At a friend’s house over the weekend, I was presented with a riddle.
Normally, I am a fan of riddles and brain teasers. In the age of the
internet, a person can send out a fun riddle to all of their friends at
once. Over the years, a lot of my friends have felt the need to pass
these on to me, usually including the advice to “Work like you don’t
need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like you do
when nobody’s watching.” The only problem I have with this phrase is
that I wouldn’t work very hard if I didn’t need the money, and people
make fun of me every time I dance. I’ve been told that I look like a
drunk, spastic stripper looking for her pole and some self-esteem. What
can I say? I have really supportive and nonjudgmental friends.
So, my boyfriend and I were at a barbeque with his best friend. We were
all drinking, which should explain why brain teasers seemed like a
great idea. My boyfriend’s friend gave us a riddle: “There are three
words that people use every day that end in GRY. The first two are
hungry and angry; what’s the other word?” My boyfriend and I pondered
the riddle. We tried words like energy, synergy, anything we could
think of that sounded even close. We were unwilling to admit defeat
until we had exhausted our collective large vocabularies. We tried for
at least thirty seconds before asking him to please tell us the third
word.
He said, “I forgot the third word. I figured one of you
guys might know it.” My boyfriend and I were angry that he did not have
the answer. What kind of a person would give you a riddle and not have
the answer? My boyfriend said that maybe his friend knew the answer and
was trying to have a little fun with us. I told him that only an
asshole would do that. We stayed up late into the night, trying words
like “stangry” and "wrongry.” While my boyfriend drank enough to pass
out easily, I did not. I was unable to sleep wondering if “crungry” was
in fact a word.
Luckily, I have access to the Internet. Since I
haven’t been invited out dancing in a while, I had the time to search
the Internet tirelessly to find the answer. It only took a minute using
google.com and the keywords “gry riddle.” I was willing to search the
Internet tirelessly, just so you know.
For my asshole friend
Brian Lott who (allegedly) couldn’t remember the answer to the riddle,
you told it to us wrong. The correct version should have been:
"Think
of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are
only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The
word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened
carefully, I have already told you what it is."
I found this at the website: http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/taylor/topics/grypuzzle.htm.
And here is the answer:
"The key is the phrase "the English language." In this three-word phrase, the third word is simply the word "language."
Get it? "Language" is definitely something that "everyone uses every
day"! Without that quirky little twist, the puzzle would be just
another trivia question, not a riddle."
Thank heavens for the
Internet and the freedom that it gives you. No one can make you feel
like an idiot without your permission. I hope that you readers have
found this information to be helpful. Don’t forget what a friend we
have in Google. And always, “Work like you don’t need the money, love
like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like you do when nobody’s
watching.”
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ANSWER
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what is the answer to the riddle "I can hop, I can fight, but I can't die easily. What am i?"
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Thrice two of us made three, yet twice three of us made seven. More startled you may be:
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Fitz says on 2009-01-23 16:00:46 about
i need help with this riddle
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What question can you never answer "yes" to?
clueless says on 2008-12-20 12:36:11 about
can somebody figure this riddle out?!
“There is†(contracted) and an indefinite
article distance. It cannot be found
everywhere just Somewhere specific.
i was thinking: There's no place like home, but i realized i didn't have an article. Can some please help me?
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Umm seeds?
Bored says on 2008-12-03 00:29:32 about Still bored....
omg u guys r fucking stupied ill give u the fucking answers homos.....
Tina and Toms mom placed a sheet of newspaper under a door so Tom stood one one side of the door and Tina on the others that ws hard u guys are just reatrds god damn u fucking idiots
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Bored says on 2008-11-23 19:14:29 about BORING
WAT THE FUCK DAT WAS A BORING ONE LSITEN TO THIS:
Tom and Tina got into a fight and there mom outs them on the same sheet of newspaper. She puts them in a way were the can't see or touch each other but they are really close.if the mom did not cut the sheet of paper how did she make this ahppene i no the answer ill tell u in a little bit and plz dont go searching for it i made it up and its not on the net so enjoy
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I need help with this riddle our preacher gave it to us i cant make sense of it but he says it has an answer so here it is... I seldom laugh I Mostly Cry what Am I
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i need an answer to a riddle
if you have 5 cars and you have to park them in a three bay garage without stacking them or parking them sideways or without parking them side by side how do you do it ?????
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A British man and a British woman have been married for 40 years. They have never been married before each other. They have 4 children: One boy, and three girls. One of the girls is Chinese, the other two are British, and the boy is Canadian. Each child is biologically the offspring of both parents…how is this possible?
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I fell really stupid!!!!! I get it now.
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Clue 1: Without nuclear reactions, it would not exist on Earth.
Clue 2: It can be seen but not touched.
I don't know what it is so don't ask me. I will comment again when I get more clues. Thx.
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I must sound stupid, but i don't get it. i get hunGRY and anGRY, but language doesn't end in GRY.
dana says on 2008-04-06 16:49:47 about riddle
i need the answer to a riddle.
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