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 Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 1:47 pm
Okay since I share a birthday with Lewis Carroll - yes Alice in Wonderlands own author and I'm bored...
has anyone ever solved an impossible riddle or made up a question just to see how others would respond?
Q:Why is a raven like a writing desk?
A:Because Poe wrote on both
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If the object of golf is to have the lowest score at the end - than why play at all? (apologies in advance for those who actually play)
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 5:57 am
lol, i love those examples.
generally i hate riddles, coz i never get them and they make me feel so dim...
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 12:21 pm
generally i hate riddles, coz i never get them and they make me feel so dim...
I felt the same way in the Hobbit but in the end the more childish the better.
Sometimes it's a way to broaden the mind and wake it up a bit wink
Q:when is a door not a door?
A:when it is a ajar
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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:00 pm
I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Well, for the raven riddle, it actually was supposed to be a sort of joke. There wasn't any answer, but when readers pestered Carroll about it, he supposedly responded:
Quote: Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front! "Nevar" is often corrected as "never", though it was intended to be spelled with an A, because N-E-V-A-R is R-A-V-E-N put with the wrong end in front. The desk, of course, is never turned around backwards to be used.
If it produces any at all, raven produces musical notes that are very flat in key, and a writing desk produces notes that are flat dimensionally.
However, the readers who squeezed this response out of Carroll didn't understand the answer, supposing that Carroll had written a riddle he himself could not solve. They came up with some answers of their own, including the following: Quote: Because Poe wrote on both. Because there is a B in both and an N in neither. Because the notes for which they are noted are not noted for being musical notes. Because it slopes with a flap. I apologize if that was too long and uninteresting!
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas
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Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 9:31 pm
I'm a sucker for a good riddle. Like, cut me and my blood is as crimson as my flesh, yet I have a heart of stone. What am I? A cherry.
There was actually a book called Ironside which is the third book in A Modern Tale of Faerie series where the girl has to find a fairy that can tell an untruth, but fairies can't, so at the end, she says, "I am the very faerie that can lie," and one of them said that she couldn't, so the answer was a riddle in itself, because either way, one of them was lying. It turns out that she meant something along the lines of lying on her back. There was also one about finding a bird with no wings, but can still fly. It wasn't answered, but I was thinking, "It could if it was in an airplane."
Here's one that will keep you up for days.
True or false? The answer to this question is false.
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