Can You Solve the Mystery of the Tape Recorder Riddle?

[calculus1967]

Riddle

Here's one:

Some will use me, while others will not. Some have remembered, while others forgot.
For profit or gain, I'm used expertly.
I can't be picked off the ground or tossed into the sea.
Only gained from patience and time.
Can you unravel me from this here rhyme?

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Experience. If I'm right, I pass the baton to BicycleTree.

 

[calculus1967]

Experience. If I'm right, I pass the baton to BicycleTree.

Your on the right track, but experience can't really be remembered or forgoten.

 

[arildno]

Hmm..knowledge?

 

[calculus1967]

That's right. arildno got it.

 

[arildno]

I don't know any riddles, so you can continue..

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Your on the right track, but experience can't really be remembered or forgoten.

Of course it can. I'm remembering a very unpleasant experience right now.

 

[calculus1967]

Of course it can. I'm remembering a very unpleasant experience right now.

You said experience, not an experience, anyway here's a new one:
Sometimes I'm "L"-shaped.
Sometimes I'm rectangle shaped.
The arrow on me doesn't go straight.
I'm used to end things.
I'm used to accept things.
And sometimes I'm used just to leave a long empty space.

What am I?

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

The return key. If I'm right, I pass the baton to BicycleTree.

 

[calculus1967]

That's right. BicycleTree is up.

 

[DaveC426913]

Sometimes I'm "L"-shaped.
Sometimes I'm rectangle shaped.
The arrow on me doesn't go straight.
I'm used to end things.
I'm used to accept things.
And sometimes I'm used just to leave a long empty space.

What am I?

OMG, Bilbo is spinning in his grave...

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

I don't get the Bilbo connection.

 

[DaveC426913]

I don't get the Bilbo connection.

Bilbo - the quintessential riddle-teller. He would not be telling riddles about return keys.

Um. Perhaps I'm showing my age. I know him from the books, not the movies.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Thank you for reminding me about Bilbo's riddles.

 

[arildno]

Sometimes I spin in my grave, says Dave.
Once, I had a cute thing; it was, in fact, a ring.
But my nephew threw it aways, and that sort of ended my days..

Who am I?

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

You are arildno.

By posting this riddle here, you have violated the rules of this thread. In future, please wait your turn, or post your riddles in some other thread. Thanks in advance.

 

[arildno]

To me, rules are an unthrowable yoke;
I can't see the difference between a serious riddle and a joke.

Who am I?

 

[JamesU]

you are still arildno...


and follow the rules! why do you think this thread got to four pages?!

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

To me, rules are an unthrowable yoke;

I'm with you all the way on this. You were not the target of my sarcasm, this thread was. But feeling that way, why are you posting riddles on a thread that has these rules when nothing prevents you, and everything encourages you to start your own thread with no rules? This is indeed a riddle.