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« on: December 17, 2009, 04:29:32 PM » |
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Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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Flower, pretty flower
I stop to smell you
YOU TAKE MY NOSE AWAY
Wait a minute
Why are you so sharp?
You are not a flower
Now I have no nose
Face, bloody face
-AskANinja
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yuechen
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« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2009, 08:43:47 PM » |
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"Well, have you solved the riddle yet?"
"No, what is the answer?"
"I haven't the slightest clue."
-- Alice in Wonderland
No dinner though, as this riddle has no answer.
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Yuechen Zhao
"Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time." - Norman Ford
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« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2009, 10:21:55 PM » |
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find me tomorrow before 2nd mod and you get your prize.
because after 2nd mod, they're gone. probably. darn those rabid teenagers!!! worse than starving wolves XD
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Flower, pretty flower
I stop to smell you
YOU TAKE MY NOSE AWAY
Wait a minute
Why are you so sharp?
You are not a flower
Now I have no nose
Face, bloody face
-AskANinja
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clarissavandell
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« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2009, 08:08:13 AM » |
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Hey. There is an answer. Poe wrote on both. He wrote the Raven, and he wrote on a writing desk.
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« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2009, 08:12:59 PM » |
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Yeah, but I hardly think that someone who answers a riddle which the author said has no answer truly answers the riddle. In his 2nd edition of Alice In Wonderland, he specifically states that the riddle was designed to have no answer.
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« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2010, 05:54:09 PM » |
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Alright, I suppose that makes sense.
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Elvarya 85
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Col. Roy Mustang. Yeah, he's pretty BA.
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« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2010, 04:10:42 PM » |
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Yes, but Carroll later gave an answer to the riddle because so many people asked. For the record, I found this in a copy of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, not on google. "Because both are capable of producing short, flat notes, and will never be turned the wrong way."
Also, for a different answer, because "B" is in both, while "N" is in neither. While, conversely, an "N" is in both, while a "B" is in neither.
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« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2010, 04:57:58 PM » |
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Ha! That answer is more confusing than the question, I think!
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« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2010, 07:12:51 PM » |
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which one? the second one? yeah, one of my friends came up with it.
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