# riddle me this **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 28, 2001, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850 "2001-03-28T17:06:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2001, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850/21 "2001-03-29T03:07:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Verrain \* > \*\*Complete the sequence: O,T,T,F,F,S,S,E… > > It is something you all know well. \*\* N. (one, two, three, etc…) Can’t think of a riddle right now; I’ll be back. ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2001, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850/22 "2001-03-29T03:23:32Z")
“The more you take the more you leave behind. What am I talking about?” Footsteps. 😉 Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is. 😃 OK OK 😉 here’s one… Only two backbones, a thousand ribs. What am I? ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2001, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850/23 "2001-03-29T03:33:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Silo \* > > Only two backbones, a thousand ribs. What am I? > > \*\* Train tracks!! Still thinking… ---
**Author:** ![Verrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/46a35a/32.png) [@Verrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Verrain)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2001, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850/24 "2001-03-29T03:42:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LindyHopper \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Silo \* > > > > Only two backbones, a thousand ribs. What am I? > > > > \*\* > > Train tracks!! > > Still thinking… > \*\* Well while we’re waiting. Round she is yet flat as a board Altar of the lupine lords Jewel on black velvet Pearl of the sea Unchanged but ever changing eternally. ---
**Author:** ![Verrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/46a35a/32.png) [@Verrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Verrain)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2001, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850/25 "2001-03-29T03:42:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LindyHopper \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Silo \* > > > > Only two backbones, a thousand ribs. What am I? > > > > \*\* > > Train tracks!! > > Still thinking… > \*\* Well while we’re waiting. Round she is yet flat as a board Altar of the lupine lords Jewel on black velvet Pearl of the sea Unchanged but ever changing eternally. ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2001, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850/26 "2001-03-29T03:53:08Z")
**Verrain** , your last one is the Moon. (I’ve played D&D too!) OK, I’ve got four (I think that’s how many I owe now): 1. There’s an ancient invention still used in some parts of the world that allows people to see through walls. What is it? 2. Even if they are starving, Arctic natives will never eat a penguin’s egg. Why not? 3. What is the closest relation that your father’s sister’s sister-in-law could be to you (more of a logic puzzle)? 4. What is the product of the following series: (x - a) \* (x - b) \* (x - c) \* … \* (x - z)? Explain your reasoning. ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2001, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850/27 "2001-03-29T04:22:25Z")
Ahhhhhhh **Lindy** , close enough 😉 Answer = A Railroad. Ooooooooh! here’s a good one: What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in? ---
**Author:** ![Tie-Dye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Tie-Dye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tie-Dye)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2001, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850/28 "2001-03-29T04:22:57Z")
\*Originally posted by LindyHopper \* > [@](#): > > 1. There’s an ancient invention still used in some parts of the world that allows people to see through walls. What is it? A Window > [@](#): > > 1. Even if they are starving, Arctic natives will never eat a penguin’s egg. Why not? Penguins don’t live at the North Pole > [@](#): > > 1. What is the closest relation that your father’s sister’s sister-in-law could be to you (more of a logic puzzle)? Your mother > [@](#): > > 1. What is the product of the following series: > > (x - a) \* (x - b) \* (x - c) \* … \* (x - z)? The product is zero, because (x-x)=0 All I can think of is an easy one: Ever thirsty,never drinking, All in mail yet never clinking. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2001, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850/29 "2001-03-29T04:24:10Z")
**1) There’s an ancient invention still used in some parts of the world that allows people to see through walls. What is it?** A window or a door. **2) Even if they are starving, Arctic natives will never eat a penguin’s egg. Why not?** Penguins just happen to be Antarctic natives, not arctic. If a rooster lays and egg on a roof and there is no wind, which way will it roll? ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2001, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850/30 "2001-03-29T04:35:16Z")
Silo: A keyboard. Tie-Dye: A fish (Tolkien!) Speaker: Roosters don’t lay eggs. And here’s mine: What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet not once in a hundred thousand years? ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2001, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850/31 "2001-03-29T04:56:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LindyHopper \* > \*\* > > What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet not once in a hundred thousand years? > > \*\* The letter m ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2001, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850/32 "2001-03-29T07:14:46Z")
Yesterday I was in the kitchen relaxing with my pipe when I noticed these rather odd items scattered about the room: 1. One dress emblazoned with a large “A” 2. Tupperware containing part of an egg 3. A bag of prunes 4. A fresh bowl of mixed greens 5. An unopened jar of French’s Brown Mustard 6. A bird What kind of bird was it? ---
**Author:** ![Epistaxis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Epistaxis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epistaxis)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2001, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850/33 "2001-03-29T09:00:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jenericho \* > \*\* > > Incidentally, I did a search on Google to check whether it was a real word or not… and the last page it found (it only found sixteen) seems _very_ weird… > > \*\* Very weird indeed! Nice find. If you want to see true bizarreness, click through to that page and hit Control-A… “hypercholesterolemia turbidimeter” “undandled naphthenic” “There was uredosporous anal galery sardonic disbelief in her voice.” “Holy cow, she wasn’t a ahrendahronon anal galery transvestite or transexual, please God!” I dunno, I must be weird but I found that page amusing 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850/34 "2001-03-30T01:04:46Z")
There once was a blue little bungalow, full of everything blue. The floor was blue, the carpet was too. From the sink to the chain link, everything was blue, even the lou! Ok, enough bad rhyming. What colour were the stairs? ---
**Author:** ![Verrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/46a35a/32.png) [@Verrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Verrain)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850/35 "2001-03-30T01:22:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Speaker for the Dead \* > \*\*There once was a blue little bungalow, full of everything blue. The floor was blue, the carpet was too. From the sink to the chain link, everything was blue, even the lou! > > Ok, enough bad rhyming. What colour were the stairs? \*\* Bungalows are one story; they don’t have stairs. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850/36 "2001-03-30T01:44:16Z")
Ok, I’ve got one… I know a thousand faces, and count the tailed heads, feasting bright upon the eyes, of many who have died. wielding well a mighty power, who hath but humble stature. Masses fall upon their knees, to scare behold my only side! ---
**Author:** ![Verrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/46a35a/32.png) [@Verrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Verrain)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850/37 "2001-03-30T05:27:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arden Ranger \* > \*\*Ok, I’ve got one… > > I know a thousand faces, > and count the tailed heads, > feasting bright upon the eyes, > of many who have died. > wielding well a mighty power, > who hath but humble stature. > Masses fall upon their knees, > to scare behold my only side! \*\* THe answer is a coin. You can find me on a human, or a halfling, or a gnome. You can find me in a glass of beer with frothy sudsy foam. You can find me in a cabbage patch growing in the loam. What am I? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850/38 "2001-03-30T11:48:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Verrain \* > You can find me on a human, or a halfling, or a gnome. > You can find me in a glass of beer with frothy sudsy foam. > You can find me in a cabbage patch growing in the loam. > > What am I? \*\* **A head.** An old one for you: Legs have I but seldom do I walk. I backbite many, but never do I talk. In dark secret places I must hide me For he who feeds me can never abide me. And another: He who makes it tells it not. He who takes it knows it not. He who knows it wants it not. ---
**Author:** ![Verrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/46a35a/32.png) [@Verrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Verrain)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850/39 "2001-03-30T13:09:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jr8 \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Verrain \* > > You can find me on a human, or a halfling, or a gnome. > > You can find me in a glass of beer with frothy sudsy foam. > > You can find me in a cabbage patch growing in the loam. > > > > What am I? \*\* > > **A head.** > > An old one for you: > > Legs have I but seldom do I walk. > I backbite many, but never do I talk. > In dark secret places I must hide me > For he who feeds me can never abide me. > > And another: > > He who makes it tells it not. > He who takes it knows it not. > He who knows it wants it not. > > \*\* DOn’t know the first, but I think the second is a coffin. ---
**Author:** ![Dak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c89c15/32.png) [@Dak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dak)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850/40 "2001-03-30T13:20:27Z")
Not much of a riddle, but can you think of a sentence which remains grammatically correct and yet has the word ‘and’ in it consecutively five times. and I am going to have to go with coffin too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this/59850.md?page=3)