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I think I might have told this one before, but have a go if you haven’t heard it:

There is a dead man slumped in a phone booth. Blood everywhere. There are two identical holes through opposite sides of the phone booth. The phone receiver is dangling by its wire and a fishing rod is leaning against the outside of the phone booth. The man was not hit by a projectile entering/exiting the phone booth.

How did the man die?

@Jack I like your version way better!  (My personal preference. I agree the other style can also be fun in certain contexts, but I mostly just prefer having complete details and mulling the problem over in my mind.)

That’s the problem with these types of ‘riddles’ is that there’s so much room within which to make an answer fit. Your answer would work, Mandle. Or could be she opens a door and it’s a surprise party held to announce a family’s adoption of her. (Insert a hundred other examples...)

Here’s the answer to the original version I heard:

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Her parents kept her locked in the basement from the day she was born. She somehow manages to open the basement door for the first time.

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Lol how could anyone figure that out? It’s more aptly labelled a lateral thinking problem than a riddle.

Looks like a young Robert Deniro with down syndrome.

I Googled it, but I'm not sure this is the right answer. Is this the version you are telling?

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The seagull tastes nothing like a 'seagull' that this person ate before...right?

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Yes. The story's kinda gross.

It’s alright, but the problem with those riddles is that they can’t really be solved just based on the riddle. It requires A LOT of investigation through probing the riddler. I think a good riddle should stand up to those Agatha Christie rules (ie you can’t hide anything from the reader; they should be given enough to figure the mystery out,  etc).

The seagull riddle reminds me of another one I heard in a similar vein (if anyone wants to try it):

A young girl opens a door in her house and this changes everything she knows forever. What was the door?

(People might have heard that one before. Otherwise, I don’t think it is possible to guess what the door is without lots of investigation.)

Creamy, I really would like to know the answer to your riddle. Can you give us a very direct hint or just tack the answer in a spoiler?

It's more complicated than what's been suggested so far. Hint:

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Something to do with a past experience.

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I Googled it, but I'm not sure this is the right answer. Is this the version you are telling?

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The seagull tastes nothing like a 'seagull' that this person ate before...right?

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Can you give us a very direct hint or just tack the answer in a spoiler?

I know the answer to his riddle just in case Creamy never comes back to this thread again.

Just spoiler it if you don’t mind. I’m never going to guess it.

Interesting one, Mandle. I’m guessing the answer isn’t something obvious like ‘in a room’. Will keep thinking about it.

Creamy, I really would like to know the answer to your riddle. Can you give us a very direct hint or just tack the answer in a spoiler?

What grinds my gears?

Movies like Charm City Kings makes thugs and jerks look like cool and dashing rouges with a code of honor and ethic when in real life they are horrible, horrible little nerds who are cold blooded and don't care who they hurt.

No joke, just a short while before making this post I was taking my mom's dog out, on the sidewalk when these two bike gang bangers go roaring around the block, and came all around the corner causing me to grab my dog, practically pushed my mom out of the way and saw a few other people across the street run like us off the sidewalk because again these jokers in real life are horrible, horrible people and don't care who gets hurt.

I actually saw one ride up Liberty height near the Walgreens right behind an active ambulance, popping a wheelie and almost touching the ambulance's bumper doing so.

Where are you? That sounds awful.

The Cats movie conspiracy is my favourite from 2020, where there was, uh, apparently an original cut of the movie that included buttholes.

Yeah there's no mistaking that style. I love LBA!

I might have shared this before, but we've been playing Hollow Knight again. The soundtrack is very nice:

Jwalt, I'm getting 'video unavailable'.

Galen, very unique share. Not quite sure what that was. Sort of like Primus meets jungle meets death metal.

Lol was he possibly trolling you? If not, he’s just opened up a new bottom tier of stupidity.

He was on the flat earth side.

Wow. Just...wow. He's probably a QAnon nutjob, too. How is it that the western world is even back to entertaining these opinions at all? Mind blowing.

Yeah I also have never found Will Ferrel funny. John C Reilly can be funny at times.

I’ve got a friend that hates that movie too, but it’s because he’s 40 and lives with his parents.

ARGH!!! I just had to vent somewhere!

A Covidiot in the chat of a livestream was spamming how the CDC has released data showing that most people who have tested positive for Covid-19 in the USA are mask-wearers, proving that mask-wearing is bad.

I tried to explain to him that mask-wearers are people who are worried about the virus so they GET TESTED. Non-maskers are not worried so they DON'T GET TESTED.

He couldn't get it. Just kept saying that is was legit CDC data so I was wrong and masks are bad.

AAAARRRRGGGHHH!!!

Lol was he possibly trolling you? If not, he’s just opened up a new bottom tier of stupidity.

Well, I confirmed it's not A.C.O.D. even though that movie does have both Adam Scott and the man from the first 2 pictures. Who apparently also played "the dad" in Let Me In...

I do know what movie this is though, now. But I disliked what little of what I watched of it enough that I won't say its name.

Why did you hate the movie so much? I'm not saying it is a cinematic masterpiece, but it had a few funny moments. Also, the whole 40-living-at-home thing was interesting in its relevance to contemporary times.

Yeah, you got it! Looks like a completely different movie without the main guys:



Your go!

Oh wow nicely done. Yeah that’s what I was thinking.

It looks like this flash game I played where space/time are linked. The enemies and their bullets don't move unless you do, which was a cool dynamic. I can't for the life of me remember the name though.