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naomie:

i love u Celine and keep it going u are the best we all love you*

rich:

"opiate of the masses."

Jeez.

Sarah:

You should know that this blog is one of the first sites to come up in a search for the terms, "harvard square" and "crazy people" (I was seeking a couple specific crazies). While I may not have found what I was looking for, I am digging your blog.

sarah:

this is gay

1minutefilmreview:

Wow!

sushiesque:

Oh, you're quite right. I did not read the fine, italic print.

Icarus does not give me great confidence in their products.

rick:

i'm pretty sure that the propellant is icarus.

Pippa:

A couple are driving home in the dark when the car breaks down, the husband decided to walk to a petrol station for help that was a few miles back, so he locked all the doors,windows and boot. On his return there was a stranger in the car and his wife was dead,there was no damage to the car at all.what happened?????

James Price:

Yeah I found this out the hard way. The people who work at the Library of Congress were none too nice about setting me straight. Most of the people that work there do not want to be bothered, I think. The people that registered me and got me my car (of which there were three) were super nice. But everyone else is either mean or indifferent. I shouldn't have even gotten the reader ID (which you supposedly need to even read anything at the LOC) because I've yet to be stopped and asked for it, even at the "researcher only" entrance! Weak.

semele:

Dear sushiesque - is there any way I can contact you offsite to ask for permission to use one of your photographs?

You can reach me at mirlac@yahoo.com

Thanks so much, and it's a terrific blog.

Kathleen:

Still attracting the crazies, huh? It's nice to know some things never change.

sushiesque:

Erin: I just wish I knew what I was up to.

Obo: Why are they on my doorstep?

obo:

They're fantasy sports league prizes.

Erin:

Clearly you are living a double life.

Jamie:

A man and woman go before a preacher in Pennsylvania to be married, but the preacher says,"I can't marry you two." Why?

sushiesque:

perhaps we could meet up there for a (possibly very cold) picnic?

1. no; I was with my parents, and they had their own agenda.

2. I couldn't find it, but I didn't look too hard. I do hope it has not been felled.

bonus: there was an unusual quantity of big green snails clinging to little rocks in freakish clumps.

Gabriel Mckee:

Awww, jealous-- I love Harkness. I rather want to go back there sometime soon. Two questions:
1. Did you go to Sarge's? I rather want to go back there, too. (It's where I bought my first Ace Doubles!)
2. Did you see the tree with the boob?

Gwynne:

I wish you were around all the time so you could document my meals. Well, that and cuz you're awesome.

saima:

can you answer this?

You have a chicken, a fox, and a sack of cornfeed how do you get across with a boat that holds 2 things only t a time.

Deathchicken:

Well duh, the chickens are locked in there and then they fart all over each other and it gives them the special zest.

Madison Guy:

Heartbreaking.

sushiesque:

Thanks! It was a good day.

Madison Guy:

Really nice sequence. Cool blog, too.

Alie:

what is the answer to this riddle:

most eyes are forced wide open by the dance

it's really confusing to me o.o

Allan. Forsythe:

They call me a man but I'll never have a wife. I was given a body, but not a life.
They made me a mouth, but didnt give me breath. Water gives me life but the sun brings me death

What am I?

ilana:

I cannot figure this riddle!
what can run but never walk what has a mouth but never talks what has a face but does not weep what has a bed but does not sleep

Mimi :

Here is the riddle. "When 1 door closes 9 open. When 9 close 1 opens. What is it?

mike:

there are 12 balls all look the same in all aspect, but one is different in weight. you are allowed to use a balance scale,not a weight measure. if you are allowed to use the scale one three times how do you find the different ball ?
can anyone help

Holy Cuteness:

Wow, gorgeous pics!

Johnny:

Lovely photos:)

Shiraz:

That's sort of awesome. But now I am fascinated to know by what criteria they do decide what to keep.

Justin:

As a youthful book-lover, it was my dream to visit the Library of Congress to read until my brain exploded.

I'm glad I've learned this many years later.

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Answers to riddles

From Riddles and Folktales for Schools by Comfort Eneke Ashu (Limbe, Cameroon: Nooremac Press, 1984).

5. An ant hill
7. Moon light
12. Can you climb rain drops, The blade of a knife, cutlass etc?
15. The stomach content invisible.
17. Margots in a latrine
24. Only three stones do carry a pot
34. A pot cannot stand on two stones
25. A pot
38. Tears that run down the eyes in sorrow
40. Mushroom

41. Bee, hive or ant hill
47. Stomach, feeding the hungry stomach daily
48. Can you count rain drops, hair strands, stars, gravel etc?
51. Two eyes both existing on the head but cannot see each other
52. Toilet stick now being replaced by toilet roll
54. Ants
55. A ladies breast
61. Two breasts feed a state leader
62. The earth which takes the dead but never has its fill
63. Mushroom
66. The mushroom
71. A crab or a crocodile or a frog
75. A line of ants
76. Lamp (as a container of fire)
79. Moonlight (it helps one to see at night)
85. Ants.
86. A line of ants.
88. An ant.
96. Breasts (two only can feed the child)
101. The stages of development: from the crawling to the walking, finally at old age when he goes with a walking stick.
103. A gun.

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three men go to a hotel. The clerk charges them $30.00 for a room. Each man pays $10.00 totalling $30.00. The clerk later discovers the charge was $25.00 for a room. He gives the bellhop 5 - one dollare bills to give back to the men. The bellhop pocketed two dollars and gives each man back one dollar each. But that means each man paid $9.00 each totalling $27.00 and the bellhop kept two dollars. That adds up to $29.00 dollare. What happened to the other dollar.

Help, I need an answer!

Well, LISA, it helps to put the problem in the form of a simple algebraic equation. If you do this, you will find that there is no "other dollar", because we are no longer talking about a room charge of $30 - it is $25 instead. Each man paid $9, adding up to $27: subtract the $2 "tip" from this and you get $25. This is demonstrative of how what seems to be the obvious way of doing things can sometimes be very wrong, and that children need to be taught critical thinking skills. Grammar, spelling and punctuation are helpful as well.

I need help finding an answer to this riddle: "I soar without wings, I see without eyes. I've traveled the universe to and fro. I've conquered the world, yet I've never been anywhere but home. Who am I?"

A few co-workers have a bet to see who has the correct answer to this riddle, please help:
"what is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it you will die?"

I'm a dumb-ass. The anwser is "nothing" I should have known that nothing is greater than God.

i need help with anwering this riddle.A man is sentenced to death for a crime, it is the king who will carry out the execution, before doing so the king asked the man for any last words the man asked the king to forgive him, the king replied i cant do that but the only thing i can do is allow u to kill my dog, the method u take to killing the dog i will kill you in the same way, the dog dies but the man survives, how is this possible? what method did the man use

I need an answer to a riddle...
u have a chest, a key, a diamond, and a lock, which only your key can open
the man on the other island has a chest, a key, and a lock that only his key can open he wants the diamond
there is a ferryman, who will takes messages or a locked chest back and forth for you however, anything but a locked chest will be kept by the ferryman. How would you get the diamond to the other man?

Cody:

the answer is "teh intarweb"

i need help on a riddle:soft as a petal that falls from a tree, the more i dry the wetter I'll be. what am i

sushiesque i have a riddle what happened to reading comprehension and also being able to write using grammar and punctuation?!?!?

A riddle to figure out. "Why did the ram go to town."

WHAT THE HELL

i need the answer to this riddle a blind man a blind mans wife a deaf ma and a mute were in the middle of a desert the blind mans wife was going out with the deaf man the mute knew this how does he tell the blind man

The mute man gave the blind man a long, deep man-kiss and tapped out the truth on his tongue in morse code.

I need help to answer a riddle "A man pushes his car to his house but when he gets there he is bankrupt"

He certainly isn't a Jew, WE KNOW THAT MUCH.

ok the riddle is, "what is the answer?"
now what the hell is the answer??

Two Archeaologists are digging in caves in Egypt. They walk into one cave and see two naked people standing there. The first Archeaologist knows immediatley that they are Adam and Eve and the other agrees with him...HOW DOES HE KNOW???!!!!!

HERE IS A RIDDLE: WHY WOULD PEOPLE CONTINUE TO ASK FOR ANSWERS TO RIDDLES ON A WEBSITE THAT DOES NOT ANSWER RIDDLES AND HAS NEVER DONE SO?

Answer: because people don't actually read web pages, they just use search engines to get to them. hence my text-heavy, effete, abstract website was the #1 site on Google if you typed in "dancing the crip walk" because I mentioned it like once.

In sum, the average person is no more intelligent than the average search engine, and views the latter as a slightly more experienced friend who holds the answers to the universe. you should see the live feed of search strings which they project on the wall at Google.

Until I am measured,
I am not known.
Yet how you miss me,
When I have flown!
What am I?

who can solve this for me?

the answer to that is time...

I need help finding an answer to this riddle: "I soar without wings, I see without eyes. I've traveled the universe to and fro. I've conquered the world, yet I've never been anywhere but home. Who am I?"


the answer to this is the imagination

You know, normally I'd make a snarky comment about how no one is answering riddles here, but the fact that you said that you need an answer to a riddle and then *answered the riddle* just fucking blew my mind. I think I've become enlightened.

Nevermind, I just noticed you were answering a riddle from an earlier comment. This also blows my mind.
Here is a riddle: why did Typepad eat my comment?

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