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(Message started by: MzRiddler510 on Apr 14th, 2006, 5:23pm)
Title: I turn polar bears white
Post by MzRiddler510 on Apr 14th, 2006, 5:23pm
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?
Title: Re: Need an answer!! IT'S KILLING ME!!!!
Post by graphia on Apr 14th, 2006, 5:37pm
I'm really not sure, but [hide]pressure?[/hide]
Title: Re: Need an answer!! IT'S KILLING ME!!!!
Post by captainXdaithi on Apr 14th, 2006, 9:19pm
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!
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by graphia on Apr 16th, 2006, 1:35am
Somehow that's not very satisfying :P

(some other people might have wanted to have a bash, so maybe you should hide the spoiler part of that post?)
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by SpaceMonkey on Apr 17th, 2006, 9:07pm
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
Title: Re: Need an answer!! IT'S KILLING ME!!!!
Post by ChunkTug on Apr 19th, 2006, 2:32am
@SpaceMonkey: I really don't want to eat those pancakes. =)


on 04/14/06 at 17:37:51, graphia wrote:
I'm really not sure, but [hide]pressure?[/hide]


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.
[hide]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.[/hide]

I make guys have to pee
[hide]Yep, sure does. You really start to feel it around the 6th beer.[/hide]

and girls comb their hair.
[hide]Peer pressure. Pressure to look pretty.[/hide]

I make celebrities look stupid
[hide]Put a camera in their face without a script and let the magic happen.[/hide]

and normal people look like celebrities.
[hide]Everyday people have moments of greatness in times of great distress. Selfless acts of heroism and the like.[/hide]

I turn pancakes brown
[hide]Pressing on one side with a spatula.[/hide]

and make your champane bubble.
[hide]Difference in air pressure when it's opened.[/hide]

If you sqeeze me, I'll pop.
[hide]Squeezing something pressurized it might burst[/hide]? (Don't know?)

If you look at me, you'll pop.
[hide]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.[/hide]
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by towr on Apr 19th, 2006, 3:07am
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.
Title: Re: Need an answer!! IT'S KILLING ME!!!!
Post by Noke Lieu on Apr 19th, 2006, 4:27pm

on 04/19/06 at 02:32:34, 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


So which line doesn't work? Turning polar bears white is SELECTION PRESSURE.
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by ChunkTug on Apr 20th, 2006, 3:04pm
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.
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by Koiyinyang on Apr 23rd, 2006, 4:34pm
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 [hideb]"no"[/hideb] because [hideb]thats the only question asked in the riddle it never ctually says "what am i" although the poem tells us...[/hideb]
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by graphia on Apr 27th, 2006, 6:58am
That's rubbish, I did guess the riddle so "no" is clearly incorrect :P  As a What Am I riddle the main question is implicit.
Title: Answer - Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by McSpock on May 6th, 2006, 4:40am
Here is the answer to the riddle...
The right answer is "No" :)

Sources:
http://fun.egreetingsetc.com/2F/D/AI/index.shtml
http://teensetc.com/0F/0D/BI/index.shtml
http://phunpages.com/1F/D/AI/index.shtml
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by Grimbal on May 11th, 2006, 12:33am

on 04/27/06 at 06:58:02, graphia wrote:
That's rubbish, I did guess the riddle so "no" is clearly incorrect :P  As a What Am I riddle the main question is implicit.

"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.
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by agirl on May 15th, 2006, 5:04pm
The only answer I can think of that would fit everything is 'God.'  -  
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by Icarus on May 15th, 2006, 5:47pm

on 05/15/06 at 17:04:51, agirl wrote:
The only answer I can think of that would fit everything is 'God.'  -  


I'll grant the rest, but this line:

on 04/14/06 at 17:23:46, MzRiddler510 wrote:
If you sqeeze me, I'll pop.


boggles the mind... ::)
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by agirl on May 19th, 2006, 8:57am
the answer could be your 'eyes '.     if you squeeze them they'll pop..  or your imagination.. if you want to imagine it's popping.
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by ChunkTug on May 19th, 2006, 5:40pm
Excuse me guys, but I gotta go take a leak... my retinae are swimming.  :P
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by suziQ_94 on May 27th, 2006, 6:03pm
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 [hideb]no![/hideb] 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 "[hideb]can you answer this riddle[/hideb]"? [hideb]its a yes or no question [/hideb]you crazy people! the answer is [hideb]no![/hideb]
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by cchris on May 28th, 2006, 12:26pm
All wrong. The answer comes from a poem...


[hideb]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
man cannot comprehand something so vast.[/hideb]

So, now you all know.
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by graphia on May 28th, 2006, 3:32pm

on 05/27/06 at 18:03:08, 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.


met·a·phor
Pronunciation Key  (mt-fôr, -fr)
n.

  1. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in “a sea of troubles” or “All the world's a stage” (Shakespeare).
  2. One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol: “Hollywood has always been an irresistible, prefabricated metaphor for the crass, the materialistic, the shallow, and the craven” (Neal Gabler)


Cchris:  Fully awesome.
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by cchris on May 29th, 2006, 12:30pm
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: [hide]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.[/hide]
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by Icarus on May 29th, 2006, 4:11pm
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. :-[
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by souljahbunny on May 29th, 2006, 9:06pm
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!!!!
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by McSpock on May 30th, 2006, 9:16am
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
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by graphia on May 30th, 2006, 3:46pm

on 05/30/06 at 09:16:25, 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


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.
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by Icarus on May 30th, 2006, 3:57pm
If you will read the riddle posted here, it says nothing about kindergartners or Harvard graduates. I can only assume you got these made-up statistics (I promise you - somebody made them up) from some other site that posted the same riddle.

However, this was not posted here, so rejecting answers simply because they aren't something a kindergartner would guess does not apply here!

I agree that the riddle is not very good - whatever the intended answer is, but "time" does work. You just have to interpret it appropriately. If you try to squeeze time, by trying to do too much at once, it "pops". I.e. you don't get anything done. And the vast expanse of time, and all that has happened and will happen in it, are far beyond the grasp of the human mind, so you will "pop" if you try to look at all of it.

As for "NO!" as an answer, that one DOES NOT work! Because if "No, I can't guess it" is the correct answer, then yes, you CAN guess it, now can't you? ;)

And salt? That is some torturous attempt at trying to explain why "salt turns polar bears white", but it just doesn't work. Even if polar bear hairs were white because of being hollow, it is not because of salt that they are hollow. They would be hollow even if the polar bears lived in a freshwater environment. But the truth is, polar bears are white because their environment for much of the year is mostly white. Therefore, white is the most effective camoflage.
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by cchris on May 30th, 2006, 8:00pm
That's pretty much why I agree [hide]time[/hide] has to be the correct answer. The whole 'harvard graduates' statistics came from the riddle about "what is greater than God?" and the numbers were just changed by some moron. As for the riddle, it's pretty apparent it came from that poem.

If you can find me a poem called "salt" and if you can explain to me how adding salt to a baby polar bear will make it go from yellow to white;

Assuming "pop" here means "explode" (which it does), If you can explain how the definition of "explode"
"To release mechanical, chemical, or nuclear energy by the sudden production of gases in a confined space"
can apply to salt (which it doesn't - salt cracking is no form of any of the above changes and does not release energy - it's simply a physical change);

If you can explain to me how LOOKING (not putting salt in one's eyes) can make an entire human body break apart;

If you realize that sweat is made up of sodium chloride, a different form of salt than what you would use elsewhere;

If you can prove to me that salt makes pancakes brown;

If you can explain how JUST SALT (not drinking water) can make you urinate, when in actuality salt is hydrophilic;

If you can tell me how salt makes celebrities look stupid;

then you might be right.

McSpock: You're wrong. Sorry. As I've mentioned, the kindergarten statistics were just added, when I  saw the riddle originally, it didn't even have the line "can you guess this riddle?" because whoever wrote it was clever enough to come up with it, and whoever added the statistics put 'guess', whereas we're trying to SOLVE the riddle.

And as for the bubble riddle, someone obviously read it and wanted to incorporate it into their own.

Yeah, whoever made that flash animation page feels like a moron now I bet.

You gotta realize, not everything on the internet is gospel, I could easily make a flash animation and put "McSpock is dumb" at the end for the answer.

"Teensetc.com" isn't what I'd call a 'trusted site'.

Salt won't work, simply because I've taken two years of college chemistry and because I can tell you how stuff like that behaves. You'd know that salt is in the air in areas of salt water, and that salt would turn every other animal's fur white in that region, and we all know that doesn't happen.

A breakdown of the riddle:
-------------------------------------------
[hideb] I turn polar bears white
-Time, as I've said, turns hair white. Look at humans even - our hair eventually turns white over time.
and I will make you cry.
-Let me see you look back when you're 80 over all the time your life has passed and if there's not a tear in your eye, you can't be human.
I make guys have to pee
-How does that not work? Wait an hour from now and if you gotta pee, that's good ol' TIME at work.
and girls comb their hair.
-Girls don't care as much about their hair when they're younger as they do when they're older.
I make celebrities look stupid
-Celebrities seem normal, but over time they look like morons as they do anything to grasp for attention with a falling career.
and normal people look like celebrities.
-Bill Gates was a geek. Now he's basically famous.
I turn pancakes brown
-If your pancakes turn brown before you put them in a pan, well let me know where you buy those babies at.
and make your champane bubble.
-Over time, the pressure builds up. Just as over time, carbon dioxide leaves soda and makes it flat.
If you squeeze me, I'll pop.
-"Pop" is a used in a metaphorical sense, in that you'll "pop" as in be incapable of working with stress building up.  
If you look at me, you'll pop.
-Again, same as above. If you spend your life trying to comprehend the dimension of time and how it begins and ends, your sanity will 'pop' - and you'll lose your mind.
[/hideb]
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by graphia on May 30th, 2006, 8:58pm

It's unfortunate that difficult puzzles like this tend to attract people that want to be clever without thinking.

All previous aside though, I still like ‘pressure’ as an answer; you need to use different interpretations, but you have to do that to accept ‘time’ anyway.

My interpretation as follows:

I turn polar bears white
- Evolutionary pressure to keep warm is what results in polar bears having hollow fur (which appears white)

and I will make you cry.
- Pressure in this instance causing stress, which crying is a natural response to

I make guys have to pee
- Natural fight-or-flight response to lighten the load the body needs to carry

and girls comb their hair.
- I’d like to meet a girl that didn’t feel the need to do her hair before a date or an important meeting

I make celebrities look stupid
- Celebrities can cope when things are going well but if things don’t, where are they?

and normal people look like celebrities.
- In a disaster, even the most average Joe can be a hero

I turn pancakes brown
- Oxidisation causes pancakes to turn brown, which is in turn caused by pressure on electrons.  A little obscure but hey :P

and make your champane bubble.
- Pressurized carbon dioxide

If you sqeeze me, I'll pop.
- If you add pressure to something already under pressure, like a balloon or a fire extinguisher could cause it to explode

If you look at me, you'll pop.
- If people try and take on too much they might not be able to cope with the pressure, and the only way to get around it might be pretending it’s not there.

Can you guess the riddle?
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by Icarus on May 31st, 2006, 6:17pm
cchris - take a couple deep breaths, please, and don't take it personally when people disagree with you. Most of your arguments against salt are merely your demanding one interpretation, while souljahbunny offered it under a different one.

The point I made about "salt" was that the interpretation SHE offered for it didn't work, not just an interpretation of my own.

I agree that "time" is the best answer. Though now that graphia has explained why he thinks pressure turns polar bears white and pancakes brown, I am will to concede it as an alternative answer, though not a very good one. (Oxidation due to pressure on electrons is more than a "little" obscure! Indeed, you could use pressure on electrons as a reason for most things, since almost all activity and structure attributes to this on the molecular level.)

And lay off the name-calling, cchris: whenever I hear someone insult someone else, it tells me loads about the insulter, but nothing about the one being insulted.
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by cchris on Jun 1st, 2006, 5:34pm
Thank you Dr. Phil.

Oxidation (or oxidisation) is the loss of electrons. When cooking pancakes, electron loss does not cause discoloration, heat does.

As for squeezing, let's use a balloon. It's full of air and under pressure. Squeezing it does not increase the pressure, it simply changes the physical shape of the balloon.

And the polar bear thing, I don't quite understand the 'pressure' thing. It sounds like you're trying to use 'peer pressure' or something when trying to describe evolution/adaptation.

But pressure's a good answer, as is Tuna.
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by towr on Jun 1st, 2006, 11:53pm

on 06/01/06 at 17:34:47, cchris wrote:
Oxidation (or oxidisation) is the loss of electrons. When cooking pancakes, electron loss does not cause discoloration, heat does.
I'd say more accurately the chemistry resulting from the heat causes discoloration. In other words, the Maillard reaction is what causes fodo to go brown when baked.
Of course pressing whatever is to be baked down, increases the amount heat that can transfer (since you have better contact), and thus facilitates browning.



Quote:
As for squeezing, let's use a balloon. It's full of air and under pressure. Squeezing it does not increase the pressure, it simply changes the physical shape of the balloon.
As long as the volume of the ballon doesn't change, you're right that the pressure of the air in the ballon also doesn't change. However, first of all the pressure on the ballon does change. Whoever holds the ballon excerts pressure on it.
Aside from that changing the shape of the balloon can change the volume. You could for instance force all the air into a smaller part of the ballon, which will than have be put under higher tension, and compress the air more. The increased tension in the balloon may then cause it to pop.


Quote:
And the polar bear thing, I don't quite understand the 'pressure' thing. It sounds like you're trying to use 'peer pressure' or something when trying to describe evolution/adaptation.  
Selective pressure forcing adaption to a white environment seems to work.


Quote:
But pressure's a good answer, as is Tuna.
Have a go at justifying tuna. I think you might find it is considerably more difficult. How would you propose it can (remotely) fit with each line?
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by graphia on Jun 2nd, 2006, 1:54am
How about we just let it drop? ;)

But not before I get the last word in! ;)  Polar bears appear white because their hair is hollow; this is for insulation from the cold rather than any disguise (in fact polar bears in warmer climates have been known to turn green from algae growing in their fur :P)
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by towr on Jun 2nd, 2006, 3:33am

on 06/02/06 at 01:54:06, graphia wrote:
How about we just let it drop? ;)

But not before I get the last word in! ;)
Hah good luck with that :P


Quote:
Polar bears appear white because their hair is hollow;
Not everything that is hollow appears white though. In fact, hair might as well be black and hollow. But their hair is transparent; so that combined with being hollow causes the white appearance, through the scattering of the light that falls on it (similar to why snow and foam is generally white).


Quote:
this is for insulation from the cold rather than any disguise
Considering transparency of the hair does nothing for isolation, I'd say that's not a foregone conclusion.
Not to mention polar bears are still plenty isolated when they swim in the freezing arctic water, when their fur does nothing to protect them. I'd hazard to guess their fat does more for their isolation than their fur.
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by maw072006 on Jun 5th, 2006, 11:10am
The Answer is [hide][/hide]nothing
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by pex on Jun 5th, 2006, 1:53pm

on 06/05/06 at 11:10:44, maw072006 wrote:
The Answer is [hide][/hide]nothing



Now that would be convenient, if we could bake pancakes simply by doing nothing!
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by elmerfudddied on Mar 12th, 2007, 3:47pm
I think the answer is: a computer... computers can do just about anything nowadays

I turn polar bears white: use an animation program to make a polar bear and turn it white
and I will make you cry: people cry because of emails they get
I make guys have to pee: they play games on the computer so long that they have to go really badly
and girls comb their hair: they take a picture with a digital camera and look at it on the computer
I make celebrities look stupid: news websites and blogs and youtube
and normal people look like celebrities: photo editing programs
I turn pancakes brown: same as polar bear
and make your champane bubble: same as polar bear
If you sqeeze me, I'll pop: squeeze the joystick trigger in some games and you'll hear the computer go pop
If you look at me, you'll pop: you can figure that one out for me
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Mar 14th, 2007, 10:06pm
Almost a year later, I still think cchris' post is downright brilliant.  This is obviously not a standard "What Am I?" riddle as the final line asks the reader to guess the riddle and not the answer.  cchris, if you're reading this, congratulations.  This is undoubtedly the intended solution.


on 05/28/06 at 12:26:43, cchris wrote:
[hide]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
man cannot comprehand something so vast.[/hide]


Also, were one to attempt a standard "What Am I?" solution, the intended would then be [hide]time[/hide].
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by tiber13 on Mar 15th, 2007, 11:37am
[Deleted for the sake of my dignity]
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Mar 16th, 2007, 11:28am
Yes, but the question is not "Can you solve the riddle?"  The question is "Can you guess the riddle?"
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by jimmydapimp on Jun 1st, 2007, 8:34pm
...The answer is

'Time'

The time has come,
winter is here
and those yellow bears disapear.
(...I turn polar bears white )

The time has past
as man looks back with a sigh
and a tear in his eye.
(...and I will make you cry.)

As time is held
boys cross their legs
but of course the toilet begs
(...I make guys have to pee)

As time marches on
Girls loose their blush
and swap a comb for their brush
(...and girls comb their hair.)

As time passes
For those held high
their end is nigh
(...I make celebrities look stupid )

As time catches up
Everyone is equal
when we get to the final sequal
(...and normal people look like celebrities.)

As time turns
Without it we have flour and water
With it we have breakfast for my daughter
(...I turn pancakes brown )

As time revolves
How does one turn water and wine
into something so fine
)...and make your champane bubble.)

As time runs out
The more in a minute you try and squeeze
the less you can do with ease.
(...If you sqeeze me, I'll pop. )

As time ticks
All the time that has past
man cannot comprehand something so vast.
(...If you look at me, you'll pop. )

Time is the answer :)


;D
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by thecow135 on Jun 2nd, 2007, 11:03am
jimmy da "pimp" if you culd just scroll up a little bit you can easily see that your answer is just a repost of WTF's!... plz spare every1 the truble of clicking in here thinking we wuld find something useful or thought provoking and instead finding something that has already been posted 20 times... =)
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by WoodChuk on Jul 2nd, 2007, 11:00pm
I have a question...

Isn't this 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?
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by Crixxtachi on May 1st, 2008, 1:42pm
Well as has been said it cant really have one single answer to all of them, cause not every answer works.

The first one though, i turn polar bears white and i make guys pee. That one i think has to be "the cold"

Polar bears adapted to the cold by turning their fur white for camo and for insulation.

Cold air ,especially at night, also makes guys have to pee. But the cold doesnt apply to all the others.
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by claw123 on Jul 2nd, 2008, 8:56pm
u know, because so many kindergarden children answered it correctly....the riddle probably only seeks your honest reply to the last question, "can you guess the answer" as THE answer to the riddle. just imagine how many harvard student pondered the answer and never got it...as apposed to a bunch of kindergarden children who just answer the last question and get it correct.
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by towr on Jul 2nd, 2008, 11:07pm

on 07/02/08 at 20:56:34, claw123 wrote:
u know, because so many kindergarden children answered it correctly....
Who said anything about kindergartners?
They have nothing to do with this riddle one way or another.
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by Dragon on Jul 7th, 2008, 10:58pm
I believe [hide]Pressure, Time, and Yes[/hide] are all valid answers to this riddle.

The answer is obviously not 'No'. Not only is that a guess to the riddle itself, but the question is merely can you make a guess, which in case you have trouble speaking, you certainly should be able to accomplish.
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by Qaster Qof Qeverything Q42 on Jul 9th, 2008, 12:14pm
Anyone here with dignity can drop their "YES!" and "NO!" answers, because it is creating more damage then it's worth.

By answering "YES", then it shows that you can answer a simple question, without any veiw of the actual complex question.

By answering "NO", You are not just contradicting yourself, but you show that you have little deducing skills, and that you pay too much attention to minute details that you may free-load off of.

The whole point of the question is to find what turns polarbears hair white, to find what makes you pop when looked at, and just because we either ignored the meaning of the riddle or we looked at it from the wrong pespective, deosn't mean we should battle over "Yes' or 'No".
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Jul 9th, 2008, 1:48pm

on 07/09/08 at 12:14:52, Qaster Qof Qeverything Q42 wrote:
The whole point of the question is to find what turns polarbears hair white, to find what makes you pop when looked at


I still think this is where we are most misled.  In every version I've seen of this riddle, the final line is always "can you guess the riddle?"  While it is often treated as a "what am I" riddle (and understandably so - it has all the looks of one) it asks not what it is, but some other question.  Can you guess the riddle?  What does that even mean?  In my opinion, the poem is the only answer satisfying every line.
Title: Re: Need an answer!! IT'S KILLING ME!!!!
Post by Dean1953 on Jul 12th, 2008, 6:54pm

on 04/14/06 at 17:37:51, graphia wrote:
I'm really not sure, but [hide]pressure?[/hide]
Title: Re: I turn polar bears white
Post by iono on Sep 2nd, 2008, 10:54pm
the [hide]sun?or stars?[/hide]


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