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    Simple enough rules. Someone posts a riddle and we all squabble until we have an answer. Then someone comes up with a new riddle. With any luck it'll work.

    This riddle was taken from the Book of Exeter, an old English (or Olde Englishe, because there were so many extra "e's" floating about) book of riddles;

    A small miracle hangs near a man's thigh,
    Full under folds.
    It is stiff, and strong,
    Bold, brassy and pierced in front,
    When a young Lord lifts his tunic over his knees,
    He wants to greet with the other hard head of this hanging creature
    The hole it longs to fill.

    What is it?
     
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    What goes up and chimney down, but not down a chimney up?


    :wink:
     
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    An umbrella.

    he who makes me doesn't want me. He who buys me doesn't use me. He who uses me doesn't see me. What am I?
     
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    a coffin

    A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. what is it?
     
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    Oh! An egg!

    A riddle, a riddle, I suppose-a hundred eyes but never a nose.
     
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    A potato (or a huge container of needles?).

    I was there at the start of everything.
    And I'll be there at the end of time.
    You'll find me in every home,
    And I'm there even in nothingness.

    Lex
     
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    ugh... God? lol. Or vacuum.
     
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    darkness?
     
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    The letter E

    Sorry I cant think of a riddle atm, so someone just jump right in :grin:
     
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    Wow, I feel SO stupid right now....lol

    Alive without breath,
    As cold as death;
    Never thirsty, ever drinking,
    All in mail never clinking
     
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    A fish. :slight_smile:

    Dark I'm clean.
    White I'm dirty.

    Lex
     
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    a chalkboard?
     
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    Think of words ending in "-gry". "Angry" and "hungry" are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

    I figured this out....and i was proper let down because i thought i was wrong.
     
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    aye tis language


    how anti-climactic realy
     
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    What is deaf, dumb and blind, yet always tells the truth?
     
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    mirrorr
     
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    A magic 8-ball?

    Lex
     
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    Yep
     
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    With pointed fangs it sits in wait,
    With piercing force its doles out fate,
    Over bloodless victims proclaiming its might,
    Eternally joining in a single bite.
    What is it?
     
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    yup
     
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