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(Message started by: alien2 on Feb 11^th, 2023, 2:12am)

Title: Superduck; or, Superman
Post by alien2 on Feb 11^th, 2023, 2:12am

1. How could a duck be invulnerable to a hunter armed to the teeth?
2. How could God travel backward to the beginning of Genesis so that a man becomes his master?
3. A clean-shaved priest says to a pious woman something that seamed unusual to her at first: "Prove that God has a beard". Can You explain this mystery with one tacit detail?
4. How about a $50 bet? I win if I write down the exact number of stars in the Milky Way on a piece of paper. Do you accept the challenge?
5. It has the power to extinguish all stars in the universe. What is it?
6. What did a cat say to a cute little dog?

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solved riddles:

2. by rmsgrey
3. by rmsgrey
4. by rmsgrey
5. by rmsgrey

Title: Re: Superduck; or, Superman
Post by rmsgrey on Feb 11^th, 2023, 6:41am

on 02/11/23 at 02:12:22, alien2 wrote:

2. Doggedly.
3. Does shaving count as harm?

Title: Re: Superduck; or, Superman
Post by alien2 on Feb 11^th, 2023, 7:58am

2. I am certain that You're right.
3. As in, "Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm"? Not the expected answer though.

Title: Re: Superduck; or, Superman
Post by rmsgrey on Feb 12^th, 2023, 10:44am

on 02/11/23 at 07:58:30, alien2 wrote:

3. As in, "Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm"? Not the expected answer though.

More "what can harm God?"

Title: Re: Superduck; or, Superman
Post by alien2 on Feb 12^th, 2023, 11:24am

I must admit that at the moment I am clueless as to what You're hinting regarding the 3rd riddle.

Title: Re: Superduck; or, Superman
Post by rmsgrey on Feb 13^th, 2023, 7:01am

on 02/12/23 at 11:24:59, alien2 wrote:

I must admit that at the moment I am clueless as to what You're hinting regarding the 3rd riddle.

If it's impossible to harm God, and shaving counts as harm, then it's impossible to shave God.

Title: Re: Superduck; or, Superman
Post by rmsgrey on Feb 13^th, 2023, 7:03am

4) You've already demonstrated that you can, so no bet.
5) Entropy

Title: Re: Superduck; or, Superman
Post by alien2 on Feb 14^th, 2023, 12:27am

4) You baffle me.
5) Sounds good to me. Still, do You think that time is another valid alternative?

Title: Re: Superduck; or, Superman
Post by rmsgrey on Feb 14^th, 2023, 7:36am

on 02/14/23 at 00:27:10, alien2 wrote:

4) You baffle me.

You have written the phrase "the exact number of stars in the Milky Way" so I'm confident you can write it again on paper.

Title: Re: Superduck; or, Superman
Post by alien2 on Feb 15^th, 2023, 1:14am

Hey that's very good! I offer a thousand apologies (for my slow brain) hoping that one will suffice.

Title: Re: Superduck; or, Superman
Post by alien2 on Feb 17^th, 2023, 10:13am

on 02/13/23 at 07:01:57, rmsgrey wrote:

If it's impossible to harm God, and shaving counts as harm, then it's impossible to shave God.

Amazing! I would've never thought of that. (Slow brain.) Still, the intended answer has to do with a tacit detail, and it concerns the pious woman. Any ideas?

Title: Re: Superduck; or, Superman
Post by alien2 on Feb 7^th, 2024, 1:02am

Spoilers:

1. [Hide]Perhaps because the hunter is hunting other wild animals at the moment. Silly. Or he is a hunter of peace, armed to the teeth with love.[/hide]
6. [Hide]Meow.[/hide]

Title: Re: Superduck; or, Superman
Post by Grimbal on Feb 11^th, 2024, 10:39am

1. A duck is not a chick.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bootyhunter
6. Woof! because it is polyglot.

Title: Re: Superduck; or, Superman
Post by alien2 on Feb 11^th, 2024, 10:54am

on 02/11/24 at 10:39:36, Grimbal wrote:

1. A duck is not a chick.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bootyhunter

But maybe the silly hunter doesn't know that. Or she is Scottish and her surname is Duck.