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Re: Jokes and Riddles
By: guest74 Date: August 13, 2013, 5:57 pm
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[font=georgia][color=#5694EB]Your riddles are perfect, Elryn!
They make for wonderful brain food while I'm on my lengthy drive
to work in the morning. C:
And beautifully done, Gingkage! That seems a splendid answer; I
don't think I'd've been able to arrive at the same conclusion in
as swift a time as you had. *Applauds brightly for the Madame's
cleverness* ^ o^
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Re: Jokes and Riddles
By: Gingkage Date: August 16, 2013, 11:54 pm
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Elryn posed these riddles a few pages ago.
[quote]What goes to London and strikes every house?
What goes to London yet never moves?
What flies to London without wings?[/quote]
I was looking at a thread in DF GD (for the curious the "How
does everyone know who we are" thread), and my thought was,
though I didn't post it "I think it's simply that gossip flies
faster..." the finishing thought was, of course, 'than we do'
but it did remind me of these three riddles.
Gossip travels everywhere, so it would strike every house. The
'rumor mill' would be everywhere, yet being a metaphorical mill,
would never move. And gossip travels so quickly that it does
seem to fly, despite not having wings.
So, Elryn, my question is this. Is the answer to your triad of
riddles 'gossip' or 'rumor'?
And, Aura, I kinda had an edge as I've seen riddles that involve
letters as the answer. Elryn's reminded me of two that I'd heard
that the answers both involved the letter 'e.' So not quite as
impressive.
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Re: Jokes and Riddles
By: Elryn Date: August 17, 2013, 8:53 pm
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*Elryn grins*
Interesting guess, Gingkage, but those are three separate
riddles each. In each case, the meaning is more literal than
metaphorical. Although gossip is everywhere, it would actually
need to move from mouth to mouth in order to go to London thus
it breaks that. Fly is literal, thus it cannot be gossip as
gossip is not airborn. The same for striking.
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Re: Jokes and Riddles
By: Elryn Date: September 10, 2013, 12:52 pm
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Time to add another one. This one should be fairly simple.
You will find me in winter,
You will find in a bowl,
I am both hot and cold.
Who am I?
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Re: Jokes and Riddles
By: Gingkage Date: September 10, 2013, 1:12 pm
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Carrots. Because people use them for snowman noses in winter,
people (or at least I do) put them in stew, so in a bowl, eaten
when pulled out of the fridge they're cold, and when eaten in
stew, they're hot.
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Re: Jokes and Riddles
By: Elryn Date: September 11, 2013, 4:33 pm
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Interesting suggestion, but alas not the answer. What is found
in winter here is naturally found there, unlike a carrot which
would have to be brought in. What is hot and cold here, is hot
and cold all at once.
*grins* Keep guessing.
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Re: Jokes and Riddles
By: Gingkage Date: September 11, 2013, 6:26 pm
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Water. In winter it freezes over as ice, but it's still water.
Hot springs are hot, and in places without hot springs, it's
significantly cooler. And cups are bowl-ish.
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Re: Jokes and Riddles
By: guest74 Date: September 12, 2013, 12:39 pm
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[font=georgia][color=#5694EB]Hmnn... Is the answer to your
riddle perhaps "chilly", Elryn?
In wintertime, it's always chilly!
And then, playing on homophones, "chilly" in a bowl becomes
"chili", the hot food, aha. C:
This one's a cute riddle, if so!
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Re: Jokes and Riddles
By: Elryn Date: September 21, 2013, 11:01 am
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*Elryn grins*
You found it, Aura.
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Re: Jokes and Riddles
By: Starflame Date: September 28, 2013, 11:46 am
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Here's a new one, then:
Black Within, Red Without, Four Corners, Round-a-bout.
What am I?
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