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 9)

121

trina_p

on Sep 14, 2004

synonym - as in something that means the same as strange - like odd or weird?

gee my grammar rules memory is bad

122

The Crusaders

on Sep 14, 2004

Well done, Citahellion...Wind it is!!

I don't know if you've done this one yet..and it's probablly really easy ....but here goes...

This thing all things devours
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers
Gnaws iron, bites steel
grinds hard stones to meal
Slays king, ruins town
and beats high mountain down.

123

citahellion

on Sep 14, 2004

Trina, that's correct; a word that has essentially the same meaning.

Crusaders, as I said, I did read "The Hobbit", and since that one in particular is a high point of the "Riddles in the Dark" chapter, I haven't forgotten it.

I'll let someone else have first go at it, though.

124

The Crusaders

on Sep 14, 2004

Citahellion,

Hee Hee......It was conveniently sitting there on my bookshelf right in front of me when I came across Mignunas blog.......
No point in using any of ther others now is there??!!

125

The Crusaders

on Sep 14, 2004

Here's something a little different.....

COUNT THE “F” ‘S IN THE FOLLOWING TEXT

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.

126

citahellion

on Sep 14, 2004

Well, others may not have read it. On the other hand, now they know where to go for some answers.

Ah, yes. The forgotten F sentence. A classic.

(a little spoiler space....)

There are 6. Lots of people miss one or more of the F's in "of" because of it being pronounced as a 'v'.

127

mignuna

on Sep 15, 2004

(Yes, I've read "The Hobbit".)

ah, citahellion, i expected nothing less

my guess for 2 is Imagination

another good guess trina. i forgot how much i liked this thread !

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!!!!

never mind, crusaders !. a similar thing happened to me the first time i saw 50 comments. i'm sure everyone understands

Is this a photo?

YAY ! it is a photo, crusaders !

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

ok, i'm looking into this now too. the pressure is on !

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

that's it, trina !

There are 6. Lots of people miss one or more of the F's in "of" because of it being pronounced as a 'v'.

he knows everything ! everything, i tell you !. *swoons again*

ok, so we have citahellions' still to go, and crusaders hobbit riddle (which i also know, sorry, but i'm sure we will get a taker soon !)

and here is a small brain teaser:

A woman took sleeping tablets at 11.pm Saturday night, and woke on Sunday morning at 11am to find that her husband had been stabbed to death in their bed as he slept !.

The Police report said that he had died at exactly 9.17am Sunday morning, as his watch had been damaged and had stopped at that time.

They asked everyone who had been present where they had been at that time, and from the answers given, they were able to arrest the murderer on the spot. The excuses were:

*The mans’ wife said that she had been asleep in bed until 11.00am from the effects of the sleeping tablets.

*The mans’ uncle said that he had been cooking breakfast in the kitchen at the front of the house.

*The mans’ sister said she that had been picking fruit and vegetables in the garden behind the house.

*The mans’ aunt said that she had been collecting the mail at the end of the driveway.

*The mans’ daughter said that she had been cleaning her bedroom upstairs.

... So, who did it, and how did they know?

mig XX

128

trina_p

on Sep 15, 2004

The Man's Aunt did it -- there is no mail delivered on SUndays

129

citahellion

on Sep 15, 2004

Ack! That has the ring of a correct answer for the riddle, but I'd blast the police for their lousy detective work if they arrested someone based on that flimsy evidence.

What if I say it was the sister, because fruit doesn't grow in a garden, but an orchard?

130

trina_p

on Sep 15, 2004

Soldiers line up spaced with pride,
Two long rows lined side by side.
One sole unit can decide,
If the rows will unite or divide.
Tell me, tell me, scream it out.
What's the thing I talk about?

131

trina_p

on Sep 15, 2004

This thing all things devours
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers
Gnaws iron, bites steel
grinds hard stones to meal
Slays king, ruins town
and beats high mountain down.

I haven't read the Hobbit. But I guess until I make a guess or someone new enters this thread the riddle will remain unsolved -- Iwas thinking the sun, then I was thinking about natural disasters - like Volcanic erruptions and earthquakes -- then we're told that this is in the Hobbit - I think I'm still going with natural disasters - should I be looking at the words though - like with Citahellions -- I can't see any clear patterns *shrugs* I have NO idea.

Unsolved Riddle 1

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 2

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.

Unsolved Riddle 3

Soldiers line up spaced with pride,
Two long rows lined side by side.
One sole unit can decide,
If the rows will unite or divide.
Tell me, tell me, scream it out.
What's the thing I talk about?

132

citahellion

on Sep 15, 2004

trina, the "hobbit" riddle is not a "clues-to-the-syllables"-style riddle like mine.

I'll guess, for your new riddle, "teeth" or "a mouth".

133

trina_p

on Sep 15, 2004

Oh okay - and no word on whether one of my guesses was correct

Nope guess again

Citahellion - Yours is Odysseus -- Homers Odyssey

134

trina_p

on Sep 15, 2004

thinking out loud - double post -- I was posting i didn't know the answer when it came to me delete this one if you like

135

citahellion

on Sep 15, 2004

You are correct, trina! "Odysseus" it is.

Having pondered it further, I submit "zipper" as my new guess for your riddle.

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