I'm wondering...does it have anything to do with the fact that the victorious son answered second?
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I'm wondering...does it have anything to do with the fact that the victorious son answered second?
Not really. Except he was wrong, and the second was right. If it were the other way around, I doubt he would have gotten it wrong, then. Plus I'm pretty sure he was the older of the two, if clearly not the wiser. The order doesn't really matter.
Let me then say TIME. The old saying is "Time and tide change everything." Time is measured in the passing of the moon, the coming and going of the tides, etc. ;)
That is a wonderful guess- very nicely deducted, btw- but I'm afraid that that's not it. Sorry Pen. :(
I think you are going to have to tell us MS C. I can think of things affected by the moon or said to be affected by the moon, but none seem to fit.
Werewolves, for example. People's moods are said to be affected by the moon. Age as in Native American societies: "He is an elder of many moons." I honestly don't know. ;)
Oh, I could never turn you down, Pen! It's women:D:D:D! You guys were appalingly close with the red tide bit, but I couldn't say that, now could I? Shall you post the next, Pen, or shall someone else?
Give someone else a shot. ;) Good riddle! http://www.cosgan.de/images/kao/haushalt/h025.gif
Why, thank you! That's all for me now! I've used my best, and it did stump you. (I'm still amazed no one came out and guessed it when I tried to reiterate how mad she got at the wrong one...) Who's up next? I need a good riddle...
I cannot help myself: sorry! http://www.cosgan.de/images/kao/figuren/e030.gif
Possibly very thin, or white and thick,
Opaque mayhap, or translucent, clear—
Whether seen or unseen alike both very slick,
One creeps with fingers like a witches.
Is that a sheet? Is that a cube? Is that a spike?
Hummm. This one wet; that one dry.
One smokes and burns, funny like—
The other too may smoke or seem to cry.
Power of Preservation gives them value,
Power for Destruction lies within them too
Yet when not solid one is life, one death:
Yet one name alone will name the two…
And that would be:
...salt?
For some reason, chemistry is on the brain.
Drinks?? Cigarette?? Bad-habit??
I know I fail miserably at these riddles, but I like playing??
Oh you must think if not chemistry, at least basic physics...:) No answer so far. All clues are there, I swear to that! :thumbs_up
Is it evaporation?
Ice, or water....
yes I think it must be ice:nod:
Possibly very thin, or white and thick,
Opaque mayhap, or translucent, clear—
Whether seen or unseen alike both very slick,
One creeps with fingers like a witches.
Is that a sheet? Is that a cube? Is that a spike? /all applicable to ice
Hummm. This one wet; that one dry.
One smokes and burns, funny like—
The other too may smoke or seem to cry.
Power of Preservation gives them value,you use it to store food
Power for Destruction lies within them tooavalanches hypothermia death by freezing frost bite a
Yet when not solid one is life, one deathwater is the source of all life:
Yet one name alone will name the two…
but becase its one name oh wait you mean dry ice and normal ice not ice and water do you?
And that would be:
ICE!
We have our winnah! http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/sportlich/a040.gif
To explain the riddle:
Possibly very thin, or white and thick,
Opaque mayhap, or translucent, clear—
Whether seen or unseen alike both very slick,
One creeps with fingers like a witches.
[Ice may be anywhere from thick white to thin clear, even "black ice", which for all intents and purposes is invisible. Dry ice is thick and white. Both types are slick and slippery, one because it is water, the other because it melts at room temperature, and gets covered in liquid. The "creeping fingers like witches" are icicles.]
Is that a sheet? Is that a cube? Is that a spike?
Hummm. This one wet; that one dry.
One smokes and burns, funny like—
The other too may smoke or seem to cry.
[Ice comes in sheets, cubes, spikes. Water ice is wet, then there's dry ice.
Dry ice melts as I said at room temperature, but being so cold smokes and burns the skin. On a warm day evaporation (good catch, Virgil!) makes water ice melt, seeming to "weep" and smoke "steam"}
Power of Preservation gives them value,
Power for Destruction lies within them too
Yet when not solid one is life, one death
Yet one name alone will name the two…
And that would be:
ICE!
[You use it to store food or in refrigeration. Avalanches, hypothermia, death by freezing, frost-bite, not to mention dry-ice is poisonous, will suck oxegen from a room, will cause water to foam and froth etc. Water is the source of all life, but Dry Ice is frozen Carbon Dioxide, which you can't breathe. So death. But both are ice.]
Anyone else got a good riddle?
Congratulations to Night - very impressive.
Holds a steamship, but never holds a pin.
What is it?
Water. Steamship floats, pin sinks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Poetess
True! xD
 
Thats the first one Ive ever done completely alone ...well other than the tides but Id read that story....:D:D :banana:Quote:
Originally Posted by RobinHood3000
Ohh My turn to think of a reeeeeeeeeally goood one in the mean time a couple of christmas cracker riddles:
Where are your Andes?
What do you call a blind dinsoar?
...at the end of our Armies?
Is that from Jurassic Park?
A nobodysaurus? http://www.smileyworld.com/dictionar...s/dinosaur.gif
yeahQuote:
Originally Posted by RobinHood3000
nope christmas crackers....Quote:
Is that from Jurassic Park?
and sorry pen not right but on the right track.
...Do-You-Think-He-Saurus?
:lol: that's funny....Quote:
Originally Posted by RobinHood3000
and correct bravo robin, I take it youve met the christmas craker jokes in the past ? http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m..._sarcastic.png
Probably not. He's just silly enough to think of the punch lines of any joke before they are delivered. Got any more, Night?~eager~
What has a mouth but does not speak , and a bed but does not sleep?--- ariver
What did the policeman say to his tummy ? ( americaised english speakers probably wont get this one)
What goes ha ha bonk?
What goes 99 bonk?-- a centipede with a wooden leg
Whats yellow and scary?
How do you make an apple grumble?
Where do you go to wieght a whale?
What 3 letters are criminals afraid of?----ICU
Just for starters...:brow:
#1 is a river :lol:
#2 What would a bobby say to his... "Bob's your Uncle?"
#4 Take away its appeal
#5 Wales
#6 LAW
hummm the first one is right anyway....:lol: although that last one is very good dont know why thats not the righ answer but it isnt.
And all the rest are wrong as well?! http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/konfus/g020.gif
yes afraid so... youre just not thinking cheese corny and silly enough.
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1.) What has a mouth but does not speak , and a bed but does not sleep?
2.) What did the policeman say to his tummy ? ( americaised english speakers probably wont get this one)
3.) What goes ha ha bonk?
4.) What goes 99 bonk?
5.) Whats yellow and scary?
6.) How do you make an apple grumble?
7.) Where do you go to wieght a whale?
8.) What 3 letters are criminals afraid of?
#5 A bad banana?
#7 (slurring, and getting really corny) The Doctor's Office
Just hit me: #8 has to be ICU http://smilies.vidahost.com/contrib/...d/iroc-cop.gif
yes 8 is correct:nod: as to the rest still no IM afraid... youll kick yourself when you hear the answers :p
4) A centipede with a wooden leg?
If only I could switch to über cheesy illogical mode by flipping a switch. :brickwal
The two I did know have already been answered. :(
correct:D:Dhttp://www.websmileys.com/sm/fingers/fing25.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Taliesin
#7) An undersea resturant? Of course, you would be the Waiter/Waitress, the whale would be your customer, so you would have to wait a whale.
#2) Wild guess, OK. "I'll get the braclets/darbies for you?" I know braclets/darbies is slang for handcuff, do they also refer to doughnuts? The other term I have in mind is sinkers, which I know means doughnuts, but wonder how it would fit into a policeman's jargon.
nope :D:D give up??