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Off Topic Chat => The Conversation Parlor => Topic started by: John B. on October 20, 2011, 12:05:53 AM
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Thought we could use some riddles.
A man goes to a hardware store, when he get home his wife says "did you get them?" He said "yes for 500 it was $6." "Oh so they were $2 each" said the wife.
What did the Man Buy???? first to get it rights wins the prize down below
PRIZE: A BIG GOOD JOB!!!
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HOUSE NUMBERS. BOOYAH.
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GOOD JOB. also how did you know that one? :( dont like that it happen that fast.
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Haha I'm just a riddle master I suppose :P
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Haha I'm just a riddle master I suppose :P
i feel like calling bs on that but untill i have proof i will believe you.
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3 men get a hotel room for $30. Each man pays $10. Upon getting to their room the cashier realizes the room should have only been $25, so he sends the bellhop to take them back $5. The bellhop thinks to himself "3 men cannot split $5" so he kept $2 and gave the men back $3. So each man now only paid $9 each...which totals to $27...plus the $2 the bellhop kept...that equals $29...where is the other dollar?
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3 men get a hotel room for $30. Each man pays $10. Upon getting to their room the cashier realizes the room should have only been $25, so he sends the bellhop to take them back $5. The bellhop thinks to himself "3 men cannot split $5" so he kept $2 and gave the men back $3. So each man now only paid $9 each...which totals to $27...plus the $2 the bellhop kept...that equals $29...where is the other dollar?
That's not so much a riddle as it is poor maths, trying to add numbers together in a way that makes no sense to the actual problem. Yes each man paid $9, but that includes the $2 that the bellhop kept, you can't just add it again. So $27 in total that they paid ($25 for the room + $2 for the bellhop) and each man got $1 back. So that accounts for the entire $30.
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Ok puffy...didn't mean to interrupt your physics class with my poor math problem. It is meant to be played out as I explained it, not some math problem to be solved for a grade...take it easy
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Ok puffy...didn't mean to interrupt your physics class with my poor math problem. It is meant to be played out as I explained it, not some math problem to be solved for a grade...take it easy
Sorry, didn't mean to come across all prissy :) Was just trying to answer the riddle, and the answer really is that the question is wrong :P It's a neat little bit of narrative that tends to throw people for a loop initially.
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There ya go :D that be the correct answer! Point for the Puff
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A young girl tells you, "I was seven years old two days ago, but I'll be ten next year." How is this possible?
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dark matter, she was 7 went into space for 2 yeas but reversed how travel normally works and only was gone for 2 days.
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dark matter, she was 7 went into space for 2 yeas but reversed how travel normally works and only was gone for 2 days.
Lol, that's an interesting take on it :P And actually, with a bit of reworking, it could work. If the little girl was staying on earth and you travelled in a space ship at relativistic speed, then time would pass more slowly for you relative to the earth. So when you returned after a year, more time would have passed on the earth. Provided the young girl knew the speed you'd been travelling at (and had a crazy knowledge of relativity for a 7 year old) she could have calculated the relative times you would both experience.
However, there's a more mundane example that doesn't require accelerating you to significant fractions of the speed of light :P
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yea i know what it is but dont want to give it away.
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She was seven 2 days ago, so she is now 8... next year by calendar i.e. she'll be 9 before the year ends, and 10 before the next year ends. Would it have to be New Years Eve and pass midnight during the sentence?
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Would it have to be New Years Eve and pass midnight during the sentence?
Very close, but not quite :) No need for the day to change during the sentence.
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Is her bday Dec 31st and it's New Years day when she tells you this? Because that would make her 8 now, and next December 31st she'll be 9, but it's still the same year as this New Years Day. Then next year on New Years Day she'll be 10.
I'm telling you, if I think long enough I can usually get em.
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IF there is a TABLE and there is a book, the only possibilities are that the book is on the table or off the table. to get the right answer to the riddle you have to tell me a third possibility.
Think very hard, it took me a while to figure out.
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the table is a book.
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It could be IN the table. Probably not right but it is another possibility.
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What if it's not a physical table? What if it's a table of something? Like a table of numbers. It could be a table in a book.
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Damn shes right, it was a table in a book, like a periodic table in a science book.
Hmm next riddle: How many letters are in "the alphabet"?
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the answer is 8. tricky but very easy.
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I count 11 letters
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Just curious...
what is X
2 + 2 x 2 = X
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Is her bday Dec 31st and it's New Years day when she tells you this? Because that would make her 8 now, and next December 31st she'll be 9, but it's still the same year as this New Years Day. Then next year on New Years Day she'll be 10.
I'm telling you, if I think long enough I can usually get em.
Indeed, nicely done :)
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X is a letter...yes?
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X is a letter...yes?
it's a straight up, simple maths question. No trick.
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2 + 2 x 2 = 6
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X is the symbol for multiply
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Would the 2 + 2 x 2 = X be X = 8?
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If it is straight math I think the answer would be 6 due to order of ops
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Would the 2 + 2 x 2 = X be X = 8?
Good at riddles, bad at math :P As sin said, order of operators is multiply/divide then addition/subtraction :)
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Anyways, new riddle:
A group of people with assorted eye colors live on an island. They are all perfect logicians -- if a conclusion can be logically deduced, they will do it instantly. No one knows the color of their eyes. Every night at midnight, a ferry stops at the island. Any islanders who have figured out the color of their own eyes then leave the island, and the rest stay. Everyone can see everyone else at all times and keeps a count of the number of people they see with each eye color (excluding themselves), but they cannot otherwise communicate. Everyone on the island knows all the rules in this paragraph.
On this island there are 100 blue-eyed people, 100 brown-eyed people, and the Guru (she happens to have green eyes). So any given blue-eyed person can see 100 people with brown eyes and 99 people with blue eyes (and one with green), but that does not tell him his own eye color; as far as he knows the totals could be 101 brown and 99 blue. Or 100 brown, 99 blue, and he could have red eyes.
The Guru is allowed to speak once (let's say at noon), on one day in all their endless years on the island. Standing before the islanders, she says the following:
"I can see someone who has blue eyes."
Who leaves the island, and on what night?
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The Guru leaves on the night she says that because she has looked in the mirror.
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Would the 2 + 2 x 2 = X be X = 8?
Nah, you fell for it but I think I'm right in saying when this is surveyed, most people say 8.
As for the riddle above, it's explicitly stated that the Guru has green eyes, so it can't be her. Anyone who was alone with her (or with her and only brown eyed people), though, would be able to leave but that's too obvious, I think.
EDIT: I think I'm getting this, actually. If you saw only 1 person with blue eyes but they DIDN'T leave that night, then you know that they're not sure 100% that they have blue eyes, so you must have blue eyes as well. Does that logic expand up to 100, though? If there are 3, they can see 2 but both stay the 2nd night, so they're still not sure, so YOU must have blue eyes as well.
OK, the blue eyed people leave on the 100th night, the brown eyed people leave on the 101st night (since they were all certain they had blue eyes, everyone else must have brown eyes; simple step) and the Guru can never leave.
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No one leaves the island, they can't speak therefore they can't tell the person on the ferry their eye color.
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Quick ones;
1. How far can you run into the woods?
2. My bedroom has 4 south-facing windows. Where am I?
3. What was the highest mountain before Mount Everest was discovered?
4. I bring my book up to the attendant at the counter, pay for it and leave it there. Why leave it?
5. For $5, I'll cut a log in half for you. How much to cut it in 4?
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#2 - The North pole ... #5 - $15
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#2 - The North pole ... #5 - $15
You got the North Pole. $15 is wrong.
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Hmmm, thought I would have got #5 right too. Back to the drawing board...
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Hmmm, thought I would have got #5 right too. Back to the drawing board...
Oh, no... wait. It is right, I thought I put down a different starting amount. Durrr... that one's a bit crap, anyway.
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1. You can run until you reach them, or until they end. One of those two.
2. North pole (though you didn't specify that they were on different walls - maybe you have a really weird floorplan?)
3. Mt. Everest, assuming you didn't mean what was the highest mountain discovered.
4. Overdue book at the library?
5. $10?
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So close! Sins was right with the $15 for number 5, I messed up.
You didn't get number 1; both your answers are wrong.
The rest are dead right.
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How far can you walk into the woods?
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Half way, after that you would be walking out of the woods
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OK, the blue eyed people leave on the 100th night, the brown eyed people leave on the 101st night (since they were all certain they had blue eyes, everyone else must have brown eyes; simple step) and the Guru can never leave.
Nicely done, except the brown eyed people don't leave, since all they know is they don't have blue eyes, they could have green eyes.
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Half way, after that you would be walking out of the woods
Bingo, nice work
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Half way, after that you would be walking out of the woods
DING DING DING We have a winner.
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Sweet! I got 2...not bad
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I am trying to climb a slippy rope out of a hole 400 feet deep. Every day I climb 40 feet but then get tired and slip down 30 feet. How many days does it take me to escape?
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40 days i believe.
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40 days or 41 days
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A boy and his father are going to a baseball game. On their way there, the get into a terrible car accident and are rushed to the hospital in an ambulance immediately. When they arrive at the hospital, the little boy is taken into the emergency room for surgery. The surgeon came into the room, and said "I can't operate on this child. He's my son." how can this be?
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the surgeon is the boys mom.
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the surgeon is the boys mom.
Congrats! That means you aren't sexist. Lol
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well i was sexist when i read it
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try this one.
Name an eight letter word that has 'kst' in the middle, in the beginning, and at the end.
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Do the letters have to appear in that order as well?
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You got the North Pole. $15 is wrong.
$10 because to cut it in half thats one cut for $5, and you keep the two halves together and chop them to gether thats another $5 so $10
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40 days or 41 days
No, both wrong.
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7 days? He never will?
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I am trying to climb a slippy rope out of a hole 400 feet deep. Every day I climb 40 feet but then get tired and slip down 30 feet. How many days does it take me to escape?
10 or 11 days?
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Is it 14 days?
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No, no and no.
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Pretty sure the answer is 40. In essence you are only moving 10 feet a day. 400/10=40
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Pretty sure the answer is 40. In essence you are only moving 10 feet a day. 400/10=40
I'll let you guys just have this one (SPOILER ALERT) btw, a drop-down spoiler tab would be a nice feature.
OK, the answer is 37.
You're right about moving 10 feet per day total, but that's AFTER you slide back down. So, on day 36 I reach 390 feet and then slide back 30 i.e. by the end of day 36, I am at 360 feet. On day 37, I start at 360 feet and then climb the remaining 40 feet out.
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to people trying mine (aka sinsandman) i cant tell any thing else with out giving it away.
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I didn't even notice you had an unanswered one. It's 'inkstand' but I've heard it before, in fairness.
The man who makes it doesn't want to use it, the man who buys it doesn't use it, the man who wants it never sees it and the man who uses it never knows it. What is it?
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good job :) i was looking around for hard ones.
I am served at a tableIn gatherings of two or four. Served small white and round. You'll love someAnd that's part of the fun. What am I
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good job :) i was looking around for hard ones.
I am served at a tableIn gatherings of two or four. Served small white and round. You'll love someAnd that's part of the fun. What am I
Are there parts missing from that or is it just the formatting that's off?
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formatting must have been off, i just copied and pasted it.
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I really enjoyed that rope one! It was quite difficult.
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I am intrigued by Kanped's...I am stumped though
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I'm guessing oxygen
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My Dad's guess is a casket or an obituary, or something pertaining to death. I is just a guess though.
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My Dad's guess is a casket or an obituary, or something pertaining to death. I is just a guess though.
Correct; it's a coffin.
I know the answer to your one but I looked it up. Some of it doesn't really fit with the answer; the key word is 'serve'. ;)
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good job :) i was looking around for hard ones.
I am served at a tableIn gatherings of two or four. Served small white and round. You'll love someAnd that's part of the fun. What am I
Table Tennis
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Well; ping-pong balls, specifically but close enough.
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That one didn't really match the difficulty of your others
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Maybe because it wasn't mine :) loldudex2 posted it
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Ahhh makes sense...weak Levi! Step it up lol
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At room temperature, how much mercury does it take to submerge a 25 cm cubed ball bearing in a 500 cm cubed container?
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Ahhh makes sense...weak Levi! Step it up lol
Which one are you referring to?
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At room temperature, how much mercury does it take to submerge a 25 cm cubed ball bearing in a 500 cm cubed container?
Does this involve an equation?
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The word to my riddle has seven letters. Preceded God. Greater than God. More evil than the Devil. All poor people have it. Wealthy people need it. If you eat it, you will die.
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The answer is nothing.
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You are very correct.
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A dead man is found in a locked room, hanging from the ceiling 4 ft. above the floor. The room is completely empty, except for a puddle of water below him. How did he die?
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he hanged himself standing on a 4ft block of ice.
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You are Correct!
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Does this involve an equation?
No but it's more general knowledge than a riddle, I guess. Prior knowledge is required. You can look up the knowledge if you work out what's odd about it.
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At room temperature, how much mercury does it take to submerge a 25 cm cubed ball bearing in a 500 cm cubed container?
The volume of a container wouldn't be of any use if you were trying to calculate the volume of liquid that would submerge and object, you'd need to know the shape and dimensions of the container. And since I'm quite sure it wouldn't have been a maths problem anyway, I propose the following:
Mercury is an incredibly dense liquid, depending on what the ball bearing is made of (steel I would guess), it might be less dense than the mercury and thus float. I'm not sure if that's the answer, but I can't think of anything else.
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Nicely done, Puffy; it's impossible, it would float.
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You are at a funeral. You see a man crying in the corner. You go up to the man and ask what connection he had to the woman who passed. He says: "Brothers and sisters I have none. But her father is my father's son." What connection does the man have with the woman who died?
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He's her father
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There are 2 doors. One leads to paradise, the other to torment. A guard stands at each door. The guard guarding paradise always tells the truth, the one guarding torment always lies. You must enter one of the doors and you cannot leave thereafter. How can you make sure you get into paradise?
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Can't figure out Kanped's. Here's two new ones, simple if you know what to look for:
1) Which weighs less: a pound of feathers, a pound of bricks, or a pound of gold?
2) You're hired at the US Mint, in charge of procuring supplies for making money. Your first assignment: purchase enough materials to print $1,000,000 in $1 bills. The first supplier on the list of suppliers that you call is the sales manager of a paper factory which uses recycled wood to make new paper and cardboard products. How much of her paper will you need?
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1) they all weigh a pound.
2) 1,000,000 pieces of $1 shaped paper
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You wouldn't need any paper. $1 bills are printed on linen.
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There are 2 doors. One leads to paradise, the other to torment. A guard stands at each door. The guard guarding paradise always tells the truth, the one guarding torment always lies. You must enter one of the doors and you cannot leave thereafter. How can you make sure you get into paradise?
Ask the one who always tells the truth what the other guy would say if I asked him which door led to paradise. Then go to the other door.
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1) Which weighs less: a pound of feathers, a pound of bricks, or a pound of gold?
Trick question. a pound of gold weighs less. Gold is weighed in Troy pounds, which are about 18% less than regular pounds.
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There are 2 doors. One leads to paradise, the other to torment. A guard stands at each door. The guard guarding paradise always tells the truth, the one guarding torment always lies. You must enter one of the doors and you cannot leave thereafter. How can you make sure you get into paradise?
Ask the one who always tells the truth what the other guy would say if I asked him which door led to paradise. Then go to the other door.
You don't know which one tells the truth, though
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It doesn't really matter either way. If you ask any of them "What would he say if I asked him which door leads to paradise" you will always be directed to the one that leads to torment, so choose the opposite.
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1) they all weigh a pound.
2) 1,000,000 pieces of $1 shaped paper
Wrong on both counts.
You wouldn't need any paper. $1 bills are printed on linen.
Close enough. No wood pulp used - it's 75% linen, 25% cotton. Wood pulp paper bills wouldn't last a month in heavy circulation.
1) Which weighs less: a pound of feathers, a pound of bricks, or a pound of gold?
Trick question. a pound of gold weighs less. Gold is weighed in Troy pounds, which are about 18% less than regular pounds.
The troy scale is used only for precious metals, gemstones, things along those lines. The avoirdupois scale is used for common items, including body weight.
An avoirdupois ounce is 28.35 grams and there's 16 ounces to one avoirdupois pound. Total 453.6g.
A troy ounce is 31.1 grams but there's only 12 in a troy pound. Total 373.2g. 17.72% less!
New questions, and no looking at the US Treasury website!
True or false: it costs more than a dollar to print a one dollar bill.
True or false: the US Mint still makes copper pennies.
BTW: ingenious answer, AceG!
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It doesn't really matter either way. If you ask any of them "What would he say if I asked him which door leads to paradise" you will always be directed to the one that leads to torment, so choose the opposite.
It's the right question but not the right solution; their answer will be whatever door they're guarding. If the guard you asked says 'paradise', he is guarding paradise, if he says 'torment', he is guarding torment.
As for Sabacc's questions... I read somewhere that it costs more than a penny to make a penny, so it's not outside the realms of possibility, so I'll guess it's true that it costs more than a dollar to make a $1 bill.
Ask for copper pennies, the question 'still' is a bit of an indicator. Copper is quite valuable to a degree but I reckon the mint probably does still make copper pennies, even if they're not in regular circulation.
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A magician was boasting one day at how long he could hold his breath under
water. His record was 6 minutes. A kid that was listening said, "that's nothing,
I can stay under water for 10 minutes using no types of equipment or air pockets!"
The magician told the kid if he could do that, he'd give him $10,000. The kid did it
and won the money. Can you figure out how?
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held a couple of water above his head?
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Well, if it's under water rather than underwater, put a bucket of water over your head.
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No, I was not holding anything.
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It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have it, the rich need it and if you eat it you'll die. What is it?
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It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have it, the rich need it and if you eat it you'll die. What is it?
nothing
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damn!!! good job curt, heres another: what walks on four legs in the morning, 2 at midday and 3 at evening?
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damn!!! good job curt, heres another: what walks on four legs in the morning, 2 at midday and 3 at evening?
a Person?
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damn!!! good job curt, heres another: what walks on four legs in the morning, 2 at midday and 3 at evening?
Humans.
crawl (baby)
walk
walk with cane ( senior )
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yep!!! too good!! curt good it fully
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Dude, that one was in Oedipus Rex; it's like 2500 years old at least. Plus, the other one was asked earlier in this thread.
A ladder hangs over the side of a ship. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 15 cm and the length of the ladder is 290 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour.
When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
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180 HOURS
EDIT: it will always stay the same, because the boat will rise with the tide
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180 HOURS
WORD COUNT
Is this a guess, or....? I guess this is in the right thread because I am completely stumped at the meaning of this.
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New questions, and no looking at the US Treasury website!
True or false: it costs more than a dollar to print a one dollar bill.
True or false: the US Mint still makes copper pennies.
As for Sabacc's questions... I read somewhere that it costs more than a penny to make a penny, so it's not outside the realms of possibility, so I'll guess it's true that it costs more than a dollar to make a $1 bill.
Ask for copper pennies, the question 'still' is a bit of an indicator. Copper is quite valuable to a degree but I reckon the mint probably does still make copper pennies, even if they're not in regular circulation.
A dollar bill does cost more than a $1 to make. It's why the US Mint is trying to push a successful dollar coin. Inertia among consumers and a lack of desire to carry heavier bits of metal has made it an uphill battle.
The US Mint now makes pennies with zinc core (97%) and a copper shell (3%). Back in the '90s, some people started to realize a penny contained more than $0.01 worth of copper by weight - and started melting them down for the scrap value of the metal! It's the same reason why so many street lights and other public infrastructure in NYC started breaking down around the same time; people were stealing the copper wiring.
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You have eight balls all of the same size. 7 of them weigh the same, and one of them weighs slightly more. How can you find the ball that is heavier by using a balance and only two weighings?
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You have eight balls all of the same size. 7 of them weigh the same, and one of them weighs slightly more. How can you find the ball that is heavier by using a balance and only two weighings?
hmm... Weigh 6 balls, 3 on each side. If they are even weight then one of the balls left is the heavier one, so weigh those. If the 6 balls are not even then take 2 from the heavier side and weigh them against each other to find which of the 3 is the heavy one.
I liked that riddle. Not super tricky, just logical.
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K, I'll contribute....
A woman taking a census happens along 2 men on a porch, one man is asleep. The woman asks the man who's awake a few questions and then proceeds to ask the man if he could tell her anything about the other man who is asleep.
He responds to her in this way: "Brothers and sisters I have none, this mans father is my fathers son"
Who is the sleeping man?
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K, I'll contribute....
A woman taking a census happens along 2 men on a porch, one man is asleep. The woman asks the man who's awake a few questions and then proceeds to ask the man if he could tell her anything about the other man who is asleep.
He responds to her in this way: "Brothers and sisters I have none, this mans father is my fathers son"
Who is the sleeping man?
Ah, you stole mine - I tell it better!
Since the man has no siblings, "my father's son" is himself. Since "this man's father" is himself, "this man" is his son.
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Riddle me this, riddle me that ...
Here's a little warm up
What is broken every time it's spoken?
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K, I'll contribute....
A woman taking a census happens along 2 men on a porch, one man is asleep. The woman asks the man who's awake a few questions and then proceeds to ask the man if he could tell her anything about the other man who is asleep.
He responds to her in this way: "Brothers and sisters I have none, this mans father is my fathers son"
Who is the sleeping man?
Ah, you stole mine - I tell it better!
Since the man has no siblings, "my father's son" is himself. Since "this man's father" is himself, "this man" is his son.
Well done sir :D
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Here are some new ones. have fun
1.A bus driver was going down the street. He went past two stop signs without stopping, went by a red light, and turned left at a "No Left Turn" sign, yet didnt break any traffic rules. How?
2. There is a tunnel in the side of a hill. It is only big enough to hold one train, and has only one track. Two trains going the opposite direction entered the tunnel at exactly 8:00 and both left the tunnel on the opposite side wich they came in 3 min. later, with no collision. How?
3.There is a family with 6 boy children. Each boy has two sisters. How many children are there?
4. What has a mouth that never eats, has a bed but never sleeps, and runs all day but has no legs?
5.If you put a coin in a bottle and you put a cork on the bottle with the coin still in the bottle, how do you get out the coin without breaking the bottle or removing the cork?
6.Two mothers and two daughters went to the mall. They had $27 and split it evenly without using coins. How is this possible?
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What? So mine is just gona be ignored? Thanks :(
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Riddle me this, riddle me that ...
Here's a little warm up
What is broken every time it's spoken?
A secret.
What? So mine is just gona be ignored? Thanks :(
Stop yer whinin'...
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What? So mine is just gona be ignored? Thanks :(
Dude you should be honored, I would think nobody got it.....except the all mighty Don, lol
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Here are some new ones. have fun
1.A bus driver was going down the street. He went past two stop signs without stopping, went by a red light, and turned left at a "No Left Turn" sign, yet didnt break any traffic rules. How?
2. There is a tunnel in the side of a hill. It is only big enough to hold one train, and has only one track. Two trains going the opposite direction entered the tunnel at exactly 8:00 and both left the tunnel on the opposite side wich they came in 3 min. later, with no collision. How?
3.There is a family with 6 boy children. Each boy has two sisters. How many children are there?
4. What has a mouth that never eats, has a bed but never sleeps, and runs all day but has no legs?
5.If you put a coin in a bottle and you put a cork on the bottle with the coin still in the bottle, how do you get out the coin without breaking the bottle or removing the cork?
6.Two mothers and two daughters went to the mall. They had $27 and split it evenly without using coins. How is this possible?
1. The driver was walking.
2. One came at 8am, the other at 8pm.
3. Eight. Six boys, two girls.
4. A river.
5. Through the hole you cut into the cork before putting it in the bottle, naturally...
6. There were three people in total - a grandmother, a mother (grandma's daughter), and a daughter. They each got nine bucks.
I thought you said these were new. These weren't new when my parents were born...
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Riddle me this, riddle me that ...
Here's a little warm up
What is broken every time it's spoken?
A secret.
What? So mine is just gona be ignored? Thanks :(
Stop yer whinin'...
Ah yes that works, but not the answer I got ..
Not whinin' :D just seeking attention lol
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New to the thread. And Don most of the time old is new. I am not use to having to find something older than the stone age or really new.
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New to the thread. And Don most of the time old is new. I am not use to having to find something older than the stone age or really new.
I'll have you know that I live in a modern stone-age family... :))
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The person who invented it doesn't want it.
The people who buy it don't use it.
They who need it don't know they need it.
What is it?
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The person who invented it doesn't want it.
The people who buy it don't use it.
They who need it don't know they need it.
What is it?
One of my "Bass Ass" (as in Bass Ale) farts? :))
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The person who invented it doesn't want it.
The people who buy it don't use it.
They who need it don't know they need it.
What is it?
This is going to be the coffin again, isn't it?
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The person who invented it doesn't want it.
The people who buy it don't use it.
They who need it don't know they need it.
What is it?
This is going to be the coffin again, isn't it?
Looks like it!
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Riddle me this, riddle me that ...
Here's a little warm up
What is broken every time it's spoken?
By the way the answer I had was silence
How did Mark legally marry three women in Michigan, without divorcing any of them, becoming legally separated, or any of them dying?
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mormon. Religious practice dictates he can.
He was a priest and he married them each to their husband.
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He was a priest and he married them each to their husband.
Well done John B.
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The person who invented it doesn't want it.
The people who buy it don't use it.
They who need it don't know they need it.
What is it?
This is going to be the coffin again, isn't it?
Looks like it!
Correct! sorry if that's a repeat.
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This is ancient, but I'll toss it out there anyway...with a twist...
A boy and his father are riding in a car when it crashes. The father is declared dead at the scene and the son is rushed to a local hospital. In the operating room, the surgeon is about to begin trying to save his life, but stops, saying "I can't operate on this boy...he's my son..."
PS: the doctor is NOT his mother - he's male.
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Gay parents? 2 dads.
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A boy and his father are riding in a car when it crashes. The father is declared dead at the scene and the son is rushed to a local hospital. In the operating room, the surgeon is about to begin trying to save his life, but stops, saying "I can't operate on this boy...he's my son..."
PS: the doctor is NOT his mother - he's male.
Long shot, but what ever. The boy and his father crashed into another car. In that car was a priest which the riddle referred to as "the father". The child's father survived the crash, unscathed, and is indeed the surgeon at the hospital his son was taken to.
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A boy and his father are riding in a car when it crashes. The father is declared dead at the scene and the son is rushed to a local hospital. In the operating room, the surgeon is about to begin trying to save his life, but stops, saying "I can't operate on this boy...he's my son..."
PS: the doctor is NOT his mother - he's male.
Long shot, but what ever. The boy and his father crashed into another car. In that car was a priest which the riddle referred to as "the father". The child's father survived the crash, unscathed, and is indeed the surgeon at the hospital his son was taken to.
That's so convoluted, it has to be the answer!
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So far, no correct guesses, though the one about two gay dads would actually work!
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A boy and his father are riding in a car when it crashes. The father is declared dead at the scene and the son is rushed to a local hospital. In the operating room, the surgeon is about to begin trying to save his life, but stops, saying "I can't operate on this boy...he's my son..."
PS: the doctor is NOT his mother - he's male.
Long shot, but what ever. The boy and his father crashed into another car. In that car was a priest which the riddle referred to as "the father". The child's father survived the crash, unscathed, and is indeed the surgeon at the hospital his son was taken to.
That's so convoluted, it has to be the answer!
Hmmm. Well I have heard that joke numerous times and the answer has always been his mother, but since you added your caveat, I'm not really sure. Can't wait to hear the answer...
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Hmmm. Well I have heard that joke numerous times and the answer has always been his mother, but since you added your caveat, I'm not really sure. Can't wait to hear the answer...
Honestly, I think the two gay dads is a better solution to the one I have: the surgeon is the boy's godfather. Upon the death of the father, he becomes the boy's father. That's the actual purpose behind having godparents - someone to fill the shoes of the parents in the event they died an untimely death. It's rather rare these days to really hold people to that - more people just pick some friend or co-worker or something, but in centuries prior, it was far more common for a parent to die before finishing raising a child.
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Yea Don that answer sucked, mine was better.
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Yea Don that answer sucked, mine was better.
I'd swear I've heard something like that before... Oh, yeah! I SAID IT! :P
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What has 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs in the afternoon, and 3 legs at night?
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human. In the morning we are a baby we crawl, then we walk on 2 legs then when we are old with a cane we have 3.
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Very nice John B. I heard this riddle back in the 5th or 6th grade when doing mythology. I have never forgotten it since then. Definitely one of the more interesting ones I have heard.
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Yea you have to take an interesting look at it to get it.
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Well, I've heard a different version of the "3 legs" part of the riddle's answer...