Riddles

[B787_300]

Was it the day when all the digits of the day month year matched up? eg 11/11/11?

[cantab]

It was not. And when would the next one be? Well, unless you count 11/11/11111

[kahlzun]

Olympic games?

[cantab]

Nope. Did we have that guessed already?

[EdFred]

cantab, your riddles are the equivalent of having the rest of you trying guess my dog's birth date. Too esoteric. Dumb it down a little.

[StrandedonEarth]

Presidential election day in the US of freakin' A (hey, I'm a poet and didn't know it)

[KerBlam]

Damn you just beat me to elections

[cantab]

It is a day I expect everyone on the forum, whatever their country, will know about and acknowledge is unusual. Though I can't guarantee the references in the lines will be culturally-universal (I don't think it would be possible to write a riddle that entirely was), I just go for stuff I think is reasonably well-known from my English point of view.

And not election day. Not any election day.

[KerBlam]

Blerrrrrgh It will be some english nonsense that nobody has ever heard of outside the UK then... Tea and scones day.

[B787_300]

what is it Boxing day?

[KerBlam]

February 29th?

[cantab]

February 29th?

And we finally have our winner!

'twas a day, like no other, - All other days happen every year.

'twas a day, there'll be another, - Obviously.

'twas a day, the routine broke, - The routine of the calendar with February having 28 days.

'twas a day, the woman spoke, - The tradition that a woman may propose to a man on the 29th February.

'twas a day, to end, it's fate, - Simply the end of the month.

'twas a day, to celebrate, - If it's your birthday. And yes that goes for other days but it's an especially big deal for Feb 29th peeps.

'twas a day, that much is plain, - Just in case you thought it wasn't.

'twas a riddle, to puzzle your brain. - Filler.

[KerBlam]

!! I thought so... I remembered vaguely the women proposing thing...

Ok here's one.

A young Kerbal walks through the forest. He comes to a bridge. In front of the bridge is a large Kerbal carrying an axe. The man says, "If you want to cross this bridge, you must tell me a statement. If I think the statement is true, you will be strangled to death. If I say the statement is false, your head will be chopped off." A few minutes later, the young Kerbal walked over the bridge, while the larger Kerbal stood pondering. What was the statement the young Kerbal had given?

[cantab]

The young Kerbal points skywards and says "Hey, that rocket looks like it's heading right for us!". Then he scurries over the bridge while the old Kerbal is distracted

[EdFred]

"This statement is false"

[KerBlam]

A Kerbal fears not these things, but that's not the answer I'm looking for.

edit: This statement is false: not the answer I'm looking for, but a nice try. He would still get strangled to death.

[cantab]

You'll 'ave to chop me 'ead off then, won't ya.

[KerBlam]

I'll accept that

The young Kerbal logic bombs him by looking him in the eye and saying "You will cut off my head". The large Kerbal is confounded and has to let him live.

[Bill Phil]

Oh great. Another Cantab riddle, eh?

PS: I knew it was a date!

[vexx32]

Well, hopefully it'll be something less entirely ambiguous this time.

[cantab]

That coming from you

Anyway I have one fairly quickly this time.

Created to do what it now cannot,

Destination unchanged yet not what it was,

A decade to go, mere hours to return,

Come this year's summer, things it shall discern.

[Red Iron Crown]

New Horizons?

[cantab]

Got it in one

[Bill Phil]

It took almost a hundred posts for your twas a day riddle...

[vexx32]

I'd say that's because it was vague enough that just about any answer fit; we were pretty much playing guess what he was thinking, more or less.

Anyway, Red's turn.