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A Century of Charades - 100 riddles from 1895
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Trillian
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 		Thanks, booba, your hint made me think of
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teething


Which would be very literal indeed. I'd never thought of that as a 'cause of much disease', but then again I'm no expert with children...


BTW.: I don't know if it's forum-related or just my browser acting weird, but right now the spoilered text (including my answer) shows up as plaintext. Is anybody else having this problem?

PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2010 7:21 am
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rose
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 		XLVI
The spoiler tag doesn't seem to work for me either. I think I can safely say that
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teething
is correct -even if the spoiler tag isn't working right now.

Allons

XLVI

If you are hungry as a bear,
And love the hermit's simple fare,
My second in my first prepare ;
That 't is my whole, you will declare.
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booba
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 		Makes me think of

70 6f 74 70 69 65

but that would be pretty simple.

Spoiler isn't working, so i put my guess up in hex.

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rose
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 		Now that spoilers are working again,( thanks for the quick fix Space!) I think your answer was:
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potpie

which is incorrect.
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catherwood-offline
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rose wrote:
I think your answer was:
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potpie

which is incorrect.


ooo, ooo, i'll bet it's
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p a n c a k e
thanks for the inspiration

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rose
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Pancake is incorrect!


Both of those seemed like good guesses to me; but I have no idea how close they are to being correct.

I don't know if it makes a difference but the last three lines seem slightly indented under the first. I can't tell if it is just the typeface or intentional? So it might be:

XLVI

If you are hungry as a bear,
 And love the hermit's simple fare,
 My second in my first prepare ;
 That 't is my whole, you will declare.
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Rogi Ocnorb
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Cupcake or cuprum?

The latter is less likely as it sounds like were looking for a food and not a drink.
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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2010 10:29 pm
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rose
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Not cupcake or cuprum


All of these are good guesses. I'm baffled myself about a hermit's simple fare? All of these things are simple.
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drizjr
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 		I'll throw my half baked ideas into the stew.
How 'bout these?
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pottage or panda


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jessie1326
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 		How about something more bear-related?

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panfish?


ETA: Or something more hermit-y?

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Cottage Pie?


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Mikeyj
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 		I'm going lateral (read: tenuous) with

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crabshell - hermit is the crab link and dressed crab you serve in its shell


[Edit] And immediately I see that's wrong. It would be my first in my second, not second in my first.
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rose
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 		nada
Those are all good guesses, sadly not one is correct.

And this is where I have to stifle my natural instinct to want to give a hint, as I said, I would not be a good PM.
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catherwood-offline
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 		Alrighty, i think i have the historical connection here, but it isn't giving me the answer yet
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One famous hermit, St. Seraphim of Sarov, is depicted in works of art as sharing his meal with a bear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seraphim_of_Sarov
hoping someone else can run with this

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drizjr
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 		I'm willing to think on it some more before we get a hint. Resist, rose, resist. Wink
Maybe instead of kitchenware, it's the place we're "in"? A hermit might be cloistered in a...
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cell

As jessie1326 mentioned, a bear's favorite food...
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fish

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cell + fish = selfish?


eta: Ooh, nice reference, catherwood!

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Rogi Ocnorb
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catherwood-offline wrote:
Alrighty, i think i have the historical connection here, but it isn't giving me the answer yet
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One famous hermit, St. Seraphim of Sarov, is depicted in works of art as sharing his meal with a bear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seraphim_of_Sarov
hoping someone else can run with this
Other than learning that many of the saints have a monastic soup associated with them, including,
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"Seraphim soup"
...
I got nuthin'.
Not sure why I'm spoilerizing that, either.
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