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| 4 APR 2011 at 12:57pm |
TravellerGuild Master
Posts : 4040
Joined: 3 JUL 2010
Location: US
Status : Offline | Cool! 8-)
..and here is a riddle for you, Vagabond!
What happened in 1961 that will not happen again for over 4000 years?
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 4 APR 2011 at 4:35pm |
MarkGuild Master
Posts : 3803
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Location: US, Georgia
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Vagabond (4 APR 2011 12:31pm)
"What is it that, after you take away the whole, some still remains?"
A doughnut?
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 4 APR 2011 at 7:40pm |
FnordSchattenjger
Posts : 2752
Joined: 15 SEP 2008
Location: SE, Stockholm
Status : Offline | I was about to say "a hole" for the first one, because of a similar riddle, but no.. I had to read the riddle a few times to see it
Spoiler Alertwholesome
Here is a riddle from an old AG:
Forests without trees, villages without houses, rivers without fishes. What is it?
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| 5 APR 2011 at 2:40pm |
MarkGuild Master
Posts : 3803
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Location: US, Georgia
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Fnord (4 APR 2011 7:40pm)
Here is a riddle from an old AG: Forests without trees, villages without houses, rivers without fishes. What is it?
Scorched Earth? [smiley=zombie.gif]
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 5 APR 2011 at 3:27pm |
TravellerGuild Master
Posts : 4040
Joined: 3 JUL 2010
Location: US
Status : Offline | I seem to remember that the answer is a map?
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 5 APR 2011 at 5:24pm |
FnordSchattenjger
Posts : 2752
Joined: 15 SEP 2008
Location: SE, Stockholm
Status : Offline | It is not nearly as bad as scorched earth Traveller is correct.
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| 7 APR 2011 at 11:45am |
BrianSpace Cadet
Posts : 117
Joined: 28 SEP 2010
Status : Offline | Since we seem to be posting our answers ... 1961 was the last year that read the same when turned upside-down. The next year this will be true for is 6009.
This isn't exactly a riddle, but it's a fun puzzle: If AB, BC, CD, and DE stand for four common English two-letter words, then what equally common word is DCABE?
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