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silversolitaire ([personal profile] silversolitaire) wrote2001-03-19 12:47 am
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Can you solve the riddle?

Hehe, after Meimi failed miserably, here's the riddle to you, too, dahlings:
What is...
greater than God
more evil than the Devil
rich people need it
poor people have it
and when you eat it you die?
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[identity profile] cairnsy.livejournal.com 2001-03-18 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
You expect us to get it when only 17% of Stanford University Seniors did?!

Found the page it was on, by the way ^^. However, didn't scroll down for the answer, that would be too easy.

I'm going to spend all day trying to find out (in vain) what the answer to this is ...

Hunger?

[identity profile] cairnsy.livejournal.com 2001-03-18 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, considering I'm dieting, it's very much a biased opinion.

Greater than God, because we all need to eat.
More evil than the Devil, because it's horrible and many people die of it.
Rich people need it, because you need to be 'hungry' for success to achieve it.
Poor people have it, because they can't afford good food.
And if you eat it, you die ... heh, can you eat hunger?

More wild guesses to come ;)

Re: Hunger?

[identity profile] cairnsy.livejournal.com 2001-03-18 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
actually, another word for 'eat' is consume. If you are consumed by hunger, you die.

Twisted Cairnsy logic ^_^

Re: Hunger?

[identity profile] silversolitaire.livejournal.com 2001-03-18 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
No, it's not hunger. Hunger is supposed to be greater than God? And rich people need it? I don't think so! hehehe

Keep going! ^_~

Re: Hunger?

[identity profile] cairnsy.livejournal.com 2001-03-18 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
*growls*

And rich people need 'hunger' to succeed, not actual want of food :)

Um, let's see.

Mushrooms? They kill you if you eat them ...
Love? Greater than God, but you can't eat it ...
The Earth? Rich people want it, not need it, though ...

hehehe

[identity profile] silversolitaire.livejournal.com 2001-03-18 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Mushrooms greater than God? Earth more evil than the devil? Hmm? hehehehe

Don't give up! :-P

And kudos to kat for thinking that fertilizer is more evil than the devil! LOL

ICE CREAM!!!

[identity profile] cairnsy.livejournal.com 2001-03-18 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Far greater than God.

Much more eviler than the devil - it sucks you in, you eat it, then feel guilty about it for months.

Rich people need it ... but can't have it because they'll get fat, and how many size 16 rich people do you know?

Poor people have it ... because they don't need to diet for soaps or TV commercials.

If you eat it, you die ... of guilt.

I'm brilliant.

Eh, yes?

[identity profile] silversolitaire.livejournal.com 2001-03-18 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Without wanting to sound conceited, I got it at second go! ^_____^

[identity profile] meimi.livejournal.com 2001-03-18 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Bitch. It does not exist thus it is not a proper answer. :p

bitch yourself! ^_^

[identity profile] silversolitaire.livejournal.com 2001-03-18 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
You're just sulky and in denial because you couldn't figure it out!

muuuuaaaaahahahahaaaa!

I agree with Meimi.

[identity profile] cairnsy.livejournal.com 2001-03-19 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
What a sucky answer! I spent all day on that ...

*pout*

Re: I agree with Meimi.

[identity profile] silversolitaire.livejournal.com 2001-03-19 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
So you figured it out? I don't think it's sucky at all! -_-

Bad looooosers! Both of you! hahaha

Re: I agree with Meimi.

[identity profile] cairnsy.livejournal.com 2001-03-19 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Na, cheated ;) Found the answer online.

Re: I agree with Meimi.

[identity profile] cairnsy.livejournal.com 2001-03-19 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Yep, and proud of it!

Can I help it if my superior intelligence meant I could easily find the answer online?

Nyahahahaaa...

[identity profile] silversolitaire.livejournal.com 2001-03-19 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
Okay! So you're going for the Alexandrian way of solving riddles, eh? Okay then! Point taken! ^_^

*making sure to pick out a riddle next time that won't be on the internet. Or change the wording in a way that Google won't find it! :-P*

And the answer is...

[identity profile] panda-monium.livejournal.com 2001-03-19 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
NOTHING is greater than God, more evil than the Devil
Rich people need NOTHING
Poor people have NOTHING
And if you eat NOTHING you die. ^_^

Hehehehehe.

cool!

[identity profile] silversolitaire.livejournal.com 2001-03-19 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Chocolate covered Wufeis to you if you figured it out yourself. If not, then the Death Scythe shall slice you to neat little pieces! ^_^

But I trust that you figured it out yourself. Hey, I did so, too! * beams*

*snicker*

(Anonymous) 2001-03-31 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I figured it out by accident. I thought to myself 'bet they're going to say the ans. is NOTHING.' because that's the punchline of all those stupid little jokes my schoolmates do.

Oh, and I found it on fanfiction.net. *evil grin* in that really popular l/j story a while back. can't even remember the author's name.
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