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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 ;)
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Reply #101 from JoeUser Forums Top
ooh - my immediate thought was tent (pitch a tent - you're under it and you dont get wet cause it has a roof - the zip on the front is called a fly),


this is a good guess, trina. i was hoping you'd come back to your 'favourite thread' !

I'm going for "Roof", although I'm not sure how the second line fits. Perhaps in the context of jumping off the roof. Anyway, for 1), roof above you = dry.


need i say it ?. citahellion, you got it !. the second line is comparing the motion of falling with flying, as in you cannot travel though air if you have something solid beneath you. so, you're actually right. i will stump you if it's the last thing i do !. ps: you're fabulous !

(and I'm still hoping for feedback on my explanation of the previous riddle!)


and you shall have it, my puzzling friend !

If you say "Why the heck would you add the $5 the clerk kept to the $30 the guys paid?" then you are showing good sense. Adding what someone kept (a credit) to what someone paid (a debit) is wrong. One has to be subtracted from the other.


it's clear when YOU write it, but i have to admit it never sunk in until i saw your explanation, citahellion hehe

Crusaders - you're right the answer IS teeth


indeed you are right, crusaders !. i love that one !

This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it?


trina, i read it once, and i had no clue. then i saw this:

trina_p, what is laid out in your post is known as a lipogram. This class of inscription is a form that avoids a common glyph, such as that fifth symbol (that lists post-'D'). It is difficult to do such a thing, as this post can avow.


citahellion, i think i have a crush on you now hehe

Indeed I will fiddle with your riddle....


crusaders, please feel free to post or answer more !

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


okay crusaders, i'm going for 'the heart'. am i right ?

vanessa/mig XX
Reply #102 from JoeUser Forums Top
Gaze at this sentence for just about sixty seconds and then explain what makes it quite different from the average sentence. Quick! What is it?


waaaah trina, i'm dumb !. i have to wait for my knight in shining vocabulary (aka citahellion) to come and save me

okay, here is a 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

... what am i ?

vanessa/mig XX
Elemental: Reforged
Reply #103 from JoeUser Forums Top
Gaze at this sentence for just about sixty seconds and then explain what makes it quite different from the average sentence. Quick! What is it?


trina, does it contain every letter in the alphabet ? is that it ?

vanessa/mig XX
Reply #104 from JoeUser Forums Top
Mig - it DOES contain every single letter of the alphabet

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

This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it! In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out! Try to do so without any coaching
Reply #105 from JoeUser Forums Top
Give me an x, I'll stand to face you.
Give me a cross, I'll turn my back on you.
What am I?
Reply #106 from JoeUser Forums Top
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
Reply #107 from JoeUser Forums Top
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.
Reply #108 from JoeUser Forums Top
... In other words, It didn't have the letter 'E' anywhere in it.
Reply #109 from JoeUser Forums Top
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.
Reply #110 from JoeUser Forums Top
Right - you're way too clever for your own good Citahellion -- but you got it right. - Of course
Reply #112 from JoeUser Forums Top
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
Reply #113 from JoeUser Forums Top
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
Reply #114 from JoeUser Forums Top
Imagination?
Reply #115 from JoeUser Forums Top
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.
Reply #116 from JoeUser Forums Top
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....
Reply #117 from JoeUser Forums Top
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
Reply #118 from JoeUser Forums Top
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?
Reply #119 from JoeUser Forums Top
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?
Reply #120 from JoeUser Forums Top
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.
Reply #121 from JoeUser Forums Top
synonym - as in something that means the same as strange - like odd or weird?

gee my grammar rules memory is bad
Reply #122 from JoeUser Forums Top
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.
Reply #123 from JoeUser Forums Top
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.
Reply #124 from JoeUser Forums Top

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??!!
Reply #125 from JoeUser Forums Top
Here's something a little different.....

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