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(Message started by: B.R on Dec 26^th, 2004, 1:11pm)

Title: Fisherman Riddle, help please!
Post by B.R on Dec 26^th, 2004, 1:11pm

A blind fisherman goes into a pub and orders a seagull, he then eats it. After this, he comes out of the pub and shoots himself. WHY does he shoot himself?

Hi guys ive been struggling with this a while now? Just why does this blind fisherman shoot himself? please give some suggestions if possible!

Thanx alot in advance.

PS. Man this forum's whack!

Title: Re: Fisherman Riddle, help please!
Post by Kim on Dec 26^th, 2004, 6:31pm

U r what u eat? or drink for that matter. :-*

Title: Re: Fisherman Riddle, help please!
Post by EZ_Lonny on Dec 27^th, 2004, 2:56am

Isn't this a riddle for the "What Happened" section of this forum?

The answer is: [hide]UNKNOWN TO ME :P[/hide]

Title: Re: Fisherman Riddle, help please!
Post by Padzok on Dec 27^th, 2004, 2:10pm

Hint:
[hide]
He'd never eaten seagull before
[/hide]

Title: Re: Fisherman Riddle, help please!
Post by DeMark on Dec 29^th, 2004, 10:46am

I consider this riddle stupid, because you can't get to the answer without some hints, or without wild imagination. And the solution...yuck. Even if you know he's never eaten seagull before, you can't solve this easily. So I think it's the best just to tell the answer.

Title: Re: Fisherman Riddle, help please!
Post by Padzok on Dec 30^th, 2004, 9:55am

on 12/29/04 at 10:46:01, DeMark wrote:

The way these are supposed to be played is that one person knows the answer, and the others are allowed to ask YES/NO questions. Every time a player gets a YES, s/he gets to ask another question. Once they get a NO it is the next player's turn. The winner is the person who is the first person (in the opinion of the setter) to completely explain what had happened. That person will then create a new puzzle.

They're good fun on long journeys, or camping trips, etc. I agree they're not well-suited to playing in a message board. An ideal riddle of this type, is one that cannot be guessed quickly no matter how much intuition is used. The guessers are supposed to arrive at the correct solution by ruling out all the more obvious explanations first.

I do not know exactly what BR's setter had in mind, but I have heard one scenario which is similar.

Second Hint:
[hide]In the country in which the fisherman lived, eating seagull had always been illegal. He was on holiday in another country when he saw a pub which sold seagull. This trip was the first time he had ever been in a country in which eating seagull was legal and so was the first chance he had ever had to buy it in a restaurant.[/hide]

Third Hint:
[hide]The main cause of his suicide was the fact that he did not recognise the taste of the meal served to him in the restaurant.[/hide]

Title: Re: Fisherman Riddle, help please!
Post by John_Gaughan on Dec 31^st, 2004, 10:15am

I think the intended solution is that the fisherman was in a war a long time ago, or stranded somewhere with a few other people one way or another. Food ran low, and they were forced to resort to cannibalism. The other guys fed the fisherman human meat, telling him it was a seagull. When he ate seagull at the restaurant he knew that his friends lied to him and fed him human meat, so he killed himself for whatever reason, such as cannibalism is against his religion or something.

Not that I think cannibalism is a good thing, but if it was a last resort and death was the alternative, I think I probably would. Shhh... don't tell anyone ;)

Title: Re: Fisherman Riddle, help please!
Post by DeMark on Dec 31^st, 2004, 11:07am

The solution I've heard of included...ummm, eating his baby daughter. Disgusting.

Hey, John, what if they decided that you'll be the first they'll eat? Would it sound like a good solution then? ;) Just joking.

Anyway, 2004 has been a good year. I wish you all happy 2005, happiness, love, health etc. and a lot of good riddles!
Love, DeMark :)

Title: Re: Fisherman Riddle, help please!
Post by John_Gaughan on Jan 2^nd, 2005, 1:03pm

I would not be the first eaten. My meat would not be very good -- too much fat, not enough muscle. ;D

Title: Re: Fisherman Riddle, help please!
Post by EZ_Lonny on Jan 4^th, 2005, 7:02am

If you'll get some meat served and someone said to you that it's either seagullleg or humansteak.

You'll want to know the answer, don't you. If a pub offers you the opportunity to taste seagull and you find out it tastes different than what you ve been served before .....

Go figure ... draw your conclusion

Title: Re: Fisherman Riddle, help please!
Post by JiNbOtAk on Mar 25^th, 2005, 2:39am

John, a question about that cannibalism thing. How would the blind fisherman knew the difference of taste between the seagull he ate at the pub and the meat he ate during the war wasn't due to the cooking ? Kinda hard to imagine the cooking of the meat during the war (if they did cooked it) would be similar to the cooking in the pub. Just a thought anyway.

Anyway, my idea was the blind fisherman was a hopeless romantic, and the love of his life just died. She made him promised that he would kill himself to be with her. He just wanted to taste a seagull before joining her. :P

Title: Re: Fisherman Riddle, help please!
Post by Pureblade on Aug 14^th, 2005, 8:01pm

on 12/29/04 at 10:46:01, DeMark wrote:

It isn't that hard. My class (6th grade) got it in about 20 mins. What our solution was:

The man was on a cruise with his wife, and their boat sunk. He and his wife survived, along with one other man, on on island. The other man killed his wife, and gave it to him, saying it was Albatross/Seagull. The man was suspicious, and after they were rescued, he went to taste Albatross, discovered that it tasted differently, and he commited suicide.

Title: Re: Fisherman Riddle, help please!
Post by alien on Aug 15^th, 2005, 6:02pm

You are talking about a gull, right? ??? This bird is not edible as far as I know.

Title: Re: Fisherman Riddle, help please!
Post by towr on Aug 17^th, 2005, 11:58am

on 08/15/05 at 18:02:48, alien wrote:

You are talking about a gull, right? ??? This bird is not edible as far as I know.

Why wouldn't it be? It's not poisonous..
Might not taste nice, but I'm sure it's edible.

Title: Re: Fisherman Riddle, help please!
Post by Fishy on Sep 24^th, 2005, 6:18am

Here's a riddle I find hard...

A man returning from a fishing trip in the mountains is found dead in a phone booth, he wasn't shot, stabbed, poisoned or beaten. He didn't commit suicide. How did he die?

Title: Re: Fisherman Riddle, help please!
Post by towr on Sep 24^th, 2005, 1:40pm

on 09/24/05 at 06:18:42, Fishy wrote:

A man returning from a fishing trip in the mountains is found dead in a phone booth, he wasn't shot, stabbed, poisoned or beaten. He didn't commit suicide. How did he die?

Aliens
Or maybe he choked on a pretzel.
Avalanche? Exposure? Highly unlikely event involving a telephone booth that isn't constructed using safety-glass, and a fish that is 'this large'?

Title: Re: Fisherman Riddle, help please!
Post by Fishy on Sep 26^th, 2005, 2:44am

on 09/24/05 at 13:40:46, towr wrote:

Aliens
Or maybe he choked on a pretzel.
Avalanche? Exposure? Highly unlikely event involving a telephone booth that isn't constructed using safety-glass, and a fish that is 'this large'?

Hint: His wrists were cut

Title: Re: Fisherman Riddle, help please!
Post by Three Hands on Sep 26^th, 2005, 6:13am

Perhaps you should re-read Towr's post, in particular the last line...

This isn't the first time the riddle has been posed on this forum.

Title: Re: Fisherman Riddle, help please!
Post by Blitzer on Oct 20^th, 2005, 12:31am

ok, i actually know this one. It's because he was once stranded on a boat and was fed his wife's dead body and told it was seagull, when he ate the seagull in the dinner he realized what ahd happened and killed himself