Somebody gave this to me the other day and I’ve trouble solving it. There are 3 words in the english language ending in gry. The first two are angry and hungry. The third?
Oh no. Now you’ve done it.
the answer is “language”. here is the whole riddle:
If you google “words ending in gry” a ton of sites come up.
I can hear that big vein on manhattan’s head starting to pulsate.
The painful part of this is that gry has too few letters to actually allow a search of the SDMB archives.
I cannot believe you just asked that and you have almost 100 posts even! This is item number 1 on the “Questions we do not ask in GQ” list. If you really want to know, do a search and you will see the responses that others who have fallen into this trap have gotten.
Don’t buy that “original wording” part as fact. It’s widely believed, but has never been corroborated.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=125917
Alright, my bad. I get lazy sometimes about doing searches. But thanks for clearing that up. That shit you see on my face is egg.
OK Adam, but it is the solemn duty of someone in threads such as this to inform you that asking about the so-called missing dollar in the hotel-bellboy-three guests riddle is also strictly prohibited. And for God’s sake, don’t ask why duck’s quacks don’t echo, and nobody knows why.
Boy I’m glad that’s cleared up. So does anyone know why we drive on the parkway and park on the driveway? And whether or not a duck’s quack echoes?
Ducks’ quacks only echo when they end in -gry.
But if an non-echoing duckgry is behind the first door, should you switch to one of the other doors, or is the counterfeit duckgry one of the other 11?
::head explodes::
If you hear a duck’s quack echo, that means it ate the missing dollar.
Boy, we’re really going the whole nine yards with this one…
[sub]Ouch! Ow! I didn’t mean - ow![/sub]
It’s Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
Before I close this, I’ll refer to Cecil’s column on What are the three English words ending in -gry?