The World's Greatest Riddle

[rzr]

> I make guys have to pee and girls comb their hair.
> I make celebrities look stupid and normal people look like celebrities
> I turn pancakes brown and make your champagne bubble
> If you squeeze me I will pop, if you look at me you will pop

What am I?

97% of Harvard graduates have never been able to figure this out. 84% of pre-school students have figured it out in 6 minutes our less.

[Adamaja456]

the sun

[yeah]

Pimples

[rzr]

Pimples don't make guys pee, girls comb their hair, pancakes turn brown, champagne bubble, and you won't pop if you see it.

The sun was my first thought, but it doesn't make guys pee, girls comb their hair, it won't pop if you squeeze it, it doesn't mad champagne bubble...

Note: I have also not figured it out yet.

[Adamaja456]

Originally Posted by rzr

Pimples don't make guys pee, girls comb their hair, pancakes turn brown, champagne bubble, and you won't pop if you see it.

The sun was my first thought, but it doesn't make guys pee, girls comb their hair, it won't pop if you squeeze it, it doesn't mad champagne bubble...

Note: I have also not figured it out yet.

actually it does make guys pee
and it makes girls' hair look different so they comb it
and with enough force, you can pop it
and its hott enough to boil champagne....


i win, gimme cookie!

[devonin]

97% of Harvard graduates have never been able to figure this out. 84% of pre-school students have figured it out in 6 minutes our less.

Stats like this are a) almost always total crap and b) just indicative of the fact that the "riddle" has a really illogical or counter-intuitive answer that people who have any kind of education or propensity for logical intelligence have trouble with.

That makes it nowhere near the "world's greatest" riddle.

Also, some basic internet research shows that you told it wrong, and the riddle is supposed to end with "Can you guess the riddle?" to which the "correct" answer that the kids all get is "No"

[rzr]

But you won't pop by looking at it. And it doesn't make normal people look like celebrities and celebrities look stupid.

@ devonin: that seems like a defense mechanism.

[devonin]

Also, some basic internet research shows that you told it wrong, and the riddle is supposed to end with "Can you guess the riddle?" to which the "correct" answer that the kids all get is "No"

So uh....yeah.

[Adamaja456]

im dont understand how you only have a small section of the riddle

I turn polar bears white
and I will make you cry.
I make guys have to pee
and girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
and normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
and make your champane bubble.
If you sqeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
Can you guess the riddle?

people think the answer to this riddle is yes or no because of the last line

and

I turn polar bears white
and I will make you cry.
I make guys have to pee
and girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
and normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
and make your champane bubble.
If you squeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.

without the last line, people think the answer would be time.

EDIT: devonin ninja'd the **** outta me

[devonin]

And people only seem to think the answer is "Time" based on some obscure children's rhyme that they all quote, but never give a title or author or source for that I haven't been able to track down. As an aside, the rhyme apparantly goes:

The time has come,
winter is here
and those yellow bears disapear.

The time has past
as man looks back with a sigh
and a tear in his eye.

As time is held
boys cross their legs
but of course the toilet begs

As time marches on
Girls loose their blush
and swap a comb for their brush

As time passes
For those held high
their end is nigh

As time catches up
Everyone is equal
when we get to the final sequal

As time turns
Without it we have flour and water
With it we have breakfast for my daughter

As time revolves
How does one turn water and wine
into something so fine

As time runs out
The more in a minute you try and squeeze
the less you can do with ease.

As time ticks
All the time that has past
man cannot comprehand something so vast

[rzr]

*jaw drops* holy ****. Congratulations, devonin, you got it

[ViciousDelicious]

AIR ! ?

[ViciousDelicious]

Uh, never mind..lol.

[Adamaja456]

I saw a vid with all those poems for the answer and at the end it said Neil Gaiman makes pretty good riddles.

But i haven't done any research so i have no idea if thats really the person that came up with it or not =/

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/366280...ardest_riddle/

[rzr]

I've got another one that I've never been able to figure out. I'll post it in a minute, I just have to figure out how to text-draw it.

[devonin]

And I have only one thing to say about this kind of "Riddle":

[Psychotik]

Yeah, xkcd is awesome.

[andy-o24]

Wonderfull comic, Devonin. For the answer, I wanted to say heat, but that's wrong obviously. Waiting for the next riddle.

-o24

[rzr]

Mmmk, I'll make a thread with it. I'm just trying to put all the pieces together first so people don't try and get me on technicalities. I myself haven't figured it out since I was told it in 8th grade.

P.S. I'm not in 11th.

[devonin]

I don't think you need to make a new thread for it. This one's fine.