Topic awaiting preservation: riddle.

What mythical creature means a swiss banker?

it may be literal, it may be cryptic, i have no idea - but if you can help me nut it out, that would be cool.

The most powerful international bankers are sometimes called the Gnomes of Zurich. It's tied in with the vast network of "Illuminati" theories.

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If i had to guess, I would say manticore or centaur .. or maybe a large serpent.. o.o;;

I'm going to the moon, I cant stand it here anymore.

PT: Shhh! You don't want them to find us out, do you?

reitsma: I have no idea, but PT's contribution seems likely.

Yup. Gnome it is...well done, PT...


WebShaman

a credible answer, PT.

cheers. (not sure if it's right yet, we'll see)

another question:


"At one end of the M1 is London, the other end, ends at?"

I'm going to take a stab in the dark and guess ... London?

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Leeds! (Or Wetherby).

cheers ws.

*Does Asylum jig*

What has:

Four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon and three legs in the evening...

A sphinx. One particularly old sphinx.

Now, will let me pass?

I know this one .. a Man's life or Women's .. the sphinx


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Yup its the oldest recorded riddle discovered written down, it is actually on the sphynx...

And it is man (in the sense of mankind)

four legs (in the morning of his life) ie crawling
two legs (afternoon of life)
three legs (ie using a stick in old age)

You solved it, Rammstein... now you have to kill your father and marry your mother, then realize what you've done and gouge your own eyes out. It'll be fun! For us.

I have a mouth but no teeth, and I babble without breath.

ok...so what am I?

A fish I think.

I have a few ones to submit...

1:

Withouth voice, he shouts;
Without wings, he flies;
Without teeth, he bites;
Without mouth, he whisper.

2:

Living without any breath,
As cold as death,
Never thirsty, always drinking,
Wearing a coat of mail, never rattling.

3:

This thing devours any thing,
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers,
It eat away at iron, bites steel,
Reduce hard rocks to powder;
Kill the kings, destroy the cities,
And cut down mountains.

Sorry for the translations I did my best.

So... you took a French translation of the Hobbit and translated it back into English? Pardon me while I scream...



OK, I feel a little better now.

The originals:

"Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters."

"Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail never clinking."

"This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down."

Not all that bad a job, though.

As for Skaarjj's, fish do have teeth. I would say a river, or maybe a brook, since we don't usually talk of rivers "babbling" (then again, we don't talk of the "mouth of a brook," either...).

[Edit: Come to think of it, fish don't really babble either... do they?]

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I was caught

Edit: thanks for putting here the real sentences



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If this is to be a thread for riddles, perhaps we could use a few that aren't directly taken from classic works of fiction and myth? My favorite of all time is "There are five children. Half of them are boys." The question should be obvious.

And yes, I believe I've posted this here before, in another riddle thread.

edit: Curse you, grammar... you've won again.

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