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I get it to be:
i(or J)|T/r|W|n/n/n|
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Vuzman | RE: Answer and ask |
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You're both on the right track, although you don't use the same transliteration. OKJones is closest though.
Remember, the name the ancient Egyptians used might not be the one we're most familiar with.....
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OKJones | RE: Answer and ask |
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The Nile or in ancient egyptian iteru
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OKJones | RE: Answer and ask |
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Ok an easy one. Listen to the song which I have uploaded to http://www.drop.io/gongumenn and name the song. 0,502 of a second should be plenty. File is named 05sec.mp3
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Vuzman | RE: Answer and ask |
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Def Leppard - Hysteria 
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Vuzman | RE: Answer and ask |
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Q: Name the island
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Norlander | RE: Answer and ask |
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Jan Mayen
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Norlander | RE: Answer and ask |
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What is the Faroese, English and Latin name of this bird...
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Roffen | RE: Answer and ask |
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This bird is known as Musabrodur (latin: Troglodytes troglodytes) also known as Wren in English.
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troglodytes_%28wren%29
faroeNature: http://www.faroenature.net/gallery/index.php?cat=72
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Roffen | RE: Answer and ask |
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I am looking for the solution of this 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.
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Roffen | RE: Answer and ask |
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I have been told that smart people have problems solving this riddle...
most kids solve this riddle pretty fast!
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Vuzman | RE: Answer and ask |
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I've heard this riddle before, couldn't solve it and was told the answer was "Time".
I think that's BS, I think the riddle is BS, and the part about kids solving it pretty fast is the worst BS I've heard this morning. And I've been to a meeting!
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Roffen | RE: Answer and ask |
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I suppose you claim to belong to the 'smart people', since you can't solve it, just by looking at it.
Hint2: Not everything in the world is simple and straight forward, but some things are!
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Vuzman | RE: Answer and ask |
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I've heard another solution to the riddle (it's BS too), but in order for it to work your version of the riddle is missing the last line.....
The last line being "Can you guess the riddle?" and the answer "No".
BS in so many ways...
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Boddin | RE: Answer and ask |
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I stumbled upon this.
"I say the answer to 'Can you answer this riddle?' is 'No,' and most of you seem to agree with me.
However, many of you had ideas including light, heat, God, parents and, oddly, sugar. The two most popular alternative answers were pressure and time. As one of you explained: 'Polar bears are white because the pressure at the poles is low, so they have to be able to absorb heat. Pressure makes you cry if it's too much. Pressure in your bladder makes you have to pee. Peer pressure makes girls comb their hair. Celebrities usually crack under pressure. Many normal people will shine under pressure. Pancakes turn brown thanks to pressure generated by the heat. Champagne will bubble until the pressure of the carbonation has disappeared. If you squeeze something under pressure, bam, there it goes. If you are 'looking' at pressure, you're in it, like in an airplane, and your ears pop.'
That's kind of a stretch if you ask me.
Several of you argued for time and said that answer is based on this poem:
'The time has come, winter is here and those yellow bears disappear.
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 sequel.
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 comprehend something so vast.
I still say it's 'No,' but that poem does make a strong case for 'time.' It certainly makes more sense than sugar.
Back to me.. I personally still think it's 'Yes' rather than 'No' because we've all made and argued over several guesses- so we can all definitely guess the riddle, we just don't know if any of our answers really explain all the lines in the riddle.
Again, kindergartners would not be familiar with the poem, so 'time' is out, in my opinion- same reasoning for pressure, light, heat, etc..
I also don't think kindergartners would answer, 'No'. Kids have an amazing belief in their abilities to do things, a sort of self confidence that we unfortunately lose as we grow older- so they would more likely say that, 'Yes' they can guess the riddle and probably offer up a lot of silly and, at times, even amazingly intuitive answers- as we have all done. Harvard students, on the other hand, wouldn't just simply answer 'Yes', as I believe the author intended- they would give all the complicated explanations, as we've all done. Riddles usually make people think much more than they're supposed to and the answers usually end up being quite simplistic.
It's been fun. I'll enjoy reading your responses."
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Vuzman | RE: Answer and ask |
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I'm pretty sure someone wrote that poem to solve the riddle, and not the other way round...
All the other answers are stretches, except for the "No" answer. Which is just wrong, 'cause I can and have answered it.
I like this answer better:
I think the answer is flour.
Polar bears arent actually white, they just roll around in flour everytime they are about ready to be seen by a human.
duh.
If you get flour in your eye you will probably cry moron. not me.
I have a glass eye.
When it comes down to it, anything makes guys pee.
especially yeasty breads that contain flour.. I read it somewhere.
I once dropped a whole container of bread flour on a girls head. she combed it out.
Three ways flour can make a celebrity look stupid.
1. They are covered in flour
2. They eat a lot of food with flour in it and get fat.
3. They decide to do a flour commercial.
If the celebrity opted for the first option to make them look stupid...then it wouldnt be hard for a normal human to look the same. Although a close critic could tell the difference. between the expensive organic flour that celebrities use and the flour that everyone else uses. This one is a tough call.
Pancakes....Flour....need I say more
I substitute baking soda for flour on this next one(im allowed to do that I checked) Baking soda in champagne makes the cool volcano things.
scientific fact: if you have a ziploc with flour in it and squeeze, it will pop
scientific fact: if you look at flour you will pop...I warn you not to try.
can you guess the riddle? yes, in fact I can.
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Roffen | RE: Answer and ask |
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Again, kindergartners would not be familiar with the poem, so 'time' is out, in my opinion- same reasoning for pressure, light, heat, etc..
I almost missed in that text-wall. The trick is to not look at the riddle as one part, but rather as small, sepereate chunks.
The answer for the riddle is indeed heat, pressure and light.
To defend the three part answer, several previous questions have had a who, where, what, when, etc.
Boddin, grats, your shot. 
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Vuzman | RE: Answer and ask |
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Roffen wrote:
The answer for the riddle is indeed heat, pressure and light.
I'm sorry, that's just wrong. You'll have the hardest time explaining why most of the parts of the riddle fit any of those answers, and they'll be stretching the limits of reasonableness and believability.
And you claim that most kids come up with the answer pretty fast?! You've got to be kidding me! 
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Boddin | RE: Answer and ask |
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What has this guy done that makes him so famous?
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Vuzman | RE: Answer and ask |
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The voice of Homer Simpson
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