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A Century of Charades - 100 riddles from 1895
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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		Just to prove rose wrong I'm gonna have to fess-up to never hearing that before. Wink
If the first is "cry" (Could it be that easy?)
and rose's "rye" is correct...

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"CRY" ??? "RYE" ???


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Criterion
would make the last fit pretty well.
The 2nd... Not so much. but it does get mentioned as an opposite to "cheer", quite a bit.
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 		Google tells us that "the cup that cheers" is included in a poem by William Cowper .
In part:
Quote:
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, and while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn throws up a steamy column, and the cups that cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, so let us welcome peaceful evening in.

Being
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Sounds good, Rogi!

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rose
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Criterion is right! Good job Rogi, How is criterion a touchstone for your wit? Maybe someone could explain that one to me.


A final comment on XX - it occurs to me that catherwood, rogi and aiobhan are smarter than the dear author of our charades. But he's a clever writer, I'll give him that.

Onwards. Correct spacing, I love adding in that little blank space.

XXIII

  My first has led a blameless life,
  He never quarrels with his wife,
  His inmost thoughts are free from sin,
  He's happy when the tide is in,
  He never seeks my whole to raise,
  His taste is worthy of all praise.
Yet such existence who would wish to live,
Long as my last presents alternative.
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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		Regarding Rose's spoiled question...

I think the primary intent is this intertpretation coined in 1880:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchstone_%28metaphor%29

But C*******N is also a direct synonym for the noun sense of touchstone.
http://thesaurus.com/browse/touchstone


For our next charade, The first is obviously some kind of intertidal creature
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 		Oh yeah, oyster, clam, snail- "His taste is worthy of all praise."


"Long as my last presents alternative"- Mobility? walk, stroll, run, dance?


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Got one for the overall, not sure about the second..

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He never seeks my whole to raise- a clamor


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rose
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 		could the last be be "leg" since clams don't have legs...

hehe crabwalk ? We used to do that in gym class when I was a kid. Somehow, I'm thinking that isn't correct, though.

Thanks for the explanation, Rogi. The more I understand about the answers, the more I appreciate the cleverness of the writer.
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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		Heh. Hadn't thought of alternative in that sense.
"presents alternative", to me, meant giving choice(s).

"Starwort"? "Wort" being defined as "a plant of any kind."?
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 		Oops missed your posts whilst editing above...

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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		I like booba's a WHOLE lot better'n mine.
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 		XXIV
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D'oh! Either "or"... present alternative, in the sense Rogi used...; the happy clam,even, when the tide is in.. ,...clamor is right!!! Way to go Booba.


The next is short and sweet! And indented correctly!!

XXIV

Where flows my first, bright burning,
  My second marks a shoal;
The fisherman, returning,
  Espies it with my whole.
  
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 		Only if he has Conjunctivitis


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"flows my first, bright burning" pink eye (gross)
"marks a shoal" glass bouy

'Espies it with my whole" - eyeglass



Edit for common good.

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rose
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 		Nope.

The flow and bright burning reminds me of a river?
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 		D'oh, did it again, must edit faster

"It is important for salmon fishing and whisky " Two of my favorite things!

"There is an old bridge here that was once used by packhorses for crossing the Burn of Aberlour and the River Spey."

A river can be a burn?

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spyglass Am i getting close?


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rose
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 		Nope.

I don't know the answer but, and I guess this is a hint....the number of letters in the answer is different from the ones you posted.

Booba - don't worry if you end up posting twice; I am here watching this thread in unpredictable timing - it changes all the time.
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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		For marking a shoal. my first thought was a lighthouse (Mrs. Rogi's a collector).
But that's 2 syllables.
So, *light

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delight

works for the whole, along with several others, but I'm not finding much on the first:
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De- \De-\ A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis- apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. {Dis-}. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc.

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