ok the riddle is


My name isn't work, but i come before play, i come after the stone, that grapples for pay.

any ideas???? please heeeellllpppp me....LOL

Jeremy

(Chuckle...) This is a good one and I shan't spoil it for you.

so you know the answer???? i have no clue my brain isn't working well after working 12 hours at work....please tell me what the answer is.....LOL

Jeremy

A stone that grapples for pay? Hmmm. I have'nt seen any stones that grapple for pay lately. On the other hand I have seen people pay to grapple stones.

Well, I just had to work this out. Came up with:

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foley

I hope you weren't spending 12 hours trying to solve this while at work.

Beer, duh.

Well, I can see how you came up with that from the 'wrestling' reference, but I don't see how it fits in with the first part of the riddle.

I don't see how that fits either part...

My guess, is Cold
Fits both parts...

My name isn't work, but i come before play, i come after the stone, that grapples for pay.

Beer comes before play, as in, you drink and then you play. It comes before stone like the grindstone work when your getting money, like you get paid and you go out to a bar and drink away half your paycheck.

Ugh, dont pay any attention. I'm tripping mushrooms right now, ha.

So where did this riddle come (back) from? A television show of some kind, I take it? (I don't watch TeeVee.) It seems to be popping up everywhere but only in the past week or so.

A very similar riddle was told to me by my great-aunt when I was just a sprat, and the answer she gave me then (only after many weeks, the ol bat ....) still fits. And that's the fun of a riddle. You try to work it out for yourself.

I'll give you a slight clue, though. The original version of this riddle that I heard used slightly different words. And, most good riddles aren't simply word-completion puzzles where you look for a single missing word, prefix or suffix. If this is some kind of a contest, as I surmise that it is, anyone would know about regular expressions and /usr/share/dict/words. Someone would have done that and posted it before the night was through.

Usually a part of the puzzle is intended to set your mind off onto what might be the wrong track, such as "my name isn't work, but ..." But it could also be just to make it rhyme. In the Victorian era, riddles were a favorite form of parlor entertainment. Some are dated now, but many are not. Consider, for example, just how many interpretations there are for the word "before."

Oh, this is rich. And it seems to have been a great promotion for answers.yahoo.com since every single "hit" on the phrase leads there and, curiously, nowhere else.

Read Asimov's short story, "Jokester" for an explanation of this phenomenon.

wouldn't it just be sleep or rest????