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Vishwarrior wrote: "I don't understand. Can you explain the quills part? It was just a guess."Old writing desks had feathers to write with, and ravens have feathers. Since I doubt anyone else is going to guess it, the second possible answer is "Poe wrote on both".
Edgar Allan Poe, a famous American poet, who wrote a poem called The Raven about a man questioning his own mortality.
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My favorite poem of his.
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Dos amigos vecinos eran muy buenos y eran los mejores amigos que alguien haya visto. Uno se muda a Canadá, y otro para China. Cómo se llaman los dos a..."
¿Dos amigos? No sé . . . no están vecinos más, pero son amigos, ¿verdad? Pienso que esta criba tiene sentido solamente par alas personas de España, o de América Latina. Pero para mí (estoy en la clase de español cuatro), no tiene sentido. D: Lo siento.
Courtesy of the Riddler:What has neither flesh, bone, nor nail yet has 4 fingers and a thumb?
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That is a much better answer. But not the correct one XD
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A glove is the correct answer. This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town
And beats high mountain down.
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Here's a good old chestnut- see if you can get it without Google.As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sons,
each son had seven sacks,
each sack had seven cats,
each cat had seven kits.
How many were going to St. Ives?
You are correct, though for the wrong reason. "I was going to St. Ives..." everyone else was going the other way, that's why "I" met him.
I've heard that one as well. Another good tolkein riddle, no guessing if you've read the Hobbit.Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail never clinking.
What am I?
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.
Totally right. 'Nother classic from The Hobbit, that.
The music stopped. She died. What happened?
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:) Wrong, Faith. She was a circus performer walking across a highwire blindfolded; the music stopping was her cue to step off. Something malfunctioned, the music stopped early, and she plummeted to her death.
Darn. I actually haven't read the Hobbit, so the one I got right was just me being epic.
A woman was horrified to find a fly in her tea. The waiter took her cup and went into the kitchen and returned with a fresh cup of tea. She shouted, "You brought me the same tea!" How did she know?
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Sugar and lemon- she'd already added those.
"You will sentence me to six years in prison."
Lettuce?Helen's answer is the one I've heard for this riddle, but I just came up with this one as well xD
Mr. Potato Head facial features stuck into a real potato.
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Dos amigos vecinos eran muy buenos y eran los mejores amigos que alguien haya visto. Uno se muda a Canadá, y otro para China. Cómo se llaman los dos amigos?