the riddle game

Subject: the riddle game
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 09:17 AM

Here is a game, that involves solving a riddle.after 50 replies that are incorrect, the riddler gives the answers. here is the first riddle.my back it is deal
       my bellys the same
       and my sides are well bound with good leather
      my nose it is brass.
    theres a hole in my arse
    and im very much used in cold weather. what am I

Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 09:20 AM

Sounds like the kind of bellows you use for getting the fire going.

Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: skipy
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 09:21 AM

Fire bellows?
Skipy

Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 09:24 AM

WELL DONE topsies go

Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 12:00 PM

[sorry for the delay, I forgot I'd have to do one if I won]

My first is in happy, but not in content.
My second's in Easter, but not found in Lent.
My third is in merry and also in drunk.
My fourth is in pastor but isn't in monk.
And if you still haven't found where I'm at,
You'll find me in sharp but I'm not found in flat.

Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: Paul Burke
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 12:10 PM

Harp.

Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 12:18 PM

Right, Paul. Your go.

Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: Paul Burke
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 12:36 PM

Draw a circle on a line
And write a Y below.
If you find out what I am
A brave ship you will know.

Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 12:56 PM

Well, it looks like a rising/setting sun or full moon on the horizon with the path of reflected light coming towards me, but that doesn't give me a brave ship, so no, I don't know.

Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: JennyO
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 01:14 PM

Looks a bit like a golf ball sitting on a tee to me - but that doesn't give me a brave ship either.

Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 01:35 PM

think of songs with a brave ship in them

Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 01:38 PM

could it be a tornado

Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 02:16 PM

Good ship lollipop?

Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: open mike
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 04:18 PM

if the "Y" is upside down it is a stick figure of a person---friendship?

Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: open mike
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 04:19 PM

this belongs below the line---
not the line with the "0"
but the b.s. line

Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 05:57 PM

Well my riddle was musical, so it belongs up above.

Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 03:41 AM

could it be a symbol in chemistry.

Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: Paul Burke
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 06:08 AM

It's got to be more on-topic than Blitherscrum, I always thought riddles were a folky form as much as skipping rhymes. But who cares?

You ain't gonna get it, so the answer is DISCOVERY (Disc Over Y). For Brits and Antipodeans, it was Captain Cook's ship, for Americans perhaps the space ship.

I almost made it harder by writing the last line as "Cook's vessel you will know", but that would have been culturally unfair.

Here's a suggestion. When you put in an answer you THINK is right, start a new riddle, and we can run several in parallel. Refer to them by the first few words, so this is

The Young Man:

The young man came over to the corner where he knew she stood.
He stepped up, eager and agile, lifted his tunic with hard hands, thrust through her girdle something stiff, worked on the standing one his will.
Both swayed and shook.
The young man hurried, was sometimes handy, served well, but always tired sooner than she, weary of the work.
Under her girdle began to grow a hero's reward for laying on dough.