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    • CommentAuthorC'est Moi
    • CommentTimeMar 29th 2008
     

    I am now starting a riddle thread. Someone will say a riddle another person will guess the answer if they are correct they will ask another riddle.

    Now to start you off one I remember from the Hobbit.

    This thing all things devours,
    Birds, Beasts, Trees, Flowers,
    Gnaws iron, Bites steel,
    And grinds hard stones to meal.
    Slays King, Ruins town,
    And wears high mountain down.
    What is it?

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeMar 29th 2008
     

    Time?

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      CommentAuthorkeir
    • CommentTimeMar 29th 2008
     

    water?

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      CommentAuthorTadGhostal
    • CommentTimeMar 29th 2008
     

    Charles Nelson Reilly?

    • CommentAuthorC'est Moi
    • CommentTimeMar 30th 2008
     

    Trance has it with time
    Now you may ask a riddle.

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeMar 30th 2008
     

    A farmer has a dog, a chicken, and a bag of corn. He needs to transport all three of these to the other side of a river. The farmer has a small boat, only big enough to carry either the chicken, corn bag or dog separately at any one time. His problem is that if the farmer leaves the corn and the chicken unsupervised, the chicken will eat the corn, but if he leaves the dog and the chicken unsupervised, the dog will kill the chicken.

    How can he get the dog, chicken and corn bag across the river?

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    Posted By: TadGhostal

    Charles Nelson Reilly?

    I think you're thinking of the "Editors Cut" of the Hobbit, which ran seventeen extra pages, not counting illustrations, and was released only within "the industry".

    • CommentAuthorUser
    • CommentTimeMar 30th 2008
     
    Posted By: Trance

    A farmer has a dog, a chicken, and a bag of corn. He needs to transport all three of these to the other side of a river. The farmer has a small boat, only big enough to carry either the chicken, corn bag or dog separately at any one time. His problem is that if the farmer leaves the corn and the chicken unsupervised, the chicken will eat the corn, but if he leaves the dog and the chicken unsupervised, the dog will kill the chicken.

    How can he get the dog, chicken and corn bag across the river?

    This is an old one. First he takes the chicken across, then he takes the corn but on his way back brings the chicken back. Then he brings the dog over and then the chicken. Later, he gets home and slaughters the chicken, drinking its blood for good luck.

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeMar 30th 2008
     
    Posted By: User

    Later, he gets home and slaughters the chicken, drinking its blood for good luck.

    I forgot to mention the chicken actually has cyanide instead of blood.

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeMar 30th 2008
     

    NO you fool. He slaughters the dog as a sacrifice to Beelzebub.

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      CommentAuthorTadGhostal
    • CommentTimeMar 31st 2008
     

    Let the chicken eat the corn, then let the dog eat the chicken. Then carry the dog across. Technically, he's accomplished the required task.

    :old-owned:

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeMar 31st 2008
     

    You're all correct. :ninja:

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      CommentAuthorTadGhostal
    • CommentTimeMar 31st 2008 edited
     
    Posted By: Trance

    You're all correct.:ninja:

    Of course I am. I couldn't very well be partly correct, could I? (The answer is NO).

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