Help Needed

[gfunk.]

Was posed with a riddle on friday and as a rule i'm quite good with them, however this one's a real kicker,

3 doctors are traveling through a desert, when they come across a drowned donkey lying before them, no planes have passed over head in months and the near'st watering hole is over five hundred miles away. The question of course is how did a donkey drown in a desert?

I dont have a clue and have just searched the web with no luck, any one have any ideas???

[jackr]

Was posed with a riddle on friday and as a rule i'm quite good with them, however this one's a real kicker,

3 doctors are traveling through a desert, when they come across a drowned donkey lying before them, no planes have passed over head in months and the near'st watering hole is over five hundred miles away. The question of course is how did a donkey drown in a desert?

I dont have a clue and have just searched the web with no luck, any one have any ideas???

Captain Kirk drowned the donkey and beamed him down to the desert to conceal the evidence ...?

[gfunk.]

like it but i dont think thats the right answer, i'll call my friend and check any way

[fatter than harry]

You sure it wasn't 'a dessert', a blamanche incident could explain the drowned donkey.

[Sulaphat]

Desert got cold at night and Donkey caught pneumonia. Lungs filled with fluid and Donkey drowned.

[Gazza]

The donkey was found drowned in a dried up river bed after a flash flood. Some deserts can receive too much rain all at once then nothing for bloody ages.

Or, the donkey drowned in a mirage?

Or, the donkeys lungs filled with sand during a sandstorm?

[Sulaphat]

If the lack of flora or fauna on the earth's surface constitutes a desert, then is the ocean a desert? Diddn't the Eagles say so in one of their songs?

[stumonster]

its a mirage, the doctors are suffering from heat stress

[Abandon]

Why 3 doctors I wonder. why 3. why not one Doctor. why a doctor and not a scientist, or a taxidermist.... the answer lies there

[Jockstar]

Before it was a desert it was covered with water. this is when it drowned. Maybe?

[Sulaphat]

Why 3 doctors I wonder.  why 3. why not one Doctor. why a doctor and not a scientist, or a taxidermist.... the answer lies there

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Yes. That must be the key.

What kind of doctors were they? Witch doctors? Why were the doctors in the desert, too?

[withnail]

Can't you drown in quicksand?

[Totster]

Can't you drown in quicksand?

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You can only drown in a liquid... in sand you would suffocate

totster

[jackr]

Desert got cold at night and Donkey caught pneumonia.  Lungs filled with fluid and Donkey drowned.

There's your answer gfunk. Well done Sulaphat. Kirk could also be the perpetrator, although slightly less likely; he's not the murdering type.

[Ajarn]

Can't you drown in quicksand?

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You can only drown in a liquid... in sand you would suffocate

totster

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Quicksand is water and sand....

[etxkgh]

Was posed with a riddle on friday and as a rule i'm quite good with them, however this one's a real kicker,

3 doctors are traveling through a desert, when they come across a drowned donkey lying before them, no planes have passed over head in months and the near'st watering hole is over five hundred miles away. The question of course is how did a donkey drown in a desert?

I dont have a clue and have just searched the web with no luck, any one have any ideas???

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Simple ,the donkey had been washed up on the beach, the desert extended to the sea as it does in many places.

[jackr]

Was posed with a riddle on friday and as a rule i'm quite good with them, however this one's a real kicker,

3 doctors are traveling through a desert, when they come across a drowned donkey lying before them, no planes have passed over head in months and the near'st watering hole is over five hundred miles away. The question of course is how did a donkey drown in a desert?

I dont have a clue and have just searched the web with no luck, any one have any ideas???

Simple ,the donkey had been washed up on the beach, the desert extended to the sea as it does in many places.

Never heard of a sea retreating 500 miles in the time it'd take a donkey's body to decompose. But then again, the sea isn't classed as a watering hole, so to speak; so you could be right. Good thinking

[medicinebox]

The donkey vomited, and drown in its own sick.

[Totster]

The donkey vomited, and drown in its own sick.

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Bloody chang....

totster

[gfunk.]

BTW the donkey was still wet, i do also think the answer is something to do with 3 doctors, will try to get the real answer today, and post it,

[drummer]

If the lack of flora or fauna on the earth's surface constitutes a desert, then is the ocean a desert?  Diddn't the Eagles say so in one of their songs?

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To get really anal, I think the oceans actually hold the vast majority of the Earth's flora and fauna....

[Sulaphat]

If the lack of flora or fauna on the earth's surface constitutes a desert, then is the ocean a desert?  Diddn't the Eagles say so in one of their songs?

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To get really anal, I think the oceans actually hold the vast majority of the Earth's flora and fauna....

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True, but not on the surface.

[jackr]

If the lack of flora or fauna on the earth's surface constitutes a desert, then is the ocean a desert?  Diddn't the Eagles say so in one of their songs?

To get really anal, I think the oceans actually hold the vast majority of the Earth's flora and fauna....

True, but not on the surface.

...seaweed and Jaws

gfunk, have you got the answer yet? Still think Sulaphat's original answer is the correct one, though.

[Gazza]

And the answer to the riddle is.............??????

[Abandon]

Yeah - what's the chuffing answer??

[jackr]

...perhaps he went the same way as the donkey

[kayo]

The answer is...

Once there was a forest.

In the forest,

There was a fire.

No one knew how, what or even why.

The firemen were called,

Their planes and choppers flew wildly

With buckets that water did hold.

from the nearby little wadi´s.

Now Pedro was a pauper, but proud.

His donkey had won,

at the beauty contest a crown.

All was good and getting better,

on the day the fire did fetter.

Pedro jumped up and Donkey did tumble,

Into the wadi, where the choppers did fumble

with buckets and water and scoops and ...

Donkey and Pedro, once both so proud,

Now only Pedro for the donkey had drowned.

(Okay it started bad, and only got worse... but hey)