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 Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:06 pm
He who has it doesn't tell it. He who takes it doesn't know it. He who knows it doesn't want it. What is it?
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:11 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:13 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:21 pm
What are you talking about?
Cookies are the answer to all. .
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:23 pm
angel-light of the dark What are you talking about? Cookies are the answer to all. . No, that's dead animals.
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:29 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 3:41 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:11 pm
Ok, then I say "Dead Animals" Do I win?
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:08 pm
sarahbearak20 Ok, then I say "Dead Animals" Do I win? That's not the answer though...
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:26 pm
OH! I have a riddle!! ^.^
What crawls on all fours in the morning?
What walks on two legs in the afternoon?
What walks on three legs in the evening?
The answers are all related....but I want to see if you guys can get it!
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:27 pm
TinyDog OH! I have a riddle!! ^.^ What crawls on all fours in the morning? What walks on two legs in the afternoon? What walks on three legs in the evening? The answers are all related....but I want to see if you guys can get it! It's man, sphinx! So go commit suicide like the story foretells!
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:29 pm
What.....The....Hell!??!?!?! how did you know that!?!? no one I ever asked before knew that! you must have the book >.> the same one I got the riddle from as a kid.....grr!!!! *grumbles*
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:31 pm
TinyDog What.....The....Hell!??!?!?! how did you know that!?!? no one I ever asked before knew that! you must have the book >.> the same one I got the riddle from as a kid.....grr!!!! *grumbles* It's Greek mythology. The story tells that a sphinx will startle passerbys by asking them a riddle. If they got it wrong, the sphinx will kill them. There was one guy who answered correctly, and the sphinx killed herself. She ended up torturing people in Hades with riddles.
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:40 pm
Oh...I never really had any mythology classes crying Even though I really like it....but I remeber reading that in a book when I was little...I loved that book and memorized like every page XD
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:42 pm
Derived from wikipedia.org
The word "sphinx" comes from the Greek Σφιγξ — Sphigx, apparently from the verb σφιγγω — sphiggo, meaning "to strangle" (note that the ng and nx sounds were written in ancient Greek as a double gammas. This may be her proper name, but The Penguin Dictionary of Classical Mythology states that her given name was Φιξ — Phix.) In Greek lore, a Sphinx once blocked the way to Thebes. She would give a riddle: "What walks on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?" Oedipus solved the riddle: man — he crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and walks with a cane in old age. Bested at last, the Sphinx then threw herself from her high rock and died. An alternative version tells that she devoured herself. The exact riddle asked by the Sphinx was not specified by early tellers of the story and was not standardized as the one given above until much later in Greek history.[2] Thus Oedipus can be recognized as a liminal or "threshold" figure, helping effect the transition between the old religious practices, represented by the Sphinx, and new, Olympian ones.
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