Riddles

[Padiwan cichlidiot]

Post any riddles you know here, and find solutions to other people's riddles.

I'll begin (this one is from Tolkien)

This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.

 

[haynchinook334]

Time.

 

[Austin]

time

edit: beat me!

 

[Padiwan cichlidiot]

very good! Can one of you post another riddle?

 

[haynchinook334]

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

 

[Padiwan cichlidiot]

a towel

 

[Padiwan cichlidiot]

I asume that that is correct, here is the next one:

An Astronaut lands on an alien planet. He sees what he beleives to be 2435 male life forms, 4523 female life forms, and 504 of those he cannot identify. How many total aliens are on the planet?

 

[Camshaft Ramrod]

1, him

 

[Padiwan cichlidiot]

correct, can you please post the next riddle?

 

[Camshaft Ramrod]

pass