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Post by Imrel on Dec 22, 2002 8:41:15 GMT
Hum. Bury the survivors, eh... Don't think so, somehow. ;D
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Post by Jared on Dec 22, 2002 8:56:32 GMT
;D I said it was easy. Unfortunately my sister didn't get it. Typical.
Okay. A tricky, tricky, tricky one. Unless you've seen it before, of course...
Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it,
Five in the middle is seen;
First of all figures, the first of all letters,
Take up their stations between.
Join all together, and then you will bring
Before you the name of an eminent king.
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Post by Jared on Dec 22, 2002 10:02:37 GMT
Okay. I have found like, a really, really really hard one. I spent ages looking for the answer. About an hour or so. Searching on the net. And it wasn't even a direct link, I had to go from page to page to page to page to page... totally horrible. So here's it, exactly the same as it was on the site it came from... "Paul Sloane's homepage with lots of lateral thinking puzzles". Whoever he is.
You should be warned that the following joke can be infuriating. It is said that it was used at Cambridge University as an intelligence test for undergraduates - those that got it were intelligent. If you get it - well done. If you don't get it - well neither do most people when they hear it. It is a regular (though rather subtle) joke which requires no special knowledge for its understanding. Here it is:
Two climbers were climbing roped together in the Scottish Highlands. They saw some eagles soaring above them. Later the climbers slipped over the edge of a precipice and unfortunately plunged to their deaths. Their souls left their mortal bodies and ascended to heaven. As they rose they saw the same eagles and one soul cried out to them, 'Ah - Eagles' But the eagles, being polite, said nothing.
Clues given:
The joke consists of a play on words, or rather an implicit play on words.
It is slightly coarse.
You will definitely know when you get it.
I repeat. It. Is. Horrible. And if you know, try not to give the answer just all like that. Because it isn't all that easy even with hints. And it's not very funny anyway.
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Post by Imrel on Dec 22, 2002 21:30:42 GMT
Oh eep. That is... hard. What exactly are we supposed to explain; the situation? Why the eagles were silent? Is there a double meaning to what the soul of the dead climber said?
Btw, this isn't very relevant, but I was riddle brousing and I found the correct version of the "E" one, if anyone's interested.
I am the beginning of the end,
And the end of time and space.
I am essential to creation,
And I surround every place.
Which makes more sense than what I put.
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Post by Jared on Dec 23, 2002 4:31:38 GMT
LoL... actually it's supposed to be why the eagles didn't say anything. I don't think anyone will get it, but...
The predictable thing the eagles would have said was "Ah - souls!", right? Well, remember that the climbers were in the Scottish Highlands... Okay. If you don't get it, just say "Ah - souls!" out loud a few times with a Scottish accent. You'll get it soon.
Ooooh. That E one. It's been around a long, long time. Any takers for the "five hundred blahblah" riddle? It's not that easy either.
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Post by Imrel on Dec 23, 2002 7:08:43 GMT
I already know the answer. (It's biblical, go figure.)
That other one is pretty clever... but definately coarse... (But who says the eagles would speak in a Scotch accent? Lol.)
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Post by ~Dernhelm~ on Dec 23, 2002 10:50:16 GMT
So in other words, they said (though I hate to say the word) @$$ h0!e$?
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Post by Jared on Dec 23, 2002 11:07:30 GMT
Yep. ;D Hey, they're souls. Souls understand eagle-talk. ;D
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Post by Imrel on Dec 24, 2002 3:15:11 GMT
Ahem, moving along from that one...
Here's another one for when y'all are done with Rusty's "Five hundred..." puzzle. (I had to cheat, but the answer's actually pretty easy when you think about it.)
An Arab sheikh tells his two sons to race their camels to a distant city to see who will inherit his fortune. The one whose camel is slower will win. The brothers, after wandering aimlessly for days, ask a wise man for advise. After hearing the advice they jump on the camels and race as fast as they can to the city. What did the wise man tell them?
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Post by Jared on Dec 24, 2002 18:29:29 GMT
I know! I know! ;D I came across this while doing a search on riddles. Especially lateral thinking ones.
answer: switch camels
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Post by Imrel on Dec 25, 2002 7:12:35 GMT
Needless to say... Yep.
Here's another.
A man goes to work in the morning. He rides the elevator to the 12th floor, gets off the elevator and takes the stairs to the 20th floor where he works. When he gets off of work at 5:00 he gets on the elevator and rides it all the way down. Why does he take the stairs on the way up and the elevator on the way down?
I love this one. ;D (And if you've already heard this and know the answer, please give someone else a chance to guess.)
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Post by ~Dernhelm~ on Dec 25, 2002 8:35:53 GMT
Let me see...
The building was so tall that the elevator was only able to go up to some of the floors, then it has to stop. It would be the 12th floor in that case. And then there's an express elevator which only takes passengers down?
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Post by Jared on Dec 25, 2002 14:29:38 GMT
*Keeps mouth shut. Very shut.*
(That's an extremely popular lateral thinking riddle, isn't it?)
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Post by ~Dernhelm~ on Dec 25, 2002 16:40:43 GMT
So I'm wrong? I guess Eorlings aren't as good at riddles as Hobbits are! 
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Post by Imrel on Dec 26, 2002 6:46:01 GMT
*Keeps mouth shut. Very shut.*
There's a few variations of that, but they all work...
Sorry Eo, but that wasn't it. Hey, if Hobbits are so good at riddles, maybe we should call Merry in here. ;D |
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