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Post by Scrappy Amazon on May 27, 2005 19:07:22 GMT -6
Maybe there was a woman playing and she kept losing?
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Post by Phalon on May 27, 2005 19:17:58 GMT -6
Hhhmm....a little hint, maybe?
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on May 27, 2005 19:34:31 GMT -6
Ok....just a little one.
Anyone got a guess for the other two I posted?
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Post by Grrlpower on May 27, 2005 22:57:08 GMT -6
Hey scrappy I know that you move the O to the beginning and the d to the end to get new door to make one word, but have no clue about the bullet proof vest, fire escape, windshield wiper and laser printer similarities. Does it have to do with an english lesson? Something about verbs and nouns?
Phlaon now I look at your riddle there and think they were playing for tequilla gold shots and in that case everyone wins by losing...hehehe Cause drunk is drunk...
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Post by Phalon on May 28, 2005 4:48:52 GMT -6
Hey, I thought I got the "new door" thing right with the "one word" answer, no? Damn, there goes my one-in-a-row streak.
And one word in the riddle I posted gives the answer away.
Reminds me of a scene from the movie, "Titanic".
I've no clue about the bullet-escape laser vest one.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on May 28, 2005 6:28:15 GMT -6
Sorry Phalon I was confusing myself. You got it right the first time. No worries. As for the "bullet-escape laser vest" ...they were all invented by women!
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Post by Grrlpower on May 28, 2005 15:07:14 GMT -6
Coolio...what an interesting bit of trivia there. My daughter informed me yesterday that she knew what the bad f word was derived from and I was shocked when she knew the acronym... Not really guess at least she knows what it was supposed to mean so when she does say it I can bust her on it...
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on May 28, 2005 20:59:31 GMT -6
So care to elaborate or educate as the case may be?
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Post by Grrlpower on May 28, 2005 21:36:36 GMT -6
Surely it is an acronym for fornication under consent of the king...when brothels were legal and braveheart was still alive and kicking. You know the old saying if we can't kill them we will breed them out. It was a dark timein history IMO...
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Post by Xenamoured on May 29, 2005 12:16:18 GMT -6
Hey Grrlpower...f-ing interesting tidbit of information that...I've never heard that explanation either... Seriously though...those were dark days indeed if that was in fact the case....
Hi Phalon.. This is probably wrong...but its better than my Leprechan riddle answer. Were the four dudes panning for gold?
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Post by Xenamoured on May 29, 2005 13:35:28 GMT -6
Hi Phalon I just figured it out from the word "scores" as in music...as in they were four musicians playing for their gold....good riddle!
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Post by Grrlpower on May 29, 2005 14:08:57 GMT -6
Hey there XenaAmoured It was one of those lessons you learn in history class...especially in the art history department. You can tell a lot about an era through their art.
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Post by Phalon on May 29, 2005 16:41:44 GMT -6
Score, Xenamoured! Your answer is right; the four were professional musicians.
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Post by Grrlpower on May 29, 2005 17:00:07 GMT -6
Well darn...I thought that but then thought it was to simple of an answer... I feel like I do when I am looking for my glasses and they are on the top of my head.
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Post by Xenamoured on May 29, 2005 17:00:28 GMT -6
Hi Grrlpower... "You can tell a lot about an era through their art." I don't know that much about art..but I think that is definitely true...I read an interesting book once about how humankind's ever increasing degree of self awareness was chronologically revealed by the steadily improved use of perspective in artwork...
Hi Phalon. This is an easy one..but I like it.
"There is a house with four walls Each wall faces south. There is a window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What color is the bear?"
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Post by Phalon on May 29, 2005 17:05:56 GMT -6
White?
Here's one that if anyone knows the answer to, please tell me because I've no clue and can't figure it out.
Three men went to a motel. The man behind the desk said the room is $30, so each man put up $10 and went to the room. A little while later the man behind the desk realized the room was only $25, so he sent the bellhop back to the 3 guys' room with $5. On the way to the room the bellhop couldn't figure out how to split the $5 between the 3 men, so he just gave each one of them $1 and he kept the other $2.
This meant that the 3 men paid $9 each for the room for a total of $27. Add the $2 that the bellhop kept = $29.
Where's the other dollar?
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Post by Xenamoured on May 29, 2005 17:25:39 GMT -6
Hi Phalon...yes, its white.... Your riddle is blowing my mind! It's cruel to pose it without knowing the answer! I'm going to step away and come back to think about it...it's not easy, is it?
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Post by Xenamoured on May 29, 2005 17:46:44 GMT -6
Hi Phalon...I'm not sure I can explain this properly, but I think I see where the discrepancy lies...
When the desk clerk has the original $30.00, he subtracts the five and then $3.00 are returned to the guests. Thus, the trick lies in the fact that the $5.00 cannot be evenly divided back to guests, as the bellhop ascertained. Thus, when you take the $25.00 the desk clerk retains, and add the $3.00 returned, then the guests have actually paid $28.00 and $8.33 per room, not the stated $9.00 per room. If you then take this $28.00 and add that to the $2.00 the bellhop had, this gives you the original $30.00.
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Post by Grrlpower on Jun 6, 2005 21:10:40 GMT -6
Phalon how could you post a word problem? Now I am gonn ahve to go get my money out and figure it out...XA better be on the right track otherwise there is some overtipping going on!
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Post by Phalon on Jun 6, 2005 21:53:03 GMT -6
Ok, here's one from the book I'm reading, "Histories in English", the story of the development of the English language. The riddle is an Anglo-Saxon Old English one, written in the 800's. Over a thousand years old, and one has to wonder how much has changed....
A wondrous thing hangs by a man's thigh, full under the clothes. In front is a hole. It is stiff and hard, it knows its proper place; when a young man lifts his tunic above his knee, he wants to be able to enter with the head of his hanging thing the hole that it has often filled before.
What is being described?
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Post by Phalon on Jun 6, 2005 22:00:28 GMT -6
Oh, and thanks, Xenamoured, for doing the math!
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Post by Grrlpower on Jun 6, 2005 22:31:14 GMT -6
what are you tring to do? weed out the drrty minds? Well let me try and read it again after pulling my mind out of the gutter and trying to remember what most men carried in the 800 under their kilts...could it have something to do with a bagpipe?
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Post by Phalon on Jun 6, 2005 22:45:11 GMT -6
No, it is something most men still use to this day. And some have quite a big set of them.
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Post by Grrlpower on Jun 6, 2005 23:42:13 GMT -6
Okay okay...I am thinking golf or toolbelt...head of the hanging thing? Too far down in the gutter I am afraid to say!
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Post by xengab on Jun 7, 2005 15:12:46 GMT -6
Is it a key??
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Post by Joxcenia on Jun 7, 2005 15:31:57 GMT -6
Ooooh... XenGab... good answer. Waits to see if she got it right.
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Post by Grrlpower on Jun 7, 2005 16:35:24 GMT -6
Now that makes perfect sense XenGab! I hope you are right!
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Post by Phalon on Jun 7, 2005 21:15:39 GMT -6
Yay, Xengab! You are right; the answer is a key.
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Post by xengab on Jun 8, 2005 6:41:07 GMT -6
;D So now it is my turn? If you break me I do not stop working. If you touch me I may be snared. I you lose me Nothing will matter.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Jun 8, 2005 6:59:02 GMT -6
It must be the Heart...right?
My love, when I gaze on thy beautiful face, Careening along, yet always in place -- The thought has often come into my mind If I ever shall see thy glorious behind.
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