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#17 (permalink) Sat May 20, 2006 20:34 pm 9 Things I Hate About Everyone |
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Hi Amy!
Bingo!! You got it! I think it had not been really fair but I think I have been used to use a small trick!
Thanks for the landlubber 8)
By the way, I?m not afraid of a community between conchita and you. I?ll request my Blood Brother to help me. He?s a tricky man too, I think! :D
Expecting your riddle!
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#18 (permalink) Sat May 20, 2006 23:29 pm Twist your brain |
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Perhaps we should start a new thread with riddles. I mean, really, look what we've converted this thread into :roll: !
Anyway, let’s see if you can guess this one!
Pronounced as one letter, And written with three, Two letters there are, And two only in me. I'm double, I'm single, I'm black, blue, and gray, I'm read from both ends, And the same either way. What am I? |
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#19 (permalink) Sun May 21, 2006 11:43 am 9 Things I Hate About Everyone |
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That's a difficult riddle, Conchita. But very clever! Great!
I thought of two possible answers.... But I think one is better than the other.
Let's see if Michael can think of something.
Amy _________________ "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." ~ Abraham Lincoln |
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#20 (permalink) Sun May 21, 2006 13:07 pm 9 Things I Hate About Everyone |
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Hi together!
At first, Conchita, what do you want to do else with an opening like in this threat? :? Particular because Bruce didn?t answer until now. As far as I?m concerned I find it a nice use! 8)
Back to your riddle. I have broken my small brain :lol: and have found out this solution:
It must be "U", "YOU" and "W". It fits nearly to every of the riddles discriptions. And in me there are two letters only, right. I only wonder what it has to do with black blue and grey! 8) Please enlighten me if my solution is correct!
Hope having the correct result
Michael
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#21 (permalink) Sun May 21, 2006 13:26 pm Open your ears! |
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Sorry, Michael, your solution is not correct. But, seeing as it is Sunday, I'll give you a (big!) push in the right direction: apart from black, blue and grey, I can be brown, green, hazelnut, almond-shaped, red, swollen, sleepy, wide open (even wide shut!), itchy and runny (especially in spring) and much, much more. You've just got to figure out the solution now!
Did you write 'threat' on purpose :P ??
PS: The riddle isn't mine, of course. I lack the necessary imagination or whatever it takes to create them. |
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#22 (permalink) Sun May 21, 2006 14:15 pm 9 Things I Hate About Everyone |
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Hi Conchita
My second idea was similar to what Michael mentioned, except I thought of a female sheep.... ;)
Amy _________________ "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." ~ Abraham Lincoln |
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#23 (permalink) Sun May 21, 2006 16:54 pm Twist your brain |
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| Conchita wrote: |
Perhaps we should start a new thread with riddles. I mean, really, look what we've converted this thread into :roll: !
Anyway, let’s see if you can guess this one!
Pronounced as one letter, And written with three, Two letters there are, And two only in me. I'm double, I'm single, I'm black, blue, and gray, I'm read from both ends, And the same either way. What am I? |
I know this guy! His name is Ooo, his an identical twin, not married, and made of glass. Next qestion? Spencer
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#24 (permalink) Sun May 21, 2006 21:23 pm 9 Things I Hate About Everyone |
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Hi!
I?m really confused but I think Spencer?s idea isn?t correct although glass could have every colour.
Conchita, if the two letters in me are x+y and regarding to your adding advices it might be a seed?
Amy, do you have an other idea?
Spencer!!!!! :o :o is that loud enough?
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#25 (permalink) Mon May 22, 2006 8:07 am 9 Things I Hate About Everyone |
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Hi Michael
I mentioned that I had two ideas. One idea was the word "ewe".
This word is pronounced the same as the word "you". And the word "you" sounds like the letter "u". :D And wouldn't a "double 'u' be the letter w" ? :D
A "ewe" is a "female sheep". There are "black sheep", and, according to Google, there are also gray sheep and even blue sheep! (I didn't know that before.) :shock:
But I think there is a better solution ... especially since Conchita's riddle talks about "me" rather than "you". ;)
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#26 (permalink) Mon May 22, 2006 20:40 pm 9 Things I Hate About Everyone |
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OK Conchita!
I have no more ideas who you would be. :? Like German skat players would say straightly translated:
Let down your trousers :lol:
Who is it?
Or does anybody else have an idea?
Michael
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#27 (permalink) Tue May 23, 2006 0:20 am 9 Things I Hate About Everyone |
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Really, Michael! Doing Full Monty for charity is OK, but for a riddle? – tut tut (in other words, my eye!).
The answer to the riddle must have caught your eye by now! |
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#28 (permalink) Tue May 23, 2006 7:06 am 9 Things I Hate About Everyone |
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Aye, Michael !!! I can give you an interesting link to a web site with a whole bunch of theories about the origin of "OK". It's quite an eyeful! http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/okay.htm
;)
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#29 (permalink) Tue May 23, 2006 8:51 am 9 Things I Hate About Everyone |
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HiConchita! Hi Amy!
Sorry Conchita, I have no clue what Doing Full Monty means. I only hope that I?ve not been too vivd and colourful again. :roll:
About your riddle I am used to say that I was on the wrong track. Amy was closer to the solution reagarding her word "ewe"! But, how can an eye be double and single? :? I?ve never heard of an one eyed living creature although I know a fish who has four single eyes!
Amy, you smashed my head with your link to OK. :o Outch! I was been told a possibilty that is not mentioned there but I think it?s really not longer interesting! :x You destroyed me childhood dreams! :lol:
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#30 (permalink) Tue May 23, 2006 9:31 am "I'm double, I'm single" |
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| Fan of Arabian horses wrote: |
But, how can an eye be double and single? :? I?ve never heard of an one eyed living creature although I know a fish who has four single eyes!
Amy, you smashed my head with your link to OK. :o Outch! I was been told a possibilty that is not mentioned there but I think it?s really not longer interesting! :x You destroyed me childhood dreams! :lol: |
Hi Landlubber !
To solve a riddle, you have to think in riddles! ;)
- You have 2 eyes. ("double") - The word "I" is not only singular, but also a single letter. ("single") :D
Sorry about your smashed head and the destruction of childhood dreams! :shock: :cry: Why don't you share the missing theory with us anyway? How will we ever be able to decide which theory is correct if we don't have all the information?
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