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magnatique · 02-14-2003, 08:54 PM

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?

Pete · 02-14-2003, 08:58 PM

Hmmmmm, something to do with ONE......

sumphatpimp · 02-14-2003, 09:00 PM

angry

next !

GoGoBar · 02-14-2003, 09:01 PM

Pick one:

aggry
puggry
anhungry

or gry itself

gothweb · 02-14-2003, 09:02 PM

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

gornyhuy · 02-14-2003, 09:04 PM

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."

gezzed · 02-14-2003, 09:04 PM

Quote:

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.

Theo · 02-14-2003, 09:13 PM

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

magnatique · 02-14-2003, 09:18 PM

I knew some of oyu were smarter than I, thanks

Voodoo · 02-14-2003, 09:42 PM

Quote:

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.

Voodoo · 02-14-2003, 10:06 PM

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?

Brat · 02-14-2003, 10:16 PM

the answer is LANGUAGE as posted before

figure it out :P

BrutalMaster · 02-14-2003, 10:20 PM

What rhymes with orange ?

Brutal

Brat · 02-14-2003, 10:42 PM

nothing?

Zebra · 02-15-2003, 12:36 AM

What rhymes with Ultraviolet?

VirtuMike · 02-15-2003, 03:33 AM

It's Cra-zappy!

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vaqrook · 02-15-2003, 10:38 AM

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?

Carrie · 02-15-2003, 10:55 AM

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.

02-14-2003, 08:54 PM	#1
magnatique Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Montreal Posts: 1,830	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? __________________ Stunner Media Programs: StandAhead \| IndieBucks \| BoyCrushCash \| Phoenixxx \| EmoProfits \| BritishBucks \| HunkMoney \| LatinoBucks Make $$$ with Gay! Lowest Minimum Payouts in the Business, Perfect Track Record, Amazing Sites

02-14-2003, 08:58 PM	#2
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02-14-2003, 09:02 PM	#5
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02-14-2003, 09:04 PM	#6
gornyhuy Chafed. Join Date: May 2002 Location: Face Down in Pussy Posts: 18,041	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." __________________ icq:159548293

02-14-2003, 09:18 PM	#9
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02-14-2003, 09:00 PM	#3
sumphatpimp Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 5,235	angry next !

02-14-2003, 09:01 PM	#4
GoGoBar Confirmed User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: NJ Posts: 1,439	Pick one: aggry puggry anhungry or gry itself

02-14-2003, 09:13 PM	#8
Theo HAL 9000 Industry Role: Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 34,515	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

02-14-2003, 10:06 PM	#11
Voodoo ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 10,592	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."

02-14-2003, 10:16 PM	#12
Brat Got MIDs? Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Montreal Posts: 1,545	the answer is LANGUAGE as posted before figure it out :P

02-14-2003, 10:20 PM	#13
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02-14-2003, 10:42 PM	#14
Brat Got MIDs? Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Montreal Posts: 1,545	nothing?

02-15-2003, 12:36 AM	#15
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02-15-2003, 03:33 AM	#16
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02-15-2003, 10:38 AM	#17
vaqrook Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 23	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?

02-15-2003, 10:55 AM	#18
Carrie Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Virgin - nee Posts: 3,162	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.