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the riddle game

11 Aug 06 - 09:17 AM (#1807146)
Subject: the riddle game
From: The Sandman

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


11 Aug 06 - 09:20 AM (#1807148)
Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: GUEST, Topsie

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


11 Aug 06 - 09:21 AM (#1807150)
Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: skipy

Fire bellows?
Skipy


11 Aug 06 - 09:24 AM (#1807153)
Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: The Sandman

WELL DONE topsies go


11 Aug 06 - 12:00 PM (#1807281)
Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: GUEST, Topsie

[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.


11 Aug 06 - 12:10 PM (#1807292)
Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: Paul Burke

Harp.


11 Aug 06 - 12:18 PM (#1807296)
Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: GUEST, Topsie

Right, Paul. Your go.


11 Aug 06 - 12:36 PM (#1807317)
Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: Paul Burke

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


11 Aug 06 - 12:56 PM (#1807334)
Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: GUEST, Topsie

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.


11 Aug 06 - 01:14 PM (#1807345)
Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: JennyO

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


11 Aug 06 - 01:35 PM (#1807356)
Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: The Sandman

think of songs with a brave ship in them


11 Aug 06 - 01:38 PM (#1807362)
Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: The Sandman

could it be a tornado


11 Aug 06 - 02:16 PM (#1807391)
Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: GUEST, Topsie

Good ship lollipop?


11 Aug 06 - 04:18 PM (#1807517)
Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: open mike

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


11 Aug 06 - 04:19 PM (#1807519)
Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: open mike

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


11 Aug 06 - 05:57 PM (#1807631)
Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: GUEST, Topsie

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


12 Aug 06 - 03:41 AM (#1807929)
Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: The Sandman

could it be a symbol in chemistry.


12 Aug 06 - 06:08 AM (#1807983)
Subject: RE: the riddle game
From: Paul Burke

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.