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    I've been trying to figure out this riddle for the past hour....Help?

    There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?


    --Georg Christoph Litchenberg



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    Well, it has to start with a or i, right?



    Because there ain't no tits on the radio

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    Default Re: A riddle...

    The base word is Startling
    starting - staring - string - sting - sing - sin - in - I

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    When you lead a nontraditional life don't try to measure it with traditional milestones.

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    ^ englishforums.com

    you beat me to it

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    GRR! I've been working on this thing for an hour.


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    Quote Originally Posted by A_Guy
    ^ englishforums.com

    you beat me to it
    Hey, there's more than one way to skin a cat

    Quote Originally Posted by pheno View Post
    When you lead a nontraditional life don't try to measure it with traditional milestones.

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    Damn! Bridgette, you are good!!!

    Great job!!



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    Thank God for Internet Friends!

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    Default Re: A riddle...

    My professor sent me this one.


    Every day Derek goes to the subway and takes either the northbound train to his girlfriend Prudence, or the southbound train to his mother. He goes straight to the station after work, and he always takes whichever train arrives first. There is a train every 10 minutes going north, and a train every 10 minutes going south, yet he finds that he goes north 4 times as often as he goes south.

    Why?


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    Default Re: A riddle...

    The train going south leaves two minutes after the train going north.

    For example, suppose that the northbound train departs on the 0's, e.g. 2:10, 2:20, etc. and that the southbound train departs on the 2's, e.g. 2:12, 2:22, then if Derek arrives on a 1 or a 2, he will catch a southbound train, the other eight minutes (in every ten minute interval) he will go north. So, given that he arrives at random times, the ratio of minutes in which he will go north vs. south will be 8:2 or 4:1.

    Disclaimer: These are not my words. I stole them off a journal after finding the answer through Google.. LOL.. I cheat, and I'm proud of it!

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    Yay, You're so precious Rhia!


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    He's Horney?

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    He heads north 4 times as much simply because even tho his girlfreind bitches and moans she puts out(sometimes even for him). If he headed south more often his mother would complain that he should find a nice girl, settle down and produce children so she can have grandbabies, she would also bitch that he needs a haircut, should find a better job, go to church needs to stop being such a mommas boy, etc.....
    After 1 too many trips south he would go to his local Walmart, buy a shotgun and wait for mom to come home where he is waiting for her...BANG!

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    hey you guys stop looking up the answers online....what kind of cheapo shite is that?

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    Default Re: A riddle...

    Quote Originally Posted by tiamaria
    He's Horney?
    LOL! I was gonna suggest that.

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    When you lead a nontraditional life don't try to measure it with traditional milestones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AinNY
    hey you guys stop looking up the answers online....what kind of cheapo shite is that?
    Like I said babes, more than one way to skin a cat. Who says the hard way is the best way?

    ...well unless you're talking about sex

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bridgette
    LOL! I was gonna suggest that.

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    I love riddles. Will fire in a few of my own when I have time. x
    You are the envy
    of all parallel lines that
    dream of curves and convergence
    - Sara Bailey: Sieve of Words

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