The Incredible Puzzle Thread

[taumel]

I was trying to answer the one with the eyes, the mouth and the ear.

[Avistew]

Originally Posted by The Highway

When you said that "you" made it up i immediately thought it was going to be messed up, so:

A guy. Because, going down, you have:
- 2 nipples;
- 1 belly button
- and 3 er... legs.

Nope, the "then" is a time thing. First there are two of something, then one, then three. I probably could have phrased it better but hey, I was young! (and I'm out of ideas right now).

[The Highway]

oh. no. it's not that. potatoes have eyes, but it's CORN that has the ears

Avistew, is it like... the number 213?

[Avistew]

Originally Posted by The Highway

oh. no. it's not that. potatoes have eyes, but it's CORN that has the ears

Avistew, is it like... the number 213?

Well, when a potato and a cob of corn love each other very much...

[The Highway]

I thought that! But then I thought: no, she was little, she cant have been THAT sick!

A guy and a girl = 2
Copulation between said guy and girl = 1 combined mass
Baby, guy and girl = 3

[taumel]

You can peel a potato so that it looks like that. Btw did you mean corn in a medical sense or more the corn you can eat?

[Avistew]

Originally Posted by The Highway

Avistew, is it like... the number 213?

It's not a number. It's something that's alive.

And now that I think of it, it can apply to more things than I thought at the time.

[The Highway]

Originally Posted by taumel

You can peel a potato so that it looks like that. Btw did you mean corn in a medical sense or more the corn you can eat?

I dunno. either way, it has nothing to do with potatoes or corn.

[Avistew]

Originally Posted by The Highway

I thought that! But then I thought: no, she was little, she cant have been THAT sick!

A guy and a girl = 2
Copulation between said guy and girl = 1 combined mass
Baby, guy and girl = 3

Yes! that's it!
Technically, the answer should be "a heterosexual, non-sterile couple that doesn't use birth control". But at the time the answer I expected was "a mommy and a daddy". (Which is flawed too, since they're not parents to begin with. Oh well.)

[The Highway]

what i want to know is, how old were you when you made that up?

Alright, I is sleepy now, so before I go I'm giving you another one to solve;

In a town with two barbers, one always has a messy haircut and an untidy shop, while the other has a neat cut and the cleanest store around. Which one would you go to?

[taumel]

That's the main problem with these kind of riddles, often too many valid options can show up, things get worse if the words aren't wisely choosen. It could be cool in an adventure also would recognize this and so offer several valid solutions.

[Avistew]

I can't remember. But I remember in maternal school (school where you go between ages 2 and 6) how I explained to some boy that no, sodomy didn't result in babies. I know it wasn't in my last year there, so maybe I was about four then?

Later, I remember asking my parents, since people have sex because they like it or because they want babies, but not always both at the same time, how can you be sure you're going to have babies or not going to have them when you have sex?
She said that apart from using birth control or not using it, there wasn't much else you could do.
I commented on how unpractical that was and she seemed to agree.
I was about six or seven for that, I think.

I think I came up with the riddle afterwards. So I was in primary school but not a tiny little kid either.

[The Highway]

seriously? around 7 you came up with that? I didn't even know why people KISSED back when I was 7!

[Avistew]

Originally Posted by The Highway

seriously? around 7 you came up with that? I didn't even know why people KISSED back when I was 7!

Haha I had already kissed a guy when I was 7 xD
Well, it wasn't a "real kiss" though, we didn't use our tongues or exchanged saliva. Didn't do any of that until I was 19.

But yeah, my parents are doctors, we had a human skull at home I loved playing with and I knew how you make babies. And I knew what boys looked like because I have 3 brothers and we took baths together.

Now, the anecdote about when I was 4 years old, at the time I only had a basic concept (penis goes into vagina, then baby) but I already knew how it worked. I only remember that specific anecdote because when I told my parents about how "the boy though you put your penis in the behind instead of the vagina", they exchanged a glance that made me shut up. Now I know why
Also, for years I thought that kid had surprised his parents doing it or something, but later my husband told me that having no sisters, only brothers, he didn't really have a concept of what a woman's body was like, so when he looked as his own body, well he came to that conclusion too at that age, he only learned differently later.

Anyway, coming up with that isn't really dirty. I knew people had sex. Fairly early, I learned they did it for other reasons than having babies, too. Doesn't mean I had any interest in doing it myself at that point. But just because you're not interested in doing something doesn't mean you don't know it exists.

[Harald B]

Originally Posted by The Highway

What can you see clearly anywhere, but only if someone else speaks it?

The truth?

Originally Posted by The Highway

What has no way of speaking, writing or typing, yet communicates to millions of people every day?

Words? Pictures?

[Alcoremortis]

Originally Posted by The Highway

In a town with two barbers, one always has a messy haircut and an untidy shop, while the other has a neat cut and the cleanest store around. Which one would you go to?

The untidy shop of course! Why? Because the barbers obviously cut each others hair!

[Avistew]

I knew this one, but:
a) I know lots of people who cut their own hair
and
b) How does having a messy/tidy shop come into account? I can see it being just to throw people off, but if I had to choose I'd rather have a crappy haircut and not have to sit on something disgusting while it's being cut.

[jp-30]

The clean shop means he doesn't get many customers. Messy shop, very busy cutting hair all day, lots of customers.

[Avistew]

Hum. Even the busiest hairdresser I've been too were always super clean. But I guess that makes some sense seen that way.

[The Highway]

Originally Posted by Harald B

The truth?

Yes