<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "Riddle thread, anybody?"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/10.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Riddle thread, anybody? Here's one: There is a story that a man and not a man
Saw and did not see a bird and not a bird
Perched on a branch and not a branch
And hit him and did not hit him with a rock and not a rock.

How is this possible?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6700014.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6700014.page GMT Re:Riddle thread, anybody? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6700042.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6700042.page GMT Re:Riddle thread, anybody?
 TheCustomLime wrote:
A man and a woman saw a bird and another object in the past. The bird was perched on a branch and the other was on something else. The bird hit him with a rock and the other animal did nothing.

No sir, getting close. Try again. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6700112.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6700112.page GMT Riddle thread, anybody? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6700138.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6700138.page GMT Riddle thread, anybody?
 Avatar 720 wrote:
A biological male who identifies as a female named Marie saw something that she thought was a bird that was, unbeknown to her, not actually a bird, perched on something that, from a distance, looked connected to a tree but was in fact connected to an object behind the tree. This thing proceeded to throw a rock at her, which missed, and then threw a second which hit her, but JESUS, MARIE, THEY'RE MINERALS!

I-um-....No.
Brownie points for creativity though...]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6700174.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6700174.page GMT Riddle thread, anybody?
Moving thread...]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6700600.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6700600.page GMT Riddle thread, anybody?
 poppa G wrote:
Post 'em, solve 'em.
Here's one: There is a story that a man and not a man
Saw and did not see a bird and not a bird
Perched on a branch and not a branch
And hit him and did not hit him with a rock and not a rock.

How is this possible?


Yeah well what have I got in my pocket?
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 Leigen_Zero wrote:
 poppa G wrote:
Post 'em, solve 'em.
Here's one: There is a story that a man and not a man
Saw and did not see a bird and not a bird
Perched on a branch and not a branch
And hit him and did not hit him with a rock and not a rock.

How is this possible?


Yeah well what have I got in my pocket?

String or nothing!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6701210.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6701210.page GMT Re:Riddle thread, anybody?
 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Well a man that is not a man could be castrated... Not sure on the other stuff.


FWIW I googled the answer before giving my own - which was just an excuse to jump on the 'they're minerals!' thing from Breaking Bad - and apparently the 'man who is not a man' is supposed to be a eunuch, but I don't see why it couldn't be a biological male who identifies as a female, since that fits perfectly as well.

The rest of the answer, though, is crap. Apparently the bird that is not a bird is supposed to be a bat, but I don't see how that could possibly be worked out from the information given in the riddle given that that part of the answer assumes the person can't see very well, in which case a whole list of things could be mistaken for birds - hell, people mistake a flying man in spandex wearing his undies on the outside for a bird - and not just bats. The branch but not a branch is a reed, apparently, but that isn't a branch in the first place, so that can't be right, and bats do not perch. The final answer is that the bat threw a pumice stone at the person, which misses, but this contradicts the fact that he was hit in addition to not being hit.

I'd go as far as to say the riddle has no answer, because the one that is accepted as being the answer is clearly incorrect.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6701271.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6701271.page GMT Riddle thread, anybody? I know this one!
The answer is a eunuch who couldn't see that well saw a bat sitting on a river reed and chukked a pumice rock at him that missed.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6701873.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6701873.page GMT Riddle thread, anybody?
What has eyes, but never see's.
Breathes, but never draws breath.
Speaks, but is forever silent.
Digs, but never mines.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6711619.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6711619.page GMT Riddle thread, anybody? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6711720.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6711720.page GMT Re:Riddle thread, anybody? As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives,
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits:
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were there going to St. Ives?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6711832.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6711832.page GMT Riddle thread, anybody?

No the answer is not a potato.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6712048.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6712048.page GMT Re:Riddle thread, anybody? IIRC 5 different answers, all correct.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6712907.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6712907.page GMT Re:Riddle thread, anybody? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6713033.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6713033.page GMT Re:Riddle thread, anybody? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6713062.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6713062.page GMT Riddle thread, anybody? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6713205.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6713205.page GMT Riddle thread, anybody?
Co'tor Shas wrote:
 Leigen_Zero wrote:

Yeah well what have I got in my pocket?

String or nothing!


Nope, the correct answer is:
I'm just happy to see you

WarOne wrote:Sticks and stones may break my bones, but what as a Dark Eldar excite me?

Pretty much anything providing someone remembered to bring a bottle of absinthe and some massage oil?
*shudders*
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 WarOne wrote:
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but what as a Dark Eldar excite me?


How can answer this without being banned for undermining the family-friendly spirit of these forums?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6715117.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6715117.page GMT Riddle thread, anybody?
I'm hard yet soft, I'm coloured yet clear, I am fruity and sweet, I am jelly. What am I?
 WarOne wrote:
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but what as a Dark Eldar excite me?

Anything, basically, apart from a lack of sensations. Or so a BL novel told me anyway.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6724903.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6724903.page GMT Riddle thread, anybody?
 Troike wrote:
I'm hard yet soft, I'm coloured yet clear, I am fruity and sweet, I am jelly. What am I?


...Jelly.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6724917.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588532/6724917.page GMT