Riddle Me Ree
by The Mind is WillingThe jokes and interesting facts threads were fun so lets continue in that vein
Here are a couple to start the ball rolling
I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or even square. What am I?
Something very extraordinary happened on the 6th of May, 1978 at thirty-four minutes past twelve a.m. What was it?
I'm a five-letter word that has no end, Commit a sin? One through three can amend, One, four and five are something alive, Two and three occur near to thee. What am I?
Posted on 19/10/13
34 Comment(s)

grass🙂🙂
on 15/10/13 @ 12:20grass lawn🙂🙂
pApreggy47(Andy)wood 🙂
BJBlue Johnhalleys comet.🙂🙂
pApreggy47(Andy)I do know the second answer but prefer to see everyones guesses 😋
BJBlue Johnnails 🙂
PDPear Drop (Sarah)Yes Sarah the answer to No.1 is fingernails 🙂
Hurray I got one 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂 (blumin termites, humph!!😋) 😀😀
PDPear Drop (Sarah)😈😈😈
No 2: it was 12.34 on 5.6.78. All the numbers go up in order. If you do the date the American way. So if you are English it happened again on 5th June! 😀
PDPear Drop (Sarah)Number 3 is hard!!!!! ☹:~
Indeed - two out of two! Yes I thought so too :~
Sarah68 (Sarah): termites mite save the earth one day and the knowledge you have gained might be of use (humph😋).
pApreggy47(Andy)These are too hard for me☹☹
Cheat?
PDPear Drop (Sarah)I did when I found them Sarah!!! 😈😈😈 I'll post the answer to 3 in the morning when sober!
on 16/10/13 @ 17:43I did when I found them Sarah!!! 😈😈😈 I'll post the answer to 3 in the morning when sober!
Haha no I meant is "cheat" the answer! I can't sleep, my work is suffering, I'm off my food, I have the clue on a piece of paper in my pocket and I am slowly going mad 😀😀 😀
PDPear Drop (Sarah)Hope you've had a good evening x
Abyss
I cheated by looking them up on tinternet Sarah top try and look clever! 🙂 🙂
on 16/10/13 @ 19:25Correct Tinkerbell 😀
Well blow me down. I've learnt a new word there, I thought of abyss but i couldn't see how it fitted, but I didn't know the word "aby".
PDPear Drop (Sarah)Thank you TMIW and Tinks, i can sleep now 🙂🙂
Hope you didn't or you'll have missed work! 😀
on 17/10/13 @ 11:021) In Okmulgee, Oklahoma, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why?
2) What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
3) How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
4) Two mothers and two daughters go to a pet store and buy three cats. Each female gets her own cat. How is this possible?
5) There are 3 stoves; a glass stove, brick stove, and wood stove. You only have 1 match. Which would you light first?
1) Because you have to take a picture of a man with a camera, same as everywhere else? 😀
PDPear Drop (Sarah)2) short
3) a raw egg wouldn't crack a concrete floor...
4) the girls are sisters
5) ????????
I love these 🙂🙂
You light the match first 🙂
BJBlue JohnOf course you do 😀😀😀
PDPear Drop (Sarah)More please 🙂🙂
6) How far can a dog run into the woods?
7) How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
8) What is it that you cannot hold even for ten minutes, even though it is lighter than a feather?
9) There are 6 mangoes in a basket and 6 kids eagerly waiting to get one. Each kid is given 1 mango, yet there is one mango in the basket. How?
10) What becomes white when it is dirty?
11) A doctor and a nurse have a baby boy. The boy's father is not the doctor and the mother is not the nurse. How is it possible?
No 10 Window?
on 18/10/13 @ 12:158 Your breath
BJBlue JohnNo not the answer for 10 BJ but yes the answer for 8! 🙂
9) One of the kids is given the mango and the basket
PDPear Drop (Sarah)11) The boy's mother is the doctor and the father is the nurse. BJ, I can't believe you didn't get that, you sexist!!!!! 😀😀😀😀
Well he's definitely in the basket with the mango!
And yes 11 is correct Sarah 😀
6)Halfway
7)Elephants do not have hands
🙂
10 Blackboard
BJBlue JohnSpot on Tinks 🙂
Indeed Blue John 🙂