THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: The Fake Shemp on October 31, 2006, 02:16:44 PM
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... or else!
I turn polar bears white
and I will make you cry.
I make guys have to pee
and girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
and normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
and make your champane bubble.
If you sqeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
Can you guess the riddle?
97 percent of Harvard graduates can not figure this riddle out, but 84 percent of kindergarten students were able to figure this out in 6 minutes or less
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My first three guesses were "no", "air" and "pressure". All three were wrong, apparently.
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First thing that came to mind was "snow", but that's not my answer. HOLD ON
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Water?
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I don't think you could pop water, nor would it pop you.
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No idea. Someone with a kid/nephew/neighbour in kindergarten, tell us!
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Chuck Norris.
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:lol
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I don't think you could pop water, nor would it pop you.
Water Balloons!
What is it? God? Time? These always have the same type of answer.
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Wasn't Melissa leaving EB in protest? Stick to your guns, Mel!
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I won't learn the answer until our office Halloween party around 1 PM.
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you
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Wasn't Melissa leaving EB in protest? Stick to your guns, Mel!
Why not take all the things I save even MORE serious from now on. I'll only be more fun.
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DNA or..god
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I'm just saying, Melissa. If you're always threatening to leave a forum, and then you never do - well, how on Earth do you expect to ever be taken seriously? Thiriothly.
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seriously I would bet the answer is "No I can't"
The riddle ends with Can you guess the riddle?
A little kid would just come out and say they had no idea while a Harvard student who thinks they know everything would just keep guessing.
if not it is Chuck Norris.
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I'm just saying, Melissa. If you're always threatening to leave a forum, and then you never do - well, how on Earth do you expect to ever be taken seriously? Thiriothly.
I don't want to be taken seriously!
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You certainly don't have to worry about that
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seriously I would bet the answer is "No I can't"
The riddle ends with Can you guess the riddle?
A little kid would just come out and say they had no idea while a Harvard student who thinks they know everything would just keep guessing.
if not it is Chuck Norris.
Yea, that's definitely it.
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I already guessed "No" and was told that was incorrect. :'(
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Try "nothing", and I like the route Morphix took.
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I already guessed "No" and was told that was incorrect. :'(
They're just fucking with you.
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Yes
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That'd be awesome if that was it.
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I swear, if it's something along the lines of "No" and I don't win this sucker - I am going to burn this place to the ground. Halloween will be extra frightening this year!
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If it's "nothing", this is a stupid riddle.
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I cheated and tried googling the answer to the riddle. There isn't a solid answer. The most popular answer is "no". Runner-ups:
Salt
Pressure
Water
Time
Either way, this is a stupid riddle; one could just as easily answer "yes" and not be wrong. The statistics are probably bogus, too.
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I won't learn the answer until our office Halloween party around 1 PM.
You realize that when you walk into this 'office party', you're going to be knocked unconcious, then wake up in some rusty, dillapidated basement with almost no light and a crazy cast-iron death contraption strapped to your body. If you don't solve the riddle in under 2 minutes it will castrate you or something.
Fair warning.
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OMG SAW 4: THE SAWENING
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"So scary, you'll wish you never saw it!"
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(http://www.avclub.com/content/files/images/Sidebar-%5Bbones,-web%5D.article.jpg)
I don't know what that means.
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Anybody can guess the riddle...
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polar bears are not white, their fur has no pigment so it is colorless :D
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The answer was water. Wtf?
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I've never popped when looking at water.
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The answer was water. Wtf?
If that's the answer, the statistics are bogus. Kindergarten kids wouldn't know that stuff. Stupid riddle!
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What a bunch of bullshit.
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One guy guessed water too, and he's like, "Haha, I got it right!"
Fuck you. He probably cheated, and that riddle makes no sense. How the fuck does water make polar bears white? Or pancakes brown? Or champagne bubble?
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You can find most of those answers on google if you look, however everywhere I looked no one group decided on a real answer.
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That doesn't make sense.
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This sounds like it was devised by Mr. Burns. The guy who got it right received a raise. Everyone else is now unemployed.
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That doesn't make sense.
Well, it explains why 84 percent of kindergarten kids got it.
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None of it really makes sense, especially the part where idiot kids figure it out more often than harvard graduates.
First off the reason kids would guess water is because in the riddle is the word PEE and kids think that word is LAUGH OUT LOUD FUNNY and yes, so do I.
Point being kids dont answer it, they guess at it based off of the one thing they know for an absolute fact, drinking water makes them pee.
The shit about making normal people look like celebs, celebs look like normal people is stupid bullshit misdirection. Additionally the polar bear line should seal the deal for the entire riddle, but instead you get a bunch of other crap.
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I turn polar bears white
and I will make you cry.
I make guys have to pee
and girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
and normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
and make your champane bubble.
If you sqeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
Can you guess the riddle?
Water makes sense for the bolded hints, but not really the others.
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I don't get the celebrities part.
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There are too many contradicting things in that riddle, 'No' would be the best answer.
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I don't get the celebrities part.
Well if anyone was drenched in water they would look kind of foolish, though I don't see how water makes you look like a celebrity.
What WOMAN devised this riddle?
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Maybe they mean when people are underwater they look....aww fuck I got nothin
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I turn polar bears white
and I will make you cry.
I make guys have to pee
and girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
and normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
and make your champane bubble.
If you sqeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
Can you guess the riddle?
Water makes sense for the bolded hints, but not really the others.
From what I gathered off google, the unbolded statements require some scientific knowledge a child would certainly not know.
I don't get the celebrities thing, either.
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If you were drenched in water after swimming it wouldn't look foolish.
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The PEE one could easily be answered by a child.
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What a horrible riddle. We should find the guy who created it and sick the Cenobites on him. Let him taste their pleasures!
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I would have guessed energy.
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What a horrible riddle. We should find the guy who created it and sick the Cenobites on him. Let him taste their pleasures!
Oh, the sweet suffering that could be had. :heartbeat
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did anyone say Chuck Norris?
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Willco I shit you not, my brother got it on his first guess, and he's 12.
The water thing is in reference to fucking dike madona and her always talking about healing water.
This thread also proves Melissa is as smart as a kindergardener.
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This thread also proves Melissa is as smart as a kindergardener.
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
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Googled it, best answer yet:
Re: I turn polar bears white!
I was actually asked this riddle like an hour ago. I answered water, since it made the most sense to me. But, after thinking a bit, I changed to my answer to "YES, WATER". Now I'm googling it and just came across this thread and thought I'd add my own thoughts.
It IS NOT "I can't" or "No"....because the last line is "CAN you GUESS the riddle?" not "CAN you SOLVE the riddle"...if anything the answer would be "Yes, I can" since anyone can take a GUESS as to what the answer is, I mean I did, so the answer obviously isn't NO.
Oh, and to why I thought water, reasons similar to someone else here:
I turn polar bears white (to camo with snow, which is water)
and I will make you cry. (I cry when it rains, haha)
I make guys have to pee (duh)
and girls comb their hair. (after a shower)
I make celebrities look stupid (make-up running)
and normal people look like celebrities. (wet hair does wonders)
I turn pancakes brown (When the water evaporates the sugar will burn turning the pancakes brown)
and make your champane bubble. (CO2 won't make bubbles in champane if there is no water, don't believe me, just stick some CO2 with salt in bottle and see for yourself)
If you squeeze me, I'll pop. (bubbles)
If you look at me, you'll pop. (bubbles, reflection of one's self)
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Damn, I just need to find a way to prove that Ghosts turn pancakes brown and i'll have the best answer ever
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Wow, crap riddle total.
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This thread also proves Melissa is as smart as a kindergardener.
Just like whoever hilighted the lines in bold - it made the most sense.
This thread proves that I don't overthink things to death and immediately grab the most obvious answer.
That being said, Shit Riddle!