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10-10-2005, 08:46 AM
Pendragon

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scheherazade

Since Night is not posting a question...

Which city will George be visiting next summer?

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Chicago, of course.

My question:

When is a door not a door? :lol:
10-10-2005, 01:40 PM
Scheherazade

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pendragon

When is a door not a door?

When it is ajar??

What word is the same backwards and upside down?
10-10-2005, 04:23 PM
Darlin

If in capital letters SOS.

What is blue and green and brown but always clear the world wide round?
10-11-2005, 10:12 AM
Pendragon

Eyes??--------
10-11-2005, 05:14 PM
Nightshade

eyes arent always clear they can be clouded by tears and or ain or so they say at least :D
10-11-2005, 05:23 PM
Darlin

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pendragon

Eyes??--------

:) Nope. :)
10-11-2005, 05:28 PM
Nightshade

sign posts??
but no they are not clear for eg there is one in egypt (one of personal faveS) that reads
No wimmin
can you guess what it is meant to say??
10-11-2005, 05:36 PM
Scheherazade

Quote:

Originally Posted by Darlin

What is blue and green and brown but always clear the world wide round?

Glass?

'No wimmin' = No Women?

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10-11-2005, 05:40 PM
Nightshade

If this is the right answer I am dissapointed glass can also be cloudy....
I feel like playing devils advocate tonight sorry Shade is commong out to play!!!
10-11-2005, 08:08 PM
Darlin

You can relax, Nightshade it isn't the right answer. :) You know I just made it up out of the blue but when I told my daughter she guessed it right away. Let me know if you give up.
10-12-2005, 09:19 AM
Pendragon

Give me a minor chord please, mastro. Thank you. (singing) Cool, clear, water...water
10-12-2005, 04:19 PM
Darlin

Brilliant! Easy eh? :) Next brain twister?
10-12-2005, 09:51 PM
Nightshade

I dont get it??!!
Ps water can be murkey;):lol:
10-12-2005, 09:52 PM
Nightshade

I want to ask a question but its Pendragons turn(ps make it very very easy so I get to ask :D)
10-13-2005, 08:55 AM
Pendragon

OK. Yes, water gets murky, but if you put it in a glass...

Anyway, next question:

You are in a room with a window in all four walls. Each window faces South. A bear walks by. What color is the bear?
10-13-2005, 09:39 AM
Scheherazade

White as only in the South Pole all the windows can face the South and polar bears are white.

What three letter word best completes the below words?

***Y

SW***

AL***

W***

F***
10-13-2005, 09:55 AM
Pendragon

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scheherazade

White as only in the South Pole all the windows can face the South and polar bears are white.

North Pole, dear lady. At the South Pole all windows face North. But you are correct about the Polar Bear, and they only live near the North Pole. :)
10-13-2005, 09:58 AM
Scheherazade

I meant to say North Pole! :goof:
10-13-2005, 02:56 PM
Taliesin

Army
Swarm
Alarm
Warm
Farm

The word is "arm".

Hmm.
Well, this isn't exactly a brain teaser, but it is an interesting story our literature teacher told us. It cannot be solved with pure logic, it needs some knowledge on history of literature. We probably don't remember it exactly how it was told, but we'll try.

Once, in the last century, some Russian intellectuals got the permission to visit France.
One of them met a french noble in a cafe. They chatted and had really interesting thoughts and so on but then the russian asked the French nobleman's name.
He answered: "If I tell you my name, you will leave the table."
The russian was surprised and didn't believe him and asked him to tell it anyway.
The frenchman said his name, and, to prevent the russian from leaving, he himself left the table.

What was the frenchmans (last) name?

It has got nothing to do with the languages nor is it a play on words.
10-13-2005, 04:03 PM
Anon22

Quote:

Originally Posted by Taliesin

Army
Swarm
Alarm
Warm
Farm

The word is "arm".

Hmm.
Well, this isn't exactly a brain teaser, but it is an interesting story our literature teacher told us. It cannot be solved with pure logic, it needs some knowledge on history of literature. We probably don't remember it exactly how it was told, but we'll try.

Once, in the last century, some Russian intellectuals got the permission to visit France.
One of them met a french noble in a cafe. They chatted and had really interesting thoughts and so on but then the russian asked the French nobleman's name.
He answered: "If I tell you my name, you will leave the table."
The russian was surprised and didn't believe him and asked him to tell it anyway.
The frenchman said his name, and, to prevent the russian from leaving, he himself left the table.

What was the frenchmans (last) name?

It has got nothing to do with the languages nor is it a play on words.

I've no idea... lol. Away? I have a strange feeling that we(or maybe the Russian people) obtained a word because of this event(probably his last name)

Anyhow... now that I noticed this topic I think I'll delete my riddles topic to prevent having 2 topics of the same thing(basically). Anyhow... my riddle?

Not being part of the group of flight, away it flies alone. What is it?(not Time, kind of fits the riddle though)

btw the answer to the riddle in my topic was selfishness, kind of easy:

Me before You
You after Me
Me, Me, Me
This is what it's all about. What is it?(Selfishness)

EDIT:
bleh... apparently I can't delete it... oh well... I'll just let it die then
10-13-2005, 05:44 PM
Pendragon

Quote:

Originally Posted by DigitalCrash

Not being part of the group of flight, away it flies alone. What is it?(not Time, kind of fits the riddle though)

Light :rolleyes:
10-14-2005, 06:35 AM
Nightshade

Quote:

Originally Posted by Taliesin

Once, in the last century, some Russian intellectuals got the permission to visit France.
One of them met a french noble in a cafe. They chatted and had really interesting thoughts and so on but then the russian asked the French nobleman's name.
He answered: "If I tell you my name, you will leave the table."
The russian was surprised and didn't believe him and asked him to tell it anyway.
The frenchman said his name, and, to prevent the russian from leaving, he himself left the table.

What was the frenchmans (last) name?

It has got nothing to do with the languages nor is it a play on words.

ohh was he related to Ras-whats his face and the russian reveloution or are we talking before that??
10-14-2005, 07:47 AM
Pendragon

Quote:

Originally Posted by Taliesin

Once, in the last century, some Russian intellectuals got the permission to visit France.
One of them met a french noble in a cafe. They chatted and had really interesting thoughts and so on but then the russian asked the French nobleman's name.
He answered: "If I tell you my name, you will leave the table."
The russian was surprised and didn't believe him and asked him to tell it anyway.
The frenchman said his name, and, to prevent the russian from leaving, he himself left the table.

What was the frenchmans (last) name?

It has got nothing to do with the languages nor is it a play on words.

Romanoff? C'est possible?
10-14-2005, 09:52 AM
Anon22

Nope, not light
10-14-2005, 11:39 AM
Taliesin

Nope.
Hint: it has got a thing to do with an ancestor of the Frenchman.
And we are talkingabout time before the Russian revolution.

Related to russian literature.
10-14-2005, 04:09 PM
Nightshade

Quote:

Not being part of the group of flight, away it flies alone. What is it?(not Time, kind of fits the riddle though)

life

@tailsin was he decended from the whats there faces "loius"s
10-14-2005, 04:42 PM
Anon22

Nope, gee... @.@ that also kind of fits the riddle. Anyhow...

Hint: It's something you can see, touch, smell, hear and I guess taste... but yuck
10-14-2005, 06:27 PM
Pendragon

Quote:

Originally Posted by DigitalCrash

Nope, gee... @.@ that also kind of fits the riddle. Anyhow...

Hint: It's something you can see, touch, smell, hear and I guess taste... but yuck

I'm laughing here...

Are we talking bird flight or airplane flight?

Bird flight--poop
Airplane flight--exust from engines

Even if I am wrong this is funny to me... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
10-14-2005, 06:32 PM
Pendragon

Quote:

Originally Posted by Taliesin

Nope.
Hint: it has got a thing to do with an ancestor of the Frenchman.
And we are talkingabout time before the Russian revolution.

Related to russian literature.

Ah. Then perhaps the Frenchman was named Rothschild?
10-16-2005, 06:26 PM
Nightshade

Quote:

Originally Posted by DigitalCrash

Not being part of the group of flight, away it flies alone. What is it?(not Time, kind of fits the riddle though)

Hint: It's something you can see, touch, smell, hear and I guess taste... but yuck

Hair? as in flyway hair??
10-17-2005, 04:49 PM
Anon22

No. Not that either.

Last Hint: It's a living thing
10-17-2005, 05:51 PM
Darlin

Arrgghhhh! This has been bothering me for days! Does everyone give up? I do. I want the answer. Patience isn't my greatest virtue.
10-17-2005, 06:16 PM
Nightshade

give up !NEVER
*spies darlin approaching with a slightly annoyed look
OkOk I give up!
whats the answer!! Oh but make it invisible so I can still think aboutt it ;)
10-17-2005, 06:17 PM
Nightshade

a fly!!!!!
wait they dont smell
sweat no not living hummm
a vulture!!
no-?
:lol:
10-17-2005, 07:45 PM
Pendragon

If I missed with my guesses, I'm not to proud to admit defeat! I can't think of a living thing--a parisite--final answer, Regis... :idea:
10-17-2005, 10:05 PM
Anon22

When I said earlier about you being able to smell it, feel it, touch it, etc. it was just so you guys would not think of things like time, hope, love, that type of stuff you can't really see. Basically I did that so you would start thinking only about objects, people, animals, etc. So even though a fly doesn't smell... I would still count it as part of the hint(not the answer though)
10-17-2005, 10:10 PM
Anon22

oh, not the regis... Ok... I guess I'll walk you through it. Together, the riddle makes no sense, but seperately it can actually start making more sense.

Basically what is the "group of flight"?

What does this mean you should think about for the second part? ("away it flies alone")

What does it mean by "flies alone"?

What does this tell you about the living thing?

What's the answer?

(sorry for double posting btw)
10-18-2005, 03:04 AM
Nightshade

flock--one?
ok whats a flock of one??
10-18-2005, 07:44 AM
Pendragon

Quote:

Originally Posted by DigitalCrash

oh, not the regis... Ok... I guess I'll walk you through it. Together, the riddle makes no sense, but seperately it can actually start making more sense.

Basically what is the "group of flight"?

What does this mean you should think about for the second part? ("away it flies alone")

What does it mean by "flies alone"?

What does this tell you about the living thing?

What's the answer?

(sorry for double posting btw)

You missed my joke by a mile, mon ami. The Regis I was refering to is Regis Philburn on the TV Show "Who Wants to Be a Millionare?" and he always asks "Is that your final answer?" Hee-Hee!http://www.websmileys.com/sm/happy/552.gif OK now to your clue. What we have is a living thing that always flies solo, n'est c'est pas? A bee, mayhap? Well, they do swarm...fireflies--each one flies solo.
10-18-2005, 08:36 AM
Kaltrina

I've been thinking a lot about this riddle posted by Digital and I can't find the answer, but I am anxious to know what it is. :eek2:

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