Riddle Me This

[Littledevil]

I was sitting at my computer today and started thinking about Life in General. What does it all mean and why do things happen the way they do? Then to my delight I watched Nemisis Game from My Netflicks and it was about the very things I have been thinking about. So how about a little fun! :D Answer the Riddle and lets keep them coming. If you have a good riddle to share please do. I just feel like getting deep and try to figure things out.

Riddle Me This: What does the poor have, the rich want, and God fears?

[Lt.Mac]

That one is easy- I'm one of the poor
NOTHING:rolleyes:

[Littledevil]

What direction should you throw a ball and the ball travel in two directions?

[dd in NH]

Throw the Ball up and it will then fall down - two directions with one throw.:)

[Littledevil]

I am the shortest sentence in the English language. What is it?

[Littledevil]

I am the shortest sentence in the English language. What is it?

Since No one Guessed!
Answer: I Am.

[Amarnagrape]

1,000 naked men and women in a room.... how can you tell which man and woman are Adam and Eve??:D

(Don't worry, the answer is clean!:p)

[Littledevil]

Answer: The are the only two people that don't have belly buttons or a navel.

[Amarnagrape]

H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O
What word do these letters represent?

[Littledevil]

H20 I think. The whole getting from H to O

Good One! Took me a little bit

[Amarnagrape]

Yup! Or, water. Either one works!:)

[Littledevil]

What has roots that nobody sees, and is taller than trees? Up, up it goes, and yet it never grows. What am I?

[Amarnagrape]

air?:confused:

[Littledevil]

Answer: Mountain!!!!

[Littledevil]

Ok, here is a new riddle for everyone to try. Please anyone that has riddles they think are good. Please post them.

I have four wings, but cannot fly, I never laugh and never cry; on the same spot I’m always found, toiling away with little sound. What am I?

[Littledevil]

No takers huh!

Answer: A Windmill

[Coolwater]

Many eyes,
Brown vest,
White breast,
Here in the dark I rest.

[Littledevil]

I have no idea?

[Coolwater]

A baking potato!

[Littledevil]

That's a good one. do you know anymore? I have a few more, I amtrying to get more people involved and make it a game.

[renate]

what type of game is this and how does it work??

Renate

[Littledevil]

I am trying to get more people involved to come up with different riddles. Just making it challenging. Kinda like the ABCs of Adrian.

Here is another one: I have many feathers to help me fly. I have a body and a head but I am not alive. Your strength determines how far I go. You can hold me in your hand, but I am never thrown. What am I?

[Littledevil]

Answer: An Arrow

[Coolwater]

I was going to guess a duster!

I am a beast of burden,
I carry a heavy load.
Yet I carry it nowhere,
However much you goad.

[Coolwater]

Do you want another clue?

You mustn't put your elbows on me! :D

[appeace]

a table???

[Coolwater]

Yes, ma'am! Good for you! :D

Your turn!

[appeace]

Please, you take my turn:o Im not any good at these things at all!

[Coolwater]

Your Servant, Teacher, Jester,
I soar, no wings unfurled.
Sit all alone, alone with me -
I'll show to you the world!

All alone, alone with me,
When you reach out your hand,
You never leave your home and yet
Make friends throughout the land.

What am I?

[Littledevil]

God or a priest?

[Coolwater]

Ooh, God is a good answer. But no. I think God expects you to leave your house now and then, and "I" do not.

Do you need a clue? "I'm" with you now, you can't miss me. :D

[JustBecause]

I sure hope I'm wrong about this, because if I'm right - I seriously need a life! :D :D

I sit at it just about 12 hours a day (8 of them because I have to) - the computer! :o

[Littledevil]

That is a good one, didn't even occur to me. Darn!

Try this one.

It is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of the end, and the end of every space.

[Coolwater]

I GOT IT! I GOT IT!!! At least I think I get it: the letter E? Pina really likes that one, too.

My first thought was a ride on a roller coaster. A dizzying ride where you get flung out over space, and that seems so short but also seems to last an eternity. My second thought was love and parenthood! That's a lot like a ride on a roller coaster.

Just, you need a life. We'll settle for another riddle, though.:p

[JustBecause]

Just, you need a life. We'll settle for another riddle, though.:p

You're right Cw - between working and writing, I'm glued to the tube. Sigh... :o

LD - have you got another riddle?

[Littledevil]

Yes you are correct coolwater. Here is another one.

What demands and answer but asks no questions?

[appeace]

Hehehe--my little 6mth old grandson when he want SOMETHING!! but cant talk yet:rolleyes:

[Coolwater]

:D Good answer.

Lordy, I don't know. A doorbell?:confused:

[appeace]

a telephone????:confused:

[Littledevil]

You got it Appeace. Ok I'm out of riddles at the moment so someone else has to take a turn.

[appeace]

Go for me, Coolwater please. I only know one and when you get past whats black, white and read all over--Im lost:o

[Coolwater]

That's a good one: what's black and white and red all over?

When is a door not a door?

Why did the man throw the magazine out the window?

[JustBecause]

That's a good one: what's black and white and red all over?

When is a door not a door?

Why did the man throw the magazine out the window?

:D :D Well I know the second one - when it's ajar. :)

[Coolwater]

Man, I remember the first time I saw that joke. I must have been in the first grade and it was in Highlights for Children. I didn't get it, and my teacher had to explain it to me.

[JustBecause]

:D :D :D I learned that one a long time ago. It took me a while to get it too.

[Littledevil]

First one: isn't it a newspaper. 2nd: I know is ajar, 3rd: :confused:

[Coolwater]

Yes, a newspaper and ajar. The man threw the magazine out the window because he wanted to see Time fly.

Or maybe he just didn't like the conservative slant of Time's reporting? :D

[JustBecause]

Time fly? :D :D Time fly? :D

How about this one -

I am a box that holds keys without locks, but they can unlock your soul. What am I?

[Coolwater]

Hmmm... Does it also hold strings that are never knotted?

[JustBecause]

Hmmm... Does it also hold strings that are never knotted?

Yes... :)

[Coolwater]

I'll give the others a chance to guess.:D

My favorite: why did the chicken cross the road?

[JustBecause]

:D :D Because Adrian was on the other side!!! :D

[Littledevil]

Yes that would make me cross the road for sure! More like run across the road.

[/QUOTE]I am a box that holds keys without locks, but they can unlock your soul. What am I?[/QUOTE]

box that has keys, but no locks, strings that are never knotted, can unlock your soul. Music has always unlocked my soul and the only thing that has keys in a box I can think of is a piano or an organ.

Here's one: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

[JustBecause]

Yes that would make me cross the road for sure! More like run across the road.

Me too! At least I would try. With my luck, I'd probably trip over my feet, fall flat on my face, and break my glasses. :)

Well as long as I'm making this up, I'd get up and break my ankle in a pothole I didn't see. Then I would end up in the hospital and Adrian would visit because it would be all his fault!! ;)

May as well dream big...:D

...and back to the riddle - yes, it's a piano.

Here's one: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

'm'!

[Coolwater]

Because Adrian was on the other side!!!

Heh! Good one! :D The answer I was thinking of was that the chicken wanted to see a man lay bricks.

"What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?"

Mmmmm, gee, I couldn't begin to guess. ;)

[Littledevil]

Just Because, :D:ppLaughing my butt off! You always got to dream big.
I want to live this life to the fullest I can! There are so many things I want to learn and do. Time is so short and I actually wish that I could live forever like the immortals. I know it is only fantasy, but think about the possibilities. What if one could live for centuries at a time. Live for 500 years, all you could see and do. Be anyone, do anything, see everything. Knowledge is the most powerful thing on Earth!

Ok a little too deep there! That's what I get when you mix wine and a web forum... :o

[Coolwater]

Truth is found in wine! ;)

[Littledevil]

What is so fragile even saying its name can break it?

[Coolwater]

(whispers) Silence?

[Littledevil]

Correct.

[Coolwater]

Whoot!

Ooh, I just remembered a good one.

A man and his son were in a car accident, and the son was rushed to the hospital for surgery. The surgeon arrived in the O.R., but took one look at the boy and said, "I cannot operate on this child! He's my son!"

Whose son is the boy?

[Littledevil]

Is it Grandson and Grandfather were in car, so doctor was the boy's father. At least I think that's it.

[Coolwater]

The boy was the son of both the man in the car and of the surgeon, because the surgeon was the boy's mother! :D

[Littledevil]

How could a cowboy ride into town on Friday, stay two days, and ride out on Friday?

[Coolwater]

Oh, you won't catch me with this one - I was watching Crusoe last week. Is the horse's name Friday?

[Littledevil]

Oh crap. You got it. I thought that one might be tricky. Guess Not!

[JustBecause]

Here's a cute one -

From the dock, I saw a cruise ship full of people. But to my surprise, there wasn't a single person on the ship. Why?

[Coolwater]

Noooooo... Oh, no, tell me they weren't all married?? :eek: That is too cute!

[Coolwater]

Here's one that is at least 300 years old:

What has four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening, and is strongest when it has the fewest legs?

[Akashary]

Ha....I know that one!!

It`s a human being.....as baby you use hands and feet....when you grow up you use just your legs to walk....and when you are old you need a stick to walk....and humans are strongest in their mids of life.....!!!:D

Akashary;)

[JustBecause]

Noooooo... Oh, no, tell me they weren't all married?? :eek: That is too cute!

Yep, that's it!

[cowlover81]

I have a riddle for everyone (if i may join in?)

Riddle: I move without breath. I can change and stay the same, and yet I will always go back to where I started only to begin again. I have many bodies and yet I always remain the same. What am I?

[cowlover81]

Here's one: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?[/QUOTE]


i feel stupid though i didn't see an answer to this one what was it?

[renate]

not sure on the first one but the last one I'm thinking a Holiday?? Just my guess :):)

Renate

[brilliant!MacLeod]

Here's one: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?


i feel stupid though i didn't see an answer to this one what was it?[/QUOTE]


I think the answer is "M".Am I right?
I don´t know any english riddles, so if anybody has a new one..

[Coolwater]

I have a riddle for everyone (if i may join in?)

Riddle: I move without breath. I can change and stay the same, and yet I will always go back to where I started only to begin again. I have many bodies and yet I always remain the same. What am I?

Of course you may join in! The more the merrier!

If it weren't for the bodies, I would have guessed that it was a clock. Could it be the solar system?:confused:

[Coolwater]

Ha....I know that one!!

It`s a human being.....as baby you use hands and feet....when you grow up you use just your legs to walk....and when you are old you need a stick to walk....and humans are strongest in their mids of life.....!!!:D

Akashary;)

YES!:D

[cowlover81]

Of course you may join in! The more the merrier!

If it weren't for the bodies, I would have guessed that it was a clock. Could it be the solar system?:confused:


YES it is a solar system!!! Good job. We need a new one now.

[Coolwater]

I am a mountain of organization, the support of famous men, yet somehow my name makes you think of sweets! Who am I?

[cowlover81]

Gosh I have no idea. :confused:

[Coolwater]

It's someone we know pretty well here. :D

[Coolwater]

Another clue?
Isaiah 35:2

[JustBecause]

It's someone we know pretty well here. :D

Hmm...

Another clue?
Isaiah 35:2

Let's see... how about another clue? ;) :D :D

[Akashary]

I am a mountain of organization, the support of famous men, yet somehow my name makes you think of sweets! Who am I?

I have not the slightest idea.....:confused:

Akashary:p

[Coolwater]

JustBecause has it! Go on, JB, tell us!

[JustBecause]

JustBecause has it! Go on, JB, tell us!

I think we all know it :) - don't we Carmel?

:D

[Coolwater]

That's right, Carmel, like the famous mountain in the Bible that is used as a symbol of beauty and productivity, and then Kat and Maris always call her "Caramel!" :D

All right, JB. Your turn.

[JustBecause]

How about a riddle to guess a Highlander series character? :)


I strive to eliminate immortals.
I've survived two attempts to take my life.
I came very close to reuniting Duncan and Tessa.
Who am I?

[Akashary]

Darn....I think I know who it is, but I forgot his name!!!:D But I know it`s one of the higher watchers and the brother in Law of Joe Dawson and that he killed Darius.....if it`s the one you are talking of JB??:confused:

Akashary;)

[appeace]

James Horton, aka, Ahriman:confused:

[Akashary]

James Horten...that`s the one I meant!! Thanx appeace:D

Akashary;)

[JustBecause]

Yes ladies, that's it... I was glad when he was finally gone - it looked like he was going to have 9 lives!

Anyone else have a riddle?

[Coolwater]

Type out a profession that, if you take away the first letter, remains the same. If you take away the second letter, it still remains the same. Heck, if you take away all the letters, it remains the same!

[JustBecause]

Type out a profession that, if you take away the first letter, remains the same. If you take away the second letter, it still remains the same. Heck, if you take away all the letters, it remains the same!

:D :D The only reason I know this is because it stumped me when I was in grade school. I just couldn't figure it out...it's the mailman (person)!!! ;)

[Coolwater]

Isn't that a nice one? The earlier one about the Ms assumed you wouldn't think of the spelling, and this one assumes you will. :D So sneaky!

You're up, JB!

[JustBecause]

Here's another one :)

I was with Duncan.
I was not with him in the beginning,
So I am not his first.
I was not with him at the end,
But I am his last.
You know me well, you were there when I fell.

[Coolwater]

His pony tail! :D

[JustBecause]

Good guess, but... :)

Here's another clue:

Honorable companion,
Formidable foe.

[Coolwater]

Could be Tessa; she'd fit the description. Not the katana, though, because Duncan has other blades, and Connor's katana. Hm. How about the T-Bird?

[JustBecause]

Uh-oh, now I have to 'fess up. :)

It is supposed to be the katana. I thought since it was broken in The Source that he didn't have another one because he made the knives. You're right - it could just have been that he couldn't get to one of his other ones.

Sigh...guess I should give up on making up riddles... :o

[Littledevil]

It was a good one. I see everyone has been joining in on this thread. I love all the riddles. Here's a made up Highlander one.

I Married him first, but not for very long. Reborn immortal and didn't get the choice. Who am I?

[Akashary]

...would say I am Kate....(Endgame, killed by Jacob Kell) , Duncans wife from long ago...!!:rolleyes:

Akashary;)

[Coolwater]

You could be very very specific and say it was the Dragon Katana. There can be only one... of those!

[Littledevil]

Yes it is Kate, but she wasn't killed by Jacob Kell in End Game. He spared her and you see her at the end of the movie. The reason you know she is dead later is because there is only a mention of her in The Source. No details are revealed how she died and by who. We also don't know if Amanda was ever killed either. The Source leaves out a lot of info that the Series gave you. I could go with one more Highlander film with Adrian Paul in it. at least to tie up what happens next. Rather that than a remake of the first Highlander.

[cowlover81]

Hello all, I dont have a riddle but a comment. Does anyone remember early on like season 2, I believe, that palm reader that told Duncan that his palm shows that he never marries? It was the episode where tess dies. Anways, that has always bugged me because he does get married like you said in Endgame. Do you all remember and does it bug you too ?
Supposedly their bringing in the old director or something from Highlander 2 to do the remake which kinda sucks since well Highlander 2....well not that great. At least in my opinion.

[Coolwater]

LD, there were two endings to Endgame, depending on which version you bought, one in which she is killed at the Last Supper scene, and one where Kell spares her. (Silly me, I've got them both.) The scene in which Kell drops her necklace on Duncan is modified, and the scene at the end in the mall, either happens or it doesn't.

cowlover, the conflict between the marriage to Kate in Endgame and the gypsy's prophecy in the series bothers a lot of folks. Personally, I've never met an accurate fortune teller so that the one Duncan and Tessa met would be wrong, doesn't bother me, but other folks rationalized it by saying that Kate and Duncan never had a marriage, merely a wedding night.

We sort of decided over on APUK that the difference between an AP fan and a Highlander fan will show up when Duncan is no longer in the story. Will you go see an HL movie with no Duncan in it?

[Littledevil]

Didn't realize there were two different versions. Anyway, one way to think of it is the gypsey that tells Duncan that he will never marry may have been before he met Kate. Which means with that knowledge Duncan tried to get married to prove the prophecy or destiny wrong. Even when you know what your future may be one minute the choices we make can change the outcome and we end up somewhere else. Nothing is ever set in stone. Think about what could have been if Hitler hadn't come to power in Germany. Small moments can make dramatic differences in our lives. Think about the people who missed their flights on 9/11, those flights that were hijacked. Or the ones who were late to work that morning. Nothing should ever be taken for granted even the small moments because things change.

[Coolwater]

Yeah, my husband is addicted to World War II on the History Channel, and he marvels that there were so many points when one small change could have reversed the outcome of the war.

Wasn't the prophecy made at the beginning of the ep in which Duncan proposes to Tessa, and she ends up killed before he can marry her? That means that using Duncan's timeline, the marriage to Kate took place in the 1700s, right? and the prophecy of no marriage was in the 1990s. That would make the prophecy wrong from the moment it was made.

What I think really happened is that the author of the script was giving us some foreshadowing, and then the author of Endgame either didn't know about the prophecy or didn't care, and married Duncan off - in the past. (Tsk! Time travel is so messy!)

I'll check with Darth Sinister and elle~nora' to be sure.

[Coolwater]

Darth Sinister says that, "Yes. (The gypsy's prophecy) was first mentioned in "The Darkness", season two," in which Duncan proposes to Tessa, and Tessa is killed.

[Akashary]

Who is "Dark Sinister"??:confused:

[Coolwater]

Darth, as in Darth Vader. Darth Sinister and elle~nora are members over on highlander-community.com, and they are Highlander scholars. They are the folks to go to for questions about Highlander "canon," that is, how the stories went.

[Coolwater]

Now, who is next to bring us a riddle?:)

[Littledevil]

Yes but what year was the flash back in that told Duncan he would never marry. Then in what year did Kate and Duncan meet and marry. That will tell us for sure.

[Coolwater]

Was it a flashback? Hm, I'll ask.

[Coolwater]

Oh, but even so, the problem is not Duncan's timeline so much as it is when the writers wrote, and if the second writer was aware of the first writer's prophecy. The writer that wrote the gypsy's prophecy for the series did so years before the second one wrote about marrying Kate for Endgame.

[Akashary]

Darth, as in Darth Vader. Darth Sinister and elle~nora are members over on highlander-community.com, and they are Highlander scholars. They are the folks to go to for questions about Highlander "canon," that is, how the stories went.

Thanks for the information coolwater. Good to know!!:D

Akashary;)

[Coolwater]

You're welcome. Sin says, "Duncan married Kate in 1712. He met Carmen and was involved with her in 1848."

So there is the marriage to Kate, another century before the gypsy's prophecy (obviously wrong from the start, then), and another century before losing Tessa.

[Littledevil]

Thank you. That clears up that little problem. Well if we want to get technical about it. I don't think you can count it a marriage since it didn't last even 24 hours. She ran off after discovering she was immortal because Duncan stabbed her. Think about getting Married in Vegas when your drunk to a guy you just met. I don't consider that a marriage. Either way it still works.

[appeace]

I have to agree with you, Littledevil. After all, when one is immortal how many hundreds of years does one wait before one is considered abandoned, divorced, or widowed???:confused:

[Coolwater]

Besides, if they married until Death did them part, Duncan's killing Kate must have met the conditions of ending things! :D

[Sam]

:( I'm not really very good at riddles.
But here's my take on the marriages of Duncan.
I don't think the person or people caught that epi where Duncan had his fortune told...but in the event they did....
A fortune teller generally only sees things that will occur in their own lifetime. (hypothetically of course). So that might have been a factor...As well the fact that Duncan had tried to communicate with Kate throughout the years...Maybe there was some type of divorce court for immortals.:D
And maybe since Duncan seemed determined to always defy fate then maybe...just maybe he did! Or the fact that he was "THE ONE!" and the strange occurances of the solar system...he was allowed to change it that way.
I would have liked to have seen a couple more Highlander movies properly done that would tie up loose ends. But it looks like that won't happen.
:( It's pretty sad though...cause I still believe that with the right amount of financing and the right writers and producers.... using the timeline set in place by the series...a great movie could come from this. Guess we'll never know.
But I think that is part of the allure of Highlander.....THOSE "WHAT IF's".

[Littledevil]

Very true Coco. As for the What If's we will probably never know. I wish they weren't going to do a remake of the first Highlander. I think it i great just the way it is. They should have continued with the trilogy they started with the Source. I think if they would do that it would give them the opportunity to give the fans what they deserve and Adrian as well.

[Sam]

:rolleyes: I never liked the first Highlander movies LD. I was disappointed too that they were using their resources to remake Highlander 1. But if they take it in a different direction then it might be viewer worthy. I have seen Iron Man and some of the other stuff the company has made and I thought they were great. But I still would have much rather seen the completion of the trilogy with that sort of talent and funding.:)

[Coolwater]

If we're going to do a remake, let's remake the Source from scratch.

[Littledevil]

Oh God yes. Remake the Source!

[Littledevil]

New Riddle: Two fathers and two sons went duck hunting. Each shot a duck but they shot only three ducks in all. How come?

[Coolwater]

Ha! One father is the father of the other father - oh, sure that made lots of sense! :rolleyes: The two fathers are father and son, so the ducks were shot by the grandfather, the father, and the son.

[Littledevil]

:D:D...I knew what you were trying to say... You are correct.

[Coolwater]

I'm having a hard time coming up with a new riddle...

[Coolwater]

If I am removed, I can still make you groan.
What am I?

I noticed this while doing this morning's crossword! :D

[Littledevil]

Well that could be a couple of things, but I'm going to go with Tongue. Gross though.

[Sam]

:confused: I was thinking maybe a limb...

[Coolwater]

You guys are ripping off limbs and tongues??? :eek: It's not that kind of riddle! It's a spelling riddle!

[Littledevil]

ok S off Groans, then

[appeace]

Is it the "a"???:o

[Coolwater]

Wrong word. There is no I in groans. This is something(s) that makes you groan.

[EvanStar4506]

If I am removed, I can still make you groan.
What am I?

I noticed this while doing this morning's crossword! :D

Makes me think of a corn on the toe.

Sorry, I'm sure it's easy but after a month?
I'm going to put that one on a back burner and post another one.

You can keep it only after giving it away. What is it?

[JustBecause]

Ha ha! :) I think it's a promise. ;)

[Coolwater]

About the groans,
It's so not easy, that after all this time, I can't remember the answer. :confused: It was a word with an I in it that meant something painful both with and without the I. It's like if you're down in Mexico, If I am removed from the ruins, it's the runs. Happens a lot there, I hear, but the original was better than that. I'll put it on the back burner, too, til it comes to me. sigghhhhhh...