Riddles

[Piglet]

This may or may not have been a topic on here before but...

What question can only ever be answered 'No'?

Say on backwards ?

[ShinyWeeStar]

What question can only ever be answered 'No'?

Are you asleep?

[Piglet]

This may or may not have been a topic on here before but...

What question can only ever be answered 'No'?

Are you dead?

[robd]

Are you asleep?

That's the one I was thinking of though many of the others people have posted would be equally valid.

[Yogi_Bear]

That's the one I was thinking of though many of the others people have posted would be equally valid.

But that isn't sufficient. If someone asks "Are you asleep" and you are awake you could reply with any number of alternative phrases meaning 'I am not asleep'. The same is true of any other question that could be put.

[robd]

But that isn't sufficient. If someone asks "Are you asleep" and you are awake you could reply with any number of alternative phrases meaning 'I am not asleep'. The same is true of any other question that could be put.

Points to Yogi Bear, the man who always intends to attend but never quite makes it, for being the first to nitpick and get all literal over a simple riddle.

I thought about phrasing the question as 'What question can only ever be answered negatively?' but imagined that no-one would be too pedantic about it. Clearly I was wrong.

[Yogi_Bear]

Points to Yogi Bear, the man who always intends to attend but never quite makes it, for being the first to nitpick and get all literal over a simple riddle.

I thought about phrasing the question as 'What question can only ever be answered negatively?' but imagined that no-one would be too pedantic about it. Clearly I was wrong.

No need to get upset about it, I'm just trying to explore the meaning of words we use....
Not sure about the 'always indends to attend' bit though......

[StokeBloke]

Maybe....

What question can never be answered truthfully?

...would work better. Just sayin'

[Jhutch]

Dont think its my turn but here goes anyway

Two cars were involved in an accident in the centre of town. The man who was driving a little green car, had overtaken a big black car. The driver had misjudged the distance between him and the on-coming traffic and had to swerve back in, causing the black car to swerve and crash into a shop window. When the occupants of the cars were examined everyone in the green car was okay, but in the black car was one dead man. However, the driver of the green car was not charged with manslaughter, why was this so?

[robd]

The black car was a hearse carrying a man who was already dead?

[Jhutch]

The black car was a hearse carrying a man who was already dead?

Yep Your turn....

[Jhutch]

Continuing the rather morbid theme which is not really in keeping with the nature of today....

There is a dead man in the center of a field. He carried with him an unopened package. As he neared the center of the field, he knew he was going to die. How did he know he was going to die?

[Gav]

Continuing the rather morbid theme which is not really in keeping with the nature of today....

There is a dead man in the center of a field. He carried with him an unopened package. As he neared the center of the field, he knew he was going to die. How did he know he was going to die?

Because the unopened package was his defective parachute.

[Jhutch]

Because the unopened package was his defective parachute.

Correct

[Gav]

Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye, and a long tail which she let fly;
and every time she went through a gap, a bit of her tail she left in a trap.

What is she?

[Yogi_Bear]

Maybe....

What question can never be answered truthfully?

...would work better. Just sayin'

How about 'Is there life after death? You must answer yes or no'.

[Jhutch]

Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye, and a long tail which she let fly;
and every time she went through a gap, a bit of her tail she left in a trap.

What is she?

Needle and thread?

[Gav]

Needle and thread?

yep..