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greg mosser wrote:

Greg Martin wrote:

William Bagwell wrote:Uses all five classic vowels plus Y in an incredibly short sentence.


Bring me home William....all five vowels plus Y.....and....



well, it uses all the letters, but it uses at least one twice, so...it could be shorter. this is the problem i had with it last night...such a perfectionist. 🙄


As far as I know, it's the current shortest sentence to use every letter....so fame and fortune....well, maybe just the satisfaction of knowing you did it, could be yours if you can come up with something shorter.  Good job again greg.
 
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ok, mini-tangent here: after a bit of research, it looks like like there aren’t any with just one of each unless they use words that most of us wouldn’t accept. one website, for example, says ‘Bortz waqf glyphs vex muck djin’ which apparently means ‘Signage indicating endowments for industrial diamonds annoy filth-spreading genies’...though i don’t think i’d personally accept some of those words as real english.

but with real words and syntax that isn’t too mangled, i can shave a few letters off with: ‘Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex!’
 
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greg mosser wrote:...but with real words and syntax that isn’t too mangled, i can shave a few letters off with: ‘Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex!’


I LOVE IT!
 
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If you rip a hole in me I end up having fewer holes....what am I?
 
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Give me food and I will live.
Give me water and I will die.
What am I?
 
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Greg Martin wrote:If you rip a hole in me I end up having fewer holes....what am I?


Net
 
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Silas Rempel wrote:

Greg Martin wrote:If you rip a hole in me I end up having fewer holes....what am I?


Net


Indeed!  I would have also accepted screen :)
 
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Two mothers and two daughters spend the day at the beach, each painting a lovely landscape.

At the end of the day, they load up, and carefully place each of the three paintings in the car. How is it there are only three paintings?
 
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Greg Martin wrote:Give me food and I will live.
Give me water and I will die.
What am I?



Wrong answer, I'm sure; but if food equals fuel then:  any gas or diesel powered engine!
 
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Lorinne Anderson wrote:Two mothers and two daughters spend the day at the beach, each painting a lovely landscape.

At the end of the day, they load up, and carefully place each of the three paintings in the car. How is it there are only three paintings?



Grandmother, mother and daughter
 
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Lorinne Anderson wrote:

Greg Martin wrote:Give me food and I will live.
Give me water and I will die.
What am I?



Wrong answer, I'm sure; but if food equals fuel then:  any gas or diesel powered engine!


Good answer....the one I'm looking for is more old school.
 
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"Grandmother, mother and daughter " is Correct! Well done!!!
 
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I may be too nitpicky for this game. I say the grandmother was someone's daughter too, therefore only two people were there, one of them painted two pictures.

But then again, I'm the type to ask a sunday school class "How many cows were on the ark, explain your answer." Then sit back and watch, maybe stirring it up a little if it slows down.
 
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Greg Martin wrote:Give me food and I will live.
Give me water and I will die.
What am I?



Fire
 
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T Melville wrote:I may be too nitpicky for this game. I say the grandmother was someone's daughter too, therefore only two people were there, one of them painted two pictures. .



Three people painted three pictures.

The mother, her daughter, and her daughter's daughter.

There were two mothers and two daughters.

Does that explain it?
 
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Anne Miller wrote:

T Melville wrote:I may be too nitpicky for this game. I say the grandmother was someone's daughter too, therefore only two people were there, one of them painted two pictures. .



Three people painted three pictures.

The mother, her daughter, and her daughter's daughter.

There were two mothers and two daughters.

Does that explain it?



Yep. There are two pairs of mother and daughter.

The grandmother is a daughter but her mother isn't there.
 
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Bihai Il wrote:

Greg Martin wrote:Give me food and I will live.
Give me water and I will die.
What am I?



Fire


That's it!
There is fire in the engines too :)
 
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Greg Martin wrote:If you rip a hole in me I end up having fewer holes....what am I?



A slice of Swiss cheese.
 
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Kenneth Elwell wrote:

Greg Martin wrote:If you rip a hole in me I end up having fewer holes....what am I?



A slice of Swiss cheese.


I would have also accepted a slice of swiss cheese :)
 
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Silas Rempel wrote:Forwards I weigh a lot. But backwards I do not. What am I?



A ton
 
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Briana Great wrote:

Silas Rempel wrote:Forwards I weigh a lot. But backwards I do not. What am I?



A ton


Iam sorry but someone already got the correct answer
 
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Joylynn Hardesty wrote:I'm easily duped by number riddles, but I think I've got this one! 2,401

Edit one hour later... or is it one? Ugh!



Hahaha!  When I was younger I tried to figure out how many were going the other way just for fun.  But yeah, it's only one that we know of.
 
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William Bagwell wrote:Uses all five classic vowels plus Y in an incredibly short sentence.



Ask me why I should.
 
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Briana Great wrote:

William Bagwell wrote:Uses all five classic vowels plus Y in an incredibly short sentence.



You, ideally. (response to question: Who will do that?)

Ideally, out. (response to question: Would you like the ____ , inside or outside?)

 
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A man on foot is headed home, but as he gets close, he encounters a man with a mask and feels trapped. He wants to turn and run the other way, but he can’t. Even though several other people are close by, none of them can help him. Why not?
 
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Julie Reed wrote:A man on foot is headed home, but as he gets close, he encounters a man with a mask and feels trapped. He wants to turn and run the other way, but he can’t. Even though several other people are close by, none of them can help him. Why not?


It's Halloween and he is dressed as a ghost?
 
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If there are any geologists in this thread, I have a near-endless number of riddles I invented to help my classmates pass geology. Non-geologists will not be amused or titillated. Let me know if you wanna hear them.
 
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Geology riddles would be very gneiss M!
 
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Greg Martin wrote:Geology riddles would be very gneiss M!



And not to be taken for granite.

Side note. Find it very creative that my incorrect answer to a riddle was turned into one!
 
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Greg Martin wrote:Geology riddles would be very gneiss M!



LOL, you asked for it! Tell me when to stop cuz I'm Aspie and I'll go on forever if you don't.

Why does sandstone always cry at sad movies?
 
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Why do many minerals like to wear low-cut blouses?  
 
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It's obvious all minerals are drug addicts because...
 
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Why is it best for minerals to be shapely?
 
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Why is mafic rock considered indecent?
 
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Why did the olivine decide to melt at 700C?
 
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What church service does phenocryst go to?
 
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What do you carry detrital rock in?
 
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M Wilcox wrote:

Greg Martin wrote:Geology riddles would be very gneiss M!



LOL, you asked for it! Tell me when to stop cuz I'm Aspie and I'll go on forever if you don't.

Why does sandstone always cry at sad movies?



Because it's always been sedimentary that way?
 
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M Wilcox wrote:Why do many minerals like to wear low-cut blouses?  


To show off it's cleavage?
 
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