Colorful riddles

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Colorful riddles

1EndofDiskOne
Nov 24, 2025, 11:31 pm

"Riddle me THIS, wizard: Who is in garish Technicolor when all else is drab and brown?"

2daard23
Nov 25, 2025, 2:34 am

"Hey! Where are you going? I was just about to play a 30 minute version of Stairway to Heaven!"

3TorMented
Nov 25, 2025, 6:58 am

Sequel to “The Hedmaster of Riddle?”

4EndofDiskOne
Nov 25, 2025, 11:52 am

Those are SOME BOOTS!

5TorMented
Nov 25, 2025, 11:59 am

He likes big boots, he cannot lie.

6ScoLgo
Nov 25, 2025, 2:53 pm

But where does he keep his armies?

Why, in his sleevies, of course.

7GSSex-noob
Nov 25, 2025, 3:37 pm

GSS to all! It's like the old days.

I'm not eliminating the possibility that Mr. Technicolor is posing in front of an old sepia-tone photo backdrop at the mall.

If the pants were a colorful skirt and the boots were all purple/orange, I'd say "It's giving RuPaul's Drag Race and he's gonna sashay away."

Ah, heck, I'm saying that anyway.

8Hammy_JLK
Nov 25, 2025, 9:42 pm

I can see why he's carrying the crown. It left marks on his forehead (HED, maybe?) when he tried to wear it.

9bam2001
Nov 26, 2025, 3:05 am

The ghostly harper cursed the prince with unspeakable fashion sense.

10TorMented
Nov 26, 2025, 7:03 am

His fashion sense includes a medieval fanny pack.
“Is this a dagger which I tote before me?”

11paradoxosalpha
Edited: Nov 26, 2025, 10:16 am

>10 TorMented:

That's a sporran. "I didn't mean to kill the old harpist whose ghost haunts me. We were just sporran around."

The way the naked dirk is tucked behind the sporran looks ... hazardous.

12bam2001
Nov 26, 2025, 11:09 am

>11 paradoxosalpha: Yeah, wouldn't want to trip on the stairs...

13TorMented
Nov 26, 2025, 1:04 pm

>11 paradoxosalpha: I actually knew what a sporran is. I suppose it wouldn't have kilt me to call it one. But fanny pack is funnier.
Fanny pack. Heh-heh.

14GSSex-noob
Edited: Nov 26, 2025, 9:24 pm

>12 bam2001: Maybe the harpist/wizard/ghost? is trying to warn him that wearing the dagger that way and going down stairs with his hands full of a crown while wearing those side-heavy boots may end his glorious reign of lurid fashion.

One slip, he falls and severs his femoral artery, it's all over.

15bam2001
Edited: Nov 26, 2025, 10:38 pm

What's with three gold stars on his forehead? Did he get them from the teacher for doing well in riddle master school?

(I do wonder why he's carrying the crown. Is he delivering it to someone at the bottom of the stairs?)

Edit: >Hammy_JLK If they're piercings, wearing the crown atop them could potentially be quite painful.