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ionstream
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Quote: "Ever put an uncooked potato in a bowl of water in a window, and left it sitting for 2 days?"



I do that every chance I get! I currently have 6 potatoes in each windowsill of my house.



I've got a riddle for you:

FOR>FOM

That's not as bad as you think you said.
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Gil Galvanti
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Quote: "An object with 5 unblinkable eyes."

Your so wise Benjamin. Can u pass ur uber l33t pwnage skilz3rs 2 m3 plzzz?


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ionstream, assigning each letter a value based on their position in the alphabet would result in:

61813 > 61513

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Posted: 13th May 2007 08:40 Edited at: 13th May 2007 08:41
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I have many eyes, but I see nothing.
I have no mouth, yet I feed off of my self.
I can have many arms, I can have none.

What am I?

Who will die first?
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Three Score
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Posted: 13th May 2007 10:58
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A man went in to a shop and asked: "How much is 1?"
"£1.20" replied the shopkeeper.
"How much are 10?" asked the man,
"£2.40" replied the shopkeeper,
"I'll have a 100" said the man,
The shopkeeper charged him £3.60, what was the man buying?


ummm...was it binary digits? or something at least to that nature?

wait no, that doesn't make sense because 11 is three, not 100...hmmm
digits?


also, got a really short joke for you(I don't think it's hard enough to be a riddle..)

There are 10 types of people in this world, what are they?



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Posted: 13th May 2007 14:03 Edited at: 13th May 2007 14:07
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Quote: "A man went in to a shop and asked: "How much is 1?"
"£1.20" replied the shopkeeper.
"How much are 10?" asked the man,
"£2.40" replied the shopkeeper,
"I'll have a 100" said the man,
The shopkeeper charged him £3.60, what was the man buying?"

house numbers

Quote: "1. It was hear then, It was hear now I have no arms and legs, no nothing, I can be as powerful to destroy a sun or as gentle to create a bird what am i?"

time?

ive got one, a father and son are driving and they are invloved in a crash, the father dies and the son is seriously injured and taken to hospital, the doctor says that they cannot perform the surgery as the boy is their son, explain.

(it was from a book that changes your way of thinking)
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Fallout
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The father and son in the car weren't related, I'm guessing. "A father and son" doesn't necessarily mean one is the father/son of the other, it just means one has a son and one has a father.


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Posted: 13th May 2007 14:59
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the answer to mine is the mississippi river (I speelled it right!)

Your signature has been deleted by a moderator because this joke is getting old.
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Benjamin
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Why do people keep answering the same riddle over and over?

Quote: "Your so wise Benjamin. Can u pass ur uber l33t pwnage skilz3rs 2 m3 plzzz?"

So that you can learn the difference between "your" and "you're"? Sure.

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Quote: "ive got one, a father and son are driving and they are invloved in a crash, the father dies and the son is seriously injured and taken to hospital, the doctor says that they cannot perform the surgery as the boy is their son, explain"


The doctor is the childs mother.



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Posted: 13th May 2007 16:02
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Quote: "I have a tail, and I have a head, but I don't have a body, and I'm not a snake. What am I?"


A coin?

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Quote: "I am older than my mother.
I was born in March but my birthday is in May.
I legally married my father."


First, your biological father marries a young woman in a foreign country.
Your were born on March 31, at 11:00.
Daylight savings time happened, and your birthday got shifted an hour, to May 1st.
Third, you live in a foreign country, allowing you to marry anyone.

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Zotoaster
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Quote: "and your birthday got shifted an hour, to May 1st."


Wouldn't that be April?

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Benjamin
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Posted: 13th May 2007 17:28
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Quote: "Daylight savings time happened, and your birthday got shifted an hour, to May 1st."

Actually the order of the months goes March->April->May.

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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 13th May 2007 17:29
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Quote: "So that you can learn the difference between "your" and "you're"? "

See your already teaching me


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Posted: 13th May 2007 18:47
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Quote: "First, your biological father marries a young woman in a foreign country.
Your were born on March 31, at 11:00.
Daylight savings time happened, and your birthday got shifted an hour, to May 1st.
Third, you live in a foreign country, allowing you to marry anyone."


No to all three

Especially number 2 for the reasons mentioned above.



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Quote: "I am older than my mother"

Well, the mother was born february 29th

Quote: "I was born in March but my birthday is in May."

Maybe March is a city

Quote: "I legally married my father."

It's a girl married with a priest
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Posted: 13th May 2007 18:54
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1. No
2. Yes
3. Don't understand what you are saying



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Don't know how it works in usa but in france, when talking to a priest, we have to say "mon père" so if you marry him, you marry your father.
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Then no.
When I say father, I mean I legally married my biological father and not in some bizzarre country where that is acceptable.



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Quote: "When I say father, I mean I legally married my biological father"

I'm going to think differently of you from now on.

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Posted: 13th May 2007 20:01 Edited at: 13th May 2007 20:06
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Marry:

Quote: "An old naval expression meaning to be laid over a gun to receive a thrashing."



[edit]

Married:

Quote: "If, as of the last day of the tax year, any of the following four situations apply to you, you are considered married."


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ionstream
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Exactly!

That's not as bad as you think you said.
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OK, it's been going long enough. Here's the answers:





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Oh DOH. I don't even remember how I made that march-april-may mistake.

Here is another one (Easy):
I have 6 windows and a metal body.
I have 4 wheels.
I have an engine.
I am not a vehicle.
I am not a trailer.
What am I?

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i have one:
there is a room. inside this room there is absolutely nothing except a table and a man. hoe does the man escape.
Hint:it has a bit of a joky answer.


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he walks out of the room and wait.. hear this, HE CONTINUES HIS EVERYDAY LIFE!

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Quote: "there is a room. inside this room there is absolutely nothing except a table and a man. hoe does the man escape."

First, he looks at the walls for a square indenture with a knob in the wall.
He walks towards it.
He then places his hand on the knob, and rotates his hand to the left.
While holding the knob as far left as he can, he pulls, and the indenture opens.
He walks out.
HE ESCAPED!

Simpler version:

He went out of the door.

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Quote: "The doctor is the childs mother."

Correct!
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I have a new riddle, because I am thirsty:

I am red, white, and silver.
People stare at my back to see if my insides are suitable for their diet.
I am found with several others like me, inside of a machine.
When I am called, I roll down and slide out onto a slide.
I am usually drunken, or used to clean up blood.

What am I?

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Until the last line you were quite clearly a can of Coke, but I have never heard of anyone using a can of Coke to clean up blood. Perhaps the contents of the can but most definitely not the can itself. Also there has never, to my knowledge, been any recorded case of a can containing anything being in a state of alcoholic intoxication.



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You have only two bottles of non-uniform size.
One bottle holds 5L of water.
The other holds 3L of water.
You have an unlimited supply of water.
You must measure exactly 4L of water into one of the bottles.

How?

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no there is no door.


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Quote: "no there is no door."

You didn't say that.

He climbs out of a window.

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You have only two bottles of non-uniform size.
One bottle holds 5L of water.
The other holds 3L of water.
You have an unlimited supply of water.
You must measure exactly 4L of water into one of the bottles."


Call John McClane

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Actually, Coke can be used to clean up blood. Saw it on Mythbusters .

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Yep, that is correct! It is a coke can. It is a proven fact that one of the best ways to clean up blood is to dump coke on it, leave it sitting for 5 minutes, then clean up the coke.

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Quote: "no there is no door."

I am assuming there are no windows either.

In that case.
He first, bit off his finger.
He then stuck it down his throat.
He choked on the finger to death.
He exited the room, even though his body didn't.

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@Jess

Yeah, I'm sure that was on one of the die hard movies! Gotta figure it out now!

Ok, got it ..

Fill the 5L,pour that into the 3L.
Now you have 2L (in the 5L) and 3L (in the 3L)
Pour out the 3L one.
Pour the 2L (in the 5L) into the 3L.
Now you have 0L (in the 5L) and 2L (in the 3L)
Fill the 5L, and then pour from this into the 3L until the 3L is full.
That leave you 4L in the 5L container.

How Brucey did that under the pressure of death, I have no idea.


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Quote: "there is a room. inside this room there is absolutely nothing except a table and a man. hoe does the man escape."


He picks up the table, and breaks it down the middle. He now has 2 halves. He then puts them back together to make a whole. He escapes through his newly created hole


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Quote: "What can you always see, but no matter how far you travel, never reach?
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The horizon? But that seems a bit simple

Quote: "A man went in to a shop and asked: "How much is 1?"
"£1.20" replied the shopkeeper.
"How much are 10?" asked the man,
"£2.40" replied the shopkeeper,
"I'll have a 100" said the man,
The shopkeeper charged him £3.60, what was the man buying?
-"


Letters - a 1 costs £1.20, a 0 costs £1.20

Quote: "A Theif steals 3 Jade balls from a shrine in a Jungle.
After escaping, the theif comes to a 100m foot bridge which has a maximum weight of 100KG.
Knowing that he himself weighs 88KG, and each of the balls weighs 5KG, he quickly realizes he will not be able to cross the bridge by any normal means.
However, he works out a way to do it.
How?"


Well its a bit of a long shot but does he juggle them as he goes across so that theres always 1 ball in the air, making the total weight on the bridhe 98kg.
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You never said that he actually escaped.. so I'm going to say he didn't lol.

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Never mind my last post, i really should have read through the post first.

but...

Quote: "You have only two bottles of non-uniform size.
One bottle holds 5L of water.
The other holds 3L of water.
You have an unlimited supply of water.
You must measure exactly 4L of water into one of the bottles.

How?"


Is it fill the 3L bottle up and pour it into the 5L. The refill the 3L bottle and pour it into the 5L until its full. Empty the 5 and put the rest of the 3L bottle back into the five, then just add another full 3L bottle to the 5.
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Quote: "How Brucey did that under the pressure of death, I have no idea."


My guess is it was in the script


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Quote: "Actually, Coke can be used to clean up blood. Saw it on Mythbusters"


Perhaps, but Coke isn't red, white and silver. Therefore he is the can that the coke is in and not the coke itself.

Quote: "You have only two bottles of non-uniform size.
One bottle holds 5L of water.
The other holds 3L of water.
You have an unlimited supply of water.
You must measure exactly 4L of water into one of the bottles."


1) Fill the 5l bottle.
2) Pour it into th 3l bottle, leaving 2l in the 5l bottle.
3) empty the 3l bottle.
4) Transfer the contents of the 5l bottle into the 3l bottle.
5) You now have 2l in the 3l bottle and an emtpy 5l bottle.
6) Fill the 5l bottle.
7) Pour contenst of 5l bottle into 3l bottle. As there is only room for 1l in the 3l bottle, you will be left with 4l in the 5l bottle ... tada!




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Math question...

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I was talking about the coke as a whole, can and insides.

I listed the soda as the insides.

The outside was red (Base), white (Text and lines), and silver (Top and bottom).


I have another one:

I once was tasty, but now I'm not.
I used to smell good, but now I don't.
I once had several colors, now just 1.
I once was respected and enjoyed, now I am no different then my own.
I once came in a box, now in a tube.
I was not transferred to Wal-Mart.


What am I?

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Quote: "What am I?"

You? I mean.. excrement?

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What does the riddle have to do with killing waste products????

1 more post, and the thread will reach #200!

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Yeah, It's from Die Hard - But it's still a good puzzle none-the-less!

And yeah, you guy's got it right

Here's another one:

You have two lengths of rope.
If you were to burn either rope, it would take exactly an hour.
The ropes aren't the same length, and the widths & densities vary throughout each rope's length. Thus, one section may burn faster than another, etc.
You need to measure out exactly 45minutes with the ropes.
How?

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