# help...this riddle is driving me nuts! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 13, 1999, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-riddle-is-driving-me-nuts/12099 "1999-12-13T22:10:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![melanietarrant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@melanietarrant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melanietarrant)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-riddle-is-driving-me-nuts/12099/1 "1999-12-13T22:10:00Z")
a kid keeps e-mailing me and sending me instant messages daily he has a riddle that i can’t solve he won’t tell me the answer and he won’t give me any clues except to say that it is intangeble I COME IN ALL SIZES IN SHAPES AND LOCATIONS, I TRAVEL THE WORLD AND CONNECT EVERY NATION. HUMANS CREATE ME FOR HUMANS I’M USED OFTEN HINDERD AM I WHEN NATURE’S POWER IS LOOSED YOU’LL FIND ME WHEREVER IMAGINATION IS FOUND SOMETIMES IN THE SKY, MORE OFTEN ON THE GROUND. THINK HARD NOW, DEAR READER AND THEN ANSWER TRUE I KNOW WHAT I AM, DO YOU? * * * ok, incorrect guesses i have made include, water electricity boundries or borders mail help me wise people!!! he won’t let me rest until i give an answer ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-riddle-is-driving-me-nuts/12099/2 "1999-12-13T22:17:00Z")
If he says it’s intangible, then the answer can’t be ‘aeroplanes’. But I like it! (nervously) you could try looking up a thread on the ‘words ending in -gry’ riddle. We’ve seen it a lot here, but perhaps he hasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-riddle-is-driving-me-nuts/12099/3 "1999-12-13T22:24:00Z")
Thoughts, maybe? Just a WAG. I’m no good at those dippy riddles, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-riddle-is-driving-me-nuts/12099/4 "1999-12-13T22:25:00Z")
I’d say electricity. Or phone lines. One of the two. Yeah, electricity. * * * “It says, I choo-choo-choose you. And it’s got a picture of a train.” – Ralph Wiggum ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-riddle-is-driving-me-nuts/12099/5 "1999-12-13T22:26:00Z")
Crap! Sorry, I didn’t see you’d already guessed that. Helps to read the whole post. Woops. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-riddle-is-driving-me-nuts/12099/6 "1999-12-13T22:28:00Z")
‘Communication’ springs to mind… ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-riddle-is-driving-me-nuts/12099/7 "1999-12-13T22:34:00Z")
The Internet? The World Wide Web? Roads? ---
**Author:** ![Neobican](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Neobican](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neobican)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-riddle-is-driving-me-nuts/12099/8 "1999-12-13T22:40:00Z")
Yeah, Internet was a thought of mine too… maybe Internet connection? Information? ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-riddle-is-driving-me-nuts/12099/9 "1999-12-13T22:52:00Z")
I’ll guess radio and TV signals. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-riddle-is-driving-me-nuts/12099/10 "1999-12-13T23:25:00Z")
Peace? [http://www.amrita-edizioni.com/images/Sunseals/t\_dove%20of%20peace.jpg](http://www.amrita-edizioni.com/images/Sunseals/t_dove%20of%20peace.jpg) * * * “The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” – Lily Tomlin ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-riddle-is-driving-me-nuts/12099/11 "1999-12-13T23:56:00Z")
An idea or inspiration. ---
**Author:** ![Boris\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Boris\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boris_B)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 1999, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-riddle-is-driving-me-nuts/12099/12 "1999-12-14T00:13:00Z")
Wait just a dad-blame minute here. How can something intangible have shapes and sizes? Oh, this is a toughy. My first thought was “books”, which is not very intangible. Then I made some other tangible guesses, which are all wrong. So now I’m stuck with “ideas”, like Phobia. Maybe a specific idea. I was also thinking, “light sources”. Some of them are intangible, some of them blow up when lightning strikes, etc. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 1999, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-riddle-is-driving-me-nuts/12099/13 "1999-12-14T00:16:00Z")
Newspapers, thats the answer. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 1999, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-riddle-is-driving-me-nuts/12099/14 "1999-12-14T00:53:00Z")
Originaly I was going to go for books, but like the newspaper they are very tangleble. I said ideas or inspirations and I am sticking to my guns. ---
**Author:** ![Chief\_Crunch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@Chief\_Crunch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Crunch)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 1999, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-riddle-is-driving-me-nuts/12099/15 "1999-12-14T01:24:00Z")
Maybe it’s some kind of trick riddle. A actual human? It seems to fit. ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 1999, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-riddle-is-driving-me-nuts/12099/16 "1999-12-14T01:37:00Z")
How about transportation? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 1999, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-riddle-is-driving-me-nuts/12099/17 "1999-12-14T01:49:00Z")
Elecricigry. ---
**Author:** ![GOD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/34f0e0/32.png) [@GOD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GOD)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 1999, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-riddle-is-driving-me-nuts/12099/18 "1999-12-14T01:50:00Z")
You mean _electricigry_. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 1999, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-riddle-is-driving-me-nuts/12099/19 "1999-12-14T01:52:00Z")
aside from the “mostly on the ground” part I would think, “clouds” ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 1999, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-riddle-is-driving-me-nuts/12099/20 "1999-12-14T01:59:00Z")
I’d say music, but that doesn’t come in shapes and sizes, does it? Oh wait! There’s “BIG band” music! 😉 * * * “There’s a snake in my boot!” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-this-riddle-is-driving-me-nuts/12099.md?page=2)