Riddle

[magicmuffin]

ummm...unix?

[Hermione]

Not substantially.
Anyway, it occurred to me that Cynder won't be on for a while, so here are some new riddles for us to work on:

1)
I am, in truth, a yellow fork
From tables in the sky
By inadvertent fingers dropped
The awful cutlery.
Of mansions never quite disclosed
And never quite concealed
The apparatus of the dark
To ignorance revealed.

2)
My love, when I gaze on thy beautiful face,
Careering along, yet always in place --
The thought has often come into my mind
If I ever shall see thy glorious behind.

Have fun!

[magicmuffin]

1. lightning?

2. the sun?

[superbattler]

a cheeseburger?

2 i think is the moon.

[Hermione]

Bless it all, that didn't last any time at all! (Lightning & Moon were right).
Okay, don't know Cynder's answers (she doesn't tell me, you know) but Magic and Superbattler each got one right, so they should each put up a riddle next. (I'd do more, but I want to be able to guess myself. Selfishness 'R Us!)

Oh, I should tell you where the riddles are from. The first is Emily Di-ckinson, and the second is Sir Edmund Gosse, who says his chambermaid wrote it.

Right, now who has a riddle for me?

[Cynder]

......referring to the riddle I posted & then didn't get back to give the answer to (sorry about that!):

A singular pun: in the plural, impotent,
yet it breathes life into the dead.
Fifty thousand wizards are liege to it,
yet it is yours to command.
It is storming the gates of the empire!
Gates is storming back.

The answer was Unix ---- MagicMuffin got it!

[magicmuffin]

New Riddles:
What always ends everything?

What has one foot on each side and one in the middle?

[superbattler]

the first is the letter g
the second is a yardstick

[magicmuffin]

Correct on both, Superbattler.

[blacksky90]

I gave the riddle to him so i guess it is my turn so.......


A camper leaves her camp, hikes 1 mile south, then 1 mileeast where she sees a bear. Then she hikes 1 mile north to arrive at her camp. What color is the bear?

[frizzer]

Is it white, stuck on the south pole?

[blacksky90]

sort of.....ill give it to you its acctually the north pole(you can't go anyfarther south at the south pole) people were mostly supposed to be confused by the south and Then East Then north thing because Start
l l
l__l and you dont end at camp but at the pole anyway is south so after going east any move north leads to the say place.

[Hermione]

Also, there are no polar bears in antarctica.
At least, that's what my Zaide says, and he's been there!
So...
new riddles:

1)Then all thy feculent majesty recalls
The nauseous mustiness of forsaken bowers,
The leprous nudity of deserted halls --
The positive nastiness of sullied flowers.
And I mark the colours, yellow and black,
That fresco thy lithe, dictatorial thighs.

2)A serpent swam in a silver urn.
A golden bird did in its mouth abide
The serpent drank the water, this in turn
Killed the serpent. Then the gold bird died.

Second one might be a little hard; it's definitely dated.

[magicmuffin]

1. a bruise
2. a hurricane lamp

??

[Hermione]

You got the second -a silver lamp.
The first is incorrect...
But you can still put up a new riddle for solving one!

[magicmuffin]

Riddle:

I can run but not walk. Wherever I go, thought follows close behind. What am I?

[blacksky90]

a nose for magic muffins and for hermione the first few lines sound like a castle.....and the rest sounds like bees so.......is it a bee hive?

[magicmuffin]

You got it right, blacksky. Your turn to post a riddle now.

[blacksky90]

You cannot see it, you cannot touch it, you can not smell or taste it, you can not speak it,it is not a belief, it isn't a liquid, it isn't a solid, it isn't a gas, but it can be broken
What is it?

[Torra]

Hey Blacksky:

Is it "Silence"



Hermione-

Is it a Queen Bee?