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Oct 30th, 2007, 03:06 am
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| | Re: Riddles - Riddles & Answers ONLY! these are great riddles, here's another one
A man lives in a house with four corners that all face south. One day, he saw a bear outside. What color was the bear? |
Oct 30th, 2007, 05:59 am
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| | Re: Riddles - Riddles & Answers ONLY! Greetings, Quote:
A man lives in a house with four corners that all face south. One day, he saw a bear outside. What color was the bear?
Oct 18th, 2007 01:39 pm
| White. The house is on the north pole. Quote:
2 mothers, 2 daughters in a room together.... How many women are there in the room?
| Three. Grandmother, Mother, Daughter.
Still waiting for the answer to mine.
I remain, as always,
Mad-Hamlet
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Dec 13th, 2007, 04:10 pm
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Quote Bilingualdiva manuela... is the answer to your riddle "Space" ?
Riddle: What crawls on four, then walks on two, then on three? | The answer is a person. Babys crawl on all fours, then when there older they walk on two legs, when there old they walk with a cane. |
Dec 27th, 2007, 05:07 pm
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Quote Manuela Ccool riddles. I've just done poosessives with my beginner class.
I'll use your riddles. Very nice.
I suppose the answers are:
Your uncle's sister is your mother
A dead man cannot marry.
A man cannot marry his own mother
Some other riddles
What has got four legs but cannot walk?
What has got teeth but cannot eat?
What has got a tail but cannot wag it? | Is it a dead horse? |
Dec 29th, 2007, 02:04 pm
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| | Re: Riddles - Riddles & Answers ONLY! What has got legs but cannot walk? A table, a chair, a bed etc
What has got teeth but cannot eat? A comb.
What has got a tail but cannot wag it? An aeroplane.
Pupils love writing riddles like these. |
Dec 30th, 2007, 04:45 am
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| | Re: Riddles - Riddles & Answers ONLY! anybody have any riddles that are English specific? Maybe, that can be used in class? Some of the previous riddles can be used but I was wondering if there were some more out there? |
Jan 10th, 2008, 09:04 am
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| | Re: Riddles - Riddles & Answers ONLY! I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall. |
Mar 31st, 2008, 05:54 pm
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| | Re: Riddles - Riddles & Answers ONLY! A man leaves to go up a mountain on Tuesday. It takes him 2 days to get to the top. He leaves the next day and takes 1 day to return. He returns on Tuesday - how does he do it? |
Mar 31st, 2008, 05:55 pm
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| | Re: Riddles - Riddles & Answers ONLY! Why did the Aussie cross the road? |
Apr 23rd, 2008, 10:14 am
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Quote Eric Two women apply for a job. They are identical. They have the same mother, father, birthdays, height, weight, etc... The interviewer asks, "Are you twins?" They say, "No".
Why did they say they weren't twins?
(please quote this riddle with your answer) |
they were triplets |
Sep 25th, 2008, 03:29 am
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| | Re: Riddles - Riddles & Answers ONLY! i live above a star but never burn, i have 11 neighbours that never turn.my initials are p,q and r and sometimes s. what am i?? |
Sep 25th, 2008, 09:47 am
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| | Re: Riddles - Riddles & Answers ONLY! Quote:
Quote mesmark Warning! These are a little goofy.
1. If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don’t have it. What is it?
2. Forward I’m heavy, but backwards I’m not. What am I?
3. The one who made it didn’t want itThe one who bought it didn’t need it.The one who used it never saw it.What is it?
4. What can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be eaten?
5. What’s colorless and weightless, but if you put it into a barrel, the barrel would become lighter? |
1.A secret
2.
3.a sarcaphagus, coffin, or gravestone
4.peppers
5.light |
Sep 25th, 2008, 09:50 am
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| | Re: Riddles - Riddles & Answers ONLY! a man is in jail. another man comes to visit him. the guard asks the man in jail, "who is this man?" he replies, "brothers and sisters, i have none. that man's father is my fathers son."
Who is the man that came to visit him? |
Sep 25th, 2008, 09:51 am
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Quote silvainpion these are great riddles, here's another one
A man lives in a house with four corners that all face south. One day, he saw a bear outside. What color was the bear? | white, its a polar bear |
Nov 16th, 2008, 11:53 am
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Quote mesmark Warning! These are a little goofy.
1. If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don’t have it. What is it? I have no idea
2. Forward I’m heavy, but backwards I’m not. What am I?
i have no idea
3. The one who made it didn’t want itThe one who bought it didn’t need it.The one who used it never saw it.What is it?i have no idea
4. What can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be eaten? UMMM
5. What’s colorless and weightless, but if you put it into a barrel, the barrel would become lighter? | UUUUUU |
Nov 18th, 2008, 03:12 pm
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| | Re: Riddles - Riddles & Answers ONLY! what lights the night sky but is not a star |
Feb 28th, 2009, 02:59 pm
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| | Re: Riddles - Riddles & Answers ONLY! Riddle: A man is found hanging from the center of a room... there is only a door , a window and absolutley no furniture... there is a puddle of water under the man.... how did he hang himself???[/quote]
he hung himself by standing on an ice cube hung himself to the cieling and the ice cube melted into a puddle |
Feb 28th, 2009, 03:03 pm
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Quote Vickiii_NZ A man leaves to go up a mountain on Tuesday. It takes him 2 days to get to the top. He leaves the next day and takes 1 day to return. He returns on Tuesday - how does he do it? | the horses name is Tuesday |
Feb 28th, 2009, 03:06 pm
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Quote razorwilder a man is in jail. another man comes to visit him. the guard asks the man in jail, "who is this man?" he replies, "brothers and sisters, i have none. that man's father is my fathers son."
Who is the man that came to visit him? | his brother |
Mar 13th, 2009, 10:57 pm
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Quote razorwilder a man is in jail. another man comes to visit him. the guard asks the man in jail, "who is this man?" he replies, "brothers and sisters, i have none. that man's father is my fathers son."
Who is the man that came to visit him? | His son |
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