Author |
Topic: When set loose I fly away (Read 2706 times) |
|
aero_guy
Senior Riddler
Gender: 
Posts: 513
|
 |
Re: When set loose I fly away
« Reply #1 on: Nov 6th, 2003, 8:43am » |
 Quote  Modify
|
I have heard this one before and never been very satisfied by the answer. It just doesn't seem to fit the last part all that well.
|
|
 IP Logged |
|
|
|
maryl
Guest
|
|
Re: When set loose I fly away
« Reply #2 on: Nov 8th, 2003, 8:19am » |
Quote Modify
 Remove
|
Isn't it cursed because it's meant to be held onto?-if it's what I'm thinking.
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
Speaker
Uberpuzzler
Gender:
Posts: 1118
|
|
Re: When set loose I fly away
« Reply #3 on: Nov 9th, 2003, 6:41pm » |
Quote Modify
|
How about a soul. In death it flys up to heaven. But, if it is a wayward soul, it is cursed to eternal damnation.
|
|
IP Logged |
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. <Ben Franklin>
|
|
|
Icarus
wu::riddles Moderator
Uberpuzzler
Boldly going where even angels fear to tread.
Gender:
Posts: 4863
|
|
Re: When set loose I fly away
« Reply #4 on: Nov 10th, 2003, 5:15pm » |
Quote Modify
|
I came across this riddle somewhere else the other day, along with "the" answer. I must say that it was not nearly so spiritual (unless you have a very weird religion  ).
If one interprets "going astray" as "going where I am not wanted", then this answer fits the last part fine. However, one could wish the first part held more strongly! 
|
|
IP Logged |
"Pi goes on and on and on ...
And e is just as cursed.
I wonder: Which is larger
When their digits are reversed? " - Anonymous
|
|
|
Speaker
Uberpuzzler
Gender:
Posts: 1118
|
|
Re: When set loose I fly away
« Reply #5 on: Nov 10th, 2003, 6:07pm » |
Quote Modify
|
Flatulance 
This would seem to fit the word of the riddle, but not that of the riddle's character.
Were it a religion, a generous use of incense would be appreciated by the congregation.
Or maybe not.
|
| « Last Edit: Nov 12th, 2003, 11:04pm by Speaker » |
IP Logged |
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. <Ben Franklin>
|
|
|
Icarus
wu::riddles Moderator
Uberpuzzler
Boldly going where even angels fear to tread.
Gender:
Posts: 4863
|
|
Re: When set loose I fly away
« Reply #6 on: Nov 10th, 2003, 7:55pm » |
Quote Modify
|
My source was less genteel, but that was the answer provided.
Beans, beans, the magical fruit...
|
|
IP Logged |
"Pi goes on and on and on ...
And e is just as cursed.
I wonder: Which is larger
When their digits are reversed? " - Anonymous
|
|
|
maryl
Guest
|
|
Re: When set loose I fly away
« Reply #7 on: Nov 12th, 2003, 4:33pm » |
Quote Modify
Remove
|
Does Willy ever give out the answer??
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
willywutang in a lab
Guest
|
|
Re: When set loose I fly away
« Reply #8 on: Nov 12th, 2003, 8:40pm » |
Quote Modify
Remove
|
Icarus, your source provided *farting* as the answer?! I'd say anal gas is always cursed, regardless of where it's headed.
Perhaps the answer I have in mind does not fit the riddle as well as one would like, but anyways, here's a fill-in-the-blank hint: war
|
| « Last Edit: Nov 13th, 2003, 10:57am by william wu » |
IP Logged |
|
|
|
towr
wu::riddles Moderator
Uberpuzzler
Some people are average, some are just mean.
Gender:
Posts: 13730
|
|
Re: When set loose I fly away
« Reply #9 on: Nov 13th, 2003, 12:42pm » |
Quote Modify
|
I just came across this riddle somewhere else, and there the answer's supposedly money.
[e]updated link (as I had planned to do last year)[/e]
|
| « Last Edit: Mar 1st, 2004, 7:51am by towr » |
IP Logged |
Wikipedia, Google, Mathworld, Integer sequence DB
|
|
|
Speaker
Uberpuzzler
Gender:
Posts: 1118
|
|
Re: When set loose I fly away
« Reply #10 on: Nov 13th, 2003, 4:16pm » |
Quote Modify
|
I came across this riddle on a LotR site, and the answer was a raft.
|
|
IP Logged |
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. <Ben Franklin>
|
|
|
Icarus
wu::riddles Moderator
Uberpuzzler
Boldly going where even angels fear to tread.
Gender:
Posts: 4863
|
|
Re: When set loose I fly away
« Reply #11 on: Nov 13th, 2003, 4:46pm » |
Quote Modify
|
I just read the Nodwick and came here to post it, but towr has beat me once again!  Curses!
|
|
IP Logged |
"Pi goes on and on and on ...
And e is just as cursed.
I wonder: Which is larger
When their digits are reversed? " - Anonymous
|
|
|
Icarus
wu::riddles Moderator
Uberpuzzler
Boldly going where even angels fear to tread.
Gender:
Posts: 4863
|
|
Re: When set loose I fly away
« Reply #13 on: Nov 13th, 2003, 7:05pm » |
Quote Modify
|
on Nov 13th, 2003, 6:09pm, william wu wrote:| How does money go astray? |
|
All too easily, that's how! Do you really mean you've never opened your wallet, looked in and discovered that you don't have enough to buy what you've laid out in front of the cashier after all?
Quote:
I'm beginning to think a better riddle would be "what doesn't answer this one?"
|
|
IP Logged |
"Pi goes on and on and on ...
And e is just as cursed.
I wonder: Which is larger
When their digits are reversed? " - Anonymous
|
|
|
towr
wu::riddles Moderator
Uberpuzzler
Some people are average, some are just mean.
Gender:
Posts: 13730
|
|
Re: When set loose I fly away
« Reply #14 on: Nov 14th, 2003, 1:20am » |
Quote Modify
|
on Nov 13th, 2003, 4:46pm, Icarus wrote:| I just read the Nodwick and came here to post it, but towr has beat me once again! Curses! |
|
hehe.. foiled again, eh 
You can never beat my l33t comic-reading skills (except on weekends), I read up to 200 webcomics, and still find time to sleep..
Quote:| I'm beginning to think a better riddle would be "what doesn't answer this one?" |
|
pink slippers.. Oh wait, that actually could fit.. (kicking them off, having to step on a cold floor if you can't find them)
How about a mountain? hmm.. nope.. (vulcanic eruption, anyone That's setting loose in a sense, and at the same time going astray quite cursably)
A piece of lint, perhaps?
|
|
IP Logged |
Wikipedia, Google, Mathworld, Integer sequence DB
|
|
|
Icarus
wu::riddles Moderator
Uberpuzzler
Boldly going where even angels fear to tread.
Gender:
Posts: 4863
|
|
Re: When set loose I fly away
« Reply #15 on: Nov 14th, 2003, 3:46pm » |
Quote Modify
|
When let loose the wind carries lint away (where I am, there is always wind).
But when it goes astray into your belly button...
|
|
IP Logged |
"Pi goes on and on and on ...
And e is just as cursed.
I wonder: Which is larger
When their digits are reversed? " - Anonymous
|
|
|
towr
wu::riddles Moderator
Uberpuzzler
Some people are average, some are just mean.
Gender:
Posts: 13730
|
|
Re: When set loose I fly away
« Reply #16 on: Nov 15th, 2003, 9:58am » |
Quote Modify
|
I don't find belly button lint all that cursable, when it gets in the eye however..
So what else..
How about the earth? or the universe?
|
|
IP Logged |
Wikipedia, Google, Mathworld, Integer sequence DB
|
|
|
Icarus
wu::riddles Moderator
Uberpuzzler
Boldly going where even angels fear to tread.
Gender:
Posts: 4863
|
|
Re: When set loose I fly away
« Reply #17 on: Nov 15th, 2003, 10:22am » |
Quote Modify
|
If the Earth were ever "set loose" - i.e. the gravitational attraction of the sun was removed or blocked, it would indeed fly away. And should the Earth go astray from its orbit, I would call that an occasion for cursing - should any survive to say them!
The universe has already been set loose, and is flying away. And this "going astray" has cursed it with heat death, as far as we know.
|
|
IP Logged |
"Pi goes on and on and on ...
And e is just as cursed.
I wonder: Which is larger
When their digits are reversed? " - Anonymous
|
|
|
towr
wu::riddles Moderator
Uberpuzzler
Some people are average, some are just mean.
Gender:
Posts: 13730
|
|
Re: When set loose I fly away
« Reply #18 on: Nov 16th, 2003, 7:21am » |
Quote Modify
|
It indeed seems very difficult to find something that doesn't answer the riddle.. But let's not give up yet..
How about a seal? Or a boat, or a shoe, or an oxygen molucule?
|
|
IP Logged |
Wikipedia, Google, Mathworld, Integer sequence DB
|
|
|
maryl
Guest
|
|
Re: When set loose I fly away
« Reply #19 on: Nov 16th, 2003, 9:53am » |
Quote Modify
Remove
|
Aww, so it's not a mountain? Well, I was thinking a simple balloon would work, of course kids are not supposed to curse but hey, ya just never know what they'd say if they really loved that balloon; or maybe second-hand smoke. After getting Willy's hint, I thought it was a good old bullet, or the famous carrier pigeon.
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
|
RIDDLES SITE
WRITE MATH!
Home 
Help 
Search 
Members 
Login 
Register
Reply
Notify of replies
Send Topic
Print
