Riddles

[firecrest]

What will eat anything you give it, but will never take a drink?

Fire!

What cheese is made backwards?

 

[Tadpole]

Fire!

What cheese is made backwards?

edam is made backwards



if there are 29 fish in the fish tank and 6 die how many are left in the fish tank?

 

[British Red]

Tadpole - 29

 

[British Red]

HIJKLMNO

What am I?

 

[g4ghb]

HIJKLMNO

What am I?

Water!



What 5 months contain a man?

 

[Wayland]

Who is it that rides to the Thing?
Ten legs, three eyes and one tail between them.

 

[Tadpole]

Who is it that rides to the Thing?
Ten legs, three eyes and one tail between them.

Odin on Sleipna

 

[British Red]

Odin on Sleipner Wayland (too slow)


An old one back


The creature ate its words. It seemed to me strangely weird when I heard this wonder:
that it had devoured human speech.

A thief in the darkness gloriously mouthed the source of knowledge but the thief was not
the least bit wiser for it.

 

[Mesquite]

Green circle, orange diamond, purple square. What's next?

 

[Tadpole]

red triangle

 

[Nagual]

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

 

[gregorach]

An old one back


The creature ate its words. It seemed to me strangely weird when I heard this wonder:
that it had devoured human speech.

A thief in the darkness gloriously mouthed the source of knowledge but the thief was not
the least bit wiser for it.

That sounds rather like an echo to me...

OK, a rather shortened paraphrase of another oldie (the original is rather long...)

I was, before God's flood
Without flesh, or skin, or bone.
Headless, footlessly I stride
Nothing's child, never born.
Voicelessly, I howl.
Handless, I touch a whole field.
I am no repairer of disorder,
Gentle, murderous, and without sin.
I am wet, and dry,
And weak, and strong.
What am I, that the cold moon fosters,
And the ardour of the sun?

 

[TeeDee]

"What... is the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow?"








(Just getting silly now.)

 

[Nagual]

"What... is the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow?"








(Just getting silly now.)

Is that a European or African Swallow?

(you know it can only get worse...)

 

[Mesquite]

"What... is the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow?"








(Just getting silly now.)

Is that for an african or european swallow?

Edit... damn, Nagual beat me to it

 

[TeeDee]

" How do you make A Grecian Urn???"








Badda-Ching...!!!

 

[Tadpole]

"What... is the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow?"








(Just getting silly now.)

11 meters per second

 

[British Red]

That sounds rather like an echo to me...

OK, a rather shortened paraphrase of another oldie (the original is rather long...)

I was, before God's flood
Without flesh, or skin, or bone.
Headless, footlessly I stride
Nothing's child, never born.
Voicelessly, I howl.
Handless, I touch a whole field.
I am no repairer of disorder,
Gentle, murderous, and without sin.
I am wet, and dry,
And weak, and strong.
What am I, that the cold moon fosters,
And the ardour of the sun?

Not an echo Dunc - sorry

I do like Taliesin's poem of the wind

 

[Nagual]

Odin on Sleipner Wayland (too slow)


An old one back


The creature ate its words. It seemed to me strangely weird when I heard this wonder:
that it had devoured human speech.

A thief in the darkness gloriously mouthed the source of knowledge but the thief was not
the least bit wiser for it.

Had to cheat to find that one out. Several very nice riddles written in that particular style. Nice find.

 

[Wayland]

Odin on Sleipner Wayland (too slow)


An old one back


The creature ate its words. It seemed to me strangely weird when I heard this wonder:
that it had devoured human speech.

A thief in the darkness gloriously mouthed the source of knowledge but the thief was not
the least bit wiser for it.

Ah, that would be a bookworm I suppose. One of the Exeter type.

Use me well and I am everybody.
Scratch my back and I am nobody.