Riddles

[haranguerer]

What lies in bed, and stands in bed,
First white, then red.
The plumper it gets
The better the old woman likes it?   

A rose?

[haranguerer]

Its not a hot water bottle!! Heres another one,

A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys. How can this be possible?

For exactly half boys...three boys, three girls, and a hermaphrodite?

[MayoMan]

A Strawberry........

And there all boys!!!........ 

[Zapatista]

Its not a hot water bottle!! Heres another one,

A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys. How can this be possible?

The other half are too?

[haranguerer]

Its not a hot water bottle!! Heres another one,

A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys. How can this be possible?

So it should read: A woman has 7 children, all of them are boys.

Sure thats not a riddle, s'just a statement...

[The Real Laoislad]

How can john terry put a ball through a 42 inch TV screen, with deadly accuracy,but miss a bigger target from a lesser distance

[Orior]

Heres an old one...

A man and his son are out for a walk one day on a country road when they are struck by a speeding car.

The father is killed instantly and the boy is rushed to hospital.

A nurse prepares the boy for surgery but as she brings him into the operating theatre the Doctor sees the boy and proclaims, "I cannot operate on this boy. He is my son."

Explain.

The driver of the car was drunk?

LOL

[Treasurer]

Not quite a riddle, but interesting nonetheless IMHO

There are three doors. One hides a prize, and there is nothing behind the other two. You don't know where the prize is, but I do. You must try to find the prize. I let you choose one, without opening it. Then, from the remaining two doors, I pick one that I know is empty and open it to show you. Then I give you a last chance. You can keep your original choice or you can switch to the remaining door. Should you switch?

[fred the red]

Is that not of that 21 film?

change surely, 1 outta 2 is better than 1 outta 3.

[Puckoon]

No idea what I should do. I could have made it easy for you to pick an empty door to show me, by leaving you with two empty doors. Or, you could know for sure that only one of the doors is empty as I hold the other empty one.


Id change my mind probably.

[Niall Quinn]

I kind of liked this one - very controversial when she first suggested it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_vos_Savant

Perhaps the most well known event involving vos Savant began with a question in her 9 September 1990 column:

"Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you: 'Do you want to pick door #2?' Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?" —Craig F. Whitaker, Columbia, Maryland

This question, named "the Monty Hall problem" because of its similarity to scenarios on game show Let's Make a Deal, existed long before being posed to vos Savant, but was brought to nationwide attention by her column. Vos Savant answered arguing that the selection should be switched to door #2 because it has a 2/3 chance of success, while door #1 has just 1/3. This response provoked letters of thousands of readers, nearly all arguing doors #1 and #2 each have an equal chance of success. A follow-up column reaffirming her position served only to intensify the debate and soon became a feature article on the front page of The New York Times. Among the ranks of dissenting arguments were hundreds of academics and mathematicians excoriating her for propagating innumeracy.[13]

Under the most common interpretation of the problem where the host opens a losing door and offers a switch, vos Savant's answer is correct because her interpretation assumes the host will always avoid the door with the prize. However, having the host opening a door at random, or offering a switch only if the initial choice is correct, is a completely different problem, and is not the question for which she provided a solution. In Vos Savant's second followup, she went further into an explanation of her assumptions and reasoning, and called on school teachers to present the problem to each of their classrooms. In her final column on the problem, she announced the results of the more than a thousand school experiments. Nearly 100% of the results concluded that it pays to switch. Of the readers who wrote computer simulations of the problem, about 97% reached the same conclusion. A majority of respondents now agree with her original solution, with half of the published letters declaring the letter writers had changed their minds.