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TheArimathean
Jan-09-2013, 10:35pm
Blown in the morning he stirs, dancing through the night he cheers.
He follows a king to his city and likewise a man to his grave.
His father is sorrow and his son is festivity.
And he leads light feet where festive hearts call on him.
What is he?
Maybe one of you smart fellers will understand this. :confused:
OldSausage
Jan-09-2013, 11:02pm
Is it cheese?
TheArimathean
Jan-09-2013, 11:03pm
If one of you gets it I will then post its explanation ;)
OldSausage
Jan-09-2013, 11:07pm
Not cheese, then. Pity.
Ken Feil
Jan-09-2013, 11:30pm
A bugle.
Eddie Sheehy
Jan-09-2013, 11:37pm
Definitely cheesy...
EdHanrahan
Jan-09-2013, 11:41pm
Uhmm, a flag?
Whoops... You asked the smart fellers!
Mandoak
Jan-09-2013, 11:54pm
I have a feeling I know what it is. I am just afraid if I say the word somebody might go get one and play it.
Eddie Sheehy
Jan-10-2013, 12:44am
A fire?
nrand
Jan-10-2013, 12:57am
A flute/fife
or;
second guess:
Toes
ToMandoLore
Jan-10-2013, 1:16am
Hmm..."to his grave"...gotta be bagpipes.
Bertram Henze
Jan-10-2013, 6:50am
Maybe the solution is not explicable on a family forum...
TheArimathean
Jan-10-2013, 6:53am
It's something we all know (or at least the vast majority of us) of and use quite often. Many of you have come close, but no cigar. And it is indeed family appropriate ;)
jaycat
Jan-10-2013, 7:10am
My ex-wife's lawyer?
Johnny60
Jan-10-2013, 7:57am
Is it a trumpet? Blown in the morning to wake soldiers up, played at night in a big band. Used in fanfairs to proclaim a king, used in military (and other?) funerals?
albeham
Jan-10-2013, 8:13am
A jester .
or a really bad night of drinking... I think trumpet.
AL
Phantoj
Jan-10-2013, 8:14am
"music" ?
Thank you Old Sausage!
"I don't care who ya are, that's funny right there"
I can't stop laughing at that one. :))
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Bertram Henze
Jan-10-2013, 8:17am
coffee?
Pete Jenner
Jan-10-2013, 8:19am
A bugle made of cheese?
Ken Scarbrough
Jan-10-2013, 9:12am
Coffee
Bertram Henze
Jan-10-2013, 9:22am
http://praxeology.net/gollum-can-has-bagginses.png
Steve Ostrander
Jan-10-2013, 9:53am
Wait for it.....wait for it.....
rb3868
Jan-10-2013, 1:25pm
Mushrooms!
no, I think that might have been what caused the riddle to be written.
Dale Ludewig
Jan-10-2013, 1:29pm
Your reputation, t'would be my guess.
Eddie Sheehy
Jan-10-2013, 1:43pm
A balloon
jaycat
Jan-10-2013, 1:56pm
I have it.
Jim Garber
Jan-10-2013, 3:08pm
Let's see... cheese, mushrooms, old sausage, fire, no cigar... I think I know what I am having for dinner tonight. :)
jaycat
Jan-10-2013, 3:38pm
Here's another one: Why did the mother put her baby on the phonograph?
mrmando
Jan-10-2013, 3:50pm
A fire?
I'm with Eddie. Or maybe it's smoke, or ashes.
Eddie Sheehy
Jan-10-2013, 4:02pm
A flower...
Eddie Sheehy
Jan-10-2013, 4:03pm
A flower on fire...
TheArimathean
Jan-10-2013, 4:03pm
Winner: Phantoj!
The answer was "music"
It wakes soldiers up in the morning, reveille; it plays dances at night. Kings are greeted with fanfares, and dead men departed with dirges. Sadness more often than not inspires music to be created, and when music is played festivities are often about. Music tells the dancers which dance to dance when the time for dancing comes.
Good guessing!
jaycat
Jan-10-2013, 4:10pm
I didn't have it ~
Jordan S.
Jan-10-2013, 4:20pm
Music?
Eddie Sheehy
Jan-10-2013, 4:28pm
King greeted with fanfare - so before him not following him?
... it all hinged on that...
Now back to the cheese...
I stir when I am .... never mind
OldSausage
Jan-10-2013, 4:49pm
Here's another riddle:
What's yellow and smells great?
Hint: not a banana.
Eddie Sheehy
Jan-10-2013, 4:54pm
A flower?
Eddie Sheehy
Jan-10-2013, 4:54pm
A Gibson Goldrush with honey?
mrmando
Jan-10-2013, 4:55pm
A lion's nose?
F-2 Dave
Jan-10-2013, 4:56pm
Cheese?
Eddie Sheehy
Jan-10-2013, 4:58pm
too obvious...
OldSausage
Jan-10-2013, 4:59pm
Oh, really guys? Is that the best you can do? While you're thinking about it, here's a video:
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Charlieshafer
Jan-10-2013, 4:59pm
yeah, but what about the baby and the phonograph? spin dry?
Eddie Sheehy
Jan-10-2013, 5:03pm
That one was cheese...
Wilbur James
Jan-10-2013, 6:36pm
You have three men in a boat, three cigarettes but no lighter, how do they manage to smoke?
Charles E.
Jan-10-2013, 7:26pm
Here's another riddle:
What's yellow and smells great?
Hint: not a banana.
Seeing that your from Georgia, I'm going to say a hound dog.
OldSausage
Jan-10-2013, 7:29pm
Seeing that your from Georgia, I'm going to say a hound dog.
Closest yet!
JEStanek
Jan-10-2013, 8:12pm
A hound dog with cirrhosis of the liver.
How is a raven like a writing desk?
Jamie
jaycat
Jan-10-2013, 8:32pm
OK, who put the benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine?
Hint: the answer is NOT Cheese!
F-2 Dave
Jan-10-2013, 8:53pm
You have three men in a boat, three cigarettes but no lighter, how do they manage to smoke?
As much as I'd like to work cheese in there somewhere, it just ain't happening. They'd toss one of the cigarettes overboard, making the boat one cigarette lighter.
Marty Jacobson
Jan-10-2013, 9:07pm
My siblings-in-law like to ask this one:
"There was a man imprisoned in a solid concrete room. He managed to escape, although there were no windows or doors, and the only furnishings are a mirror and a table. How did he manage it?"
And the answer is supposed to be: "He looked in the mirror, and saw what he saw. He took the saw, and cut the table in half. Two halves make a whole. He escaped through the hole!"
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TheArimathean
Jan-10-2013, 9:17pm
Try that with a metal table:
He looked in the mirror, and saw what he miter saw, then he took the miter saw... etc.
;)
rb3868
Jan-10-2013, 9:59pm
You have three men in a boat, three cigarettes but no lighter, how do they manage to smoke?
they use matches
OldSausage
Jan-10-2013, 10:08pm
How is a raven like a writing desk?
Jamie
Neither one will fly away if you shoot it.
Bill Snyder
Jan-11-2013, 12:17am
The phonograph had an automatic changer.
OldSausage
Jan-11-2013, 12:31am
You have three men in a boat, three cigarettes but no lighter, how do they manage to smoke?
The boat is on fire.
Charlieshafer
Jan-11-2013, 6:42am
The phonograph had an automatic changer.
Is this the actual answer? I've been awake all night working on this. Can't sleep... neeeeed cofeew. must know,,...lszxjzm,
jaycat
Jan-11-2013, 7:43am
The phonograph had an automatic changer.
We have a winner! Give this man a piece of cheese!
Bernie Daniel
Jan-11-2013, 8:10am
Oh, really guys? Is that the best you can do? While you're thinking about it, here's a video:
I couldn't see the mandolin player...is that a hint? Wait. Did someone already guess this one? Or not?
Charles E.
Jan-11-2013, 8:15am
Closest yet!
A cowardly bloodhound.
OldSausage
Jan-11-2013, 8:19am
A cowardly bloodhound.
Pretty much nailed it there. "A frightened dawg" was the phrase I had in mind.
Tim2723
Jan-11-2013, 8:25am
You have three men in a boat, three cigarettes but no lighter, how do they manage to smoke?
Throw a cigarette overboard then the boat is a cigarette lighter.
Bertram Henze
Jan-11-2013, 8:27am
Near a tree by a river
There's a hole in the ground
Where an old man of Aran
Goes around and around
And his mind is a beacon in the veil of the night
For a strange kind of fashion
There's a wrong and a right
But he'll never, never fight over you
F-2 Dave
Jan-11-2013, 8:39am
Throw a cigarette overboard then the boat is a cigarette lighter.
Great answer.
Wilbur James
Jan-11-2013, 8:54am
As much as I'd like to work cheese in there somewhere, it just ain't happening. They'd toss one of the cigarettes overboard, making the boat one cigarette lighter.
That is correct! That was one of the riddlers riddle on the classic Batman, by the way wasn't there a villain on that show that played mandolin?
Bernie Daniel
Jan-11-2013, 9:50am
Throw a cigarette overboard then the boat is a cigarette lighter.
Excellent!
Steve Ostrander
Jan-11-2013, 10:24am
You have three men in a boat, three cigarettes but no lighter, how do they manage to smoke?
The outboard motor smokes like a steam locomotive?
papabear075
Jan-11-2013, 10:51am
Is it a major scale?
Eddie Sheehy
Jan-11-2013, 12:20pm
Shark-infested custard...
Mike Romkey
Jan-11-2013, 12:45pm
Since I'm reading this thread, it's clear I have far too much time on my hands! (g)
Charles E.
Jan-11-2013, 8:30pm
Oh, really guys? Is that the best you can do? While you're thinking about it, here's a video:
fu5i63t4HkM
David, can I assume that you are playing fiddle? Great stuff, reminds me of Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks.
OldSausage
Jan-11-2013, 9:35pm
David, can I assume that you are playing fiddle? Great stuff, reminds me of Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks.
No, I'm not any of those fellows, just a video I was enjoying!
bratsche
Jan-12-2013, 2:43am
Throw a cigarette overboard then the boat is a cigarette lighter.
Yabbut then all three men couldn't smoke, unless they shared the two cigs between them.
However, if it was a sunny day, and one wore glasses, they could keep all three smokes and use the glasses lens to light them... ;)
bratsche
Bertram Henze
Jan-12-2013, 9:51am
However, if it was a sunny day, and one wore glasses, they could keep all three smokes and use the glasses lens to light them... ;)
Science seems to take all the fun out of the riddle, but while we're at it: only if the owner of the glasses was farsighted and had no astigmatism (classical reading glasses would do, and they are, of course, exactly the kind of equipment you take along on a boat...) :grin: