Riddle me this...riddle me that..who's afraid of the thing in the vat!?!

[Nathan]

One day two brothers' father died. He had a will and it said, I have million dolars left in my account and only one of you gets it. All they had to do is have a race from California to Maine. The last car that gets there wins the money. So they went to california and started driving really slow. On the way they stopped in a hotel in Oklahoma to rest. They told the desk clerk all about the will and the race. The desk clerk told them two words and they ran out of the hotel and drove as fast as they could to maine. What were the two words and why?

[Nathan]

I'll go ahead and give you two to think about...

What was the President's name in 1957??

[Krynus]

Pres Eisenhower....

Hmmm, interesting... I'll have to think on it some more.

[Nathan]

Nope...wrong answer...anyone else???

[Nathan]

OK, the answer to the second one:

In 1957 the presidents name was and still is Bill Clinton... http://www.brianlumley.com/ubb/cool.gif

I'll leave the first one for a while longer...
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When does Thursday come before Wednesday?

[Jason of Khem]

Thursday before Wednesday

In the dictionary.

[Jason of Khem]

When did Good Friday fall on Boxing Day?

[Nathan]

OK, the answer to the first one is..."switch cars."


Jason...I've asked everyone I know, and I can't find anyone who knows what "boxing day" is. Can you explain it without giving away the answer?

[Emaleth]

Nathan,

Boxing Day is celebrated in Australia, Britain, New Zealand, and Canada. The holiday's roots can be traced to Britain, where Boxing Day is also known as St. Stephen's Day.

Reduced to the simplest essence, its origins are found in a long-ago practice of giving cash or durable goods to those of the lower classes. Gifts among equals were exchanged on or before Christmas Day, but beneficences to those less fortunate were bestowed the day after.

There are a few other meanings, but thats the main one I believe

[Jason of Khem]

Hi Nathan,
Sorry for delay in getting back to you, only back in work today.

Well as Ema says Boxing Day / St. Stephens Day is the day after Xmas Day and was when the Gentry gave presents to their servants and the lower orders had their day off to celebrate. Also a Bank Holiday in the UK.

I thought everyone celebrated Boxing Day, my apologies but anyway when did Good Friday fall the day after Xmas Day.

I'll put the answer on tomorrow.

Jase

[Scarlet oHorror]

what does swtiching cars have to do with anything?...????? don't get it

[Scarlet oHorror]

can we have explanations to riddles presidency in 1957, i don't get it....

and the switching cars thing...

[Emaleth]

Scar..Clinton is current pres, he was here in '57..so hence the president name was still the same. The joke is what was the name..not who was the president was in '57.

Befuddled at the switching cars meself...

Jase? Whats the answer to yours?? :)

[Jason of Khem]

Hi Scarlet
Answer to Nathan's President question.

The President at the moment is Bill Clinton.
In 1957 his name was still Bill Clinton, not who was the President in 1957.

As for my riddle, my uncle told me this one years ago about when did Good Friday fall on Boxing Day.

This happened in the late 1950s and Good Friday was actually a horse and was in a race on Boxing Day. He was winning the race but fell at a fence.

Jase

[Emaleth]

LOL! OIE! A horse...good one Jase! :-Þ

[Scarlet oHorror]

ahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

me got the pres one now, thanks guys...totally confused at that one...

now for the switching cars...

i like the good friday one too, but i didn't answer it coz i thought for some reason in past history it probably did!

ITS SNOWING HERE!!!!!!!!!

[Nathan]

That's a good riddle...Jase...had me stumped...


OK...the goal for the two brothers was that the last car to make it across the county recieved the inheritance. They started out driving their own car very slowly...the guy told them to switch cars...that way they are trying to beat their own car to Maine...thereby being the "last car to arrive."

I'll dig out another one later... http://www.brianlumley.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Nathan]

OK...this one's long but fairly easy if you just think about it... http://www.brianlumley.com/ubb/smile.gif

I'm prized by men, in the meadows I'm found,
Gathered on hill-sides, and hunted in groves;
From dale and from down, by day I am bought.
Airy wings carry me, cunningly store me,
Hoarding me safe. Yet soon men take me;
I'm dangerous grown.
I tie up my victim, and trip him, and throw him;
Often I floor a foolish old churl.
Who wrestles with me, and rasly would measure
His strength against mine, will straightway find himself
Flung to the ground, flat on his back,
Unless he leave his folly in time,
Put from his senses and power of speech,
Robbed of his might, bereft of his mind,
Of his hands and feet. Now find me my name,
Who can bind and enslave men so upon the earth,
And bring fools low in broad daylight.

[Nathan]

Here's one for you mathgeniuses out there...it had me totally befuddled...

formula for a pallendrical number: 121 already a pallendrone,
123 not a pallendrone
123+321=444, a pallendrone
with this knowledge, what is the final pallendrical form of 654,678,543,567???

[Emaleth]

Well..thats the silliest riddle..who's to say that the desk clerk wouldn't drive the car and get the money for himself? LOL, thats what I would do..then claim to be a bastard child..Oie

[Emaleth]

pallendrical numbers....

Aack..Brain Freeze...

:-Þ

[Nathan]

Well the answer to the long riddle is something that a lot of us probably had way too much of last night...beer!! http://www.brianlumley.com/ubb/smile.gif (mead)