Twisters Fact Of The Day and Riddle Thread !

[chrisbis]

Yes, I know this one.  

Dad used to tell this story, to us three kids from, a young age, and would also tell every girlfriend/boyfriend any of us took back to the family house.
My four kids also know it, and I will teach it to all my grandchildren (just as soon as they are born!)

My dad still tell the story now, if he thinks U have not heard it before!! lol

So if U really want to know, look in the reveal.
(this is where the reveal feature I invented, really comes into its own!!)

But try working it out first.
I will do it a 'level' at a time.
[reveal]The Prisoner Story[reveal]In a room, with no windows, no doors, just a table[reveal]He takes his finger and rubs it really hard and fast on the prison cell walls, till his finger is SORE[reveal]Then he takes the SAW, and saws the table into two halves, which when put back together make it WHOLE[reveal]His climbs through the wHOLE, and out of the prison cell, and reached the outside world, where he shouts and shouts till his voice was HOARSE [reveal]Then he got onto his HOaRSE and rode off into the sun-set.[/reveal][/reveal][/reveal] [/reveal][/reveal][/reveal]




Supplementary question for U Twister?

[reveal]Whilst he was in the cell, how do U think he survived with no food or water?[reveal]But he did have a pencil, and a bed spring![/reveal][/reveal]

[Twisteruk]

Ah excellent chris !

Well done mate 


I dont know the answer to ure question, so plz "spill the beans" !!

[chrisbis]

I dont know the answer to ure question, so plz "spill the beans" !!

[reveal]The Prisoner Used the Pencil every day, and marked the days on the wall, and made DATES[reveal]Then he took the DATES, and ate them, Meanwhile, whist the cell had no bed, he took the bed SPRING and pushed it into the ground, and within a few moments, water started to bubble up from the SPRING, and he could drink to his hearts content.[reveal]The End.[/reveal] [/reveal][/reveal]

[Twisteruk]

Ha Ha  !


Good one mate 

[Twisteruk]

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832)

[Twisteruk]

Next Riddle !



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 regular
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% of Harvard graduates can not figure this riddle out, but 84% of kindergarten students were able to figure this out in 6 minutes or less. Can you guess the correct answer?

[chrisbis]

No.

Well done Furple, that is the correct answer !


Although Time and Pressure have been touted as possible answers too  

No, Time and Pressure then!

Page 11 U posted this riddle up on Paul.

[Twisteruk]

No, Time and Pressure then!

Page 11 you posted this riddle up on Paul.

Excellent Chris !

I wondered who would be paying the most attention (you knew you had seen it before didnt you  !)

[Twisteruk]

Next Riddle !!


What is found everywhere you can see,
Grows in the light, but will die in the face of the sun?
Completely harmless, but is the stuff of nightmares and fears.

Sometimes it never stays in the same place for long, but can move very slowly.

It is life like in shape and moment, but is never alive or what it seems.


What is it ?

[chrisbis]

Time?

[Twisteruk]

Time?

ooooooooooooo good effort mate, but not the given answer !


Try again !

[chrisbis]

The Past?

[Twisteruk]

The Past?

Sorry thats incorrect !

Read the Riddle slowly and you will see it 

[chrisbis]

Vision

[Twisteruk]

Vision

Good effort again mate, but not the given answer