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 8)

106

mignuna

on Sep 13, 2004

Mig - it DOES contain every single letter of the alphabet

yay trina ! i got something right !. i feel a bit better now

and citahellion didn't actually get that first one correct (if I could even understand what the heck he said) It's much simpler then ...that

citahellion will have to explain it, trina. i am lost there !. but i will keep trying it.

and i'll work on your other riddle this afternoon (gotta go buy a birdcage - long story hehe)

also, did you see the new one:

though i'm often you, you are never me
and i'm sometimes what you used to be
though i can tell tales, i can never talk
and i take you places you cannot walk

... so, what am i ?

vanessa/mig XX

107

citahellion

on Sep 13, 2004

My prior post which had information about a 'lipogram' was itself a lipogram, as is this post and also trina_p's original post: it avoids using that fifth symbol of our alpha glyphs.

108

citahellion

on Sep 13, 2004

... In other words, It didn't have the letter 'E' anywhere in it.

109

citahellion

on Sep 13, 2004

So now I'm triple-posting, which is bad since I don't have an answer to mig's most recent riddle, but since I did answer trina_p's riddle (correctly, I might add, if a bit verbosely and perhaps trying to show off a little too much

) I thought I should post a new riddle myself.

Here's one I just made up:

For my first you must take one less than strange,
then sometimes a vowel should be arranged.
At last, a children's doctor with the back moved to the fore
gives a man who took ten years to find his way back to his door.

110

trina_p

on Sep 13, 2004

Right - you're way too clever for your own good Citahellion -- but you got it right. - Of course

111

The Crusaders

on Sep 13, 2004

I cant submit!!!!!

112

mignuna

on Sep 14, 2004

My prior post which had information about a 'lipogram' was itself a lipogram, as is this post and also trina_p's original post: it avoids using that fifth symbol of our alpha glyphs.

In other words, It didn't have the letter 'E' anywhere in it.

citahellion, will you please arrange to clone yourself ?

So now I'm triple-posting, which is bad since I don't have an answer to mig's most recent riddle

yay !. finally i pose a riddle you can't answer, citahellion. but i have a feeling my 'triumph' will be very short lived !

For my first you must take one less than strange,
then sometimes a vowel should be arranged.
At last, a children's doctor with the back moved to the fore
gives a man who took ten years to find his way back to his door

i'm going to go and work on this now

Right - you're way too clever for your own good Citahellion -- but you got it right. - Of course

*sigh* my hero *swoons*

Reply #112 By: The Crusaders - 9/13/2004 11:14:10 PM
I cant submit!!!!!

crusaders, this post of yours worked okay. is it alright now then ?

vanessa/mig XX

113

mignuna

on Sep 14, 2004

new riddle anyone ? .... somebody please guess

though i'm often you, you are never me
and i'm sometimes what you used to be
though i can tell tales, i can never talk
and i take you places you cannot walk

114

trina_p

on Sep 14, 2004

Imagination?

115

trina_p

on Sep 14, 2004

Unsolved Riddle 1

Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.

Unsolved Riddle 2

though i'm often you, you are never me
and i'm sometimes what you used to be
though i can tell tales, i can never talk
and i take you places you cannot walk

Unsolved Riddle 3

Give me an x, I'll stand to face you.
Give me a cross, I'll turn my back on you.
What am I?

Unsolved Riddle 4

For my first you must take one less than strange,
then sometimes a vowel should be arranged.
At last, a children's doctor with the back moved to the fore
gives a man who took ten years to find his way back to his door.

116

citahellion

on Sep 14, 2004

Well, for Unsolved #1, I'm going to go with "Wind." (Yes, I've read "The Hobbit".)

Gotta work some more on the other two....

117

trina_p

on Sep 14, 2004

I don't know 1 - but knowing your genius I'll bet you're right

my guess for 2 is Imagination

I know 3 since I submitted it

and 4 I'm racking my brain trying to rearrange strange and yeah stuff ... yeah - good riddle citahellion

118

The Crusaders

on Sep 14, 2004

Thanks for explaining about the page numbers, Mignuna, I feel like a real git right now....now I have to go apologise at a few other blogs!!!!

Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.

Would you like the answer to this one?

though i'm often you, you are never me
and i'm sometimes what you used to be
though i can tell tales, i can never talk
and i take you places you cannot walk

Is this a photo?

119

trina_p

on Sep 14, 2004

Citahellion said wind - is he right? If he's wrong say so but don't give us the correct answer yet.

Photo - that's better than imagination -- what's the answer Mig??

Do we have two solved riddles out of four?

120

citahellion

on Sep 14, 2004

Yeah, I like "Photo" as an answer, even if it's wrong.

Trina, for a hint on mine, you don't want "strange" itself but a synonym.

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