come fiddle with my riddle ?

Published on June 22, 2004 By mignuna In Just Hanging Out

i have the strength of sixty men, i'm over ten feet tall
i'm footed, though i never move, it's said that i can fall

in grand ballrooms i can be seen holding up affairs
and i can bring the house down if i crack up near the stairs

... what am i ?

if you know the solution to this riddle, please make me very happy by posting it

... but if you do post the answer, you must post the next riddle to be guessed by the next successful person, and so on. or so i hope.

course, the whole thing could get ignored, too. how embarrasing that would be. hehe. oh, well ... the risks one will take in order to achieve linguistic banter these days apparently know no bounds !!!. somebody guess, dammit

Comments (Page 2)

Zoologist03

on Jun 22, 2004

Right-O Capt....everyone at our school in band probably knows......so give these guys awhile...it is a bit confusing if you don't know what you're looking for....

~Zoo

mignuna

on Jun 23, 2004

ok, ok, it was the music clue that did it ... thanks zoo

1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221
1113213211 ... ok, so it's describing the previous number in order ... so the answer is:

31131211131221

did i get it right ? ...

ps: thanks capt. that one was a doozy. let me know if i have this right, and i will post another if i do.

mig XX

wnx_decoy

on Jun 23, 2004

Of course you did. That was right on the money.

Zoo~ dude, if Andy wouldn't have told you all, only a select few of us would know it right now.

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Because cigars cannot be entirely smoked, a hobo who collects cigar butts can make a cigar to smoke out of every 5 butts that he finds. Today, he has collected 25 cigar butts. How many cigars will he be able to smoke?

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Capt. over and out!

Zoologist03

on Jun 23, 2004

Hey, Capt....I almost had it...but he just gave me a little push so I could understand it...

Anyway...about your riddle...I would say 6 cigars....am I right?

~Zoo

mignuna

on Jun 23, 2004

Reply By: CaptainCornbreadPosted: Wednesday, June 23, 2004Of course you did. That was right on the money.

YAY for me ! thanks, capt

Reply By: Zoologist03Posted: Wednesday, June 23, 2004Hey, Capt....I almost had it...but he just gave me a little push so I could understand it...Anyway...about your riddle...I would say 6 cigars....am I right?

is he right ?

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

and i have a NEW ONE:

you have a rooster, a fox, and a bag of grain. you must transport each of them to a nearby island via a rowboat. you may carry only one thing at a time. the catch: the rooster will eat the grain and the fox will eat the rooster, so you cannot leave those two things together on either shore. you may make as many trips as you want, and there is a solution.how do you safely transport them all taking only one thing at a time ?

(i think this one is old, but it annoyed me for days ! .. hope y'all don't know it right away !)

mig XX

Gene Nash

on Jun 23, 2004

Coincidentally I found this riddle tonight while cleaning out my inbox:

Schwarzenegger has a big one
Michael J. Fox has a small one
Madonna doesn't have one
The Pope has one but doesn't use his
Clinton uses his all the time
Mickey Mouse has an unusual one
Liberace never used his on women
Jerry Seinfeld is very, very proud of his.
Cher claims that she took on 3
We never saw Lucy use Desi's
What is it?

Sally jacobs

on Jun 23, 2004

Ok, you take the rooster across, go back and get the fox, take the fox over, you then take the rooster back, leave it at the other shore and take the grain across, go back and get the rooster again. Did that make sense?

Gene Nash

on Jun 23, 2004

you have a rooster, a fox, and a bag of grain. you must transport each of them to a nearby island via a rowboat. you may carry only one thing at a time. the catch: the rooster will eat the grain and the fox will eat the rooster, so you cannot leave those two things together on either shore. you may make as many trips as you want, and there is a solution.how do you safely transport them all taking only one thing at a time ?

Take rooster. Leave rooster on island.
Take fox. Leave fox on island -- Pick up rooster and return him to shore. (Island = fox)
Take grain (leave rooster). Leave grain on Island. (Island = fox, grain)
Take rooster. Island now has you, rooster, grain, and fox.

Zoologist03

on Jun 23, 2004

and i have a NEW ONE:

you have a rooster, a fox, and a bag of grain. you must transport each of them to a nearby island via a rowboat. you may carry only one thing at a time. the catch: the rooster will eat the grain and the fox will eat the rooster, so you cannot leave those two things together on either shore. you may make as many trips as you want, and there is a solution.how do you safely transport them all taking only one thing at a time ?

Oh, that's easy...first you take the rooster, and then come back and get the grain. Go back to the island pick up the rooster and put down the grain. Go to the shore get the fox and put down the rooster. put the fox on the island and then go and get the rooster...there ya go!

Gene Nash

on Jun 23, 2004

(Apparently Sally, Zoo, and I were all typing at the same time.)

mignuna

on Jun 23, 2004

apparently i am dumb !

bwaaaaa hhaaaaa ! hehe. well, i thought it was hard. hehe. captain ... get me another difficult one, please !!!! .... and gene, i have to go to sleep, it's 2am .... you're in charge of the riddle thread. see you in 8 hours

... don't do anything i wouldn't do

you guys are cool. even if you're all so much smarter than me hehe

sleepy mig XXX

ps gene, i'm sorry, yours just sounds dirty !. is it my lack of sleep, or is innuendo back in fashion ? ...

mig XX

Gene Nash

on Jun 23, 2004

is innuendo back in fashion ?

It's called misdirection.

Like a magic trick, the answer isn't what you think but is obvious once you know what it is. (Don't blame me, I just opened the rogue email.

)

and gene, i have to go to sleep, it's 2am .... you're in charge of the riddle thread. see you in 8 hours

It's almost 9 A.M. here and I haven't been to sleep yet, so they'll have to handle it on their own.

citahellion

on Jun 23, 2004

The answer to Smartaz' riddle is:
A Last Name.

Another math-based puzzle:

There are 4 women who want to cross a bridge. They all begin on the same side. You have 17 minutes to get all of them across to the other side. It is night. There is one flashlight. A maximum of two people can cross at one time. Any party who crosses, either 1 or 2 people, must have the flashlight with them. The flashlight must be walked back and forth, it cannot be thrown, etc. Each woman walks at a different speed. A pair must walk together at the rate of the slower woman's pace.

Woman 1: 1 minute to cross
Woman 2: 2 minutes to cross
Woman 3: 5 minutes to cross
Woman 4: 10 minutes to cross

For example if Woman 1 and Woman 4 walk across first, 10 minutes have elapsed when they get to the other side of the bridge. If Woman 4 then returns with the flashlight, a total of 20 minutes have passed and you have failed the mission.

wnx_decoy

on Jun 23, 2004

Oh, umm, by the way, yes zoo was right on mine.

Capt. over and out!

citahellion

on Jun 23, 2004

For a true riddle, try this one:

A hundred and one
divided by fifty, followed by nothing:
one of nine.

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