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Betty 11-12-2001, 04:44 PM 1. A man is in the arctic, and discovers 2 people frozen in ice; a man and a woman. He says that he has absolute proof that he has found Adam and Eve. What is his absolute proof?
2. There is a place called the infinite hotel. It consists of one hallway with an infinite amount of rooms, starting with room one. The infinite hotel also has an infinite amount of guests, so it is booked. A new guest checks in, and as an employee at the desk, you must give him his own room without kicking anyone to the curb or sending him on an endless quest to the room at the end. How do you fit him in?
AdamJ 11-12-2001, 04:52 PM 1. I dont know...
2. Tell all the guests to move down one room?
92Notch 11-12-2001, 04:54 PM 1) They were wearing nametags, and are probably not the biblical Adam and Eve.
2) The hotel is infinite, there's always room for one more (by definition).
??????
Betty 11-12-2001, 05:00 PM Congrats to AdamJ! You got the second one!
The first is an ass kicker, I'll admit.
AdamJ 11-12-2001, 05:13 PM Hmmm
Maybe his absolute proof is... 180! ;)
jwreck 11-12-2001, 05:37 PM Adam doesn't have a belly button?
Betty 11-12-2001, 05:47 PM And congrats to jwreck! You got the first one!
That went quicker than I thought.
jwreck 11-12-2001, 05:51 PM Wow, lucky guess.
ChaoticThoughts 11-13-2001, 01:26 AM Here is a few old fashioned riddles:
1.They can be harbored, but few hold water,
You can nurse them, but only by holding them against someone else, You can carry them, but not with your arms,
You can bury them, but not in the earth.
2.It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills,And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,Ends life, kills laughter.
3.If a man carried my burden,He would break his back.I am not rich, But leave silver in my track.
4.Fossil, fresh snow, a loan, the sky,Just what am I?
5. Alive without breath, As cold as death;Never thirsty, ever drinking. All in mail, never clinking.
jwreck 11-13-2001, 06:49 PM Originally posted by ChaoticThoughts
Here is a few old fashioned riddles:
1.They can be harbored, but few hold water,
You can nurse them, but only by holding them against someone else, You can carry them, but not with your arms,
You can bury them, but not in the earth.
A grudge.
DaOgre 11-13-2001, 09:02 PM Originally posted by ChaoticThoughts
Here is a few old fashioned riddles:
2.It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills,And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,Ends life, kills laughter.
3.If a man carried my burden,He would break his back.I am not rich, But leave silver in my track.
4.Fossil, fresh snow, a loan, the sky,Just what am I?
5. Alive without breath, As cold as death;Never thirsty, ever drinking. All in mail, never clinking.
2) Im guessing the letter e...
ChaoticThoughts 11-14-2001, 04:33 AM Originally posted by jwreck
A grudge.
right
MD2020 11-14-2001, 01:38 PM Originally posted by ChaoticThoughts
Here is a few old fashioned riddles:
2.It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills,And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,Ends life, kills laughter.
Darkness.
I read this riddle before in Dark Tower III or IV, but it's still good.
I like these old ones; they really make you think. I'll have to work on the other ones for a while. Anyhow, here's a relatively old one. but if you saw a specific movie (or just know it), you should get it...
As I was walking towards St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
On each wife was seven sacks,
In each sack was seven cats.
Every cat had seven kittens.
Kittens, cats, sacks, wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?
MD2020 11-14-2001, 01:42 PM Originally posted by ChaoticThoughts
Here is a few old fashioned riddles:
4.Fossil, fresh snow, a loan, the sky,Just what am I?
Hah!! I just got this one when I looked it over!!!
These are all items that a bride techinically could, although probably wouldn't, use on her wedding day!!!
Remember: Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue!!!
ChaoticThoughts--these are really good!!!
DaOgre 11-14-2001, 03:39 PM eh for Number 2 the letter e works too if its one of those letter riddles... bech... I got 2 for ya
1) What we caught we threw away...what we could not catch we kept.
2) In the window she sat weeping... with each tear her life went sweeping.
(The second one was a good D&D riddle)
Contraband 11-14-2001, 07:55 PM Originally posted by MD2020
As I was walking towards St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
On each wife was seven sacks,
In each sack was seven cats.
Every cat had seven kittens.
Kittens, cats, sacks, wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?
ONE! I!
Although, if any of this guys wives were attractive, you might turn around too.
ChaoticThoughts 11-15-2001, 03:07 AM Very good, the minds are sharp here.
Someone should try and answer three and five...just visualize. Three is tough, but I dont think five is.
and here are some more:
6. It has a golden head. It has a golden tail. but it hasn't got a body.
7. Do not begrude this,For it is the fate of every man. Yet it is feared, And shunned in many lands.Causes problems, and sometimes gaps, Can hobble the strongest, and make memory laps. What is this danger we all face? For being a part - of the human race.
8. The part of the bird that is not in the sky,which can swim in the ocean and always stay dry. What is it?
9. I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel.
10. Runs smoother than any rhyme, loves to fall but cannot climb!
11. Deep as a bowl, round as a cup, Yet all the world's oceans can't fill it up.
MD2020 11-15-2001, 09:49 AM Originally posted by ChaoticThoughts
Very good, the minds are sharp here.
Someone should try and answer three and five...just visualize. Three is tough, but I dont think five is.
and here are some more:
6. It has a golden head. It has a golden tail. but it hasn't got a body.
7. Do not begrude this,For it is the fate of every man. Yet it is feared, And shunned in many lands.Causes problems, and sometimes gaps, Can hobble the strongest, and make memory laps. What is this danger we all face? For being a part - of the human race.
Just taking a real quick shot at these two:
Is Number 6 a coin? Heads and Tails, but no body.
Number Seven--Growing Old?
I'm going to go back and try 3 and 5. I'm trying to visualize them, but I can't quite get the image down. Good riddles.
Betty 11-15-2001, 09:53 AM 3.If a man carried my burden,He would break his back.I am not rich, But leave silver in my track.
A snail.
Betty 11-15-2001, 09:58 AM 10. water
11. brain?
ChaoticThoughts 11-15-2001, 04:46 PM Whoa, now all thats left is 5,8,11.
hammegk 11-16-2001, 09:35 AM 8. shadow
Icarus 11-18-2001, 10:41 AM 5. Fish (?)
ChaoticThoughts 11-18-2001, 07:14 PM Yes and Yes.
Dharkanjil 01-08-2002, 09:19 AM Originally posted by ChaoticThoughts
Whoa, now all thats left is 5,8,11.
Wait, nobody got 9. Are there two different answers, or are they talking about the same "thing"?
- Dharkanjil
Bobert 10-08-2005, 02:19 PM 9. I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel.
11. Deep as a bowl, round as a cup, Yet all the world's oceans can't fill it up.
9. Air?
11. a crater on the moon?
caddis 10-08-2005, 05:07 PM no belly buttons
infinity plus 1 is still infinity
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