Riddle

Very. Nice. :)

nice maafi

hmm i guess we just have a different definition of "extreme pressure and temperature" just yesterday was trying to get one into the wall for a picture. had to go through quite a few before i found one that could withstand the "pressure" :)

It is all in the definition, as my extreme pressure is extreme, but only comes into significance when the hammer strikes the nail head. The pressure is so great that it creates a very loud sound wave from a tiny nail head. Temperature also has to be extreme to smelt the metal that the nail is made from, as any normal fire will not be enough, it would have to be oxygenated or coked to intensify the heat. You'll notice that when you burn wood with nails in, even though the fire is intense, the nails stay intact.

I've surprised myself at how happy I am to have got that. It's nearly as satisfying as beating all of you at risk.

I'm interested to know what tram meant by this: "to wear away at substances, but not consume them" Was the "but not consume them" a red herring? If so, what was it supposed to lead me to? All I know is that this line frustrated me significantly!! :P

That was the line that lead me to sand. The walking on its head threw me

[b]RIDDLE:[/b] [b]My first is often at the front door. My second is found in the cereal family. My third is what most people want. My whole is one of the united states. What am I?[/b] Again, not my riddle. This may be a little easier than Tramadol's.

[spoiler]Alaska Al is some guy that likes to knock on the door las - the kids on Lucky Charms are always called Lasses, that's a cereal family, right? ska - great music, who doesn't want ska? Alaska is the 50th state.[/spoiler]

[spoiler=VirtuosityEyesOnly] Ok so united states isn't capitalized, which I thought was on accident, but being a riddle, I thought twice. I thought of states that end in money, and there are none, but everyone wants money, so I was pretty sure cash / dollars / money / currency, but nothing fit any States. So i though of other words that ended money, and one of them seemed perfect! Matrimony starts with mat, and there are mats in front of a door, everyone wants money, and then the really smart@ss reasoning is being married in a "united state", and that explains the lower case U and S. I have no idea how trim, or rim, is in cereal though. Got nothing on that.[/spoiler]

There is a ball, and 200 men and 200 women walk into the ballroom. They all dance for 3 songs. So there are 400 people dancing for 3 songs. With 15 seconds left of the last song, all 400 people are on the dance floor. There is only 1 door to get out of the ballroom. By the end of the song, there is not a single person left in the ballroom. What happened?

@CBT: Correct! I'll leave you to work out your last little query for a while.

good job cbt on that. btw[spoiler]happy anniversary on 7/11 :)[/spoiler]

@Virtuosity98 "to wear away at substances, but not consume them" was preceded by "In one of my forms" and it was a nail on a finger, the "not consume them" was to keep you believing it was a living being! Still factual, but decoys!

@cbt711 surely the cereal is rye "ri"?