I have never heard these before:
The cat that got the cream
Sort the sheep from the goats
A bear with a sore head
British expressions, perhaps?
I have never heard these before:
The cat that got the cream
Sort the sheep from the goats
A bear with a sore head
British expressions, perhaps?
The cat that got the cream - probably Brit
Sort the sheep from the goats - Biblical, I believe (Matthew 25.31-46)
A bear with a sore head - probably US
Last edited by MarkBastable; 06-04-2011 at 06:46 AM.
Ok, thanks. New puzzle? Whose turn is it?
Mick posted a riddle last week. And apparently it's stumped everyone.
Maybe like a large pipe organ, with someone (the beard) playing it?Originally Posted by prendrelemick
And I thought it was another case of prendrelemick kills off the thread with a too easy question .
Clue: This old man kept a comb but had no hair.
Rooster? (I don't know what the comb would be, but I'm throwing it out there anyhow.)
EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comb_(anatomy)
**** of the walk, baby!
Last edited by billl; 06-08-2011 at 02:26 PM.
Commiserations billl, you're right!
So what's the 'never born' bit about? Having been an egg doesn't count as birth?
See, this is why I hate riddles. That kind of contrivance makes me cross.
Still - off we go....
Last edited by MarkBastable; 06-08-2011 at 08:47 PM.
I heard this one over the weekend:
There's a 10-mile long bamboo and twine bridge between two islands in the South Pacific. It's a hell of a thing this bridge, enormous and pretty strong for not having any metal or concrete involved.
Anyhow, there's a toll booth at each end, and you have to pay AND you have to get weighed if you are in a truck, because the bridge has a strict (total) 20 ton limit. If you go even the slightest bit beyond that limit, the bridge will collapse.
Well, Joe Trucker drives onto the scales, and his truck (with him inside) weighed EXACTLY 20 tons. Not a milligram over or under. Well, the toll booth guy called the toll booth guy at the other end, and they blocked incoming traffic and waited for the cars already on the bridge to clear off. With the bridge eventually clear of all other traffic, Joe T. started the engine and began driving onto the bridge.
About half-way across, a sparrow came flying alongside his truck, on the passenger side. Then, amazingly, the bird stuck out its legs and made to land on the passenger-side rear-view mirror. In a matter of moments, the bird would be resting on the truck, and adding to the total weight!
What did Joe Trucker do?
Shoot it, thus lightening the truck by the weight of a bullet?
Toss his coffee out the window?
Nothing, because he'd burned more than a sparrow's weight of gas driving that far?
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The last one in your list of suggestions is the one that the guys on the radio show Car Talk were looking for (Joe didn't have to do anything), but they also admitted that tossing a shoe out of the window and so on were also things that Joe might do. Good going, Calidore.
Score one for the dartboard approach.
However, I haven't a puzzle handy and don't always look at this thread anyway, so if anyone who doesn't normally get to would like to put one up in my place, go for it.
And if it's bad form to toss out an answer without a follow-up handy, please say so.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
What connects table football, calm water on a breezeless day and Soviet anti anti tank weapons?
I'm sorry, I just have to check (because the nearly redundant/repetitive "calm water on a breezeless day" opens up a vaguely tantalizing prospect, albeit one exposed as pretty much hopeless in the light of the straight-forward "table football") if there really is supposed to be two "anti's" in there.
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