Brad stared through the dirty soot-smeared window on the 22nd floor of the office tower. Overcome with depression he slid the window open and jumped through it. It was a sheer drop outside the building to the ground. Miraculously after he landed he was completely unhurt. Since there was nothing to cushion his fall or slow his descent, how could he have survived the fall?
Spoiler:
Brad was so sick and tired of window washing, he opened the window and jumped inside.
The building could have been built next to a cliff. While the floor was 22 floors off the ground on the north side (street side), the 22nd floor could have just cleared the height of the cliff on the south side/cliff side. Thus, jumping out the window made him land a few feet below.
The Sphinx is said to have guarded the entrance to the Greek city of Thebes, and to have asked a riddle of travelers to allow them passage. The exact riddle asked by the Sphinx was not specified by early tellers of the stories, and was not standardized as the one given below until late in Greek history.[2]
It was said in late lore that Hera or Ares sent the Sphinx from her Ethiopian homeland (the Greeks always remembered the foreign origin of the Sphinx) to Thebes in Greece where she asks all passersby the most famous riddle in history: “Which creature in the morning goes on four legs, at mid-day on two, and in the evening upon three, and the more legs it has, the weaker it be?â€
These are just native riddles passed down from our ancestors and it's called "bugtong" XD
well I'm bored so...
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1. It's tall when sitting
It's short when standing
What is it?
2. Pedro was hit again and again
His body is hidden
His head is shown
What is he?
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XD
edit: sorry these are two different questions XD
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kat1214young wrote:
These are just native riddles passed down from our ancestors and it's called "bugtong" XD
well I'm bored so...
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Pedro was hit again and again
His body is hidden
His head is shown
What is he?
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XD
A nail?
"It is one of those instances where the reasoner can produce an effect which seems remarkable to his neighbor, because the latter has missed the one little point which is the basis of the deduction."
Sherlock Holmes
kat1214young wrote:
These are just native riddles passed down from our ancestors and it's called "bugtong" XD
well I'm bored so...
--------
Pedro was hit again and again
His body is hidden
His head is shown
What is he?
--------
XD
A nail?
Probably right, but he could be a wack-a-mole 'mole' or a guy at a fair with his face through a cardboard cutout being pelted with pies.
kat1214young wrote:
These are just native riddles passed down from our ancestors and it's called "bugtong" XD
well I'm bored so...
--------
Pedro was hit again and again
His body is hidden
His head is shown
What is he?
--------
XD
A nail?
Probably right, but he could be a wack-a-mole 'mole' or a guy at a fair with his face through a cardboard cutout being pelted with pies.
HAHA
I'd pick your answer over the correct one anyday