Can you solve this riddle?

Anian · Sat 02/03/2013 10:33:42

Rare american slang for french fries? Not really had a chance with that one.

Andail · Sat 02/03/2013 16:01:41

I don't get it. I get that she was french, but is she supposed to have been fried? She was burned at the stake, as far as I remember.

Renodox · Sat 02/03/2013 21:15:20

Yes, she was burned at the stake. Generally, when people are burned to death they're known to have been fried.

Anian · Sun 03/03/2013 12:58:01

I think that's for the electric chair, not stake.

mkennedy · Sun 03/03/2013 20:33:40

Quote from: Anian on Sun 03/03/2013 12:58:01
I think that's for the electric chair, not stake.

Homer: MMMMMM ... Steak ... (drools)

That riddle was a tough pun.

Here's one that appeared in two separate games:

What's tall as a house
and round as a cup
but all the king's horses
can't draw it up?

Sane Co. · Mon 04/03/2013 06:58:39

A silo? Humpty Dumpty? A big blue cup? (Lol) A grown man's small intestine? Which is actually about as tall as a house. What can horses not draw?

Anian · Mon 04/03/2013 08:01:41

Quote from: Sane Co. on Mon 04/03/2013 06:58:39
What can horses not draw?

Hand turkeys?

Renodox · Mon 04/03/2013 18:50:31

I'd say... A well.

mkennedy · Mon 04/03/2013 22:21:03

Quote from: Renodox on Mon 04/03/2013 18:50:31
I'd say... A well.

That is the correct answer!

Quote from: Sane Co. on Mon 04/03/2013 06:58:39
Humpty Dumpty?

That was one of my guesses when I first encountered the riddle in Zork 2. But when it made a second appearance in Ultima 5 I decrypted the dialogue files to find the correct answer.

CaptainD · Tue 05/03/2013 14:10:34

Horses can't draw anything, I mean how would they hold a pencil?!?

KBlaney · Tue 05/03/2013 16:27:36

Quote from: Armageddon on Sat 23/02/2013 04:36:39
I have three fingers and can't count to four.

What am I?

Drunk?

Renodox · Wed 06/03/2013 02:22:13

Here's a riddle that I heard from a show:

If a farmer gave 17 cents to one son, and 8 cents to his other son, what time would it be?

Gilbert · Wed 06/03/2013 02:32:25

Spoiler

A quarter past two?

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Renodox · Wed 06/03/2013 02:54:45

Close but no.

mkennedy · Wed 06/03/2013 05:09:33

Quote from: Renodox on Wed 06/03/2013 02:22:13
If a farmer gave 17 cents to one son, and 8 cents to his other son, what time would it be?

Spoiler

Quarter to two!

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Gilbert · Wed 06/03/2013 06:07:58

Hah yeah seems to be it. I complicated it as I thought

Spoiler

Quarter passed to two.
I was not aware of it because it is very very rare to tell time by saying how many minutes to go until the next hour in my language.

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Renodox · Wed 06/03/2013 08:38:19

You got it.

janleht · Wed 06/03/2013 22:24:06

I came up with one! I hope it's logical enough:)

The one, which travels to the air... Is not a plane, but moves with machinery help.
The one, which travels to the earth... Is not a spider, but moves with eight legs.

Renodox · Thu 14/03/2013 02:34:00

To answer the riddle, I think it's precipitation. Water going up and snow going down.

Now here's one that may re-kindle interest. This isn't so much a riddle as a puzzle but translate this to more understandable terms:

"The female contributor of the deoxyribonucleic acid of my biological genetic makeup was quite the well pleased member of the following base of your suburban life partner's melodious orations."

Hint: This is being spoken to a man.

Baron · Thu 14/03/2013 03:07:06

"My mom is a fan of your wife's singing."

or maybe she liked your dog's barking.... It's hard to tell with the various assortment of suburban life-partners these days.