Sandy Wood
Brain Game: Another Dose of Riddlin’
by Sandy Wood - May 4, 2009 - 7:30 AM

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Even on a Monday, you can’t escape ”Poems Wot I Writ.” Here’s my newest. Can you decipher this rhyming riddle? Good luck!

They’re long and they’re sharp
And cycloptically scary
But tack on an “S”
And they’re unnecessary.

What are they?

Here is the SOLUTION.
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Comments (8)

  1. Ha. That was cute. I got it right away as soon as I read it through. Good way to start the week. Good Job Sandy.

    posted by Kev in GA on 5-4-2009 at 8:07 am

  2. It was almost like word association, needless popped into my head as soon as I read unnecessary.

    posted by GBurns on 5-4-2009 at 9:39 am

  3. Nice one! I love the phrase “cycloptically scary”.

    Got it by working backwards from synonyms for unnecessary.

    posted by Hodge on 5-4-2009 at 10:23 am

  4. What about nails? Add an S, and it becomes snails.
    I’ve always found them to be pretty useless.
    Stupid snails with their stupid slime trails mucking up my garden. Useless, I tell ya!

    posted by 8rustystaples on 5-4-2009 at 10:31 am

  5. Got it! But check it, if you add an S to the front instead of the back side, you get Sneedle. Sneedle was the Space Needle’s official mascot. Why they needed a mascot, who knows? But since they apparently no longer use it, further evidence that it was unnecessary.

    posted by Vik on 5-4-2009 at 12:12 pm

  6. Ha! I got “Sneedle” as well. Does that count?

    (reCaptcha: devolve Ionesco)

    posted by PJ on 5-4-2009 at 7:21 pm

  7. Good one, thanks Sandy.

    posted by Sue on 5-4-2009 at 10:29 pm

  8. is it supposed to be spelled “unncecessary” instead of “unnecessary”? there’s an extra c..

    but aside from nit-picking, good one. :)

    posted by lindsey on 5-4-2009 at 11:24 pm

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