Fred
2003-11-19 17:05:30 |
Riddle... "Brothers & Sisters"
On 12/30/2002 a riddle.. Brothers & Sisters" was posted by cyes.. I would like to make a old version of this..
When I was in Navy during the Korean war, we would fly way into North Korean behind emeny lines.. Generally there was five or six of us pilots flying bombing missions. Going to the bombing sites we would keep radio silence(no cummunications whatsoever) until we made our bombing runs. Then if we all were safe and no one got shot down, we could tell a "riddle" on the way back to the aircraft carrier. The riddle would take your mind off the war and calm you down.. Here is my riddle that no one solved.
I quote..
"Two men walking down a sidewalk next to a building that had a county jail on the second floor.. A man in a second story window behind bars waves. The man next to the building side, waves back at the person in the jail window. The other man says, "who was that man?"..
The other man says, "Brothers and Sisters I have none, that man's father is my father son"
Who was the man behind bars? |
FatBoy
2003-11-19 17:41:50 |
Re: Riddle...
Fred,
We do not normally post puzzles in the forums and solving them here is also frowned on. In this case though, I ca refer you to the original Trivial Persuit game which included that specific puzzle as a quesiton. Ask the next three trivial persuit players you meet, one of them is sure to answer.
SOrry to be a jerk abuot not answering here, but I am a slave to peer pressure. |
SilverKnight
2003-11-19 17:47:51 |
Re: Riddle...
Actually (and FatBoy is correct), Fred didn't really post a new problem here.
He is relating an anecdote in which he told the riddle to his peer pilots.
If you click the link, you'll see the problem that Fred is referencing, already exists on the site, almost verbatim.
--- SK |
Ashley
2004-02-04 11:21:47 |
Re: Riddle...
Just for the heck of it, the man behind bars was his son.
Besides, there are lots of ways to word this particular riddle. I once heard it as a man looking at a Wanted poster who spoke the rhyme to another man questioning as to who it was.
The simple way to think about this riddle is to realize that since he has no brothers or sisters, then the part that stated "is my father's son," can be reworded to "is me." I always liked that riddle. Sorry if I wasn't supposed to say anything, but this is my first forum posting. |
