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[quote="booba"]From 1885 until 1900 it was a: BAABABAABBBABAABAAABAAABBBBAAA AABBBAABAAAAAAAABABBBAABBAABBBAABABBABAAABABB AABAAAABBAAABBAABBABABBBAAABBA BAABBBBAAAABBBBAABAA ABBBAAABAB AAABBBAAABABAAAABBABABABA BABBAABAAABAABBAABBB AABAAAABBAAABBABAABA BABBAAABBBABAAABAABAABABAAABAABBAAA AABAABAABBAAABA[/quote]
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Aiobhan
I actually tracked down this thread because I'm gettin' married in a while and wanted to include riddles on my favors, but I saw this last question and had to toss in my guess.
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sunflower
Good times.
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 6:12 pm
distilled
I was about to quote Walt Whitman in "When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd" - but then I realised it was written in 1900, and the riddles are from 1895.
For reference, and to put my suggestion in context:
Quote:
Passing, I leave thee, lilac with heart-shaped leaves;
I leave thee there in the door-yard, blooming, returning with spring,
I cease from my song for thee;
From my gaze on thee in the west, fronting the west, communing with thee,
O comrade lustrous, with silver face in the night.
So my suggestion is:
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Lilac?
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 6:49 am
Peacemaker
lifegospel wrote:
Just as a quick guess, judging by the second line, is it a:
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poppy?
nope, good guess though! I keep thinking of weather and spring flowers...
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:17 pm
lifegospel
Just as a quick guess, judging by the second line, is it a:
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poppy?
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 4:31 am
Peacemaker
Haha oh that's good, correct Rogi.
And no problem booba, riddles are fun even if I'm not so great at them
LXV
My first preserved my last, and every spring,
To deck each comrade's grave my whole shall bring.
Oh and hope everyone had some happy holiday's and welcome to the new year!
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 1:47 am
booba
Peter, Peter. Good one Rogi!
Thanks Peacemaker for reviving this thread.
Do you think rose dropped her laptop again?
Happy New Years Eve everyone!
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 4:03 am
Rogi Ocnorb
The last 3 words at the end of one of the lines made this one kind of a no-brainer. But I may have been just been lucky as my 4yo niece only seconds before I checked this thread had asked me if I ever saw a
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pumpkin
on a mountain. I have absolutely no idea how she came to ask that question (I asked and she clammed-up).
*Edited to add the spoilered answer.
Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 11:56 am
Peacemaker
Now that I look again that seems so obvious...
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Got the wick part, but never further, Rogi is correct with Pickwick!
On to the next.
LXIV
THE traveler's solace in the dusty heat,
Castlereagh's likeness, joy of them that thirst,
The sinking sailor's hope, - behold my first !
Which merry dancers trample under feet.
My second comes when sons and fathers meet
Brothers and sisters on one bosom nursed ;
Old age laments its loss, of all the worst,
And heaven without it seems but incomplete.
Within my hollowed whole, in humid cell,
An erring wife was by her lord confined ;
The rest is silence : he who kept her well
Could soul enthrall as well as body bind ;
And now the startled rustic often spies
From out her prison glare two ghostly eyes.
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Castlereagh is a town in County Down, Ireland; and could also refer to Lord(Viscount) Castlereagh a name given to Robert Stewart known for his time as the Chief Secretary for Ireland and putting down the Irish Rebellion in 1798. He committed suicide in 1822 with a penknife. Not sure if this all helps but I love a little history research.
Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 2:11 am
Rogi Ocnorb
I have an answer,but it seems too easy. Or maybe I just lucked out on the burning of midnight oil clue.
To burn oil you need a
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wick
Which makes the first easy to find, for the whole...
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pickwick
.
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 7:53 pm
Peacemaker
Not quite sure what happened to this thread and why it just suddenly stopped, but as for the last riddle
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Booba had it correct with Disdane.
As none have continued, here is the next as written:
LXIII
Had I my first, not with my first I'd toil,
Nor with my second burn the midnight oil ;
I'd choose a book, my whole that book would be,
And give the day to laughter, mirth, and glee.
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 5:40 pm
Rogi Ocnorb
Mayhaps Rose wishes to avoid a disdainful reply?
Or she recognizes the word, not; It being such an alien concept for her.
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 4:28 pm
booba
Don't dis Beatrice, cjr22 was right.
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BENEDICK
What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?
BEATRICE
Is it possible disdain should die while she hath
such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?
Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come
in her presence.
dis(as used here earlier)-(The)Dane
Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 8:38 am
booba
You're right Rose. The elder Hamlet died "With all his imperfections on his head" or without last rites, and so was sent off to purgatory. Poison
would
seem untimely.
Helena and it's variations don't seem to work......
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 12:02 pm
rose
In reading this again - I think that when he mentions reading of both in Shakespeare he might be referring to an entire play - like the Taming of the Shrew -instead of a character.
The imperfections on his head reminds me of Hamlet or Romeo, of course there are others, but they popped into mind first.
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:03 am
cjr22
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BEATRICE
is a Shakespeare character who scorned to wed but I can't really work that into the rest of the clue:
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A TRICE to BE untimely fled?
Another thought
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DIANA is in All's well that Ends Well, and is a goddess of Chastity (among other things) but again 'ANNA to DIE untimely fled' doesn't make much sense to me.
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 7:50 am
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