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(Message started by: need-help on Feb 24^th, 2006, 2:18pm)

Title: The more you take, the less you receive.
Post by need-help on Feb 24^th, 2006, 2:18pm

Hello, can someone help me with this riddle please?

The more you take the less you recieve. What is it?

Thanks.

Title: Re: Need riddle help!!!!
Post by otter on Feb 24^th, 2006, 9:35pm

One answer that comes to mind is [hide]love[/hide].

Interpretation here, though, is critical. The riddle can be interpreted as:
1) The more you take (of X), the less you receive (of X); or
2) The more you take (of X), the less you receive (of Y).
Each may have a distinct set of answers. [hide]Love[/hide] seems to me to satisfy interpretation 1 while [hide]medicine[/hide] and [hide]sickness[/hide] seem to satisfy interpretation 2.

Just my $0.02 worth.

Title: Re: The more you take, the less you receive.
Post by oh_boy on Apr 3^rd, 2006, 11:27am

Two X-Y type solutions are:
[hide]The more advice you take, the less danger/risk you receive.[/hide]
[hide]The more no-pay leave you take, the less money you receive.[/hide]

One X-X type solution I can think of fulfilling the question (though not perfectly well) is [hide]time[/hide], as [hide]the more time you take (meaning wasting it), the less you will eventually have[/hide].

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