Riddle Time!

[Mike]

Hint: My value is not in what I am, but what I provide when I serve.
I am very old, and was more useful then.

[Katie]

I have a few ideas but none of them seem right.

[Mike]

You should guess - it might help illuminate the situation.

Or I'll just post the answer in the morning. We seem to have found some toughies lately.

[Katie]

I was going to say mayfly but that doesn't make sense for all the clues. Now I'm thinking it's an inanimate object...

[Mike]

you're headed in the right direction

[Katie]

Okay, I reread it and the first line, "My life can be measured in hours," clinched it for me. Is it a candle?

[Kristen]

Katie wrote: "Okay, I reread it and the first line, "My life can be measured in hours," clinched it for me. Is it a candle?"

I bet that's right. When I first read it I was thinking fire, but some things didn't quite work. Candle fits all of the criteria in my mind.

[Mike]

Katie wrote: "Okay, I reread it and the first line, "My life can be measured in hours," clinched it for me. Is it a candle?"

You got it. :)

[Katie]

Yay! Okay, let me think...

I came into town on Friday and left eight days later on a Friday. How is that possible?

[Mike]

You made a time machine!!! AWESOME! Me next!

[Katie]

Nope, try again!

[Mike]

... you took that answer way more seriously than I expected. Guess I wasn't over the top enough. ;)

ok - 12:01 am friday to 11:59 pm the next friday is essentially 8 days, but I don't think rounding up by two minutes is what you had in mind. The town is on the date line and you left from the opposite end of town?

[Kristen]

I suppose if you showed up at 12:01am on Friday and left at 11:59pm on the following Friday, it would technically be eight days.

[Kristen]

Wow. Looks like we had the same idea at the same time, Mike!

[Mike]

Kristen wrote: "Wow. Looks like we had the same idea at the same time, Mike!"

Great minds, and all that. :)

[Katie]

Still not correct. Stop thinking about time, that's my hint.

[Mike]

I think this is the first one where I actually groaned out loud when a potential answer hit me:

Friday is the name of the animal (or vehicle) you rode into town.

[Katie]

Ding ding ding, tell Mike what he's won! The privilege to ask the next riddle! Congratulations, Mike!

[Katie]

Usually the answer is that Friday is the guy's horse.

[Mike]

Thanks! Never would've gotten it without your hint...

What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has "T" in it?

[Kristen]

The letter T? Or the word tantamount.

[Mike]

Really like both answers, but not what the riddle's looking for. There's an important contextual clue there that doesn't exactly fit them...

[Katie]

A T-shirt? This is just a wild guess - I was going to go with something like Kristen said, a word with three Ts in it.

[Katie]

Or what about a tea pot? Starts with T, ends with T and has "tea" in it.

[Kristen]

Katie wrote: "Or what about a tea pot? Starts with T, ends with T and has "tea" in it."

I like this answer.

[Mike]

Kristen wrote: "Katie wrote: "Or what about a tea pot? Starts with T, ends with T and has "tea" in it."

I like this answer."

Me too, which is why I chose the riddle. My guess when I heard it was "tantamount" just like Kristen. Well done Katie! :)

[Katie]

Yay, thanks! Okay, here's another groaner, and really more of a joke:

Why didn't the sun go to college?

[Mike]

It didn't think it needed to get any brighter?

[Katie]

Close but no cigar.

[Mike]

... heh. It didn't think it needed any more degrees?

[Mike]

Looked it up and am content with my proximity (typical answer - "because it has a million degrees"). This one made me chuckle.

new riddle:
You heard me before,
Yet you hear me again,
Then I die,
'Till you call me again.

[Lucus]

An iPhone, or any phone that 'sleeps' until you press its power button.

[Mike]

A very interesting guess. The answer has existed long before such things however (likely long before technology at all...)

Time for the answer or anyone want to guess again given that hint?

[Kristen]

I looked up the answer ages ago :( I'm so ashamed. It's been a long time, so I think that you should just put up a new riddle.

[Mike]

Wow - just looked at the date on that one. Knew it had been a while, but didn't think it had been close to a month. Lost track of the calendar I guess.

Answer: (view spoiler)[echo (hide spoiler)]

And a new one:
I build up castles.
I tear down mountains.
I make some men blind,
I help others to see.
What am I?

[Selena]

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh. D:

The sun?

[Mike]

Nope, but it was one of the first things I thought of too.

[Selena]

A lantern?

Or maybe sand?

[Mike]

Sand it is. Congrats. :) I really like this one - the last two lines particularly are great lateral thinking associations with the answer.

You're up!

[Selena]

Now I need a riddle... Let's see...

You can carry it everywhere you go, but it never gets very heavy. What is it?

[Mike]

I've come up with all sorts of metaphysical answers (your soul, your conscience, hope, memories, etc) but none seem right.

[Selena]

Just say one. lol There are a couple of answers I will take.

[Kristen]

How about a tune?

[Selena]

I'll take that. :) The answer I had seen was "your name."

[Mike]

Very nice Kristen! :) I like both that and the intended better than what I was playing around with - all the metaphysical ones could be considered to get "heavy" at times.

[Kristen]

Cool! New riddle!

My voice is tender,
My waist is slender,
And I'm often invited to play.
Yet where ever I go,
I must take must take my bow
Or else I'll have nothing to say.

[Mike]

Violin?

[Kristen]

Yep! New riddle!

[Mike]

In the marble walls as white as wilk,
Lined with skin as soft as silk,
Within a fountain crystal clear,
A golden apple does appear.
No doors are there to this stronghold
Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.

[Kristen]

An egg?