biep@klipper.UUCP (J. A. "Biep" Durieux) (07/29/85)
I need *lots* of riddles of a certain sort described below. If you know any,
or invent any, please send them to me. Several riddles with the same
answer are OK, as are riddles with only some of the characteristics described
below. Please consider keeping this request around for some time, until you
have time to look for/make some.
I am *not* going to summarize to the net, nor will I send the responses I get
to people who ask for it. Sorry. That's not laziness, but prudence.
The riddles I am looking for have the following characteristics:
1) The response can be given in one word.
2) They describe some "eternal" object of experience.
E.g.: the sun, the moon, the stars, the earth, a man, a woman, a child,
a horse, a dog, a cat, a cow, a sheep, a goat, a bird, a tree,
water, fire, sand, the air, life, death, the sea, a dream,
a house, bread, love, a kiss, a sword, a ship, etc., etc.
Not: a cpu, a speed-boat, an election, etc., etc.
3) They are posed in a poetic-philosophical language (like nursery rhymes,
or like the famous ZORK-riddle: "Tall as a house, and round as a cup,
and all the king's horses can't draw it up").
4) They are not too easy.
Please *mail* any riddles you found/made, and don't post them. Those who will
have to answer them may read these newsgroups (and I don't too often: some
of them don't even reach Europe!)
Thank you all very much in advance.
--
Biep.
{seismo|decvax|philabs|garfield|okstate}!mcvax!vu44!klipper!biep
Some mazes (especially small ones) have no solutions.
-- man 6 maze