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  • magnatique
    Confirmed User
    • Jan 2001
    • 1830

    #1

    Fucking Riddle

    Ok... I got one of those pass it forward mails with a riddle in it... these piss me off, I always need to find the answers...


    anyone smart can find me an answer?

    A RIDDLE THAT'LL KILL YOUR BRAIN! This is going to make you so
    MAD!
    There are three words in the English language that end in "gry".
    ONE is angry and the other is hungry. EveryONE knows what the
    third ONE means and what it stands for. EveryONE uses them
    everyday, and if you listened very carefully, I've given you the
    third word.
    What is it?
    _______gry?

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  • Pete
    Confirmed User
    • Jan 2001
    • 6617

    #2
    Hmmmmm, something to do with ONE......
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    • sumphatpimp
      Confirmed User
      • Aug 2002
      • 5235

      #3
      angry


      next !

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      • GoGoBar
        Confirmed User
        • Sep 2002
        • 1439

        #4
        Pick one:

        aggry
        puggry
        anhungry

        or gry itself

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        • gothweb
          Confirmed User
          • Jun 2002
          • 8849

          #5
          This "riddle" has been passed through the telephone game. There is now more than one answer. The two main ones are zingers, not answers.

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          • gornyhuy
            Chafed.
            • May 2002
            • 18041

            #6
            Language.

            "They're ba-a-a-a-ck -- the readers and listeners who write or e-mail or call or stop me on the street to ask: "There are three words in the English language that end in g-r-y. Two of them are angry and hungry. What is the third?"

            The greatest service I can perform for the American people is to announce here that the gry question is one of the most outrageous and time-wasting linguistic hoaxes in our nation's history. The poser slithered onto the American scene on a New York TV quiz show, in early 1975. I've tried to bury gry before, but it keeps rising, like some angry, hungry monstrosity from Tales From the Crypt.

            The answer to the infernal question is that there is no answer, at least no satisfactory answer. I advise anybody who happens on the angry+hungry+? poser to stop burning time and to move on to a more productive activity, like counting the number of angels on the head of a pin or waiting for a decrease in our property taxes.

            In unabridged dictionaries repose at least 50 gry words in addition to angry and hungry, and every one of them is either a variant spelling, as in augry for augury, begry for beggary, and bewgry for buggery, or ridiculously obscure, as in anhungry, an obsolete synonym for hungry; aggry, a kind of variegated glass bead much in use in the Gold Coast of West Africa; puggry, a Hindu scarf wrapped around the helmet or hat and trailing down the back to keep the hot sun off one's neck; or gry, a medieval unit of measurement equaling one-tenth of a line.

            There are those who contend that the solution to the gry poser is right in front of our eyes. All we have to do is focus on the third and fourth sentences in one version of the riddle: "Think of three words ending in gry. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is." The third word in the English language is, of course, language, which is certainly something we use every day. The whole business about words ending in gry is just a smoke screen.

            Nonsense. Humbug. Hogwash. Tripe. Flapdoodle. Folderol. Balderdash. Baloney. This spin on the poser gives linguistic chicanery a bad name.The structure of this statement is rickety, and the English language is not surrounded by quotation marks. The 1975 version of the challenge and those for two decades after do not include the There are three words in the English language sentence. What we have here is a post hoc hoax.

            A much more challenging and humane puzzle of this type is "Name a common word, besides tremendous, stupendous, and horrendous, that ends in dous."

            At least 32 additional -dous words repose in various dictionaries: apodous, antropodous, blizzardous, cogitabundous, decapodous, frondous, gastropodous, heteropodous, hybridous, iodous, isopodous, jeopardous, lagopodous, lignipodous, molybdous, mucidous, multifidous, nefandous, nodous, octapodous, palladous, paludous, pudendous, repandous, rhodous, sauropodous, staganopodous, tetrapodous, thamphipodous, tylopodous, vanadous, and voudous.

            But these are arcane examples. The fourth common word is (and note the alteration in stress) . . . hazardous.

            Caveat Scriptor: Perpetuating the -gry puzzle can be hazardous to our nation's health. Now that you've read this column, you can spend your time on more useful projects -- like getting ready for the weekend."

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            • gezzed
              Confirmed User
              • Mar 2002
              • 317

              #7
              Originally posted by magnatique

              There are three words in the English language that end in "gry".
              ONE is angry and the other is hungry. EveryONE knows what the
              third ONE means and what it stands for. EveryONE uses them
              everyday, and if you listened very carefully, I've given you the
              third word.
              What is it?
              _______gry?
              This is a trick question. Since the riddle is not phrased properly, you won't be able to answer it. The question should have been phrased like this:

              Think of three words ending in -gry. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word?

              It's a matter of reading the riddle properly:

              There are only three words in "the English language ". The third word is of course, language.

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              • Theo
                HAL 9000
                • May 2001
                • 34515

                #8
                http://www.britannica.com/dictionary...Dictionary&va=*gry&query=*gry

                maybe it doesnt exist such word and its a trivia seeking to play with our nerves

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                • magnatique
                  Confirmed User
                  • Jan 2001
                  • 1830

                  #9
                  I knew some of oyu were smarter than I, thanks

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                  • Voodoo
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                    • Sep 2002
                    • 10600

                    #10
                    Originally posted by magnatique
                    Ok... I got one of those pass it forward mails with a riddle in it... these piss me off, I always need to find the answers...


                    anyone smart can find me an answer?

                    A RIDDLE THAT'LL KILL YOUR BRAIN! This is going to make you so
                    MAD!
                    There are three words in the English language that end in "gry".
                    ONE is angry and the other is hungry. EveryONE knows what the
                    third ONE means and what it stands for. EveryONE uses them
                    everyday, and if you listened very carefully, I've given you the
                    third word.
                    What is it?
                    _______gry?
                    THREE is the answer. The ending of "gry" is of no consequence.

                    "I'm selflessly supporting the common good, but only coincidentally looking out for No.1."

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                    • Voodoo
                      ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠
                      • Sep 2002
                      • 10600

                      #11
                      Ok, I got one for ya....





                      Snappy, Crappy, Pappy and Happy are four words in the English language that end in "appy". There are five words in the English language. The fifth word is one that when we die, we want to be it. We sometimes see other people who are it, and we all know what it is.

                      What is the fifth word?

                      "I'm selflessly supporting the common good, but only coincidentally looking out for No.1."

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                      • Brat
                        Got MIDs?
                        • Jan 2003
                        • 1545

                        #12
                        the answer is LANGUAGE as posted before


                        figure it out :P

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                        • BrutalMaster
                          Confirmed User
                          • Oct 2002
                          • 256

                          #13
                          What rhymes with orange ?

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                          • Brat
                            Got MIDs?
                            • Jan 2003
                            • 1545

                            #14
                            nothing?

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                            • Zebra
                              Banned from Kimmy's couch
                              • Oct 2001
                              • 5091

                              #15
                              What rhymes with Ultraviolet?
                              Old School

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                              • VirtuMike
                                Confirmed User
                                • May 2002
                                • 2483

                                #16
                                It's Cra-zappy!

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                                • vaqrook
                                  Registered User
                                  • Feb 2003
                                  • 23

                                  #17
                                  3 men go into a motel. The desk clerk said the room was $30, so each man
                                  paid $10 and went to the room.

                                  A while later, the desk clerk realized the room was only $25, so he sent the bellboy to the 3 guys' room with $5.

                                  On the way, the bellboy couldn't figure out how to split $5 evenly
                                  between 3 men, so he gave each man $1 and kept the other $2 for
                                  himself.

                                  This meant that the 3 men each paid $9 for the room, which is
                                  a total of $27.

                                  Add to that the $2 the bellboy kept and the total is
                                  $29.

                                  Where is the other dollar?

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                                  • Carrie
                                    Confirmed User
                                    • Apr 2002
                                    • 3162

                                    #18
                                    The dollar isn't missing.
                                    In the end, the men didn't pay $30. They paid $27. Plus the $2 kept by the bellhop = $29.

                                    The riddle tries to fuck you up by *adding* the bellhop's $2 rather than subtracting it as you should to get to the clerk's new room charge of $25.
                                    3 men paid $9 each = $27
                                    $27 - $2 kept by bellhop = $25.

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