SYM Riddle Thread

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:17 am

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When Miss Millie purchased her new parrot, the salesman assured her that it would repeat any word it heard. About a week later, Miss Millie returned the parrot complaining it hadn't uttered a single word. Given that the salesman had spoken the truth about the parrot's abilities, why wouldn't the bird talk?

dj_venom · Post by **dj_venom** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:18 am

Maybe I am...nah, I'm just sitting waiting while doing an assignment.

The parrot was deaf

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:19 am

Good assignment?

If you turn your right-handed glove inside out and put it on your left hand, where will the palm of the glove be on your left hand?

dj_venom · Post by **dj_venom** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:21 am

Is it possible to have a good assignment

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It will be against your left hand palm

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:23 am

That would depend on the topic

A man was going on a one-way bus trip. He intended to ride for a certain distance, get off the bus and walk back to town. If the bus travels at a rate of nine miles per hour and he was to jog back to town at a rate of three miles per hour, how far would he ride so theat he'd be back in eight hours?

dj_venom · Post by **dj_venom** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:26 am

This is just designing a webpage, so it's not the good bit yet

He would have to ride for 18 miles to return in 8 hours.

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:28 am

Okay. Continuing the mixed riddles and spamming:

What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?

dj_venom · Post by **dj_venom** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:29 am

Lol, a deadly mix

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The letter m.

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:30 am

Isn't it? Confusing too.

Mr. and Mrs. Jones were walking home from the shopping mall with their purchases when Mr. Jones began to complain that his load was too heavy. Mrs. Jones turned to her husband and said, "I don't know what you're complaining about because if you gave me one of your parcels, I would have twice as many as you and if I gave you just one of mine, we would have equal loads." How many parcels were each carrying?

dj_venom · Post by **dj_venom** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:32 am

Let's just hope a mod doesn't look back at this with the intent to punish.

Mr Jones had 5, Mrs had 7.

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:34 am

We're still posting and answering riddles, so it should fall into the rules.

Jim was examining an angle measuring 14 and 1/2 degrees, using his magnifying glass that magnifies everything two times. Under the glass, how large would that angle measure?

dj_venom · Post by **dj_venom** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:35 am

Or at least we hope...

It would still measure the same, 14.5 degrees.

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:37 am

I'm confident. I started the thread and didn't put any specific rules about spamming in there, I'm happy for there to be some spam as long as it does not go far off topic. Or at least riddles/answers are included.

A grandfather clock chimes the appropriate number of times to indicate the hour, as well as chiming once at each quarter hour. If you were in another room and heard the clock chime just once, what would be the longest period of time you would have to wait in order to be certain of the correct time?

dj_venom · Post by **dj_venom** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:41 am

Well I'm glad to hear that. Now however, I've done enough on the assignment so I'm going to go. Seeya, and the riddles were good...

And of course I couldn't leave without answering this one...

90 minutes. If the clock chimed at 12:15, you could wait until 1:45 before you were certain. Once you hear 7 chimes in a row, the only possibility is the next one being 2:00.

Good riddles, top work

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Chimaera182 · Post by **Chimaera182** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:01 am

[QUOTE=Ravager]See if you can beat dj, chimaera

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Wasn't possible; I logged off and went for a swim. I can't compete while I'm on dial-up anyway; I could've posted the answer before Venom, but by the time the post actually got posted, I was a minute late.

I hate dial-up, and I swear the first thing I buy when I get enough money from my job is a better modem.

[QUOTE=Ravager]Okay. Continuing the mixed riddles and spamming:

What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?[/QUOTE]
Didn't we see this one already?

I knew the angle one, but y'all made a whole other page of riddles that I wound up reading throuhg. Dang hippies.

Okay, this is a lame one, but I thought it up while swimming, so I was oxygen-deprived and it's lame all the same, but it still looks like a riddle to me. It's short and pretty easy:

I'm involved in everything.

dj_venom · Post by **dj_venom** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 12:08 am

Perhaps it is oxygen... I haven't heard this one before, seeing as you just made it up.

Brynn · Post by **Brynn** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 12:45 am

[QUOTE=Ravager]We're still posting and answering riddles, so it should fall into the rules.

Jim was examining an angle measuring 14 and 1/2 degrees, using his magnifying glass that magnifies everything two times. Under the glass, how large would that angle measure?[/QUOTE]
--> No matter how many times you magnify it the angle will always be the same <--

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 3:01 am

Yeah, that's right Brynn

@Chimaera, sorry if I repeated a riddle, at the rate we were going through yesterday, it was bound to happen

A new one:

A psychologist goes to a village in Africa and decides to compare foot size to intelligence. He notes that in general, as foot size increases, so does intelligence. How can this be?

Chimaera182 · Post by **Chimaera182** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 5:42 am

No, not oxygen.

And for Rav's: they're measuring adults and children; the feet of adults are larger, and they are more intelligent than the children. Is that right?

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 5:44 am

Yes, well done!

Another:

Pat Smith gives someone a dollar. Pat is this person's brother, but the person is not Pat's brother. How can that be?

Chimaera, is it life?