# Here's a riddle..
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-riddle/104650
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 20, 2002, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-riddle/104650 "2002-04-20T07:14:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2002, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-riddle/104650/1 "2002-04-20T07:14:20Z")
My friends just reminded me of this one tonight, so I thought I’d share it with all of you:
What is greater than God and more evil than the devil? The rich don’t need it, and the poor have it. Yet, if you eat it, you will die.
So any takers on this one? (yes, I know the answer and will post it at a later date if nobody gets it within a certain time frame)
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### Author:  [@fippo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fippo)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2002, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-riddle/104650/2 "2002-04-20T07:17:56Z")
Nothing.
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### Author:  [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2002, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-riddle/104650/3 "2002-04-20T07:53:39Z")
What do you know? You got it in one! 🙂
Not that it was that hard, after all… 😃
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### Author:  [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2002, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-riddle/104650/4 "2002-04-21T00:21:27Z")
How many roads must a man walk down before he can call himself a man?
What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?
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### Author:  [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2002, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-riddle/104650/5 "2002-04-21T01:05:37Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Speaker for the Dead \*
> \*\*How many roads must a man walk down before he can call himself a man?
>
> What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything? \*\*
well, in CA I don’t think you’re allowed to walk…
42
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### Author:  [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2002, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-riddle/104650/6 "2002-04-21T01:13:11Z")
**Speaker** , do I look like one of those old men atop mountains that have the answers to the meaning of life? 😉 I have no idea… but thanks for trying!
**lurkernomore** , does the 42 have to do with Douglas Adams?
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### Author:  [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2002, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-riddle/104650/7 "2002-04-21T01:24:06Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Speaker for the Dead \*
> **How many roads must a man walk down before he can call himself a man?**
one.
> [@](#):
>
> \*\*
> What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything? \*\*
life=sex=death. enjoy!
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### Author:  [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2002, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-riddle/104650/8 "2002-04-21T01:43:17Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Flamsterette\_X \*
> **lurkernomore** , does the 42 have to do with Douglas Adams? \*\*
Of course…😃
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### Author:  [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2002, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-riddle/104650/9 "2002-04-21T06:16:03Z")
The aliens decide that they’re going to set “How many roads can a man…” as the question, remember 😛
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### Author:  [@knock\_knock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knock_knock)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2002, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-riddle/104650/10 "2002-04-21T23:15:49Z")
> [@](#):
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> _Originally posted by Speaker for the Dead_
> **How many roads must a man walk down before he can call himself a man?**
Zero.
(obviously)
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### Author:  [@Raoul\_Anatherwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raoul_Anatherwan)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2002, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-riddle/104650/11 "2002-04-22T00:12:41Z")
**Flamsterette\_X**
```
[reaching for toothpick]
Shouldn't the second line in your riddle be, "The rich NEED it,
the poor have it." ?
[replacing toothpick in special SDMB scabbard]
```
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### Author:  [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2002, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-riddle/104650/12 "2002-04-22T02:41:50Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Raoul Anatherwan \*
> \*\ ***Flamsterette\_X**
>
> ```
> [reaching for toothpick]
>
> Shouldn't the second line in your riddle be, "The rich NEED it,
> the poor have it." ?
>
> [replacing toothpick in special SDMB scabbard] **
>
> ```
Hey, it was sort of late when I posted that, so forgive me! Although you could say that the rich “don’t need nothing”… meaning, they need something… which in this case would be nothing! Isn’t that like the same thing? Or have I just managed to confuse everyone again? 🙂