a princess?

[itsinfinite]

:banana:
I've found another person who knows what a chocobo is. :D

pretty exciting, eh? ;)

[itsinfinite]

why does ev'ry girl want to be a princess?

not every girl does! :P

[librarius_qui]

Woll, that's odd!
Are you sure you're a girl?!

(kidding :D )

Actually, the best girls are those who walk among boys, and play knights! (Specially in playmo')~

[librarius_qui]

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

[Dori]

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

"Half a moment!" cried Bilbo, who was still thinking uncomfortable about eating. Fortunately he had once heard something rather like this before, and getting his wits back he thought of the answer. "Wind, wind of course," he said, and he was so pleased that he made up one on the spot. "This'll puzzle the nasty underground creature," he thought:

An eye in a blue face
Saw an eye in a green face.
"That eye is like to this eye"
Said the first eye,
"But in low place,
Not in high place."