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> The Riddles And Pointless Facts Thread!, Hooray!
hello_cello
post Mar 29 2008, 05:51 PM
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Hey forumites!
Thought we could have a thread for pointless and wierd facts and also riddles!

99.77% Of facts are made up on the spot.
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post Mar 29 2008, 05:52 PM
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post Mar 29 2008, 05:55 PM
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hehe. we already have a facts thread though!

here are a couple of riddles:

what gets wetter and wetter as it dries?
what stays in a corner but goes all round the world?

i have tonnes more but i can't be asked to write them down...
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post Mar 29 2008, 06:13 PM
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QUOTE(anisha93 @ Mar 29 2008, 05:55 PM) *

hehe. we already have a facts thread though!

here are a couple of riddles:

what gets wetter and wetter as it dries?
what stays in a corner but goes all round the world?



what gets wetter and wetter as it dries? - a towel

what stays in a corner but goes all round the world? - a stamp?
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post Mar 29 2008, 06:14 PM
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QUOTE(hello_cello @ Mar 29 2008, 05:51 PM) *

Hey forumites!
Thought we could have a thread for pointless and wierd facts and also riddles!

99.77% Of facts are made up on the spot.

and the other 2.35 % are not
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post Mar 29 2008, 07:29 PM
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Didn't realise there were any fact threads.
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post Mar 31 2008, 01:11 PM
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A man has hanged himself in a barn. The beam from which he is hanging is too far off the ground for him to have reached it unaided, yet he received no help, and the barn is otherwise completely empty except for a puddle of water.

How did the man manage to hang himself?
(sorry - macabre, I know)
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post Mar 31 2008, 01:11 PM
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What is part of the wood, goes around the wood, but never goes into the wood?
(Heard this one at Loughborough Folk Festival)



I have a mouth but never talk,
I always run, and never walk,
I’m called a different name when still
And I can never run uphill
I have a bed, but never sleep
I can be shallow, can be deep
I’m not alive – but there’s life in me
The question is – what can I be?

(This is obvious, and it's an old one, but I reworded it)
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Another macabre one.



Mr. A. Body has been found slumped across his desk. He is dead. Beside his is a sealed envelope and a tape recorder.
Mr. Body's butler, upon entering the room and finding the body, presses the play button on the tape recorder, which then plays a suicide message.

The butler immediately calls the Police Murder Investigation Squad. Why?
And how did Mr A. Body die?
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post Mar 31 2008, 01:16 PM
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The second one - a river?
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post Mar 31 2008, 06:21 PM
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i beleive that is the Bark, scurra.
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post Mar 31 2008, 06:34 PM
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QUOTE(Allannah @ Mar 29 2008, 07:13 PM) *

QUOTE(anisha93 @ Mar 29 2008, 05:55 PM) *

hehe. we already have a facts thread though!

here are a couple of riddles:

what gets wetter and wetter as it dries?
what stays in a corner but goes all round the world?



what gets wetter and wetter as it dries? - a towel

what stays in a corner but goes all round the world? - a stamp?


you either have an open mind, have heard these riddles before, or both! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)


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post Mar 31 2008, 10:37 PM
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THE loftiest cedars I can eat,
Yet neither paunch nor mouth have I;
I storm whene’er you give me meat;
Whene’er you give me drink, I die.
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post Mar 31 2008, 10:45 PM
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THE loftiest cedars I can eat,
Yet neither paunch nor mouth have I;
I storm whene’er you give me meat;
Whene’er you give me drink, I die.


Oh, I know this one! Is it fire?

Ok, you walk into a room with only one match. In the room there is a candle an oil lamp and a fireplace - which do you light first?
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post Mar 31 2008, 10:48 PM
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QUOTE(lucky045 @ Mar 31 2008, 11:45 PM) *

QUOTE(Jungfrauenregalbass @ Mar 31 2008, 11:37 PM) *

THE loftiest cedars I can eat,
Yet neither paunch nor mouth have I;
I storm whene’er you give me meat;
Whene’er you give me drink, I die.


Oh, I know this one! Is it fire?

Ok, you walk into a room with only one match. In the room there is a candle an oil lamp and a fireplace - which do you light first?

Is that a riddle? I think you light the candle first.

try Einstein's Riddle that 98% of the world population cant solve.

- In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.

- In each house lives a person of different nationality

- These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

Einstein's riddle is: Who owns the fish?
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