A Riddling Contest

[Jerome]

Originally posted by Donut: This isn't really a riddle but it's interesting. Read the following sentence though once. FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE- SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF- IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS. Now read it again and count the number of F's in it. How many did you count?

I counted 3.....


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My hopes lie dashed,
Crushed from high above,
My dreams lie shattered, my heart broken,
A casulty on a battlefield called love.

[slackerboy]

5
*dont forget the "of"'s

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[Sazerac]

I counted "Six" F's...

F inished
F iles
Scienti F ic
and 3 F's in the OF's

[Donut]

Originally posted by Jerome: Originally posted by Donut: This isn't really a riddle but it's interesting. Read the following sentence though once. FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE- SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF- IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS. Now read it again and count the number of F's in it. How many did you count? I counted 3.....

Jerome, when I was first shown it I counted three as well. Even when I was told it was 6 I counted them twice more and still counted 3! English speakers are confused because the 'Of's' sound like Ov's'.

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Save Chip - Don't let Sarah win!
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[Wah]

you can say that again......(*sigh*)

ONE........TWO.....THREE. (A riddle is NEVER that obvious)

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Greetings Mortals. My Name Is Wah, Arch Lich Wah.

I count one in "the Following sentence" plus another one for re-reading it

[MILAMBER]

My vote is 6.

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"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
-General George Patton (1885-1945)

[Father Bronze]

It looks like Saz has the next one?

In the meantime, something struck my memory while reading the "Gray v. Grey" thread and so I thought I'd throw this out:

How do you pronounce the following word? GHOTI

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[Black Knight]

Originally posted by Father Bronze: How do you pronounce the following word? GHOTI

go-tee?

BK

[Donut]

Originally posted by Father Bronze: It looks like Saz has the next one? In the meantime, something struck my memory while reading the "Gray v. Grey" thread and so I thought I'd throw this out: How do you pronounce the following word? GHOTI

I would pronounce it 'fish'

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Save Chip - Don't let Sarah win!
Official Titterer of the Laughing Hyenas

[This message has been edited by Donut (edited 05-22-2001).]