Riddle of the Day

[Gizmokid2005]

What does the following sentence mean?

"Superfluous chronological dispatch institutes riddance of valued effects."

ANSWER (Congrats acoustikarl): Haste makes waste.

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NEXT RIDDLE:

You hear it speak for it has a hard tongue. It cannot breathe for it has not a lung. What is it?

[acoustikarl]

NEXT RIDDLE:

You hear it speak for it has a hard tongue. It cannot breathe for it has not a lung. What is it?

My ex-wife ... oh wait, that says lung not heart.

[Gizmokid2005]

My ex-wife ... oh wait, that says lung not heart.

Nice one. But you are right, says lungs not heart.

[mrweasel]

My ex-wife ... oh wait, that says lung not heart.

Damn! yours too? Maybe there was something going around...

[Gizmokid2005]

You hear it speak for it has a hard tongue. It cannot breathe for it has not a lung. What is it?

ANSWER: A bell.

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NEXT RIDDLE:

I am two faced, but bear only one; I have no legs but travel far; I have the greatest power when given away. What am I?

[Gizmokid2005]

I am two faced, but bear only one; I have no legs but travel far; I have the greatest power when given away. What am I?

ANSWER (Stumped again??): A coin.

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NEXT RIDDLE: Often held but never touched, always wet but never rusts, is often bit but seldom bites; to use me well you must have wit. What am I?

[acoustikarl]

ANSWER (Stumped again??): A coin.

cauzomb had it right. Money is the root of all evil, as the verse is often misquoted.

NEXT RIDDLE: Often held but never touched, always wet but never rusts, is often bit but seldom bites; to use me well you must have wit. What am I?

The tongue.

[Gizmokid2005]

NEXT RIDDLE: Often held but never touched, always wet but never rusts, is often bit but seldom bites; to use me well you must have wit. What am I?

ANSWER (Congrats acoustikarl): Tongue

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NEXT RIDDLE:

Break it and it is better, immediately set and harder to break again. What is it?

[acoustikarl]

NEXT RIDDLE:

Break it and it is better, immediately set and harder to break again. What is it?

An egg?

[Gizmokid2005]

Break it and it is better, immediately set and harder to break again. What is it?

ANSWER: A record.

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NEXT RIDDLE:

Explain: If a large solid-hoofed mammal becomes available to you without compensation, refrain from casting your faculty for seeing into the oral cavity of such a creature.