On Oct 14, 11:37 am, Short Wave Sportfishing
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On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:01:49 -0000,
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On Oct 14, 8:47 am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
There are three words in the English language that end in the letters
g-r-y. Two are "hungry" and "angry." Everyone knows what the third
word means, and everyone uses it every day. What is the third word?

Hint: It's boating related.

took me 30 seconds, but I cheated...

Wrong.

But you don't know my answer which is "energy" and by your quetion is
exactly right and I challenge you to prove otherwise..

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:42:52 -0000,
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On Oct 14, 11:37 am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:01:49 -0000,
wrote:

On Oct 14, 8:47 am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
There are three words in the English language that end in the letters
g-r-y. Two are "hungry" and "angry." Everyone knows what the third
word means, and everyone uses it every day. What is the third word?

Hint: It's boating related.

took me 30 seconds, but I cheated...

Wrong.

But you don't know my answer which is "energy" and by your quetion is
exactly right and I challenge you to prove otherwise..

And you cheated thus you are WRONG.

Heh, heh, heh...

On Oct 14, 8:38?am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:07:04 -0700, Chuck Gould





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On Oct 14, 5:47?am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
There are three words in the English language that end in the letters
g-r-y. Two are "hungry" and "angry." Everyone knows what the third
word means, and everyone uses it every day. What is the third word?

Hint: It's boating related.

Take your pick:

Each of these "gry" words can be found in one or more standard
dictionaries of English piublished within the last 75 years.

affect-hungry fire-angry MacLoingry Seagry
aggry Gagry mad-angry self-angry
Agry girl-hungry mad-hungry selfe-angry
ahungry gonagry magry sensation-hungry
air-hungry gry malgry sex-angry
anhungry haegry man-hungry sex-hungry
Badagry half-angry managry Shchigry
Ballingry hangry mannagry shiggry
begry heart-angry Margry Shtchigry
bewgry heart-hungry maugry sight-hungry
boroughmongry higry pigry mawgry skugry
bowgry hogry meagry Sygry
braggry hogrymogry meat-hungry Tangry
Bugry hongry menagry Tchangry
Chockpugry hound-hungry messagry Tchigry
Cogry houngry music-hungry tear-angry
cony-gry huggrymuggry nangry th'angry
conyngry hund-hungry overangry tike-hungry
cottagry Hungry Bungry Pelegry Tingry
Croftangry hwngry Pingry toggry
diamond-hungry iggry Podagry ulgry
dog-hungry Jagry Pongry unangry
dogge-hungry job-hungry pottingry vergry
Dshagry kaingry power-hungry Vigry
Dzagry land-hungry profit-hungry vngry
eard-hungry Langry puggry war-hungry
Echanuggry leather-hungry pugry Wigry
Egry ledderhungry red-angry wind-hungry
euer-angry life-hungry rungry yeard-hungry
ever-angry Lisnagry scavengry yird-hungry
fenegry losengry Schtschigry Ymagry

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Not wrong. Google up your riddle. You'll see dozens of references to
it, in at least three different versions. You would have needed to
reword your riddle for the most common trick answer, "language", to
make any logical sense.

Most of the references to your riddle remark either that it's a flawed
riddle without any actual answer.

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:03:23 -0700, Chuck Gould
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Most of the references to your riddle remark either that it's a flawed
riddle without any actual answer.

Look at it again - it's not flawed.

You are flawed.

And wrong.

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

As in wrong.

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:10:35 -0400, Gene Kearns
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On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:03:23 -0700, Chuck Gould penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:



Not wrong. Google up your riddle. You'll see dozens of references to
it, in at least three different versions. You would have needed to
reword your riddle for the most common trick answer, "language", to
make any logical sense.

Most of the references to your riddle remark either that it's a flawed
riddle without any actual answer.


Since you know that a word ending in "gry" isn't the answer.... search
for another logical solution to the puzzle.....

That would mean that Chuck is wrong.

And he is never wrong - told me so a while back. :)

On Oct 14, 1:16 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
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On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:10:35 -0400, Gene Kearns





wrote:
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:03:23 -0700, Chuck Gould penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

Not wrong. Google up your riddle. You'll see dozens of references to
it, in at least three different versions. You would have needed to
reword your riddle for the most common trick answer, "language", to
make any logical sense.

Most of the references to your riddle remark either that it's a flawed
riddle without any actual answer.

Since you know that a word ending in "gry" isn't the answer.... search
for another logical solution to the puzzle.....

That would mean that Chuck is wrong.

And he is never wrong - told me so a while back. :)- Hide quoted text -

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Is the answer "three"?

On Oct 14, 1:16 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
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On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:10:35 -0400, Gene Kearns





wrote:
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:03:23 -0700, Chuck Gould penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

Not wrong. Google up your riddle. You'll see dozens of references to
it, in at least three different versions. You would have needed to
reword your riddle for the most common trick answer, "language", to
make any logical sense.

Most of the references to your riddle remark either that it's a flawed
riddle without any actual answer.

Since you know that a word ending in "gry" isn't the answer.... search
for another logical solution to the puzzle.....

That would mean that Chuck is wrong.

And he is never wrong - told me so a while back. :)- Hide quoted text -

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And being the resident hippie, please take a second to tell me how the
word "energy" does not satisfy your riddle.

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
There are three words in the English language that end in the letters
g-r-y. Two are "hungry" and "angry." Everyone knows what the third
word means, and everyone uses it every day. What is the third word?

Hint: It's boating related.

the

On Oct 14, 10:15?am, Short Wave Sportfishing
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On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:03:23 -0700, Chuck Gould

wrote:
Most of the references to your riddle remark either that it's a flawed
riddle without any actual answer.

Look at it again - it's not flawed.

You are flawed.

Funny, I don't remember taking this to a personal level or insulting
you.
So what's your problem?


And wrong.

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

As in wrong.

As in wrong in your opinion.

Another opinion and some observations regarding your riddle:

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There are different versions of the 'gry' puzzle. This puzzle first
appeared in print in the year 1975.

Eight versions of the puzzle are as follows:

1. Think of words ending in "-gry". "Angry" and "hungry" are two of
them. There are only three words in "the English language." What is
the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If
you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

The answer is language.
It is the third word of "the English language". The question needs to
be spoken, otherwise the quotation marks give away the trick. This
version apparently originated in 1996.

2. "Angry" and "hungry" are two words in the English language that end
in "-gry". "What" is the third word. The word is something that
everyone uses everyday. If you have listened carefully, I have already
told you what it is.

The answer is what.
The question states that "what" is the third word, then it asks for
the third word. Again this version needs to be spoken to be
effective.

3. There are three words in English that end in "gree." The first two
are "angry" and "hungry," and if you've listened closely you'll agree
that I've told you the third one.

The answer is agree.
It is a phonetic version of the riddle, asking for words that end in
the sound "gree," but tricks people into thinking about the letters g-
r-y by giving the two examples.

4. There are three words in the English language that end in the
letters g-r-y. Two are "hungry" and "angry." Everyone knows what the
third word means, and everyone uses it every day. What is the third
word?

The answer is energy.
The question asks for a word ending with the three letters g-r-y, but
does not stipulate that they must be in that order.

5. There are at least three words in the English language that end in
g or y. One of them is "hungry," and another one is "angry." There is
a third word, a short one, which you probably say every day. If you
are listening carefully to everything I say, you just heard me say it
three times. What is it?

The answer is say.
The question must be said in such a way that the word "or" sounds like
the letter "r". Once more, to be effective it is crucial that this
version is spoken rather than printed. This version is first known to
have appeared in 1997.

6. There are three words in the English language that end in "-gry."
Two words that end in "-gry" are "hungry" and "angry." Everyone knows
what the third word means, and everyone uses them every day. If you
listened very carefully, I have already stated to you what the third
word is. What are the three words that solve this riddle?

The answer is I am hungry.
The question asks for three words that end in "-gry", but does not say
that they each must end in "-gry."

7. There are three words in the English language that end in "-gry."
One is "angry" and the other is "hungry." Everyone knows what the
third one means and what it stands for. Everyone uses them every day.
And if you listened carefully I've given you the third word, what is
it?

The answer is three.
It is the third word in the question, and the rest of the question is
irrelevant: a red herring designed to put the solver off.

8. There are only three words in the English language, all adjectives,
which end in "-gry." Two are "angry" and "hungry"; the third word
describes the state of the world today. What is it?

This is the (presumed) original version of the puzzle from 1975. The
possible answers (if obsolete words, names, and hyphenated compounds
of "angry" and "hungry" are allowed) are plentiful. Most of the 124
listed below were in the 1933 edition of the Oxford English
Dictionary, and all have appeared in some major dictionary of
English:

affect-hungry fire-angry MacLoingry Seagry
aggry Gagry mad-angry self-angry
Agry girl-hungry mad-hungry selfe-angry
ahungry gonagry magry sensation-hungry
air-hungry gry malgry sex-angry
anhungry haegry man-hungry sex-hungry
Badagry half-angry managry Shchigry
Ballingry hangry mannagry shiggry
begry heart-angry Margry Shtchigry
bewgry heart-hungry maugry sight-hungry
boroughmongry higry pigry mawgry skugry
bowgry hogry meagry Sygry
braggry hogrymogry meat-hungry Tangry
Bugry hongry menagry Tchangry
Chockpugry hound-hungry messagry Tchigry
Cogry houngry music-hungry tear-angry
cony-gry huggrymuggry nangry th'angry
conyngry hund-hungry overangry tike-hungry
cottagry Hungry Bungry Pelegry Tingry
Croftangry hwngry Pingry toggry
diamond-hungry iggry Podagry ulgry
dog-hungry Jagry Pongry unangry
dogge-hungry job-hungry pottingry vergry
Dshagry kaingry power-hungry Vigry
Dzagry land-hungry profit-hungry vngry
eard-hungry Langry puggry war-hungry
Echanuggry leather-hungry pugry Wigry
Egry ledderhungry red-angry wind-hungry
euer-angry life-hungry rungry yeard-hungry
ever-angry Lisnagry scavengry yird-hungry
fenegry losengry Schtschigry Ymagry



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On Oct 14, 10:16?am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:10:35 -0400, Gene Kearns





wrote:
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:03:23 -0700, Chuck Gould penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

Not wrong. Google up your riddle. You'll see dozens of references to
it, in at least three different versions. You would have needed to
reword your riddle for the most common trick answer, "language", to
make any logical sense.

Most of the references to your riddle remark either that it's a flawed
riddle without any actual answer.

Since you know that a word ending in "gry" isn't the answer.... search
for another logical solution to the puzzle.....

That would mean that Chuck is wrong.

And he is never wrong - told me so a while back. :)- Hide quoted text -

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-gry#Meta-puzzle_versions