Mrs Tilly likes Lennon but not McCartney

Mrs Tilly likes Jagger but not Richards

Mrs Tilly likes Sonny but not Cher

Mrs Tilly dislikes Rodgers but not Hammerstein

Mrs. Tilly likes yellow and green but hates all other colors.

[ what the hell ( M Tilly likes ), thought I'd join in ( M Tilly dislikes )]

She likes forgetting, but not forsaking; forbidding but not forebearing. While she enjoys foreseeing, doesn't have a sense of foreboding...

Mrs Tilly likes Mrs Tilly but not Mr Stilly

6 minutes ago, Imagine Everything said:

Mrs Tilly likes Mrs Tilly but not Mr Stilly

Oh, she likes Mr Stilly just fine.

In fact, out of everyone involved in this thread, she likes me, the tree, and Callipygous, but Mrs Tilly doesn't like you or MigL or joigus or sethoflagos or swansont or the others.

She told me she loves my teeth but not my smile.

Mrs Tilly likes spectral yellow but not RGB yellow.

2 hours ago, KJW said:

Mrs Tilly likes spectral yellow but not RGB yellow.

Actually, she likes both of those, and also likes green, but not blue or purple.

Mrs Tilly doesn't like red at all, unless it's apple red, blood red, or cherry red.

2 hours ago, KJW said:

Mrs Tilly likes spectral yellow but not RGB yellow.

If I have understood the riddle correctly, then she likes yellow of any kind. This is your second post where I've wondered if you got the riddle.

Mrs Tilly likes riddles, but not conundrums. I would post a spoiler explanation but cannot find the hide spoiler option at this new site location.

Edited April 23Apr 23 by TheVat

Mrs Tilly really likes bookkeepers but doesn't like clerks

Mrs.Tilly likes moose and deer but not elk or caribou

3 hours ago, John Cuthber said:

Mrs Tilly really likes bookkeepers but doesn't like clerks

We can add bookkeepers and whippoorwills to the list of what she really likes. As Mrs Tilly remarked after attending a Beatles concert in her favorite state of Mississippi, "Goo goo g'joob!"

Mrs. Tilly likes bees in her bonnet, but dislikes bugs in her beret.
( I feel like I'm a 12 yo again )

Oh, and Mrs. Tilly used to like you when she didn't know you too well, and addressed you by your full name, Phi for All, but now that she's familiar with you, and calls you Phi, she definitely dislikes you. 😄

On 10/24/2006 at 12:53 PM, aj47 said:

This one of those puzzles which some people get straight away but others spend ages over. It's called Mrs Tilly and you have to work out what Mrs Tilly likes and what she dislikes.

 

Ok i'll start....

 

Mrs Tilly likes to giggle but not to laugh.

Mrs Tilly likes to be seen but never heard.

Mrs Tilly likes the Moon but not the Sun

Mrs Tilly likes darkness but not the light

Mrs Tilly likes the unnecessary and hates the ordinary.

 

 

If you work it out add your own one.

Mrs. Tilly likes Joe the bartender

59 minutes ago, Sohan Lalwani said:

Mrs. Tilly likes Joe the bartender

Not really. She likes a beer, and the occasional tipple, but doesn't like bars. She enjoys a good taproom, but only when Bobby or Matthew is pouring.

1 hour ago, Sohan Lalwani said:

Mrs. Tilly likes Joe the bartender

No, but she likes Sally the saloonkeeper.

7 minutes ago, swansont said:

No, but she likes Sally the saloonkeeper.

Is Joe having an affair from Barbra the Breadhead

23 minutes ago, Phi for All said:

Not really. She likes a beer, and the occasional tipple, but doesn't like bars. She enjoys a good taproom, but only when Bobby or Matthew is pouring.

Why are aliens purple? No, because two nitrogen atoms are securely linked together to form the chemical molecule known as molecular nitrogen. - Mrs. Tilly

Ms Tilly's favorite vacation spot is Chattanooga, Tennessee.

29 minutes ago, TheVat said:

Ms Tilly's favorite vacation spot is Chattanooga, Tennessee.

🤓 I thought it was the Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu hill in NZ

Mrs. Tilly was glad that this had stopped, and sad that it has re-started.

1 minute ago, MigL said:

Mrs. Tilly was glad that this had stopped, and sad that it has re-started.

Mrs. Tilly is gonna be depressed by the time I am done with using this joke

She likes to be depressed, and moody.
She dislikes being miserable.

Mrs. Tilly thought entoloma hochstetteri looked pretty so she stuffed it up her nose

6 minutes ago, MigL said:

She likes to be depressed, and moody.
She dislikes being miserable.

9 minutes ago, MigL said:

She likes to be depressed, and moody.
She dislikes being miserable.

Mrs. Tilly still refers to dinosaurs as their genus and not the species

On 4/20/2025 at 1:20 PM, sethoflagos said:

Mrs Tilly likes Lennon but not McCartney

Mrs Tilly likes Jagger but not Richards

Mrs Tilly likes Sonny but not Cher

Mrs Tilly dislikes Rodgers but not Hammerstein

Mrs Tilly sings "ITS BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS" in the middle of July

Unlike people in the Monty Python sketch, Mrs. Tilly like both woody and tinny words

12 minutes ago, MigL said:

She likes to be depressed, and moody.
She dislikes being miserable.

Mrs Tilly once said: Roses are red, Violets are blue, Arctus Simus is hairy and you are too

On 4/23/2025 at 3:06 PM, MigL said:

Mrs. Tilly likes bees in her bonnet, but dislikes bugs in her beret.
( I feel like I'm a 12 yo again )

Oh, and Mrs. Tilly used to like you when she didn't know you too well, and addressed you by your full name, Phi for All, but now that she's familiar with you, and calls you Phi, she definitely dislikes you. 😄

Loves soot, hates coal. She likes a dribble, but dislikes a trickle. Go figure.