beautiful monsters

Too much time on my hands

Yes. I have been watching too much Buffy. Well, Iona had some tapes she wanted to get rid of, and I’ve got a lot of catching up to do, and I had to make sure Spike came back, and find out why everyone keeps talking about Faith, and… and…

This evening I couldn’t watch any more Buffy because a) the video is in my flatmate’s room and he came home and turned out to be less of a Buffy fan… and b) there was something wrong with the tapes Iona gave me. They ran out.

So I found other ways to amuse myself. Like trying to find out the answer to a riddle I heard on the radio about six years ago. There’s this dead cow, lying in the middle of a field. None of the grass in the field has been disturbed, and the cow is perfectly intact. How did it die? If you know this riddle, please enlighten me, it’s been bugging me for ages.

I didn’t find the dead cow riddle on the net, but I found lots of others. I also found out that I suck at riddles. Here’s a few of the ones I got wrong… to help you out, I’ll give you a clue. None of the answers have anything to do with vampires. With or without souls.

(First person to get them all might just find a chocolate fish swimming their way).

With pointed fangs, I sit in wait
With piercing force, I dole out fate
Over bloodless victims proclaiming might
Eternally joining with a single bite.

I am a man, but will never have a wife.
I was given a body, but never life.
I was given a mouth, but never breath.
Water brings me life and the sun brings me death.

As I went over London Bridge
I met my sister Jenny
I broke her neck and drank her blood
And left her standing empty.

I am always hungry,
I must always be fed,
The finger I lick
Will soon turn red.

All day I will follow
No matter how fast you run,
Yet I nearly perish
In the midday sun.

Glittering points
That downward thrust,
Sparkling spears
That never rust.

Ripped from my mother's womb,
Beaten and burned,
I become a blood-thirsty slayer.
What am I?

With the vilest, I consort,
I'm quite at ease in depravity;
Yet all divines use me,
And savants can't lose me.

A woman shoots her husband.
Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes.
Finally, she hangs him.
But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together.

Posted by Fionnaigh at July 8, 2003 11:45 PM