Riddle from the dark tower series

[bobquantum]

What has a mouth but cannot talk,
what can run but never walks?
what has a head but cannot weep.
what has a bed but cannot sleep?

 

[Evo]

What has a mouth but cannot talk,
what can run but never walks?
what has a head but cannot weep.
what has a bed but cannot sleep?

Sounds like a river to me.

 

[regor60]

too easy

 

[ƒ(x)]

I don't know...it could be a person who is in a hurry, has had his or her tongue and tear ducts removed, and has insomnia...tough call.

 

[Evo]

I don't know...it could be a person who is in a hurry, has had his or her tongue and tear ducts removed, and has insomnia...tough call.

Ahaha, you may be right.

 

[bobquantum]

Try this one: What English word is nine letters long, and can remain an English word at each step as you remove one letter at a time, right down to a single letter. List the letter you remove each time and the words that result at each step.

 

[bobquantum]

Hey. My university professir told me this one and I can't seem to get:

A farmer was going to town with a fox, a goose and a sack of corn. When he came to a stream, he had to cross in a tiny boat, and could only take across one thing at a time. However, if he left the fox alone with the goose, the fox would eat the goose, and if he left the goose alone with the corn, the goose would eat the corn. How does he get them all safely over the stream?

 

[Evo]

Hey. My university professir told me this one and I can't seem to get:

A farmer was going to town with a fox, a goose and a sack of corn. When he came to a stream, he had to cross in a tiny boat, and could only take across one thing at a time. However, if he left the fox alone with the goose, the fox would eat the goose, and if he left the goose alone with the corn, the goose would eat the corn. How does he get them all safely over the stream?

That's an old one.

Spoiler

Take the goose over first and come back. Then take the fox over and bring the goose back. Now take the corn over and come back alone to get the goose. Take the goose over and the job is done!

 

[Phyisab****]

Try this one: What English word is nine letters long, and can remain an English word at each step as you remove one letter at a time, right down to a single letter. List the letter you remove each time and the words that result at each step.

I want to know the answer!

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Try this one: What English word is nine letters long, and can remain an English word at each step as you remove one letter at a time, right down to a single letter. List the letter you remove each time and the words that result at each step.

Post office is like that and is 10 letters long.
What word changes from plural to singular when you add an 's' to the end of it?

 

[Phyisab****]

Post office is like that and is 10 letters long.
What word changes from plural to singular when you add an 's' to the end of it?

I don't get it? Are 6 of them words nobody has ever heard of?

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

I don't get it? Are 6 of them words nobody has ever heard of?

You can take thousands of letters from the post office, one letter at a time right down to the last letter, and the word stays the same.

 

[Phyisab****]

Oh man figures. I didn't think there was a word that could literally do that.

 

[DaveC426913]

What word changes from plural to singular when you add an 's' to the end of it?

Princes

 

[Onibabavn]

How about what word would change from singular to plural if you add an i at the end ?

 

[drizzle]

What has a mouth but cannot talk,
what can run but never walks?
what has a head but cannot weep.
what has a bed but cannot sleep?

needle
time
something
another something

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

How about what word would change from singular to plural if you add an i at the end ?

I was going to say Hawaii, but I think fascist works better. A more interesting word is tor, an archaic word that means hill and is singular. Adding an i gives tori, which is plural for torus, adding yet another i yeilds torii, a gate to a Japanese Shinto shrine and singular.

 

[ideasrule]

Post office is like that and is 10 letters long.
What word changes from plural to singular when you add an 's' to the end of it?

Nearly every verb?

 

[DaveC426913]

Nearly every verb?

Clever try but flawed. You cannot pluralize or singularize a verb.

I'll second guess your logic:

They run. He runs.

This is not pluralizing or singularizing the verb; it is changing the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb_conjugation#Verbal_agreement" with the subject.

 

[mystermenace]

Try this one: What English word is nine letters long, and can remain an English word at each step as you remove one letter at a time, right down to a single letter. List the letter you remove each time and the words that result at each step.

Spoiler

"Starlings" is one such word.