BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!

Subject: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: Trevor
Date: 29 Jul 03 - 09:07 AM

Somebody has sent me this. Is it a wind up or does anybody have a solution before I start sticking pins in my eyeballs!

A RIDDLE THAT'LL KILL YOUR BRAIN!
>This is going to make you so MAD!
>There are three words in the English language that end in "gry".
>ONE is angry and the other is hungry. EveryONE knows what the
>third ONE means and what it stands for. EveryONE uses them
>everyday, and if you listened very carefully, I've given you the
>third word.
>What is it?
>_______gry?

Subject: RE: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jul 03 - 09:17 AM

total mis-direction in the question.

Depending on your source the answer to the question is either "The question is unasnswerable" or "it" is ONE.

Subject: RE: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jul 03 - 09:18 AM

though some say the answer is "three"

Subject: RE: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: Trevor
Date: 29 Jul 03 - 09:21 AM

Pardon?

Subject: RE: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: GUEST,plurg
Date: 29 Jul 03 - 09:27 AM

if there are three words concerned, then how come one is x and the other is y ???

Subject: RE: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: GUEST,Bardford
Date: 29 Jul 03 - 02:20 PM

Before you angrily continue, I suggest you Read This

Subject: RE: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: Amos
Date: 29 Jul 03 - 03:16 PM

The question is false as posed.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: Mr Happy
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 03:57 AM

its an anagram of 'RUGBY'!!

Subject: RE: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 05:15 AM

A much better, and truer, linguistic riddle is to ask for a sentance that can be spoken correctly but never written!

Mind you, I don't know how I can give you the answer...;-)

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: GUEST,mink
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 05:30 AM

Dave - you git!

Subject: RE: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: Trevor
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 05:35 AM

Thanks for the link - I'm just going to open a vein.

Subject: RE: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 06:36 AM

I've been asked this one a few times, and never ('til now) seen it in print. People keep asking assuming I'll answer straight of.
I hadn't thought of trying 'the net', but a quick search on Google with Angry & Hungry gives several hits on the first results page. This one is quite thorough and describes why the answer could be "Three" or "Language"

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: Mr Happy
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 08:03 AM

much like the child's rhyming riddle I recall from years ago:

'If a feller met a feller in a field of fitches,
could a feller tell a feller where a feller itches?'

How many 'Fs' in that?

Subject: RE: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 08:22 AM

None, if you mean "that".

Another one from childhood...

Antidisestablishmentarianism, is a very long word. Spell "it"!

Cheers - Sam

Subject: RE: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: Mr Happy
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 08:49 AM

Antidisestablishmentarianism - am i right?

Subject: RE: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 08:56 AM

eye tee

Subject: RE: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: Amos
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 10:08 AM

THe cleverness here is positively redolent!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 10:13 AM

so maybe we should get some air-spray do that it will be dolent?

Subject: RE: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 10:15 AM

Scented, aromatic, fragrant, malodorous or stinking, Amos?

Subject: RE: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 Aug 03 - 05:33 AM

Ok - seeing as you all asked...

You can say 'There are three ways to spell *' But if you write it down it does not make sense.

* Can equal to, too or two OR rain, rein or reign.

If you write 'There are three ways to spell to.' It is completeley untrue because there is only one way to spell to! (or too or two...)

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: Trevor
Date: 01 Aug 03 - 05:44 AM

Good one Dave!

Subject: RE: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: DMcG
Date: 01 Aug 03 - 07:35 AM

Similarly, the sentence 'There are at least two ways to pronounce "read"' is true when written, but not when spoken. (Even if you say it twice with different pronunciations!)

Subject: RE: BS: Aaagh! Doing my head in!!
From: RangerSteve
Date: 01 Aug 03 - 10:12 AM

The third "Gry" is anhungry. It shows up in Shakespeare (I don't know which play) and is supposed to mean "very hungry", although it sounds like it should mean "not hungry". I read this info somewhere, but I can't remember the name of the book.