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 3)

Zoologist03

on Jun 23, 2004

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 crossWoman 2: 2 minutes to crossWoman 3: 5 minutes to crossWoman 4: 10 minutes to crossFor 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.

Woman 1 takes woman 2 across(2 min) Woman 1 comes back(1 min) Woman 3 and 4 cross(10 min) Woman 2 comes back over(2 min) and takes Woman 1 over(2 min)...so, lets see if I did that right 2+1+10+2+2=17...Ahhh...finally, that took a bit of work, that was good...now my head hurts....lol

Great riddle citahellion,
~Zoo

mignuna

on Jun 23, 2004

It's called misdirection. Like a magic trick, the answer isn't what you think but is obvious once you know what it is.

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

lets' see how they did on their own then, hmm .....

Reply By: citahellionPosted: Wednesday, June 23, 2004The answer to Smartaz' riddle is:A Last Name

ok, it's no longer 2am and i feel majorly daft over that island/rooster/fox thing. my brain is as logical as a birck. that's why i need a riddle thread. hehe. thank goodness citahellion is here to make sense of things

Reply By: CaptainCornbreadPosted: Wednesday, June 23, 2004Oh, umm, by the way, yes zoo was right on mine.

i asked ! . i did !. way back there in the comments. i said "is zoo right" .. in the awful "fox" post. but it got lost in all the flurry hehe

Great riddle citahellion,~Zoo

i'm with zoo. i'm sorry i slept through that one. citahellion, you have the most amazing imagination.

Reply By: citahellionPosted: Wednesday, June 23, 2004For a true riddle, try this one:A hundred and onedivided by fifty, followed by nothing:one of nine.

...goiing to shake brain awake to solve this

mig XX

mignuna

on Jun 23, 2004

desperate attempt to redeem myself ... i hope:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

i have too many feet to count but not even one toe... i do not have a mouth yet i can tell you how things grow... i cannot move yet always do, i am both large and small... i myself am nothing though i give meaning to all...

what am i ?

please be stumped. even for a few seconds

mig XX

wnx_decoy

on Jun 23, 2004

Well, I'll play along mig. I'm stumped. Then again, it's 11:00 p.m. and my eye hurts so bad I can't think straight. Maybe tomorrow, I'll get it.

Capt. over and out!

mignuna

on Jun 24, 2004

Reply By: CaptainCornbreadPosted: Wednesday, June 23, 2004Well, I'll play along mig. I'm stumped. Then again, it's 11:00 p.m. and my eye hurts so bad I can't think straight. Maybe tomorrow, I'll get it.Capt. over and out!

hooray. thanks. have a good sleep, capt. see you in the morning ! hehe ... bright and early with your answer

mig XX

trina_p

on Jun 24, 2004

are you a ruler or tape measure mig - you know feet, inches, centimetres etc

Gene Nash

on Jun 24, 2004

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

I'll have to recuse myself. I know the answer.

mignuna

on Jun 24, 2004

Reply #36 By: trina_p - 6/24/2004 4:25:52 AM
are you a ruler or tape measure mig - you know feet, inches, centimetres etc

yes, trina, you're exactly right : )

... you can post your own now if you like

I'll have to recuse myself. I know the answer.

gene, you're allowed to say so if you know the answer !. please do !. then can you please post the next riddle ?

mig XX

Gene Nash

on Jun 24, 2004

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

The answer is Clio, the Muse of history.

Start with roman numerals...

101 = CI
"divided by fifty" means physically shove them apart with L (50), not perform math. Hence, CLI
Nothing is zero, or 0. So, to follow CLI with 0 gives us CLI0, or Clio, the Muse of history.

There are nine Muses of which Clio is one.

Bingo.

Let me go poke around for another riddle.

Gene Nash

on Jun 24, 2004

A man comes to a bridge that crosses a large ravine. The bridge has a maximum capacity of 200 lbs. The man weighs 190 lbs. and he is carrying three 5 lb. bowling balls. The ravine is too far to throw, roll, or float the balls across, yet he crosses the bridge with all three balls in a single trip. How?

Gene Nash

on Jun 24, 2004

Here, let me make one up:

When Riddle becomes a riddle, you'll never know where but you might know who.

mignuna

on Jun 24, 2004

Reply #40 By: smartaz - A man comes to a bridge that crosses a large ravine. The bridge has a maximum capacity of 200 lbs. The man weighs 190 lbs. and he is carrying three 5 lb. bowling balls. The ravine is too far to throw, roll, or float the balls across, yet he crosses the bridge with all three balls in a single trip. How?

ok, i think i have it ... literally, the the highlighted text means that the man weighs 190 pounds already laden with the 3 x 5-pound balls ? (ie: the man weighs 190 pounds and he is carrying three 5-pound bowling balls) ... which would mean the man himself only actually weighed 175 pounds, making him still under the bridge limit.

i hope you're not laughing at me. hehe.

did i get it gene ? did i ? did i ?

mig XX

mignuna

on Jun 24, 2004

gene, try this one out while i sleep hehe:

this is a "who am i" ... (in four syllables)

my first is on behalf of you
my second sealess one
my third and fourth together
and your speaker i become

.. who am i ?

hint: one name only.

mig XX

wnx_decoy

on Jun 24, 2004

Bobbie is facetious. She is also abstemious. She gets pneumonia. Given those clues, what is the only American tree she will like?

Capt. over and out!

Zoologist03

on Jun 24, 2004

Bobbie is facetious. She is also abstemious. She gets pneumonia. Given those clues, what is the only American tree she will like?

The Sequoia....She likes things choked full of vowels...all of them infact...or so this is my guess.....am I right?

~Zoo

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