riddle_me_this_farmfish farmfish tell me what this is... a 3"x 15" piece of metal painted white except for a square on each end that is painted red. inside the white is a combination of one letter and four numbers that are black. in the red squares are two numbers, one on top of the other and they are white. riddle me this 011122 ... farmfish oh, so you must need a clue. if you know sabbie, she will have one of these. 011124 ... sabbie farmfish, most of the time i feel i know sabbie pretty well, but even i dont know what this is. i feel i failed this open book test. 011124 ... sabbie i didnt even see that connection comming. i think it must be because today we're on the dial up connection, which is much slower than our normal one... 011124 ... farmfish at least you tried, sabbie, and isn't that what they say you must do to fly...oh and you must have wings...do i feel another clue coming on? we could drive on over to one of your recent posts, whereby flapping the car doors... 011125 ... farmfish did i say cars? perhaps it has to do with cars and identification. does that help? come on...someone take a guess. 011202 ... Norm It's a rear veiw mirror! 011202 ... ClairE It's not a license plate... 011202 ... Norm I change my mind. I'ts a seat belt! 011202 ... farmfish YAY! ClairE!!!!!!! it is a license plate, but... what country? that's where sabbie can help. 011202 ... ClairE Oh, my God!!! ::squeals with delight:: I'm usually rather bad at these things... Yes!!! 011202 ... farmfish now ClairE, you may continue on with the riddle...where will you find this particular license plate? do you know where the yarra river is? it's from the same country. 011204 ... ever dumbening aussieland i guess i have learned something from this idiotic job but i really like saying coonawarra, koonunga, and kumeu 011204 ... farmfish congratulations ever dumbening, you share the title with ClairE as the first ever riddlefish. 011204 ... farmfish what is greater than God, worse than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it you'll die? 011204 ... sabbie never seen a number plate that looked like that farmfish! is your next riddle: poverty? 011206 ... farmfish ok sabbie, here's the dilio...i was in a parking lot and saw this auto with the front plate like the one i described and the back was pennsylvania(u.s). however, and now i am the fool, on the back windscreen was a sticker from australia. so, without researching, i assumed the front plate was, um, australian? you say no. so, what do australian plates look like? and where the fuck is the one from that i saw? by the way, poverty is very close to the answer i was looking for, but try again. thanks. hmmmm. so i gave out the title of riddlefish to everdumbening for guessing incorrectly, but it seems that i was leading in the wrong direction. ClairE's position remains but everdumbening's is under protest unless the case needs pleading. 011207 ... Norm I know, I know. It's a shoelace! 011207 ... ever dumbening whatever, i'll gladly relinquish my share of the biscuit. i suck at riddles, and i just wanted another opportunity to say koonunga. 011207 ... sabbie dear farmfish, please see sabbie_answers_farmfish for all your austrailain numberplate needs. 011217 ... hey now! and the answer is..... nothing! 011217 ... farmfish unfurl the banners, uncork the bubbly, send out the marching band.... ladies and jellyfish, we have a winner and official RiddleFish...hey now! (heynow, hey now!) doo-doo-doo-doo! 011220 ... hey now! *gives a gracious acceptance speach that no one listens to* =) 011220 ... hey now! or is it a speech? 011220 ... sabbie speech! speech! 011220 ... hey now! thank you, sabbie! that answers my question. but i gave the speech already. no one listened to it, including me! 011220 ... farmfish i heard it. here is the transcript: sppp schpppppp psssssssst hisssss spph sphhh sppp sssss pppppp ttttt psssshhhhh 011220 ... farmfish hey blatha boys and squirrels, got 'a new riddle******** there was this contest, see, and what you had to do was this...schee.... eat something real soUR!!!!!! and you know you are allowed to drink something first to get your tongue ready. now, dinkboy drinks milk. quicksilver girl drinks hot tea. freakthegeek drinks water. who wins? and why? 011220 ... hey now! well if all they have to do is eat something sour, then they all win, assuming they all eat something sour after they drink their stuff. prolly just lost my title as an offical riddlefish. oh well. 011220 ... ClairE It was really "nothing"? I knew I'd heard it before. 011220 ... farmfish hey now!, once a riddlefish, always a criddlersquish unless you win under protest like evadumbening. thanx for guessin' but youz wrong see. dere's only one winna 'now. and dis here sour stuff is so freakin' sOUR! that you're more than likely goin' to urp it unless you propa-lee...prepared you licka! sorry, step to the back of the line. but 'member you'll always be my little riddlefish.... 011221 ... farmfish hey now!, once a riddlefish, always a criddlersquish unless you win under protest like evadumbening. oh ClairE, it was nothing really. 011221 ... hey now! well, would it be the one who drank the milk.. b/c if he drank sour milk his licka would be propa-lee prepared. 011221 ... hey now! by the way, thank you. methinks i will like being a riddlefish forever. 011221 ... ClairE Probably has something to do with where the different taste receptors are located on the tongue, and how different tastes react. But I really couldn't tell you what the answer might be. 011221 ... sabbie i know if your going to be breathing fire you should eat yogurt or some such to coat your throat and stomach to 'tect it from the nasty flammable liquid, so i would have guessed milk... had that rather pertantant piece of trivia been recalled earlier 011221 ... Mahayana: Zakah: Sangha Jewels of Refuge who: the boy who drinks milk why idea#1: cuz it was already sourly outdated and sour milk becomes solid and turns into curd like formations why idea#2: perhaps something about the milk turning into sour cream and that is a solid that can be eaten 011222 ... farmfish oh crime-in-italy, such valiant efforts from my faithful players. (cheers exhuberantly and pins medals of honour on their heaving chests. little metal fish whose tails wiggle back and forth as you walk. sabbie, somehow i heard yours must be painted silver...) sorry, though. dinkboy can drink all the milk he wants but he'll just get a stuffy nose and an irritating cough. coats the throat they say, hmmm. goat pellets. ("is that the same as saying, bullshit?") not quite but i finks you know what i mean. hey now! drinking sour milk would be a BIG mistake. um, !yuuuuuckk?! i can't even smell it. but you are the forever riddlefish and i'll let it slide. and ClairE, wow, the science gal. excellent hippopatamus, i mean, hypothesis. clever deducings and deductions, but brrrrrrrrrrnkkkkkk!!!!! not correct. thanx so much for playing and don't forget your jellyfish at the door, they're yummy, ("what? oh...[chuckles] are they candy?") watch the stingers. yummychuckles? and sabbie. i suppose the elements of sour should have been presented more clearly. what is this sour stuff they're eating anyway? maybe this should be addressed in farmfish asks the world, doncha fink? 011222 ... farmfish welcome to the game, mahayana: zakah: sangha jewels of refuge! (i think i just broke my back button trying to write your name.) very clever finkin. and somehow when i finally reveal the winner you're all going to kick my ass because your ideas are much more, (um, how can i say this without sounding like a belly-up greb?) inticately devised? carefully concocted? bifingly bedaffled? anywho...keep me guessing, i mean try again. by the way, you get a fish medal, what color would ya like? 011222 ... sabbie id love a silver fish medal... .:grins:. and just who particular muse did you hear _that_ off? ahh, if i cant be a riddlefish i could be a riddlegodlet if you wanted... 011222 ... squishyfarmfishy giver of fish medals you can be a riddlegodlet secretly, but not publicly until you guess the riddle. and players, listen up, you can eliminate dinkboy, so, that leaves just two. which one is it? the hot tea drinker or the water drinker? oh what am i going to do with you? 011223 ... sabbie hot tea! hot tea! 011223 ... hey now! water! water! 011223 ... squishyfarmfishy about ready to move hey now! one oh sabbie, you were doing so well...but sadly i must say, "brrrrrrrronkkkk!" to you. and that is one noise i hope never reaches your ears again. hot tea is incorrect, at least in this riddle, but very correct in other situations, like sitting down before a warm fire and waiting for santa claus. me finx i will make him a cup and leave it for him along with some pignolias. anywho, fanx for playin' and you do receive a runner's up prize, two actually. one is a quite fancy polka dot orange and blue cape with faux ermine fur at the collar. on the back sewn by the deft fingers of shoemaker's elves it says, "ofishal riddlegodlet trying vainly to become a riddlefish" you'll look quite stunning in it as you dally 'bout your various christmas parties. as for the second prize, keep a good eye on your email inbox. one of these days you'll discover a surprise... and (hey now!) my riddlefish. HEY NOW! should i expect any less from you? yes, water is the answer, correct, but why? you are advancing rapidly in the farmfishian world of gaming, but if you are to exchange your prestigious title of riddlefish for the more lofty title of RiddlefisH (cleverly notice the capital letters that signify exultation) you must tell me why drinking water worked. (water works?) hmmmmm. well, can you tell me? the committee is waiting impatiently, something about christmas presents they're making and haven't finished yet. 011224 ... hey now! both milk and hot tea can be a bit sour, so eating something sour after drinking either of them would just enhance the sourness. water isnt sour. its neutral so it wont make something already sour even more sour. but thats just a guess. 011225 ... squishy farmfishy proud of hey now! hey now! my faithful riddlefish, great rewards go out to you, may you long swim fishingly in the ocean of your motion. i proudly bestow the title of RiddlefisH upon you. (and the large crowd gathered cheered exhuberantlty, the small children threw paper snowflakes they had carefully snipped, the 125 piece orchestra wildly performed, "hey now! the gangs all here."( by the way the answer you gave is not what i was looking for, but hey now! isn't being close enough all that matters? i mean am i mad or is everyone else? 011226 ... a happy little hey now! close enough is most definitely good enough, especially since its me. hey now! im a RiddlefisH!! 011227 ... sabbie farmfish, the cloak fits perfectly! its quite beautiful and the orange matches my eyes perfectly. oh, how did you know? i have swanned about in it all week and it is deffinalty the most becomming thing i have ever worn. i jsut begs me to become a riddlefish. 011227 what's it to you? who go blather from