The Q/A boredness thread!

A: a dream

Q: As beautiful as the setting sun,
As delicate as the morning dew;
An angel's dusting from the stars
that can turn the Earth into
A frosted moon.

A: Uh...i dont know... a buterfly?

Q: Iron roof, glass walls
Burns and burns
And never falls.

A: lanturn

Q: Janes mother has five children, Monday, tuesday, wensday, and thursday. What is the fifth childs name?

A: Jane

Q: A wee wee man
In a red red coat
Staff in my hand
And a stone in my throat.

A: a chery????? apple maybe?????

Q: It holds most knowledge that has ever been said;
But is not the brain, is not the head.
To feathers and their masters, 'tis both bane and boon. . .
One empty, and one full.

A: Paper?
A 2 mine: A cherry! ^^ your right.

Q: What runs around a city
but never moves?

A: a road.

Q: Stronger than steel,
And older than time;
They are more patient than death
and shall stand even when the stars have ceased to shine.
Their strength is embedded
in roots buried deep
Where the sands and frosts of ages
can never hope to touch or reach.

A: A mountain.
A 2 mine: acually it was a Wall but a road works too! ^^

Q: Two brothers we are, great burden we bear
By which we are bitterly pressed.
In truth we may say
We are full all the day
But empty we go to our rest.

shoes

Q: You must keep it after giving it.

A: your word

Q: What is full of holes and holds water?

A: a sponge

Q: I weaken all men for hours each day.
I show you strange visions while you are away.
I take you by night, by day take you back,
None suffer to have me, but do from my lack.

A: sleep

Q: I drive men mad
For love of me,
Easily beaten,
Never free.

A: Ive hears it but cannot remember....

Q: I have many tongues but cannot taste
By me, most things are turned to waste
I crack and snap, yet I stay whole
I may take the largest toll
I assisted all of the first men
And I will pay them back again
Around me, people snuggle and sleep
Yet run when I am released from my keep
I jump around and leap and bound
The cold man wishes I he had found

A: Fire
A 2 mine: Gold ^^

Q: This thing all things devours:
Birds, beast,trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.

A: time

Q: Ten Men's Strength,
Ten Men's Length,
Ten Men can't break it,
Yet a young boy walks off with it

A: I honestly dont know.

Q: On her honeymoon Mrs Orange shot her husband, wet him and hung him up to dry in the dark.

However, the next morning they were eating breakfast together.

How is this possible?

A: no clue

Q: What is as big as you are and yet does not weigh anything?

A: No clue.
A 2 mine: She shot hi mwith a camera (the rest is the development process) ^^

Q: Simple nearly beyond compare.

He is noble. He is rare.

He makes you squeak! Quiescent! Light!

Bright coloured things He brings to flight!

For all of that (so we are told)


He can be amazingly cold.

Who is He?

A: ME? (JK)
A 2 mine: your shadow.

Q: 2 fathers and 2 sons go fishing. Each of them catches one fish. So why do they bring home only 3 fish?

A: there's only one father?
A 2 mine: Helium. ^^ lol

Q: Everyone: Bill has this bus.
In language long forgotten,
he calls it for us.
From many, unlucky,
is left just the one.
Now nearly quadrupled
but still it's just one.
What kind of bus is it?

A: unknown
A 2 mine: there is one Grandfather, one father, and one boy,

Q: You can hold it without using your hands or arms. What is it?

A: your breath.

Q: There is an herb that grows,
even throughout fall.
It can not be reaped or sowed,
yet this herb can heal all.

Time

Q: You find yourself half way between Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro; about as far from Mexico City as from Moscow.

Albert Einstein waits to the left, ready to explain his theory of relativity. A short distance to your right James Watt hopes to recount his development of the steam engine to you. John Steinbeck and Isaac Bashevis Singer crouch over you, vying for your attention.

Your surroundings are conventional and functional. One aspect stands out: A piece of furniture - represented in 2 or 3 specimens in the typical home - recurs here hundreds of times.

What are the two common names for this item of furniture?

A;Uhm...No clue! >.<

Q:When you look into my face,
I shall never lie;
Instead be but a window into your soul,
whether there light or shadows hide;
As in me many see their deaths
where others see their lives;
In this deny me many try,
but they simply twist their knives;
For though prejudiced to some I may seem,
THE LIE IS THEIR OWN LIVES.

A: A mirror?
A 2 mine: your in a library.

Q: Children love me and use me often. But as adults, you frequently lose me or forget about me. I can be anything or nothing. What am I?

A: an imaginary friend? or a toy?

Q: I don't think or eat or slumber
or move around or fear thunder
just like you I look the same
but I can't harm you or be your bane

A: a shadow.
A 2 mine: dreams

Q: A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and rode out again on Friday. How did he do that?

A: His horses name is friday.
A 2 mine: A doll

Q: He who makes me doesn't want me,
He who buys me doesn't need me,
He who uses me doesn't care.

A: a coffin,

Q: When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don’t have me. What am I?

A: A secret.

Q: Thirty white horses on a red hill,
First they champ,
Then they stamp,
Then they stand still.