From: mark@zaphod.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning/Metrica)
Subject: NET.BOOK: Net.Book.Riddles (part 3 of 8)
Followup-To: rec.games.frp.misc
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:10:07 GMT

 
 
 
 
 
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    He who makes it does not keep it.
    He who takes it does not know it.
    He who knows it does not want it.
    He who gathers it must destroy it.
    What is it?

Entry:  11.7
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

    One tooth to bite,
    he's the forests foe.
    One tooth to fight,
    as all Norse know.
    What is it?

Entry:  11.8
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

    This creature, part man and part tree,
    hates the termite as much as the flea.
    His tracks do not match,
    and his limbs may detach,
    but he's not a strange creature to see.
    What is it?

Entry:  11.9
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

    The part of the bird
    that is not in the sky,
    which can swim in the ocean
    and always stay dry.
    What is it?

Entry:  11.10
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Dead and bound,
    what once was free.
    What made no sound,
    now sings with glee.
    What is it?

Entry:  11.11
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

    The root tops the trunk
    on this backward thing,
    that grows in the winter
    and dies in the spring.
    What is it?

Entry:  11.12
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Touching one, yet holding two,
    it is a one link chain
    binding those who keep words true,
    'til death rent it in twain.
    What is it?

Entry:  12.1
Date:   Unknown
Who:    Unknown
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    The man who made it didn't need it.
    The man who bought it didn't use it.
    The man who used it didn't want it.

Entry:  13.1
Date:   Unknown
Who:    Unknown
Author: Deon Ramsey
Title:  None
Riddle:

    A Statue with the Inscription : All ye who Enter here, weep, for my Story
    is a sorrowfull one. (Or something similar)
    The correct response was to weep in front of the statue, which opened a secret
    door behind It. I used a slightly harder version of that on my Group, and it
    stumped them for quite a while :-)

Entry:  14.1
Date:   Unknown
Who:    Unknown
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    The wise and knowledgeable man is sure of it.
    Even the fool knows it.
    The rich man wants it.
    The greatest of heroes fears it.
    Yet the lowliest of cowards would die for it.

    What is this upon which I ponder?

Entry:  15.1
Date:   Thu Apr  9 18:45:57 1992
Who:    jmarvin@us.oracle.com
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    I am and yet can not
    am an Idea, yet can rot
    am two but none
    am on land, but on sea.
    What am I?

Entry:  15.2
Date:   Thu Apr  9 18:45:57 1992
Who:    jmarvin@us.oracle.com
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    all in white
    Fossil, fresh snow, a loan, the sky,
    Just what am I?

Entry:  16.1
Date:   Thu Apr  9 18:45:57 1992
Who:    jmarvin@us.oracle.com
        dschoen@cs.vu.nl
Author: Duncan Schoen (?)
Title:  None
Riddle:

    I am better than sex,
    I am worse than MS-DOS,
    Dead men eat me,
    If you eat me you'll die.

Entry:  16.2
Date:   Thu Apr  9 18:45:57 1992
Who:    jmarvin@us.oracle.com
        dschoen@cs.vu.nl
Author: Duncan Schoen (?)
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Two horses, swiftest travelling,
    Harnessed in a pair, and
    Grazing ever in places
    Distant from them.

Entry:  16.3
Date:   Thu Apr  9 18:45:57 1992
Who:    jmarvin@us.oracle.com
        dschoen@cs.vu.nl
Author: Duncan Schoen (?)
Title:  None
Riddle:

    What is greater than God,
    Worse than the Devil,
    Dead man eat it,
    If you eat it you'll die.

Entry:  17.1
Date:   Wed Apr 15 11:33:19 1992
Who:    lgrant@maths.tcd.ie
Author: _A Feast Of Creatures. Anglo-Saxon Riddle Songs_ by Craig Williamson
        ISBN 0-85967-671-4
Title:  None
Riddle:

    I am a wonderful help to women,
    The hope of something to come. I harm
    No citizen except my slayer.
    Rooted I stand on a high bed.
    I am shaggy below. Sometimes the beautiful
    Peasant's daughter, an eager-armed,
    Proud woman grabs my body,
    Rushes my red skin, holds me hard,
    Claims my head. The curly-haired
    Woman who catches me fast will feel
    Our meeting. Her eye will be wet.

Entry:  17.2
Date:   Wed Apr 15 11:33:19 1992
Who:    lgrant@maths.tcd.ie
Author: _A Feast Of Creatures. Anglo-Saxon Riddle Songs_ by Craig Williamson
        ISBN 0-85967-671-4
Title:  None
Riddle:

    I saw a swift one shoot out on the road:
    S   S   I   P
    I saw a woman sitting alone.

Entry:  17.3
Date:   Wed Apr 15 11:33:19 1992
Who:    lgrant@maths.tcd.ie
Author: _A Feast Of Creatures. Anglo-Saxon Riddle Songs_ by Craig Williamson
        ISBN 0-85967-671-4
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Power and treasure for a prince to hold,
    Hard and steep-cheeked, wrapped in red
    Gold and garnet, ripped from a plain
    Of bright flowers, wrought - a remnant
    Of fire and file, bound in stark beauty
    With delicate wire, my grip makes
    Warriors weep, my sting threatens
    The hand that grasps gold. Studded
    With a ring, I ravage heir and heirloom.

    To my lord and foes always lovely
    And deadly, altering face and form.

Entry:  18.1
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: The Young People's Series
Title:  None
Riddle:

    As I was going to St. Ives,
    I met a man with seven wives;
    Every wife had seven sacks,
    Every sack had seven cats,
    Every cat had seven kits:
    Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
    How many were there going to St. Ives?

Entry:  18.2
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: The Young People's Series
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Thirty white horses upon a red hill,
    Now they stamp,
    Now they champ,
    Now they stand still.

Entry:  18.3
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Dawns away,
    The day's turned grey,
    And I must travel far away.
    But I'll be back,
    And then we'll track,
    The light of yet another day.

Entry:  18.4
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Deep, dark, underground,
    That is the place where I'll be found.
    Yet brought into the light of day,
    I sprinkle sunlight every-which-a-way.
    Though dulled with oil I will be found,
    I am remarkably well and throughly sound.
    Cut me quick and it will be seen,
    That I instantly have a marvelous sheen.

Entry:  18.5
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: The Young People's Series
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Long legs, crooked thighs,
    Little head, and no eyes.

Entry:  18.6
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: The Monkee's TV Show
Title:  None
Riddle:

   What has six eyes,
   Six arms,
   Six legs,
   Three heads,
   And a very short life?

Entry:  18.7
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   What is it that speaks without any words?
   And can be loudly, and distinctly heard?
   Will drive away friend, and foe alike.
   And is enough to make a stolid man's face alight?

Entry:  18.8
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   What must be in the oven yet can not be baked?
   Grows in the heat yet shuns the light of day?
   What sinks in water but rises with air?
   Looks like skin, but is fine as hair?

Entry:  18.9
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   Little Johnny Walker,
   My, but he was a talker!
   Yet nary a word did he say!
   When I took him out,
   Then they would all point and shout!
   And ask that I put him away.

   (This is NOT a dirty riddle.
    So get your mind out of the gutter!)

Entry:  18.10
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: The Young People's Series
Title:  None
Riddle:

   Two legs sat upon three legs with one leg in his lap.
   In comes four legs, grabs one leg, and runs off with him.
   Up jumps two legs, grabs up three legs, throws it after four legs,
   and makes him bring back one leg.

   Who are we?

Entry:  18.11
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   They are many and one,
   They wave and they drum,
   Used to cover a stare,
   They go with you everywhere.

Entry:  18.12
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

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