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A Century of Charades - 100 riddles from 1895
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rose
...and then Magic happens


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 		L
we are halfway through already! Good job!!!
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Necromancer is correct!! Great work booba!!


And now, drum roll please, we have arrived at our 50th charade. Like all my favorites, this one has a literary reference:

L

Happy the man whose dreams by night
No cares disturb, no fears affright,
Whose conscience pats him on the head,
And puts him in God's arms to bed.
Unlike him Scotland's guilty queen
Who walked in sleep with hand unclean
Not all the waters of my first
Could wash away the spot accursed ;
Not all the water in my whole
Could cleanse my second from her soul.
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rose
...and then Magic happens


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 		happy summer
I'm away now for Memorial Day weekend. Have a great holiday everyone. I'll check in on Monday night or Tuesday morning.
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booba
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 		Then I'll wash my hands of this 'till tues.
Everyone have a great weekend.

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rose
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 		well I know it isn't Arabia - all the water in Arabia might actually be less than all the perfume. Smile
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catherwood
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 		Re: L
we are halfway through already! Good job!!!
rose wrote:
And now, drum roll please, we have arrived at our 50th charade.

Did people wander off and have a good long weekend?

Here's how I would solve it, even without knowing the meaning of one part:
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Unlike him Scotland's guilty queen
Who walked in sleep with hand unclean
(This is Lady MacBeth, from "out, damned spot!" fame)

Not all the waters of (a) DEN
Could wash away the spot accursed ;
Not all the water in DENMARK
Could cleanse (the) MARK from her soul.

(yeah, I know that "something is rotten in the state of Denmark" is from Hamlet and not Macbeth, but Shakespeare was my inspiration.

now to justify the one part with a definition.

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booba
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 		Why can only she see the spot?

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Now what can we wash up in..


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rose
...and then Magic happens


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 		re: L possible answer
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Not denmark -though I love the use of Shakespeare.

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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		Assuming the Waters/water thing is "sea", how about
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seaman or semen
provided it's appropriate to say the 2nd part is something you can wash away from a woman's soul.

Not too happy with it, but the best I got, so far.

Equally unlikely are
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season, sebum, cebum


ETA:
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season
may not be too far afield. If it's okay to use
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sin
for the 2nd.
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 		I think booba has already solved this, but didn't care to demonstrate:
booba wrote:
Why can only she see the spot?
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Now what can we wash up in..

The answer is surely:
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BASIN, BAY and SIN



(and I see we have a new captcha for guest posts)

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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		Gah! it was "water in my WHOLE".

I feel kinda stupid, now.
I'm obviously still not up to this after all the taking on other people's jobs at work.
Good job, booba!
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rose
...and then Magic happens


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 		LI
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basin is correct! Great work catherwood! And season was a good guess too, Rogi. And booba as well.



Wagons Ho!


LI


'Twas bitter cold, the sky was gray,
   And night was falling fast,
When, as I took my homeward way,
   I chanced upon my last.

I lifted up the little waif
   My first, and almost dead ;
Beneath my cloak I clasped it safe ;
   "'T will please my whole," I said.

And I remembered as I went
   The text in the New Testament,
How sparrows have a Father's care,
   Another whole is every hair.
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drizjr
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 		This one came easily for a change. Smile I don't understand the " Another whole is every hair" part, but rest fits nicely.
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chilled + wren = children


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rose
...and then Magic happens


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not just children, though I thought that was right. Now I think I know what the hair reference means, but I can't get it to fit either.


edited to for more correctness Smile ~rose
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Trillian
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The bible reference I found is Luke 12:7: "...Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered..."
My guess is NUMB + BEAR => NUMBER


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GreenWindmill
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Children is a brilliant answer!!

The last section gave it away for me - New Testament and every hair can only lead to...
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NUMBERED
which almost identically follows drizjr's thinking
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NUMB - BIRD


Edit - looks like Trillian got in there just as I was posting, marginally different answer but essentially the same.
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