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Hey, anyone got any good riddles out there?

Rules: if you've answered it or heard it in the past, you can say so but don't answer. If no one answers, the asker can either open it up to anyone or give clues. Whoever gets it can ask another one or open it up for whoever asks one first.
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To start:

Name 10 parts of the body that are 3 letters (in English). (no slang or non-standard names like "abs", "lid", "tit"...)
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eye; hip; arm; leg; ear; toe; jaw; rib; lip; gum.

On an anatomy kick... name the lobes of the brain.
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Neuropsych, where are you when I need you?

I only remember frontal and parietal. I believe there's two others?
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Only two others that I'm aware of. And they start with O and T.
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Lobus Parietalis, Lobus Occipitalis, Lobus Temporalis, Lubus Frontalis (med school...)

are you sure these are riddles?
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They're probably more trivia. We need good riddles to solve. I'll see what I can find.

Let's start anew with real riddles. Here's one to start us off...

It is said among my people that some things are improved by death.
Tell me, what stinks while living, but in death, smells good?
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lawyers?
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Garlic? Ambergrist? I don't like either of those answers, but that's the best I have so far.

If you get to the point of hinting, my question is, does this thing naturally stink and smell good, or does it typically die and get used in a certain way?
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Not lawyers. But good guess. I hope Gundark's not reading.

As for Starboy... it stinks due to natural activities. When it dies, it is used in a certain way which makes it smell good.
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Originally posted by: motti_soL
lawyers?

Consider yourself lucky that you're a Mangler Bro, otherwise I'd be roadtrippin' your hiney.

Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.

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Livestock?
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Mmmmm... Beef.

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Han Solo: I'm a nice man.

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gundark, one of my best friends is a lawyer... it was all meant in good fun.
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Originally posted by: Starboy
Livestock?


More specifically?
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Bossk, the answer you want is: a man... who uh... did not bath at all while alive, and... and when he died... the morgue people decided to put a little bit of... perfume, or cologne or anything... on the deceased. Am I correct? It's either that or fish, your answer. Is it fish?
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Well, either a cow or pig would work, I guess. Cow's don't smell so hot, but in death we get burgers and steak. Pigs smell like a cow plus mud minus the sweat, and in death they smell like sausage and bacon and ham. And pork. Gotta love the pig.

I guess a pig smells better than a cow in death, so I'll go with pig.
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Ding Ding Ding!!!! Johnny, tell him what he's won!

Pig is the answer. Next riddle please.
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thats the answer?!?!?! a PIG?!!?!? it smells good after its prepared! AFTER! no, i wont take... but hey, im a grand man, i dont care. bossk, very good riddle!
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I'm deciding between a logic riddle and a word riddle...

I'll do logic first.

You have 12 BB's, all identical in appearance. 1 weighs EITHER slightly more or slightly less than the other 11, which are exactly alike. You have a balance scale.

How many weighings are required to definitively identify the rogue BB? (and how)
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When you say "balance scale", I'm assuming you mean the type like the scales of justice where you do comparative weighing, right? If so, my guess is 121.
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id say a maximum of 5.

you put 6 on each scale and you take away one BB from each scale at the same time and you just watch the scale and wait for it to even out, then you know youve taken the one that weighs either too much or too little away.
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thats the answer?!?!?! a PIG?!!?!? it smells good after its prepared! AFTER! no, i wont take... but hey, im a grand man, i dont care. bossk, very good riddle!


Of course it smells good AFTER. That's what the riddle said.

"Tell me, what stinks while living, but in death, smells good?"
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"Tell me, what stinks while living, but in death, smells good?"


you shouldve written like this: [... while living, but in death - after culinary preparation - smells good?"]
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It's not my riddle so I have no right to change up the wording. Besides, I felt it was pretty straightforward. I was able to figure it out.
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
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