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Re: Riddles
« Reply #15 on: August 07, 2005, 11:46:21 am »
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Re: Riddles
« Reply #16 on: August 07, 2005, 02:18:00 pm »
Yeah, some guy in my WoW guild is still banging his head on his desk because I fooled him with that one lol.

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Re: Riddles
« Reply #17 on: August 08, 2005, 12:03:38 am »
I added a few more, all of the new ones came from Miffsex.

http://sidoh.dark-wire.net/?fuseaction=modules.riddles&a=list

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Re: Riddles
« Reply #18 on: August 08, 2005, 09:16:05 am »
There's an old homless lady who collects cigarette butts.  She's been doing it for so long, she has it down to a science: exactly 8 butts provides enough tobacco to make one new cigarette.  One day, she finds 64 butts.  How many cigarettes can she make?


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Re: Riddles
« Reply #19 on: August 08, 2005, 09:26:26 am »
The soldier one isn't funny, and applies to any cemetary. It may just not be funny to me because I've heard it a ton of times. My mom always (ever since I was little, when she did it like everytime, but now it's less frequent) says it when we go by the cemetary that's near our house.

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Re: Riddles
« Reply #20 on: August 08, 2005, 01:37:22 pm »
There's an old homless lady who collects cigarette butts.  She's been doing it for so long, she has it down to a science: exactly 8 butts provides enough tobacco to make one new cigarette.  One day, she finds 64 butts.  How many cigarettes can she make?



Umm... 8? :D

And yeah, I phrased that question wrong, kinda. It's supposed to be:

How many of the soldiers in Alrlington Cemetary are buried there?

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Re: Riddles
« Reply #21 on: August 08, 2005, 03:45:55 pm »
What about the ones doing 21-gun salutes at funerals while several other soldiers attend?

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Re: Riddles
« Reply #22 on: August 08, 2005, 04:00:15 pm »
There's an old homless lady who collects cigarette butts.  She's been doing it for so long, she has it down to a science: exactly 8 butts provides enough tobacco to make one new cigarette.  One day, she finds 64 butts.  How many cigarettes can she make?

None. She doesn't make them, she just collects them? :(
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I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: Riddles
« Reply #23 on: August 08, 2005, 05:19:06 pm »
You're both wrong. 

The answer is 9 -- 8 for the ones she finds.  Then she smokes the 8, and makes 1 more.  Aha!

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Re: Riddles
« Reply #24 on: August 08, 2005, 05:58:12 pm »
You're both wrong. 

The answer is 9 -- 8 for the ones she finds.  Then she smokes the 8, and makes 1 more.  Aha!

That's pretty good, lol

I added a few more this afternoon, they're all really good.

River Crossing (A Classic)
Apples & Oranges
Gold Coins
Wise Men

There's two in particular I want to add, but their answers are going to require me to do some HTML formatting since they contain tables (they're both pretty long answers).

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Re: Riddles
« Reply #25 on: August 08, 2005, 06:03:34 pm »
Those really are more word problemish than riddleish.

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Re: Riddles
« Reply #26 on: August 08, 2005, 06:22:13 pm »
Riddles are word problems.

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Re: Riddles
« Reply #27 on: August 08, 2005, 06:25:51 pm »
A riddle is a form of literature designed to test the reader/listeners ingenuity (ability to think creatively.)

I was referring to a world problem in the sense of a word problem in math class. I seem to consider them similar, but certainly different things. Riddles, in my opinion, are more of a play on words type of thing, not something you should have to work out with paper and pencil.

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Re: Riddles
« Reply #28 on: August 08, 2005, 07:15:31 pm »
A riddle is a problem that involves words. Riddles are world problems. Kthxbai.

I just added another really good one.

http://sidoh.dark-wire.net/?fuseaction=modules.riddles&a=show&id=18

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Re: Riddles
« Reply #29 on: August 08, 2005, 07:39:53 pm »
Your 'riddles' suck then and aren't worth doing. Kthxbai.

Edit:

I don't get that last riddle. If I was put in this situation I would have asked him which one he went down, since he obviously didn't get rich or famous.
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