phoenix Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 No sooner spoken than broken. What am I? ::ultracool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomasdark Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 Silence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix Posted December 10, 2005 Author Share Posted December 10, 2005 Yes! Your turn. ::xmas One clarification; you can use Google to find them if you have to, just not to find solutions to ones already offered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomasdark Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 Turn us on our backsAnd open up our stomachsYou will be the wisest of menThough at start a lummox.what am i? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix Posted December 10, 2005 Author Share Posted December 10, 2005 Books.Whoever makes it doesn't want it,Whoever buys it doesn't need it,Whoever needs it doesn't know.What is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomasdark Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 ouch, this one may take a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueNinja Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 A coffin.(someone else can post another one, I just couldn't resist throwing out one.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomasdark Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 cant believe i failed that one. oh well heres another.It occurs once in every minuteTwice in every momentAnd yet never in one hundred thousand years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 cant believe i failed that one. oh well heres another.It occurs once in every minuteTwice in every momentAnd yet never in one hundred thousand years.←The letter M? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomasdark Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 The letter M?←COrrect! your turn senor archer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix Posted December 11, 2005 Author Share Posted December 11, 2005 The letter M? ::closedeyes Nice. Another one like that I heard goes,What is found atThe beginning of eternity, The end of time and space,The beginning of every end,And the end of every race?The answer is easy since Tomas just told another like it, but I like the rhyme anyway.. ::blush Anyway! Archer's turn indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 Okay, here's one:I am mother and father, but never birth or nurse. I'm rarely still, but I never wander. What am I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix Posted December 11, 2005 Author Share Posted December 11, 2005 That is a very tough riddle.. Is the answer the ocean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 Nope. ::tongue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix Posted December 11, 2005 Author Share Posted December 11, 2005 Does the answer have to do with eggs? I.E. mother- and father-hood without live birth or nursing? I was thinking of a bird earlier, but birds tend to wander.. ::confused Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomasdark Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 a tree? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 Ding ding ding! A tree is the correct answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomasdark Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 YAY im good.Never ahead, ever behind,Yet flying swiftly past;For a child I last forever,For adults I'm gone too fast.what am i? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezekiel Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 TimeLike time for me to go to bed 'cause of my bloody exam in a few hours...So here's one:What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix Posted December 12, 2005 Author Share Posted December 12, 2005 A disease.I'm greater than God, More evil than the devil,Rich men need me,Poor men have me.What am I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayre el KaBeer Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 A classic: nothing.Though I owe one I'm terrible at these things and am going ot have to pass untill one comes to me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix Posted December 12, 2005 Author Share Posted December 12, 2005 Okay, I'll go again. Gotta make up for that last one.. ::wink A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one, and twelve is what remains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayre el KaBeer Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 Dozens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix Posted December 12, 2005 Author Share Posted December 12, 2005 Right again. ::smile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezekiel Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 Actually mine was:Your word.But I guess a disease works too...hmmm...P.S. Actually I think disease doesn't necessarily work since its: can keep which sorta implies a choice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayre el KaBeer Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 I thought your one would have been opinion... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psilord Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Ok, forgive me if this seems corny, but I'm trying to make one up from scratch...Describing the best,Binding when round,Bringing forth the worst,Born of the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix Posted December 14, 2005 Author Share Posted December 14, 2005 Gold? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayre el KaBeer Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 Gold?←That has to be right. ::thumbup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psilord Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 Sorry for the late reply!Yeppers... its GOLD. ::happy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcat82 Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 A swedish one...what goes and goes without ever reaching the door? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayre el KaBeer Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 A car? ::brick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix Posted December 17, 2005 Author Share Posted December 17, 2005 A clock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcat82 Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 Right there P, your turn me thinks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finbar Posted December 18, 2005 Share Posted December 18, 2005 Wouldn't that be a Swiss one?And why wouldn't "a mathematician" work as well (allowing for Zeno's paradox)? FR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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