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MzRiddler510
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I turn polar bears white
« on: Apr 14th, 2006, 5:23pm » |
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Here's the riddle....
I turn polar bears white
and I will make you cry.
I make guys have to pee
and girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
and normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
and make your champane bubble.
If you sqeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
Can you guess the riddle?
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Re: Need an answer!! IT'S KILLING ME!!!!
« Reply #1 on: Apr 14th, 2006, 5:37pm » |
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I'm really not sure, but pressure?
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Re: Need an answer!! IT'S KILLING ME!!!!
« Reply #2 on: Apr 14th, 2006, 9:19pm » |
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no its not 'pressure' good guess but its not.. pressure doesn't make polar bears white....
the answer is:
no. simply NO. the question is 'can you guess this riddle?' and thats it... no you can't. done!
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Re: I turn polar bears white
« Reply #3 on: Apr 16th, 2006, 1:35am » |
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Somehow that's not very satisfying 
(some other people might have wanted to have a bash, so maybe you should hide the spoiler part of that post?)
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Re: I turn polar bears white
« Reply #4 on: Apr 17th, 2006, 9:07pm » |
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Now I am new to this site and I am looking forward to seeing what I can see and help out with on the subjects. Anyways the subject at hand What Am I?
My brothers and his friends thought of CUM.
Think about them and it makes sense except towards the end... Im looking for the answer myself any help or hints are appreciated
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Re: Need an answer!! IT'S KILLING ME!!!!
« Reply #5 on: Apr 19th, 2006, 2:32am » |
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@SpaceMonkey: I really don't want to eat those pancakes. =)
on Apr 14th, 2006, 5:37pm, graphia wrote:| I'm really not sure, but pressure? |
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I like graphia's answer for 8 out of 9 lines. That's good enough for me.
I turn polar bears white
and I will make you cry.
Pressure in the sense of something emotionally demanding or stressful. Stress is alleged to turn one's hair white (Yes, a polar bear's hair is already white...) and people do cry under stress.
I make guys have to pee
Yep, sure does. You really start to feel it around the 6th beer.
and girls comb their hair.
Peer pressure. Pressure to look pretty.
I make celebrities look stupid
Put a camera in their face without a script and let the magic happen.
and normal people look like celebrities.
Everyday people have moments of greatness in times of great distress. Selfless acts of heroism and the like.
I turn pancakes brown
Pressing on one side with a spatula.
and make your champane bubble.
Difference in air pressure when it's opened.
If you sqeeze me, I'll pop.
Squeezing something pressurized it might burst? (Don't know?)
If you look at me, you'll pop.
The capillaries surrounding your eyes bursting while SCUBA diving due to the difference in pressure and your goggles. I've never been diving, but think I've heard/seen something to that effect.
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Re: I turn polar bears white
« Reply #6 on: Apr 19th, 2006, 3:07am » |
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Except for the squeeze part, God might work..
Although, perhaps God does pop if you squeeze him..
Of course, we're not asked to guess the answer to the riddle, but to guess the riddle...
It might also just be another riddle that doesn't have a real ansers.
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Re: Need an answer!! IT'S KILLING ME!!!!
« Reply #7 on: Apr 19th, 2006, 4:27pm » |
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on Apr 19th, 2006, 2:32am, ChunkTug wrote:@SpaceMonkey: I really don't want to eat those pancakes. =)
I like graphia's answer for 8 out of 9 lines. That's good enough for me.
I turn polar bears white
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So which line doesn't work? Turning polar bears white is SELECTION PRESSURE.
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Re: I turn polar bears white
« Reply #8 on: Apr 20th, 2006, 3:04pm » |
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The line that didn't fit for me was:
"If you squeeze me, I'll pop"
I was thinking in really general terms that a container with contents under pressure might burst if enough pressure was applied to the container. Just seemed like a wierd fit. Maybe a balloon or something along those lines.
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Re: I turn polar bears white
« Reply #9 on: Apr 23rd, 2006, 4:34pm » |
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i've seen a lot of stuff on this riddle. theres a poem that the riddle is from, but a lot of people say the answer is because | hidden: | | thats the only question asked in the riddle it never ctually says "what am i" although the poem tells us... |
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Re: I turn polar bears white
« Reply #10 on: Apr 27th, 2006, 6:58am » |
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That's rubbish, I did guess the riddle so "no" is clearly incorrect As a What Am I riddle the main question is implicit.
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Re: I turn polar bears white
« Reply #12 on: May 11th, 2006, 12:33am » |
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on Apr 27th, 2006, 6:58am, graphia wrote:| That's rubbish, I did guess the riddle so "no" is clearly incorrect As a What Am I riddle the main question is implicit. |
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"Yes" would be the correct answer.
Unless there is a riddle and a question. The question is about the riddle and not part of the riddle.
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Re: I turn polar bears white
« Reply #13 on: May 15th, 2006, 5:04pm » |
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The only answer I can think of that would fit everything is 'God.' -
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Re: I turn polar bears white
« Reply #14 on: May 15th, 2006, 5:47pm » |
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on May 15th, 2006, 5:04pm, agirl wrote:| The only answer I can think of that would fit everything is 'God.' - |
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I'll grant the rest, but this line:
on Apr 14th, 2006, 5:23pm, MzRiddler510 wrote:| If you sqeeze me, I'll pop. |
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boggles the mind... 
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Re: I turn polar bears white
« Reply #15 on: May 19th, 2006, 8:57am » |
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the answer could be your 'eyes '. if you squeeze them they'll pop.. or your imagination.. if you want to imagine it's popping.
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Re: I turn polar bears white
« Reply #16 on: May 19th, 2006, 5:40pm » |
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Excuse me guys, but I gotta go take a leak... my retinae are swimming.
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Re: I turn polar bears white
« Reply #17 on: May 27th, 2006, 6:03pm » |
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i am just a kid and i am smarter than all the stupid harvard graduates and adults who think they're all that and are trying to figure this out by acting all scientific and saying that its pressure or acting all religious and saying its god.
well let me tell you all something. pressure wouldn't work because it does not make polar beaers white. also when you say the pressure in the champagne bottle makes it over flow, its in a different context when you say that it makes girls comb there because of the pressure to look pretty.
i also know its not the answer because how would a bunch of kindergarden kids be able to figure that out?
god would not work because, again, most kindergardeners would not say that. when i was in kindergarden, (and i would remember cause it was only 7 years ago), i hardly knew anything about god. neither did my friends. we also have no proof that god even exists. and lastly, how would you be able to squeeze god and make him/her pop? so the god idea doesnt make sense.
there are a lot of other crazy ideas that people have been trying to put into play and they all don't work. i am positive that the answer to the riddle is when you answer a riddle you are supposed to answer the question that is asked (normally at the end). the question that is asekd at the end is "| hidden: | | can you answer this riddle |
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you crazy people! the answer is
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Re: I turn polar bears white
« Reply #18 on: May 28th, 2006, 12:26pm » |
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All wrong. The answer comes from a poem...
| hidden: | The time has come,
winter is here
and those yellow bears disapear.
The time has past
as man looks back with a sigh
and a tear in his eye.
As time is held
boys cross their legs
but of course the toilet begs
As time marches on
Girls loose their blush
and swap a comb for their brush
As time passes
For those held high
their end is nigh
As time catches up
Everyone is equal
when we get to the final sequal
As time turns
Without it we have flour and water
With it we have breakfast for my daughter
As time revolves
How does one turn water and wine
into something so fine
As time runs out
The more in a minute you try and squeeze
the less you can do with ease.
As time ticks
All the time that has past
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Re: I turn polar bears white
« Reply #19 on: May 28th, 2006, 3:32pm » |
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on May 27th, 2006, 6:03pm, suziQ_94 wrote:| well let me tell you all something. pressure wouldn't work because it does not make polar beaers white. also when you say the pressure in the champagne bottle makes it over flow, its in a different context when you say that it makes girls comb there because of the pressure to look pretty. |
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Re: I turn polar bears white
« Reply #20 on: May 29th, 2006, 12:30pm » |
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Well, to figure that out, I tried looking up that riddle on a search engine and just found pages like this, but finally found a poem I decided to read, and it matched up and all made sense. Plus, think about it: the only thing that can both make guys pee and turn polar bears white (they aren't fully white at birth) would obviously be time, or some variation.
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Re: I turn polar bears white
« Reply #21 on: May 29th, 2006, 4:11pm » |
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Sheesh. Looks like I need to review my own list of most common answers to "What am I" questions. "Time" is high on the list, and yet I never thought to apply it to this riddle. 
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Re: I turn polar bears white
« Reply #22 on: May 29th, 2006, 9:06pm » |
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OKOK
Here it is the ANSWER!!
The answer to the riddle is NO!
The question is Can YOU GUESS THE RIDDLE?
The answer is NO!
97% of Harvard graduates think they can and
84% of kindergarten students know they can't
Now take away the CAN YOU GUESS THE RIDDLE? part and the statistics cuz that's is about the CAN YOU GUESS THE RIDDLE part and the awswer is....
Salt water give objects more buoyancy.
Polar bears swim all the time.
Their hollow clear hair appears white. Its hollow to better maximize the buoyancy of the oceanic salt water.
Next... Who has ever gotten salt in their eyes? Yeah... you cry.
Pee... duh. When you pee your body loses salt. when you eat something salty you drink alot more and then have to pee.
sweat and oil contain high ammounts of salt which causes hair to become dull, and tangle easier. ever get hair in your mouth when working out... its salty.
This is great... when famous people sweat its because they are screwing up and when we sweat its because were working hard. the harder you sweat the harder it seems like youre working.
This is the tricky part... Butter has a high ammount of salt (go lick some) and you have to fry pancakes in butter or margarine. thats why they brown. Fry anything in butter and it browns.
The champagne thing is sneaky...
Add salt to champagne and watch it fizz like crazy. hell, add salt or sugar to soda even.. it fizzes like crazy.
Squeeze a salt grain and it explodes along its fracture (cleavage) lines
If you put salt in your eyes they eventually dry out and erupt because the skin of the retina splits and the inner fluid drains out.
SO IN CONCLUSTION THE ANSWER IS SALT!!!!
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Re: I turn polar bears white
« Reply #23 on: May 30th, 2006, 9:16am » |
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A couple of notes...
Although the riddle may have been based on the poem about time, it wasn't done very well, and the answer to the riddle can not be time.
Kindergarten students would not guess time.
Time does not work with a lot of parts in the riddle, unless you have an extremely vivid imagination.
Towards the end of the riddle, "If you squeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.", is a separate riddle in itself that has been around for many years. The answer to that riddle is "bubble". Squeeze it and it pops. Look at it and you see your reflection on it, so when it pops you pop. Only in a VERY vague sense could it remotely relate to time, so again, time does not work.
http://teensetc.com/0F/0D/BI/index.shtml
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Re: I turn polar bears white
« Reply #24 on: May 30th, 2006, 3:46pm » |
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on May 30th, 2006, 9:16am, McSpock wrote:A couple of notes...
Although the riddle may have been based on the poem about time, it wasn't done very well, and the answer to the riddle can not be time.
Kindergarten students would not guess time.
Time does not work with a lot of parts in the riddle, unless you have an extremely vivid imagination.
Towards the end of the riddle, "If you squeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.", is a separate riddle in itself that has been around for many years. The answer to that riddle is "bubble". Squeeze it and it pops. Look at it and you see your reflection on it, so when it pops you pop. Only in a VERY vague sense could it remotely relate to time, so again, time does not work.
http://teensetc.com/0F/0D/BI/index.shtml
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The "kindergartners" thing is just a story to make people feel superior to the smartest academics, I've seen it on all kinds of riddles with a trick answer - it's a really common thing, if you look through a lot of urban legends you'll find examples of where ordinary people (or yes, even children) outsmart these supposedly extremely intelligent types. It doesn't mean anything.
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