Riddle me this!

[RuthG]

The hotel room one:

The room came to $25, so $30 - $3 dollars returned = $27. $27 - $25 dollars (for the room) = $2 which the bellboy kept.

Am I right?

 

[Taronga Leela]

Am I right?

Yup! Spot on!

 

[RuthG]

yay, I'm clever, woo hoo!

 

[Taronga Leela]

Must be the job

 

[Hazel]

She is a magicians assistant??

she was a knife thrower's assistant - because she was wearing different shoes, the heels made her taller (or shorter or whatever) than the ones she rehearsed in so the blindfolded knife thrower 'missed'.

God I am sooo thick!

i don't think so - it was a bit of a crap one sorry, i just remembered it from a book i had when i was at school!

 

[kellymundy]

no, but along the right lines..

Are any of us closer yet?

 

[kellymundy]

Some will use me, while others will not, some have remembered, while others have forgot. For profit or gain, I'm used expertly, I can't be picked off the ground or tossed into the sea. Only gained from patience and time, can you unravel my rhyme?

 

[Starlit_Cazza]

Wisdom?

Knowledge?

Experience?

 

[kellymundy]

Knowledge?

correct!

 

[Starlit_Cazza]

Wooohooooo!!!! Finally!!!!!! And on that note I am off to bed with my final shake Nighty Night kids

 

[cherylxx]

what does no man want , yet no man wants to lose?

 

[Starlit_Cazza]

A girlfriend?

 

[RuthG]

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

 

[misscheeky]

nothing??

 

[kellymundy]

what does no man want , yet no man wants to lose?

A bald head?

 

[misscheeky]

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

a towel

 

[misscheeky]

what does no man want , yet no man wants to lose?

nothing?

 

[Starlit_Cazza]

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

A towel

 

[cherylxx]

A bald head?

yup

 

[kellymundy]

What has roots that nobody sees, and is taller than trees. Up, up it goes, and yet it never grows. What is it?