Guess which one?

monkeyfudge · 09-12-2004 05:22PM

monomaniac wrote:

*SPLATTER* - that's the sound of my Great Mouse Detective brain splattering all over the monitor.

Ok not an accident - was it suicide? Cause if it wasn't then we're opening up a real can of worms.

It wasn't an accident and it wasn't suicide. And I think it's safe to say that the laughing man is in some way responible for his death...

And the victim wasn't blind.

I'm going to be working late this evening...so you have PLENTY of time to get this one worked out...

monkeyfudge · 09-12-2004 05:23PM

Trigger! wrote:

Is the pile of saw dust from the stick?

Yes! Yes! Yes!

Now we're cooking with gas!

Blisterman · 09-12-2004 05:24PM

He had a heart attack while filing wood.

Iago · 09-12-2004 05:25PM

He was the smallest man in the world, and the stick was his cane because he was blind...

he was proud of his title as the smallest man in the world, but every night the second smallest man in the world would sneak in and whittle down his cane a little, so that when he woke up he had to bend over further every day..

this led him to believe that he was growing taller, and unable to cope with the fact that he would soon be a nobody he either

a) committed suicide
b) had a heart attack

The pile of sawdust on the floor was from the whittling of his cane, but his blindness prevented him seeing the truth...

the laughing man was the second smallest man in the world

Blisterman · 09-12-2004 05:26PM

But he wasn't blind.

sprinkles · 09-12-2004 05:26PM

how did the man get the stick?

Does he know the other man?

How long was he in the room before relenting to the boney grasp of deaths cold hands?

sprinkles · 09-12-2004 05:27PM

Iago wrote:

He was the smallest man in the world, and the stick was his cane because he was blind...

he was proud of his title as the smallest man in the world, but every night the second smallest man in the world would sneak in and whittle down his cane a little, so that when he woke up he had to bend over further every day..

this led him to believe that he was growing taller, and unable to cope with the fact that he would soon be a nobody he either

a) committed suicide
b) had a heart attack

The pile of sawdust on the floor was from the whittling of his cane, but his blindness prevented him seeing the truth...

the laughing man was the second smallest man in the world

LOL

monkeyfudge · 09-12-2004 05:28PM

Iago wrote:

He was the smallest man in the world, and the stick was his cane because he was blind...

he was proud of his title as the smallest man in the world, but every night the second smallest man in the world would sneak in and whittle down his cane a little, so that when he woke up he had to bend over further every day..

this led him to believe that he was growing taller, and unable to cope with the fact that he would soon be a nobody he either

a) committed suicide
b) had a heart attack

The pile of sawdust on the floor was from the whittling of his cane, but his blindness prevented him seeing the truth...

the laughing man was the second smallest man in the world

That's a much better version than the one I was doing. But it's pretty much the same. In my version it was a Metre stick.

sprinkles · 09-12-2004 05:31PM

So thats the answer??

sprinkles · 09-12-2004 05:32PM

Mmmkay well her's another easy one:

A man with no eyes saw plums on a tree,

He niether took plums nor left plums,

Now how can that be???

Spalk0 · 09-12-2004 05:36PM

monkeyfudge wrote:

That's a much better version than the one I was doing. But it's pretty much the same. In my version it was a Metre stick.

What? so thats it?

I dont get that?

is that the answer?

monkeyfudge · 09-12-2004 05:36PM

sprinkles wrote:

Mmmkay well her's another easy one:

A man with no eyes saw plums on a tree,

He niether took plums nor left plums,

Now how can that be???

Did he plant the plum tree?

Spalk0 · 09-12-2004 05:37PM

sprinkles wrote:

Mmmkay well her's another easy one:

A man with no eyes saw plums on a tree,

He niether took plums nor left plums,

Now how can that be???

He was dreaming?

Blisterman · 09-12-2004 05:38PM

Cos he din't see them because he had no eyes.

monkeyfudge · 09-12-2004 05:39PM

Trigger! wrote:

What? so thats it?

I dont get that?

is that the answer?

Yes. Except in my version he measured himself with the metre stick each evening and the 2nd smallest man in the world sawed some of the metre stick off. The man went to measure himself that evening and thought he had grown taller and the shock of it killed him.

I suspect Iago had already heard it before... Seeing as he guessed a version that went against some of the clues I had given.

Spalk0 · 09-12-2004 05:40PM

well the way i figure it is that he didnt TAKE and plums nor did he LEAVE any plums!therefore, they dont seem to be real!plus since he has no eyes and they only way he can see plums is if he dreams it!

Iago · 09-12-2004 05:41PM

1. "At night they come without being fetched,
And by day they are lost without being stolen"

2. "I never was, am always to be,
No one ever saw me, nor ever will
And yet I am the confidence of all
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball."

3. "Runs over fields and woods all day
Under the bed at night sits not alone,
With long tongue hanging out,
A-waiting for a bone."

4. "The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place."

sprinkles · 09-12-2004 05:41PM

Trigger! wrote:

He was dreaming?

Nope its straight forward. He didn't plant anything or dream it.

He did exactly what it says on the tin.

monkeyfudge · 09-12-2004 05:41PM

sprinkles wrote:

Mmmkay well her's another easy one:

A man with no eyes saw plums on a tree,

He niether took plums nor left plums,

Now how can that be???

Did he 'saw' the plum tree down? Perhaps in the hopes of shocking a midget who's only pride and joy was the plum tree?

Iago · 09-12-2004 05:42PM

monkeyfudge wrote:

Did he 'saw' the plum tree down? Perhaps in the hopes of shocking a midget who's only pride and joy was the plum tree?

lol

sprinkles · 09-12-2004 05:44PM

monkeyfudge wrote:

Did he 'saw' the plum tree down? Perhaps in the hopes of shocking a midget who's only pride and joy was the plum tree?

LOL

Nope, go back and read the riddle again. The answer is within

monomaniac · 09-12-2004 05:45PM

Thank you google!!

The man had not eyes, but he had one eye. He saw plums plural, so if he didn't take plums plural he only took one. He didn't leave plums plural so there must have been only two to begin with, leaving one after he took one!

monkeyfudge · 09-12-2004 05:46PM

Did he see the plum tree before he lost his eyes in a tragic plum harvesting related accident?

Iago · 09-12-2004 05:46PM

sprinkles wrote:

Mmmkay well her's another easy one:

A man with no eyes saw plums on a tree,

He niether took plums nor left plums,

Now how can that be???

The Plums in the tree were in his imagination, therefore he couldn't take or leave any. As well as that he kinda liked the tree the way it was..

09-12-2004 05:46PM

monomaniac wrote:

Thank you google!!

The man had not eyes, but he had one eye. He saw plums plural, so if he didn't take plums plural he only took one. He didn't leave plums plural so there must have been only two to begin with, leaving one after he took one!

CHEATER!!!

:eek:

sprinkles · 09-12-2004 05:46PM

monomaniac wrote:

Thank you google!!

The man had not eyes, but he had one eye. He saw plums plural, so if he didn't take plums plural he only took one. He didn't leave plums plural so there must have been only two to begin with, leaving one after he took one!

Congatulations!!

Your go:

Iago · 09-12-2004 05:48PM

Cheaters never win

some quick and easy ones

Iago wrote:

1. "At night they come without being fetched,
And by day they are lost without being stolen"

2. "I never was, am always to be,
No one ever saw me, nor ever will
And yet I am the confidence of all
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball."

3. "Runs over fields and woods all day
Under the bed at night sits not alone,
With long tongue hanging out,
A-waiting for a bone."

4. "The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place."

monomaniac · 09-12-2004 05:48PM

At least I was honest about my source. And besides, I would've worked this one out eventually - after a day or so.

09-12-2004 05:48PM

sprinkles wrote:

Mmmkay well her's another easy one:

A man with no eyes saw plums on a tree,

He niether took plums nor left plums,

Now how can that be???

This isn't a sexual thing is it? "Plums" "tree" "eye"

Smut by name, smut by nature

Spalk0 · 09-12-2004 05:50PM

Iago wrote:

Cheaters never win

some quick and easy ones

not that easy!

eh i think the fourth one is the letter 'E'?

Guess which one?

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