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Fisherman Riddle, help please!
« on: Dec 26th, 2004, 1:11pm » |
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A blind fisherman goes into a pub and orders a seagull, he then eats it. After this, he comes out of the pub and shoots himself. WHY does he shoot himself?
Hi guys ive been struggling with this a while now? Just why does this blind fisherman shoot himself? please give some suggestions if possible!
Thanx alot in advance.
PS. Man this forum's whack!
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Re: Fisherman Riddle, help please!
« Reply #1 on: Dec 26th, 2004, 6:31pm » |
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U r what u eat? or drink for that matter. 
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Re: Fisherman Riddle, help please!
« Reply #2 on: Dec 27th, 2004, 2:56am » |
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Isn't this a riddle for the "What Happened" section of this forum?
The answer is: UNKNOWN TO ME 
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Re: Fisherman Riddle, help please!
« Reply #3 on: Dec 27th, 2004, 2:10pm » |
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Hint:
He'd never eaten seagull before
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« Reply #4 on: Dec 29th, 2004, 10:46am » |
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I consider this riddle stupid, because you can't get to the answer without some hints, or without wild imagination. And the solution...yuck. Even if you know he's never eaten seagull before, you can't solve this easily. So I think it's the best just to tell the answer.
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« Reply #5 on: Dec 30th, 2004, 9:55am » |
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on Dec 29th, 2004, 10:46am, DeMark wrote:| I consider this riddle stupid, because you can't get to the answer without some hints, or without wild imagination. And the solution...yuck. Even if you know he's never eaten seagull before, you can't solve this easily. So I think it's the best just to tell the answer. |
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The way these are supposed to be played is that one person knows the answer, and the others are allowed to ask YES/NO questions. Every time a player gets a YES, s/he gets to ask another question. Once they get a NO it is the next player's turn. The winner is the person who is the first person (in the opinion of the setter) to completely explain what had happened. That person will then create a new puzzle.
They're good fun on long journeys, or camping trips, etc. I agree they're not well-suited to playing in a message board. An ideal riddle of this type, is one that cannot be guessed quickly no matter how much intuition is used. The guessers are supposed to arrive at the correct solution by ruling out all the more obvious explanations first.
I do not know exactly what BR's setter had in mind, but I have heard one scenario which is similar.
Second Hint:
In the country in which the fisherman lived, eating seagull had always been illegal. He was on holiday in another country when he saw a pub which sold seagull. This trip was the first time he had ever been in a country in which eating seagull was legal and so was the first chance he had ever had to buy it in a restaurant.
Third Hint:
The main cause of his suicide was the fact that he did not recognise the taste of the meal served to him in the restaurant.
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« Reply #6 on: Dec 31st, 2004, 10:15am » |
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I think the intended solution is that the fisherman was in a war a long time ago, or stranded somewhere with a few other people one way or another. Food ran low, and they were forced to resort to cannibalism. The other guys fed the fisherman human meat, telling him it was a seagull. When he ate seagull at the restaurant he knew that his friends lied to him and fed him human meat, so he killed himself for whatever reason, such as cannibalism is against his religion or something.
Not that I think cannibalism is a good thing, but if it was a last resort and death was the alternative, I think I probably would. Shhh... don't tell anyone 
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« Reply #7 on: Dec 31st, 2004, 11:07am » |
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The solution I've heard of included...ummm, eating his baby daughter. Disgusting.
Hey, John, what if they decided that you'll be the first they'll eat? Would it sound like a good solution then? Just joking.
Anyway, 2004 has been a good year. I wish you all happy 2005, happiness, love, health etc. and a lot of good riddles!
Love, DeMark 
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« Reply #8 on: Jan 2nd, 2005, 1:03pm » |
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I would not be the first eaten. My meat would not be very good -- too much fat, not enough muscle. 
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« Reply #9 on: Jan 4th, 2005, 7:02am » |
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If you'll get some meat served and someone said to you that it's either seagullleg or humansteak.
You'll want to know the answer, don't you. If a pub offers you the opportunity to taste seagull and you find out it tastes different than what you ve been served before .....
Go figure ... draw your conclusion
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« Reply #10 on: Mar 25th, 2005, 2:39am » |
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John, a question about that cannibalism thing. How would the blind fisherman knew the difference of taste between the seagull he ate at the pub and the meat he ate during the war wasn't due to the cooking ? Kinda hard to imagine the cooking of the meat during the war (if they did cooked it) would be similar to the cooking in the pub. Just a thought anyway.
Anyway, my idea was the blind fisherman was a hopeless romantic, and the love of his life just died. She made him promised that he would kill himself to be with her. He just wanted to taste a seagull before joining her.
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« Reply #11 on: Aug 14th, 2005, 8:01pm » |
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on Dec 29th, 2004, 10:46am, DeMark wrote:| I consider this riddle stupid, because you can't get to the answer without some hints, or without wild imagination. And the solution...yuck. Even if you know he's never eaten seagull before, you can't solve this easily. So I think it's the best just to tell the answer. |
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It isn't that hard. My class (6th grade) got it in about 20 mins. What our solution was:
The man was on a cruise with his wife, and their boat sunk. He and his wife survived, along with one other man, on on island. The other man killed his wife, and gave it to him, saying it was Albatross/Seagull. The man was suspicious, and after they were rescued, he went to taste Albatross, discovered that it tasted differently, and he commited suicide.
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« Reply #12 on: Aug 15th, 2005, 6:02pm » |
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You are talking about a gull, right?  This bird is not edible as far as I know.
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« Reply #13 on: Aug 17th, 2005, 11:58am » |
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on Aug 15th, 2005, 6:02pm, alien wrote:| You are talking about a gull, right? This bird is not edible as far as I know. |
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Why wouldn't it be? It's not poisonous..
Might not taste nice, but I'm sure it's edible.
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« Reply #14 on: Sep 24th, 2005, 6:18am » |
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Here's a riddle I find hard...
A man returning from a fishing trip in the mountains is found dead in a phone booth, he wasn't shot, stabbed, poisoned or beaten. He didn't commit suicide. How did he die?
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« Reply #15 on: Sep 24th, 2005, 1:40pm » |
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on Sep 24th, 2005, 6:18am, Fishy wrote:| A man returning from a fishing trip in the mountains is found dead in a phone booth, he wasn't shot, stabbed, poisoned or beaten. He didn't commit suicide. How did he die? |
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Or maybe he choked on a pretzel.
Avalanche? Exposure? Highly unlikely event involving a telephone booth that isn't constructed using safety-glass, and a fish that is 'this large'?
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« Reply #16 on: Sep 26th, 2005, 2:44am » |
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on Sep 24th, 2005, 1:40pm, towr wrote:
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Or maybe he choked on a pretzel.
Avalanche? Exposure? Highly unlikely event involving a telephone booth that isn't constructed using safety-glass, and a fish that is 'this large'?
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Hint: His wrists were cut
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« Reply #17 on: Sep 26th, 2005, 6:13am » |
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Perhaps you should re-read Towr's post, in particular the last line...
This isn't the first time the riddle has been posed on this forum.
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« Reply #18 on: Oct 20th, 2005, 12:31am » |
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ok, i actually know this one. It's because he was once stranded on a boat and was fed his wife's dead body and told it was seagull, when he ate the seagull in the dinner he realized what ahd happened and killed himself
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