painted wolf
Grey Muzzle
why is a raven like a writing desk?
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riddle 3
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Lightkeeper
Well-Known Member
There's no answer to this. You would get crows feet trying to find one. :lol:
painted wolf
Grey Muzzle
shure their is... you just have to think about it...
Its an old riddle so the answer isn't obvious to modern people.
wa:-do
Its an old riddle so the answer isn't obvious to modern people.
wa:-do
true blood
Active Member
You can baffle the billions with both
true blood
Active Member
Riddle me this:
If you look, you can't see me. If you see me, you cannot see anything else. I can make you walk if you can't. Sometimes I speak the truth, and sometimes I lie. If I lie, I am nearer the truth. What am I?
If you look, you can't see me. If you see me, you cannot see anything else. I can make you walk if you can't. Sometimes I speak the truth, and sometimes I lie. If I lie, I am nearer the truth. What am I?
Lightkeeper
Well-Known Member
painted wolf said:
This riddle is like a koan, there is no correct answer to it. If you are thinking of the ink quills, that's one of many guesses to this riddle over the years.
painted wolf
Grey Muzzle
Lightkeeper...
what you mean they dont both have quills?
nuts... and It seemed so good to me... quill feathers and writing quills...
poopie...
wa:-do
what you mean they dont both have quills?
nuts... and It seemed so good to me... quill feathers and writing quills...
poopie...
wa:-do
Green Gaia
Veteran Member
This riddle is very famous, although it is the rarefied kind of fame that entails most people never having heard of it. It comes from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Alice is at the tea party with the March Hare, the Mad Hatter, and the Dormouse, when apropos of pretty much nothing the Hatter pops the question above. Several pages of tomfoolery ensue, and then:
"Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
"No, I give it up," Alice replied. "What's the answer?"
"I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter.
"Nor I," said the March Hare.
Alice sighed wearily. "I think you might do something better with the time," she said, "than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers."
:lol:
"Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
"No, I give it up," Alice replied. "What's the answer?"
"I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter.
"Nor I," said the March Hare.
Alice sighed wearily. "I think you might do something better with the time," she said, "than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers."
:lol:
painted wolf
Grey Muzzle
why is a raven like a writing desk?
Master Vigil
Well-Known Member
"Our schoolmaster used to take a nap every afternoon," related a disciple of Soyen Shaku. "We children asked him why he did it and he told us: 'I go to dreamland to meet the old sages just as Confucius did.' When Confucius slept, he would dream of ancient sages and later tell his followers about them.
"It was extremely hot one day so some of us took a nap. Our schoolmaster scolded us. 'We went to dreamland to meet the ancient sages the same as Confucius did,' we explained. 'What was the message from those sages?' our schoolmaster demanded. One of us replied: 'We went to dreamland and met the sages and asked them if our schoolmaster came there every afternoon, but they said they had never seen any such fellow.'"
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I always found that one funny.
"It was extremely hot one day so some of us took a nap. Our schoolmaster scolded us. 'We went to dreamland to meet the ancient sages the same as Confucius did,' we explained. 'What was the message from those sages?' our schoolmaster demanded. One of us replied: 'We went to dreamland and met the sages and asked them if our schoolmaster came there every afternoon, but they said they had never seen any such fellow.'"
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I always found that one funny.