Riddles...

ARGH! I can't believe I didn't think of teeth.

Though I might have got it if he'd said 32... maybe

*rolls tongue way back into mouth sand starts counting*

1..2..3...10..12..
20..21..

28. 28 teeth. Hm. guess the wisdom ones haven't kicked in yet. aw who needs 'em anyway. :winknudge:

 

Correct.

New one then:

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

 

What the - hang on! How the blooming heck does rubber fit into it? Am I stupid or something? It was only the reference to rubber trees preventing me from agreeing with whoever first mentioned the calendar.

 

I'll explain. There ain't 30 days in every month, some has 31. Now rubber is elastic material, so it can adjust it self for different months. Hope that this helped at a little.

 

Aaaarrrrgghh - *plop*

That was the sound of my brain imploding.

Yes, that helps. Thanks.

 

This explanation is a bit stretched too just like with sailor on a boat. No matter.

 

Well, it helped

And the answer: It ain't fire

 

A chainsaw?

 

Correct Luchaire

Next one:

I'm that which is seen only in darkness,
Swiftest of all, and near as old as time;
Day's distant brother; fire and faintness,
I light without shadow -- can you solve this rhyme?

 

Stars, or starlight.

They can (mostly) only be seen at night.
They are really travelling very very fast, and the light at c.
Day is sun, so stars are distant suns - made of fire, and faint too.
(For starlight, it is distand relative to daylight, but still originated from fire, and is faint).
Starlight is so diffuse, that it casts barely any shadow, and yes, I hope I can solve that rhyme.

 

I actually have one riddle (if it's already been done, bear with me i didn't read all the former pages :roll: ) :

"Two men are in an art gallery looking at the paintings when one of the men starts to cry. The other asks why he is crying, and the man tells him that the person in the painting is a relative of his. "Who?" asks his new-found friend. The crying man responds: "Brothers and sisters I have none, but this man's father is my father's son." Who is the person in the painting?"

 

It's him. The crying man. The one who goes to art galleries and looks at pictures of himself and cries to other men while speaking in riddles.

 

Correct Ferret, it is starlight.

New one:
The Moon is my father,
the Sea is my mother;
I have a million brothers,
I die when I reach land.

 

Tide/flow (not sure which name you use).

 

A Jellyfish!

They look like and are shaped like the moon (sort of), lives in the sea, there's certainly a million of them outthere, and they die if they reach land!

Nope.

 

Way to give me head pains, Rat Keeng. If my confused diagrams are anything to go by, the man in the painting is either the viewer's son or the viewer's nephew.

 

Isn't it the crying man himself? Are you pulling our legs?

 

Sheriff got it right.

Take the last part, "my father's son" and "even it out". That makes it "me". Put it back into the sentence, and it'll read: "This man's father is me."


I've got another one, not as hard though:

The brother of a beggar unexpectedly dies.
However, the dead man had no brothers.
How is that possible?

 

Ratty: he's not a monk or something is he?

Gambit: Waves?