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[naoko]

Hah! When I read the first question, I instantly thought: "herpes?"

my thoughts exactly...

[Vishmi]

Spoiler for Wierd Answers

1. Smile
2. Sieve
3. Father is the Sun and son is the Moon. (Perhaps son is snow)
4. May be Smoke
5. Secret

1)What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone else?
2)What is round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, and still the oceans couldn't fill it up?
3)Scarcely was the father in this world when the son could be found sitting on the roof.
4)What goes up the chimney down, but can't go down the chimney up?
5)When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing.

My mind is a sieve with the holes getting bigger every day.

Edited by Vishmi, 14 May 2008 - 09:26 AM.

[Pzlmenot]

I think the answer to 5. is Mystery.

[ktglo4him]

1)What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone else?
2)What is round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, and still the oceans couldn't fill it up?
3)Scarcely was the father in this world when the son could be found sitting on the roof.
4)What goes up the chimney down, but can't go down the chimney up?
5)When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing.

My mind is a sieve with the holes getting bigger every day.

Spoiler for The first 2

1. A cold.
2. A sieve.

[woon]

Spoiler for As for number 5, how about...

secret?

[elderw2]

couldn't you catch a cold.....?
and can't smoke go up a chimney buut never comes down......?

[lemonymelon]

glad we finally started using spoilers

Spoiler for 2

colander

[Bill47]

1)What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone else?
2)What is round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, and still the oceans couldn't fill it up?
3)Scarcely was the father in this world when the son could be found sitting on the roof.
4)What goes up the chimney down, but can't go down the chimney up?
5)When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing

Spoiler for My thoughts on 1-4

#1 Could be either your name or your word. A father gives his name to his son, etc. OR You can give your word and you can keep your word after giving it. (Herpes? C'mon we're talking classic puzzles here not social commentary)

#2 Is a sieve - the Oceans can't fill it.

#3 Fire and Smoke. The reference to the Father being in this world and the son sitting on the roof is a metaphor - Scarcely has the fire been lit when the smoke is seen "on the roof" - coming out of the chimney. Fire is the Father of Smoke.

#4 the classic answer to this one is an umbrella

Edited by Bill47, 04 August 2008 - 09:11 PM.

[marv]

Spoiler for Answers

1)Phone Number
2)Sieve
3)Fire
4)Umbrella
5)Mystery

lol at the STD comment

[strawberryfieldsforever]

i cant believe nobody get these:

Spoiler for .

1)What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone else? -YOUR NAME
2)What is round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, and still the oceans couldn't fill it up? (A WELL, an old kindergarten riddle)
3)Scarcely was the father in this world when the son could be found sitting on the roof. -FIRE AND SMOKE
4)What goes up the chimney down, but can't go down the chimney up? -UMBRELLA
5)When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing -NOTHING