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by **Monsoon** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:37 am

I am the opposite of silk, so sit on me if you dare for the cat may already be there!
Yew might find me flexible if you have split my name thus far.

by **delby** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:26 pm

Hee Hee Matt

IM tall when Im young
short when Im old
with light I do glow
breath is my foe

what am I

by **Monsoon** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:42 pm

a flame?

by **Ada** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:48 pm

OR a candle?

by **Bee** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:05 pm

bones?

by **Ada** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:20 pm

^ Are any of us correct Delby?

by **delby** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:35 am

Sorry dears forgot all about it ada you were right with candle

by **Ada** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:25 am

^Thank you.

New riddle...

Why is Egypt like England?

by **Ada** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 7:46 pm

^Too hard I suppose & I can't think of a clue so answer is:

It's a Nile - land.

New one (easier I think):

I am not of flesh and blood, Yet have I many a bone;
No limbs, except one leg, And can't stand on that alone.
My friends are many and dwell in all lands of the human race;
But they poke my poor nose into the mud, and shamefully spatter my face.
Thrust me into each other's ribs, stick me in gutter and rut;
I have never a window, and never a door, yet I oft myself am shut.

by **Monsoon** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:29 pm

I was hoping it might be an umbrella but that doesn't quite fit.
Could it perhaps be a Railway track?

by **Ada** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:48 pm

Right first time - it is an umbrella Monsoon.

If it didn't "quite fit" it is probably the ancient terminology - the book I am pinching these from was published in 1922

Your turn.

by **Monsoon** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:17 pm

I am called a man, but i will never take a wife.
They always give me a body, but will not give me life.
A mouth fits me just fine, but doesn't bring breath.
Water gives me life but the sun brings only a slow death.
What am I?

by **Ada** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:14 pm

I like this one.....thinking out loud:

a manhole?
a mannikin?
a toilet? :lol:

or
mandrake?

Still thinking.....some sort of plumbing fixture......still thinking.

by **Ramon** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:57 am

A snowman?

by **Monsoon** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 9:14 am

Ada wrote:I like this one.....thinking out loud:

a manhole?
a mannikin?
a toilet? or
mandrake?

Still thinking.....some sort of plumbing fixture......still thinking.

Just coz you've got an outside dunny!.....sunlight and slow death!! :lol:

Snowman is the correct answer Ramon, your turn.

by **Ada** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:31 pm

Monsoon wrote:
Ada wrote:I like this one.....thinking out loud:

a manhole?
a mannikin?
a toilet? or
mandrake?

Still thinking.....some sort of plumbing fixture......still thinking.

Just coz you've got an outside dunny!.....sunlight and slow death!!

Now there's an idea. I could patent that. An outside dunny with a sun roof, and maybe solar panels for it's own hot water service, with a miniature hand basin and a......ummmm! still thinking. :lol:

by **Ramon** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:08 am

I drink the blood of the Earth,
and the trees fear my roar,
yet a man may hold me in his hands.

by **Monsoon** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:47 pm

A bulldozer..well perhaps a little one!

by **Ada** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:43 pm

water?

by **Ramon** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:11 am

Monsoon, you're on the right track...

Guess again.

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