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The riddle earlier was a word riddle, the answer was "wholesome."

"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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Hey, Warbler and Sessler get a prize! The prize of coming up with another riddle, woo hoo.
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I'll let Warbler do it since he solved one of yours first.
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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Originally posted by: Warbler
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Originally posted by: maddog00

I have hands that wave at you,
Though I never say goodbye.
It's cool for you to be with me,
Especially when I say, "HI."
What am I?


a fan?


Ooooh you mean like, a FAN fan, not a fan like a "star wars fan"... I was trying to understand why you said it... Damn this language barrier...
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Sorry bout that, Ric.

here is the next Riddle:

"I guarantee," said the pet-shop salesman, " that this parrot will repeat every word it hears." A customer bought the parrot but found it would not speak a single word. Nevertheless, the salesman told the tuth can you explain?


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Or the person who bought it is mute.
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
the parrot is deaf


That is the correct answer. The next riddle is Sean's.

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[Monty Python] "This parrot is dead!" [/Monty Python]

What gets bigger as you take more away from it?

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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A hole? Pretty simple.
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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A man is put on trial for murder. He pleads guilty to first-degree murder. However he is not sentenced, and is allowed to go on living his life in the community. You can assume this man is not insane - he was found guilty of murder. Why wasn't he sentenced to life-imprisonment?
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hmmmmmmmm, maybe this guy lives in a very weird and strange community and in it, murder is not against the law.
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Nup, he lives in a community in which the sentence for murder is life imprisonment, murder is against the law. He was also found to have acted alone in the murder, and that the murder was planned. Now come on, you can get it...
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Mistrail? Perhaps a double jeopardy? The pre-cogs were seeing an echoe? John Cusack manipulated the jury? Al Pacino was yelling "No! You're out of order! This whole trial is out of order!" at the court? Tom Cruise was blinded by the sun and shot a friend, and on the trial he said "I think I killed him" and they replied "I don't think so."? He was the executioner? He killed Jonh G.? Suicide by cop, perhaps?

It's either double jeopardy, he was the executioner, it was in the middle of a war, he was some sort of a terrorist, or suicide?

Oh I know, it was a dream!
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Maybe he killed someone in prison? He is already in the "community" and he gets to keep living in the "community"
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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Assisted suicide a la Dr. Kevorkian in which the person being killed gave explicit permission and refused to hold the person assisting them responsible?
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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Nup, he lives in a community in which the sentence for murder is life imprisonment, murder is against the law. He was also found to have acted alone in the murder, and that the murder was planned. Now come on, you can get it...


perhaps what he murdered wasn't human. Maybe a dog or cat?
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Yeah, but why would you go on trial for killing an animal unless it's small-claims court by a disgruntled owner.

What if it was an accidental murder like a car accident? Or self defense?
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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Seeing as how I'm dating one lawyer and related to another, I'll take a stab with my lay-legal expertise:

He had already been accused and convicted incorrectly of the murder (and the person wasn't dead at all). He later got out and actually murdered that person, but couldn't go to jail again for the same crime?
If you're going to take forever, then I'm having a hotdog!
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That's not the same crime though. Think about it, if he had been accused and convicted incorrectly of a murder of a person (even if they weren't dead) and then got out and actually did it, those are two different actions or crimes. So double jeopardy doesn't apply.
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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You're all wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. No double-jeopardy, no killings in gaol (he hasn't even been in gaol before), the victim was human, the offender is human and not insane, he's not the executioner on account that he wasn't facing execution, an out-dated form of punishment, he was facing life imprisonment - and is not only guilty as charged, but even pleaded guilty! Meaning he was indeed alive for the trial - and we can assume has gone on living quite happily after the trial. There is no war. The murder was not (ruled as) assisted suicide, self-defence, automatism, insanity or manslaughter. The murder was premeditated. He killed his victim in cold blood. He pleaded guilty to this, and he was found to have acted alone in the murder (meaning no one else has been convicted for the murder, and no one else was put on trial for the murder). He was convicted of murder, but will never be punished for the crime.

And no, it was not a mistrial! No come on, THINK...
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The Governer or President must have given him a pardon.
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No pardons. Okay, I'll help you out by stating legal doctrine:

They would not convict a man if it meant sentencing an ....

From there you should be able to complete the above sentence and hence work out the reason this man couldn't be put away behind bars. No, completing the sentence is not enough, but it is a means to an end.