# Write a riddle! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 1, 2005, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-riddle/319526 "2005-09-01T01:04:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-riddle/319526/1 "2005-09-01T01:04:25Z")
I need a riddle the answer to which is “locomotion.” Who else would I turn to but you guys? ---
**Author:** ![NoPretentiousCodename](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/82dd89/32.png) [@NoPretentiousCodename](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoPretentiousCodename)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-riddle/319526/2 "2005-09-01T01:17:32Z")
This crazy maneuver has been a brand new dance at least 3 times. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-riddle/319526/3 "2005-09-01T19:51:58Z")
Okay, that’s, um … not terrible. 😉 Anyone else got anything? ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-riddle/319526/4 "2005-09-01T19:56:27Z")
Quiet hullaballoo. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-riddle/319526/5 "2005-09-01T20:03:25Z")
Or, “What do you call the ovation for the winning limbo dancer?” Hm, this has potential. ---
**Author:** ![NoPretentiousCodename](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/82dd89/32.png) [@NoPretentiousCodename](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoPretentiousCodename)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-riddle/319526/6 "2005-09-01T23:50:45Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Okay, that’s, um … not terrible. 😉 > > Anyone else got anything? Hey, at least I showed up. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-riddle/319526/7 "2005-09-02T00:28:00Z")
How do crazy gringos walk? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-riddle/319526/8 "2005-09-02T08:06:30Z")
rythm + SOUL ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-riddle/319526/9 "2005-09-02T11:49:18Z")
British style. . . Crazy French word in front of charged particle. (10) ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-riddle/319526/10 "2005-09-02T11:55:22Z")
My first part is stupid, my second a stool; My whole is a dance. Can you guess it, you fool? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-riddle/319526/11 "2005-09-02T14:02:40Z")
Crazy movement? ---
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-riddle/319526/12 "2005-09-02T14:04:16Z")
Or for an easier one: Train moving crazily. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-riddle/319526/13 "2005-09-02T14:12:15Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > British style. . . > > Crazy French word in front of charged particle. (10) Day-um. Nice! Wish I could write cryptic clues! Alas, I really need pretty much a straight riddle, similar to something a kid might tell. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-riddle/319526/14 "2005-09-02T14:28:10Z")
What do you call a proposed bill before a Congress full of crazy people? ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-riddle/319526/15 "2005-09-02T14:31:30Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Day-um. Nice! Wish I could write cryptic clues! > > Alas, I really need pretty much a straight riddle, similar to something a kid might tell. I actually could hardly tell if that’s within the rules, but if it’s got your nod of approval, I’ll take it. I can’t do cryptics for crap. I stare at them. Put them down. Stare at them some more. I think I get dumber as I look at them. I feel like the more I think, the FURTHER I get from the answers. I think I worked on the NYT one last week for 60 minutes and I got ONE answer, “greatness”. And I’m not even sure if that’s right. This week, though, I’m sitting down with the answer key and last weeks puzzle, and I’m going to figure those darn things out. I love the acrostic and the “Diagramless” is growing on me, though. ---
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-riddle/319526/16 "2005-09-04T11:53:22Z")
I’m with **Trunk**. The cryptic crosswords always seem like they’d be such fun. So, masochist that I am, I keep trying them. I can feel reported IQ points being taken away as I stare wistfully at the puzzle. I even had a “cryptic solving guide” in one of the magazines, with what was supposed to be an easy cryptic next to it, and checked each clue against each rule they gave. Nothing. It’s like one of those images with the dots where you are supposed to see something when you stare long enough, and I just don’t. ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-riddle/319526/17 "2005-09-04T12:46:38Z")
Moving from place to place; Or shuffling in Eva’s case. BTW, I really like **BraheSilver** ’s clue. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-riddle/319526/18 "2005-09-04T13:12:09Z")
Cryptics are fun – but they definitely take a while to learn to do. I taught myself, because my dad loved them – but it took me a couple of years to get good. (Of course, keep in mind that “a couple of years” was based on two or three a month, via _Games_. And now I’m the main test-solver for _Games_. It’s a funny old world, isn’t it?) ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-riddle/319526/19 "2005-09-04T16:52:52Z")
Some shaggy doggerel I’m all about going from place to place Some say I’m nuts for running that race I’m the nature of life From a germ to a whale You can use flippers to do me, or even your tail I’m Latin in parts I’m fits and I’m starts When you swing your hips, it drives me crazy I’d ask you to dance, if I wasn’t so lazy ---
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-riddle/319526/20 "2005-09-05T10:49:32Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > And now I’m the main test-solver for _Games_. It’s a funny old world, isn’t it?) Damn! So you can get paid to solve the same puzzles I’m paying them to solve now? Now _that_ would be a job! Sounds fun. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-riddle/319526.md?page=2)