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BaByRaZ
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Posted - 08 Jun 2004 : 20:05:30
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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?
dnt ask me...cuz i dnt kno....
BaBy*RaZ
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BengaLTiger
Moderator
United Kingdom
1882 Posts
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Posted - 08 Jun 2004 : 20:08:39
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The hardest thing about teaching children to write was letting them know that they could write about anything.
Damn, Now lets see!
The answer is language.
It is the third word of "the English language". The question needs to be spoken, otherwise the quotation marks give away the trick. This version apparently originated in 1996.
:)
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jemsbhai
Super Member
USA
3566 Posts
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Posted - 08 Jun 2004 : 20:12:51
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i aGREE
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jemsbhai
Super Member
USA
3566 Posts
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Posted - 08 Jun 2004 : 20:13:11
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oo jemsbhai made another funny ...
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Lutonian
Super Member
United Kingdom
2786 Posts
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Posted - 08 Jun 2004 : 21:39:57
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i agree 2!
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BaByRaZ
Moderator
327 Posts
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Posted - 08 Jun 2004 : 22:22:37
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lolol... u guys r funny funny!!!
BaBy*RaZ
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jemsbhai
Super Member
USA
3566 Posts
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Posted - 08 Jun 2004 : 22:23:53
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jemsbhai has raised funny to a new deGREE ...
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fawaz
Super Member
United Kingdom
2537 Posts
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Posted - 09 Jun 2004 : 09:35:26
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"gry" itself is a word in Webster's
Second Unabridged (and the OED):
gry, n. [L. gry, a trifle; Gr. gry, a grunt]
1. a measure equal to one-tenth of a line. [Obs.] (Obs. = obsolete)
2. anything very small. [Rare.]
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sweet_as_suga
Senior Cub
United Kingdom
1325 Posts
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Posted - 09 Jun 2004 : 17:56:07
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fawaz......damn ur soo intelligent!!!!
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jemsbhai
Super Member
USA
3566 Posts
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Posted - 09 Jun 2004 : 18:45:37
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i smell sarcasm ... or maybe its just stupidity ..
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sweet_as_suga
Senior Cub
United Kingdom
1325 Posts
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Posted - 09 Jun 2004 : 20:17:03
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oiii its sarcasm......
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jemsbhai
Super Member
USA
3566 Posts
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Posted - 09 Jun 2004 : 20:21:16
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im glad u cleared that out ...
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sweet_as_suga
Senior Cub
United Kingdom
1325 Posts
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Posted - 09 Jun 2004 : 20:22:22
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lol wel actually fawaz was the only one to luk in the dictionary........
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jemsbhai
Super Member
USA
3566 Posts
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Posted - 09 Jun 2004 : 20:33:42
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u mean he NEEDED to look ...
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BengaLTiger
Moderator
United Kingdom
1882 Posts
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Posted - 09 Jun 2004 : 21:01:51
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Hmmmmmmmm! Cute!
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jemsbhai
Super Member
USA
3566 Posts
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Posted - 09 Jun 2004 : 21:03:25
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issnt it refreshing to read a good clean joke from jemsbhai BT??
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BengaLTiger
Moderator
United Kingdom
1882 Posts
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Posted - 09 Jun 2004 : 21:04:24
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It does make a change, Yes!
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sweet_as_suga
Senior Cub
United Kingdom
1325 Posts
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Posted - 10 Jun 2004 : 14:13:56
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a gud change!!!!!!! lol phew!!!!
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fawaz
Super Member
United Kingdom
2537 Posts
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Posted - 10 Jun 2004 : 14:15:08
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quote:
Originally posted by jemsbhai
issnt it refreshing to read a good clean joke from jemsbhai BT??
Maybe life is just a dream
lol.......
wag1 ppl!
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fawaz
Super Member
United Kingdom
2537 Posts
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Posted - 10 Jun 2004 : 14:15:37
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quote:
Originally posted by sweet_as_suga
oiii its sarcasm......
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Cruel World!
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sweet_as_suga
Senior Cub
United Kingdom
1325 Posts
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Posted - 10 Jun 2004 : 14:29:21
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hey jus outta interest y is u srtin on me????
lol @least i was bein sarcastic unlike jemsbhai who freely admits to bein sick......
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fawaz
Super Member
United Kingdom
2537 Posts
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Posted - 10 Jun 2004 : 14:31:15
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lol........
Cruel World!
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Mamen Mariam
Junior Cub
United Kingdom
330 Posts
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Posted - 10 Jun 2004 : 19:37:20
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hey the reason dat dis riddle kills ur brain is coz its ritten rong! lol
"Angry" and "hungry" are two words that end in "gry".
There are three words in the English language. What is the
third word? Everyone knows what it means and everyone uses it
every day. Look closely and I have already given you the
third word. What is it?
Answer: "language".
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jemsbhai
Super Member
USA
3566 Posts
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Posted - 10 Jun 2004 : 20:13:58
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what is the third word. what indeed.
@sweet: u aint seen nothin yet *literally*
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fawaz
Super Member
United Kingdom
2537 Posts
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Posted - 11 Jun 2004 : 09:26:17
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quote:
Originally posted by Mamen Mariam
hey the reason dat dis riddle kills ur brain is coz its ritten rong! lol
"Angry" and "hungry" are two words that end in "gry".
There are three words in the English language. What is the
third word? Everyone knows what it means and everyone uses it
every day. Look closely and I have already given you the
third word. What is it?
Answer: "language".
" oh! i've been 2 dat website......"
"snoring"
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ALISHA_NIQ
Junior Cub
United Kingdom
330 Posts
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Posted - 11 Jun 2004 : 09:54:15
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i am totally confused
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ALISHA_NIQ
Junior Cub
United Kingdom
330 Posts
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Posted - 11 Jun 2004 : 09:59:18
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For reasons that we can't determine, the "-gry question" is turning up again and again from our patrons. The best and most comprehensive answer to it comes from the Stumpers discussion list for reference librarians, and we quote from it below.
Here is the question in its correct "puzzle" form. "Think of 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 that everybody uses everyday. If you have listened carefully , I've already told you what it is."
The secret here is that the real question is "There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word?" That is, there are only three words in the phrase "the English language". The third word is "language", which is indeed something we use every day. The first two words are "the" and "English".
Having found the answer to the actual riddle, however, you may still wonder if there are any other English words ending in -gry. There are. The intrepid reference librarians of Stumpers found the following answers to the question:
For a very long list of -gry words, including places and other proper names, see the Solution to the /language/english/spelling/gry problem in the rec.puzzles Usenet group's Language Puzzles Archive.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, five words in the English language end in -gry. In addition to the common angry and hungry:
aggry, a glass bead found buried in the earth in Ghana.
puggry, a light scarf wound around a hat or helmet to protect the head from the sun, and
meagry, of meager appearance.
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fawaz
Super Member
United Kingdom
2537 Posts
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Posted - 11 Jun 2004 : 10:04:01
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"snoring"
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ALISHA_NIQ
Junior Cub
United Kingdom
330 Posts
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Posted - 11 Jun 2004 : 10:08:45
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quote:
Originally posted by fawaz
"snoring"
wag1 ppl!
Another word comes to mind
@Boring@
"Live and Let Live....As LIfe is to Short...Never forget your roots"
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fawaz
Super Member
United Kingdom
2537 Posts
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Posted - 11 Jun 2004 : 10:15:37
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haha......u dissin ur own stuff........
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miss_foxy
Average Cub
United Kingdom
762 Posts
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Posted - 11 Jun 2004 : 10:44:59
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ok ill give you one:
what walks on four legs...then two legs then three...
answer this
aLL hE hAs To Do Is sMiLe aNd It MaKeS mY wHoLe DaY wOrtHwILe |
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