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Name: DerbyDad03
Date: May 6, 2009 at 12:16:31 Pacific
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
CPU/Ram: 2.596 GHz / 502 MB
Subcategory: General
Comment:

No Googling allowed.

“Which creature in the morning goes on four legs, at mid-day on two, and in the evening upon three, and the more legs it has, the weaker it be?”

Bonus Points: What is the origin of this riddle?



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Response Number 1
Name: Mike (by mmcconaghy)
Date: May 6, 2009 at 12:25:02 Pacific
Reply:

The answer is MAN

in the morning goes on four legs, as a baby crawls on all fours.
at mid-day on two, as a grown man goes on two legs.
in the evening upon three, as an old man uses a cane to help him walk.

Can't recall where it's from.....

MIKE

http://www.skeptic.com/


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Response Number 2
Name: lurkswithin
Date: May 6, 2009 at 15:59:49 Pacific
Reply:

The golden riddle of the sphinx .

Change Is Good
http://www.citizenlink.org/Stopligh...


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Response Number 3
Name: DerbyDad03
Date: May 6, 2009 at 17:01:56 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks for playing!

You may now close this thread. <g>


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Response Number 4
Name: jam
Date: May 8, 2009 at 09:49:34 Pacific
Reply:

Hey, I remember that from an old episode of Batman. I think Batman was stumped but Robin came up with the answer...lol


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Response Number 5
Name: Curt R
Date: May 8, 2009 at 12:04:27 Pacific
Reply:

Or we could continue with more riddles.......

What grows down as it grows up?


heh heh heh


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Response Number 6
Name: bluejay
Date: May 8, 2009 at 12:09:16 Pacific
Reply:

A tree ?


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Response Number 7
Name: btk1w1
Date: May 8, 2009 at 15:22:23 Pacific
Reply:

The maker doesn't want it, the buyer doesn't use it, & the user doesnt see it. What is it?


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Response Number 8
Name: SkipCox
Date: May 8, 2009 at 21:27:47 Pacific
Reply:

A coffin...saw it somewhere a couple years ago.

Skip


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Response Number 9
Name: Curt R
Date: May 9, 2009 at 05:36:45 Pacific
Reply:

Nope, it's not a tree. :)


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Response Number 10
Name: DerbyDad03
Date: May 10, 2009 at 08:18:51 Pacific
Reply:

re: What grows down as it grows up?

Hair?


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Response Number 11
Name: btk1w1
Date: May 10, 2009 at 19:37:59 Pacific
Reply:

SkipCox,

Yeah a coffin, I was stumped for ages trying to figure out that one... Thought for a long time it had to be a cane for the visually impaired. *Shrugs*.

What grows down as it grows up?

A carrot?


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Response Number 12
Name: Grc
Date: May 10, 2009 at 21:49:31 Pacific
Reply:

What grows down as it grows up?

A goose


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Response Number 13
Name: DerbyDad03
Date: May 11, 2009 at 10:51:41 Pacific
Reply:

And in a related story...

How do you get down off of an elephant?


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Response Number 14
Name: Curt R
Date: May 11, 2009 at 12:41:12 Pacific
Reply:

What grows down as it grows up?

A goose

That's the one! *grin*


DerbyDad03:

You don't get down off an elephant, you get down off a duck (or goose).

LOL


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Response Number 15
Name: rogertel
Date: May 11, 2009 at 12:53:52 Pacific
Reply:

A tree


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Response Number 16
Name: sphinxboy
Date: October 14, 2009 at 02:44:16 Pacific
Reply:

the answer is man.... the baby crawls on four legs and walks on
two as an adult and 3 as he uses cane and the origin of it's riddle
from thebes, greece


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Response Number 17
Name: DerbyDad03
Date: October 14, 2009 at 06:54:22 Pacific
Reply:

Very good.

Now go back and read responses #1 and #2, which were posted over 5 months ago.

Where you been?


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Response Number 18
Name: Radix-64
Date: October 14, 2009 at 07:35:11 Pacific
Reply:

Not a riddle, but a corny joke...

A girl mushroom and guy mushroom went out on a first date. What did the girl mushroom say about the guy mushroom after the date?

Answer: She said that he was a quite a fungi.


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Response Number 19
Name: DerbyDad03
Date: October 14, 2009 at 08:18:03 Pacific
Reply:

Same joke, but I heard it as:

"He was a fungi to be with."

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2 penguins walked into a bar, which was pretty dumb because the second one should have seen it.

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A priest, a minister and a rabbi walked into a bar.

The bartender says "What is this...a joke?"


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