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I Do Love the Holidays
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Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.Riddle
You will know that I am coming
From the jingle of my bell,
But exactly who I am is not an easy thing to tell.
Children, they adore me
for they find me jolly,
but I do not see them when the halls are decked with holly.
My job often leaves me frozen,
I am a man that all should know,
But I do not do business in times of sleet or ice or snow.
I travel much on business,
But no reindeer haul me around,
I do all my traveling firmly on the ground.
I love the time of Christmas,
But that's not my vocational season,
And I assure that is because of a sound economic reason.
From the jingle of my bell,
But exactly who I am is not an easy thing to tell.
Children, they adore me
for they find me jolly,
but I do not see them when the halls are decked with holly.
My job often leaves me frozen,
I am a man that all should know,
But I do not do business in times of sleet or ice or snow.
I travel much on business,
But no reindeer haul me around,
I do all my traveling firmly on the ground.
I love the time of Christmas,
But that's not my vocational season,
And I assure that is because of a sound economic reason.
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Nice! Very well thought out, and made me think. Had to read it three times (doh!) before I got it.
that's a good teaser! I like it!
Dec 29, 2004
That teaser was fun! My boyfriend got it in a second, but I had trouble figuring it out. Well done!
Very well done and enjoyable!
this was good but i was completely stumped! I'm in Australia, so our Mr. Whippy (or ice cream man) comes around A LOT during the christmas break...in fact i think i hear him now
I was thinking mailman but ice cream man is better.
that's cute!
the fist thing that i thought of was mailman too.
lol!!! that is funny! at first, i thot that the answer was snow! well...guess not!!!
Baffled needs to grow up. Cute Riddle!!
I just love ice cream!
at first i thought it was the snowman but then i got it! this was a good one!!
I m guessing before i see the answer.
Its really easy.
The Ice Cream Man!!!
Its really easy.
The Ice Cream Man!!!
YYYYYYAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY. Im right!!!!!! It was really easy though
That was good!
Heres one... Whats the best way to get rid of baffeled? The answer :zip, squat, kerplop...oh, yeah and don't forget to flush!
omg that was a good teaser lol!!!!!!!
Jan 29, 2005
That was awsome!!! It had me baffled there for a second but i finally figured it out
Cute riddle i loved it!!!
Cute riddle i loved it!!!
A bit long but an excellent one
Jan 29, 2005
Very good! You had me going in circles!
Very easy and very fun!
That's a good one. You're very creative. Fantastic!!!!!!!
I had NO clue because out of all the places that I've lived so far there hasn't been an Ice cream man Ithought it was the Fed ex guy or the UPS guy.
this one was rather ssimple and i cant relly qulify it as a teaser
nice! it was a little difficult. I thought it was Santa
AT FIRST I THOUGHT IT WAS SANTA THEN "NO RAINDEER PULL ME ALONG" SO I WENT WHITH MY SECCOND GESE AND I WAS RIGHT YAY
Oh, ho, ho How brilliant!!!
real cute. . the whole image of santa claus could not escape mind until coincidently an ice cream truck passed by. . lucky me i guess. .
cute teaser!! at first i thought of a cat (with a bell on its collar) but it didn't fit with the other clues...brought back fond memories of my childhood
i got it in 30 seconds!!! yay!! great teaser.
Didn't see that one coming!
That was adorable! It took me a sec, but I figured it out!
cute
this was rellya good one. this is the first one i got right...lol well after thinking the mail man i got it .lol
That's clever and it's not at all what I expected!! Good one!
good one, at first i thought it was a snowman!
Got this after a little thought. Liked the poetry, liked the riddle. Good one!
i thought it was the mailman at first too! nice
I really liked this teaser! This is the best one I've seen on this site. It took until the very last line for me to get it. I am in awe of you.
to easy but fun
i really liked this one. at first i thought it was santa until the reindeer part and then i thought it was a snowman. didn't see it coming at all. that was great.
That was an easy one, but good nonetheless.
Good job. Of course, the first thing that came to mind was Santa until the holly clue. Then the frozen. Add that to jolly (jolly cone) and poof - ice cream man.
Cute and well written.
Cute and well written.
Great teaser, but i just have one question, how does the ice cream man love the time of christmas? i mean, how do you assume they do? they dont sell ice cream at christmas, and what if they dont celebrate it?
I only read the first stanza and I got it.
Easy.
(pretty good poem though)
Easy.
(pretty good poem though)
Fun teaser! nice and easy!
it was fun, but it was too easy to really be worthwhile
EASY? Only when I knew the answer, but it was a coooool one
I thought it was the mailman! but icecream man is good enough for me!!
Nice and easy!!
Fine verse! Liked the clues.
Interesting but fairly simple teaser. Give us more!
Interesting but fairly simple teaser. Give us more!
Who is this "baffled" character?
I loved this one. It was easy and fun.
Well written too.
I loved this one. It was easy and fun.
Well written too.
Yay! I got it. Anyone want icecream?
Nice riddle. Easy though.
Hey! Can't there be a place where one can read the deleted entries if they wish? I, for one, would find it very interesting. I hate it when there are comments about comments I cannot read. Just a thought.
Hey! Can't there be a place where one can read the deleted entries if they wish? I, for one, would find it very interesting. I hate it when there are comments about comments I cannot read. Just a thought.
At first, I thought it was Santa.
Nice teaser, if not a little ethnocentric, since only in the northern hemisphere is it true. But, hey, ya can't be politically correct all the time, to all the people. Good job.
That was very well-written! Good idea about the seeming St. Nic answer. This would be excellent for kids: to introduce them to teasers and how the apparent answer may not be the right one.
I take it the "this is offensive" is part of the new format. Couldn't it be either smaller, or on the right bottom, or say: "If this comment was offensive, click here."? It seems too visible and at first glance it seems that all the comments are offensive. I wish it could be less "negative seeming", have like, you know, less of a negative vibe-o, you know, bro?
Thanks for the good teaser, Thanks!
I take it the "this is offensive" is part of the new format. Couldn't it be either smaller, or on the right bottom, or say: "If this comment was offensive, click here."? It seems too visible and at first glance it seems that all the comments are offensive. I wish it could be less "negative seeming", have like, you know, less of a negative vibe-o, you know, bro?
Thanks for the good teaser, Thanks!
Nice one! I enjoyed the deliberate attempt to make the reader assume it was something else, the 'jingle' rings an instant bell and throws you off!
I don't normally like riddles, but this was excellent!!
The bell is sometime replaced by music and even by voice of the pushcart peddlers selling there frozen treats. A real cool one.
I didn't get it at first because in our neighborhood we have THREE ice cream guys who drive around, and they don't jingle, they play some silly tune over a speaker over and over and over... but then I remembered that the ice cream men used to have bells instead of music, so I took a guess and I was right. This is a good teaser!
Cute - got it right away. Thanks
Very well written. I thought Santa until the sleet and snow part and then it took me a while but I got it right.
Very cute!! And fun!
at first i thought the Easter bunny but i got it at the last sec good one very creative
at first i thought the Easter bunny but i got it at the last sec good one very creative
it could be SNOW too
I thought it was jolly old saint nick for a second!
Nice one! It took me a minute....at first I was thinking Jack Frost...lol
I loved it! It was so cute! I'm thinking Santa and then I don't know but it was cool all the same. Good Job!
Haha, you got me there! I could never think of that! Good job and nice poem.
I thought it was a little too long...but otherwise a pretty good teaser
Maybe it's because my dad WAS an ice cream man that I got this one in an instant. L VE it!!!
Again we do have some out there who are good a writing in rhyme. Enjoyable and creative. Was too easy for me tho as I'm old enough to remember the "bells" on the local ice cream man's truck. Why would you like to read unpleasant verbage rediculing the hard work someone goes to when this is such a good will site? There is already too much sadness in the world. Let's keep this HAPPY!!!
YAY I got it RIGHT!!!
I got it right! GOOD one
Easy, even if round here, Christmas is exactly the season for the icecream van.
that was easy but very Kewl peachie fun
Wow, I actually got that one!!!!
i feel like im stupid or somethin' - i thought it was a mailman - but they don't jingle!!
Wonderful riddle!!! Good job!!!
What a treat!
ICE CREAM, ANYONE?
Clever rhyme!
When I was a kid, we didn't call him an "ice cream man." He was a "paletero." They're still around to this day and they STILL have the real jingling bells. " 'Member? You 'member!" Not really all that important, but all my Latinos out there know exactly what I'm talking about with both of those references!
By the way, I think Moqur used "ethnocentric" wrong. I think he meant to say "culturally-biased." Or maybe "hemispherically-biased?" Whatever. I was offended, so I'm suing! (Just kidding, people. I loved the teaser...)
By the way, I think Moqur used "ethnocentric" wrong. I think he meant to say "culturally-biased." Or maybe "hemispherically-biased?" Whatever. I was offended, so I'm suing! (Just kidding, people. I loved the teaser...)
That was cute. I had to think a second about who, besides santa, it could be. But I got it fairly easily. Great job! We called ours "Dan, Dan, the icecream man!" He was awesome
yea!!! fun easy!!
great!!
great!!
That was fantastic. Really made me think a lot to get the answer
Great, I would have gotten it eventually if I actually tried to figure it out. Oh well, I thought it was the UPS man! lol silly me.
THAT WAS SOOO EASY!!!!! MAYBE BECAUSE I LOVE THE ICE CREAM MAN, AND I CANT WAIT 'TIL SUMMER!!!!
That was funny!
That is a very very good teaser it's awsome!
WOW!!!!!! that was so fun. First i was thinking santa clause lol
that was a good one i want to tell my teacher taht someday!! lol thanxs
that was a good one i want to tell my teacher taht someday!! lol thanxs
really cool that you got it to ryme. Great job!
I just joined and I thought this one was very cute. Warm + Jingley = The Ice Cream Man
(I still have the Palletta (sp?) Man in my "hood too.)
(I still have the Palletta (sp?) Man in my "hood too.)
Very well written -- but I didn't get the answer.
Extremely easy but very nicely written x
A favorite over here too (PRC), but usually just they're just vocal and push their dry ice cart around Hutongs and parks. Well written teaser.
I liked it. It was on the easy side but it was very well written. Great job!!!
very entertaining..it took a couple of miniutes to get it ...great job..
I had no idea, it could have been a number of people. Nicely written.
I got it!!! Fun and easy.
THE "GOOD HUMOR" MAN HERE:
CUTE AND EASY.
CUTE AND EASY.
What a cute teaser! Keep up the great work!
I don't usually 'get' riddles, but I got this one in the time it took to read it. (Actually less, since I didn't need the whole thing.) Fun, fun, fun!
Where did vierma's comment come from? A deleted message?
I really appreciate Imurray's efforts since the new year!
Where did vierma's comment come from? A deleted message?
I really appreciate Imurray's efforts since the new year!
Excellent Riddle, wonderfully written. And yes I remember the Good Humor man too!
Great Job! It may have ben easy for some people, but I think it was one of those that fooled most people for a moment until their brains did a "focus" adjustment and then the answer came soon after. It was well-written and fun; what more can one expect from this site. I haven't seen many better anywhere else. I appreciate your work!
An excellantly presented teaser! Anyone casting a negative comment on this one, can only be wanting something to knock down. Keep up the wonderful work! Will be looking for more of these in the future. WTG!
Very well-written and enjoyable.
Very cleverly written! Good Job!
ooh mannn thats totally awesome! didnt get it but i like it!!!!
Nice job - I love Holiday's too but summer is best.
This was fun! I actually got it and I am new to doing riddles. Thanks.
This was a very fun , funny , and cool teaser. It was contradicting itself so much, that I couldn't get it, but I laughed right when I saw the answer. Thanks!!!!
I had to go get a popcycle from the freezer after I got this one! I like the way you think. Entertaining to read and fun to solve!
that was so hard but great riddle!
This was a funny teaser
Fun and creative! Good job!
Very fun! I got it (after mulling over a few options) because of the bell part.
Though it's tempting, I'm not going to say that a riddle's easy from now on because I like easier riddles. Personally, if they're too hard, I probably won't want to do it. Saying it's easy makes it sound like it's a negative aspect of the riddle, when I usually like 'em like this! [/rant]
Though it's tempting, I'm not going to say that a riddle's easy from now on because I like easier riddles. Personally, if they're too hard, I probably won't want to do it. Saying it's easy makes it sound like it's a negative aspect of the riddle, when I usually like 'em like this! [/rant]
Perfect Loved the writing and the clues and I Got it THX Looking forward to more.
Extremely clever!!!! I love it!!!!
Great rhyming too!!!!
Great rhyming too!!!!
Aw... not santa?
Clever!
ICE CREAM MAN!!!! thought it was jack frost
I feel like ice cream right now.
Cold.
Bah!
I love the deceptive quality to the whole christmassy-sound to the teaser (although I didn't think about how the Aussies would be misled by this until reading a few of their comments!) Very well done!
Cold.
Bah!
I love the deceptive quality to the whole christmassy-sound to the teaser (although I didn't think about how the Aussies would be misled by this until reading a few of their comments!) Very well done!
quite rad!
very cute
thought it was santa until you said no reighndeer
then i guesed again and was right
thought it was santa until you said no reighndeer
then i guesed again and was right
Haha..
I was thinking "A delivery man? The Fed-Ex guy..?"
haha.
Good one!
I was thinking "A delivery man? The Fed-Ex guy..?"
haha.
Good one!
Silly, silly me! !!
A creative teaser that misled me away from Santa Clause and away from the ice cream man!!!
Silly, silly me
A creative teaser that misled me away from Santa Clause and away from the ice cream man!!!
Silly, silly me
The whoel santa clause thing through me off. I loved it!
Love it, Love it!!!
That was a very good, unexpected twist.
Nov 17, 2007
nice loved it
Very nice. I did not solve it but I liked it.
Wow!!! First I thought it was Jack FRost or something but then my sister said it was the ICECREAM MAN!! And it was right!! It made so much more sense!! LOL!!
I loved the riddle. I needed to see the answer to figure it out, though.
Incredibly well thought out. Brilliant teaser! BRAVO!
Excellent teaser...really made me think! lol
I had to read it twice to get the answer but this was a very good one... bravo!
It was pretty easy (which just means i could get it without TOO much of a problem ) but it was so CUTE!!! Heehee. I liked it.
That is very clever.
Apparently I'm getting better at these. The first time around, back in 2000-whatever, I must have been stumped, because I rated this one difficult. But today, even though I didn't remember ever seeing it before, I immediately thought "Aha, the ice cream man!" No way to go back and change my rating to easy, though. Oh well, make way for the Emperor of Ice Cream!
I got this one but in reality I haven't seen the Ice Cream man during the winter in about 30 years. I remember we had Good Humor and Bungalow Bar trucks that used to come to my neighborhood. Now we have Mr. Softee but only in the summer.
Well written...good job! At first I thought it might be the Salvation Army bell ringer but that didn't quite make sense. Thanks for posting!
Definitely a good one, but I'm not sure I get the title?
Not bad, but I wouldn't have minded a hint.
I didn't figure it out, but it was a good one!
I didn't figure it out, but it was a good one!
i solved it
Did not take long to figure that one out. Cute and fun!
Strange. I got Ice Cream man after the second line then got confused trying to make sense of the rest of it.
I miss seeing the old familiar ice cream truck and hearing his bells. What a happy sound that was when we were kids. Hi to CB - hope you're having a great day!
Used to send the little ones out with a quarter,now have to give them $5 for there ice cream. And to my friend GW
When I was a kid the ice cream man was actually a teenager on a bicycle cart. A fesw years ago here in town someone bought 4 trucks and one operates in each end own. He's in my neck of the woods every Wednesday
I was stumped, & knew it would be obvious enough once I saw the answer-I did not think it too long, but more interesting!
I blew it thought it was winter. Liked it though.
Love it, clever riddle
I thought it was Santa Claus or Christmas.
How funny that back in 2009 I got it right, but this time I thought it was the Salvation Army guy, because of the bell.
nice, but a little bit too easy!
No doubt about it: this is a terrific riddle! I was stumped but it did finally dawn on me.
Not very hard.The children and frozen words gave it all.
That was a good teaser! Very fun.
Also, who is this 'Baffled' person?
Also, who is this 'Baffled' person?
"You will know that I am coming
From the jingle of my bell,
But exactly who I am is not an easy thing to tell."
The answer can't be ice cream man. When you hear those bells, you know exactly who it is.
From the jingle of my bell,
But exactly who I am is not an easy thing to tell."
The answer can't be ice cream man. When you hear those bells, you know exactly who it is.
I'm extremely surprised at the difficulty rating. I thought it was one of the easiest poem riddles I've read here.
Fun, easy and entertaining teaser. I got it fairly quickly.
It was confusing at 1st, but I got it once it said that stuff about the cold and snow and stuff.
I thought it was the pizza guy at first
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