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Dec-8-2004 01:45

Hello all.
I'm fairly new to Sleuth and I thought I might share a little hobby of mine with you all. Here's something for that sad moment when the mysteries of the day are all done.

Thousands lay up gold within this house,
but no man made it.
Spears past counting guard this house,
but no man wards it.
What is it?

Oct-30-2005 10:13

the doorbell?

Oct-30-2005 10:34

What has four legs, a back, but no body?

Oct-30-2005 10:56

John, I am thinking a chair?

Dionne, good answer, with doorbell! *waits to see if Dionne is right, as she can't think of anything better herself*

Reda, you're very close, but the answer is not a /ball/ of yarn or thread. You might be thinking of the right answer, but a ball is not long and thin in the middle...

Oct-30-2005 10:57

A man exits his room on the thirty-fourth floor of a hotel, takes the elevator to the lobby on the first floor, and exits the building.
When he gets back, he goes into the elevator, rides it up to the twenty-first floor, and takes the stairs to his hotel room. Why did he do this?

Oct-30-2005 10:59

Moonshh:
You're right, it's a chair.
reda:
Moonshh is right, I think it's called a spool.

Oct-30-2005 13:46

John, he was too short to reach the 34 floor button. I would know, I am just over 5 feet tall.

Oct-30-2005 15:48

Yep, the answer to my riddle is a spool....so here's an easy one:

First I was yellow, I was yellow all right
Then I was turned to snowy white
I jumped and jumped when I grew hot,
And the more I jumped, the bigger I got!

Oct-30-2005 15:55

a kernel of corn (popcorn)?

Oct-30-2005 16:04

LOL not sure what a spool is...
But I was thinking about the thread when its not in a ball anymore but rolled on someone hands then uit to a thread, or something like it.
I guess I should look the word spool in a dictionary ;)

Oct-30-2005 16:05

And I agree with ara on the popcorn ;)