The riddle thread

stitch626 · Post by **stitch626** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 1:59 pm

Horshoes!

[edit] Oh, didn't see that someone already answered.

Zanarkand · Post by **Zanarkand** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 7:56 am

I don't get it.
Fire, water, earth, air.

Fire-I get that part, heat the metal.

Water- To cool the metal after it is forged? Not sure I get that part.

Earth? I don't get it

Air? I don't get it. Also to help cool the metal perhaps?

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 11:42 am

Earth could refer to the fact that the steel used to make the horseshoes is mined from underground.

Post by **Mikey** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 2:22 pm

Water is used to temper and quench forged iron. Air is used to heat the furnace. Earth is from where you get iron ore.

mwhittington · Post by **mwhittington** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 5:42 am

I'm sometimes white, sometimes black.
I'll take you there, but I can't take you back.
What am I?

mwhittington · Post by **mwhittington** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 5:50 am

A man walks into a doctor's office complaining of a stomach ache. "What are you eating," the doc asks. "I only eat pool balls," the man says. "I eat red for breakfast, yellow and orange for lunch, blue for afternoon snacks, and purple and black for dinner." "I see the problem," the doc says.
What is the problem?

Zanarkand · Post by **Zanarkand** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:42 am

The problem is that he's eating wood billiard balls.

Zanarkand · Post by **Zanarkand** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:45 am

I'm sometimes white, sometimes black.
I'll take you there, but I can't take you back.
What am I?

Pallbearers?

mwhittington · Post by **mwhittington** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:28 am

Zanarkand wrote:I'm sometimes white, sometimes black.
I'll take you there, but I can't take you back.
What am I?

Pallbearers?

Very close, but no.

mwhittington · Post by **mwhittington** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:29 am

Zanarkand wrote:The problem is that he's eating wood billiard balls.

Nope. Try again.

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 6:01 am

I'm sometimes white, sometimes black.
I'll take you there, but I can't take you back.
What am I?

It's a hearse.

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 6:02 am

mwhittington wrote:A man walks into a doctor's office complaining of a stomach ache. "What are you eating," the doc asks. "I only eat pool balls," the man says. "I eat red for breakfast, yellow and orange for lunch, blue for afternoon snacks, and purple and black for dinner." "I see the problem," the doc says.
What is the problem?

He's eating them in the wrong order?

RK_Striker_JK_5 · Post by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:21 am

All right, I'm gonna sound like an idiot, but I don't care. COuld someone please explain to me this one?

The following was seen on a hardware store window:
Hardware Special
$.25 each
100 for $.75
1000 for $1.00
10,000 for $1.25
What were they selling?

Tiberius responded with:

Buying numbers. Each number is $0.25.

but I can't wrap my mind around it.

Post by **Teaos** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:10 pm

Each number is worth .25. So 100 with 3 numbers in it is worth .75

Post by **Mikey** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:40 pm

It's easier if you say "numeral" or "digit" instead of "number."