It also happens to be Marvel Comic's 70th anniversary...and I think it can work for quite a few of the lines...I still think it's wrong, but it's another idea...

To fix that not broken:

Fine, for words not spoken - Comics are printed...

Seven eight nine

In twice the primetime,

A red and white spotted jewel - Marvel's logo is Red and White

before an audience of fools - Just like the tv reference...there are fools that read comics (not all, but some)

We thought we'd go far

Least, not once 'round a star

We turned light into dark - Good/Bad fights?

on a walk in the park

Couldn't travel through the heat - Human Torch was in the first comic by Marvel?

Only bared two feet.

Just 70 later - 70th anniversary this year

Coal made into silver. -Silver surfer?

So maybe some marvel super hero(es)? Again, probably completely wrong, just getting things going...

It was on the digital "clean-up" of films for the hi-res era. Disney's Pinocchio being the latest Blu-ray release from the House of Mouse. The film just happens to turn 70 next year. I can see at least most of the lines fitting, but I'm not sure this is it. I'm just throwing it out there to help open up the brainstorming.

That it is the 70th anniversary of the start of WWII...

To fix that not broken:

Fine, for words not spoken

Seven eight nine

In twice the primetime,

A red and white spotted jewel

before an audience of fools

We thought we'd go far

Least, not once 'round a star

We turned light into dark

on a walk in the park

Couldn't travel through the heat-

Only bared two feet.

Just 70 later

Coal made into silver.

Who are we?

What am I?

'Cause I dunno.

So, let me preface this post with the fact that my wife is really into Dancing with the Stars...so, that's the only reason I would ever think this way...

I doubt it's right, but the first thing that came to mind was the Lance Bass/Lacey Schwimmer team on Dancing with the Stars...the reason I thought that was only a few of the lines, so that's why I don't think it's right:

To fix that not broken:

Fine, for words not spoken

Seven eight nine - on at 7, 8, or 9 depending on timezone...

In twice the primetime - on twice a week during primetime...

A red and white spotted jewel

before an audience of fools - well there are many fools out there that watch the show...

We thought we'd go far

Least, not once 'round a star - for some reason I was thinking dancing, and Lance Bass = a star...

We turned light into dark

on a walk in the park

Couldn't travel through the heat-

Only bared two feet. - they are the only couple to have danced bare foot...

Just 70 later

Coal made into silver. - they came in second (well, in the final three, and didn't win)...

...Alright, now that that wrong guess is out of the way...next guess please!

This one has been done before on these forums just using different words (swindlecants and honestants, etc...)...

Here's one of them...

Everyone was guessing too specifically. The answer to #4 is.....

Fruit Juice. Crush my first (Fruit) to get my second (Juice). We share a middle anyway (Share the ui in the middle.)

But wait...on the first page...I put that as the answer for #4:

General George Pickett is my great-great-great-great-great uncle actually :c)

I'm going to add frosted flakes or corn flakes maybe for #1 and fruit juice for #4..

1) Pop-tarts, methinks

4) Could this one be coffee, perchance?

1) Toaster Strudels...since they are "flakier" than pop-tarts...

4) Scrambled Eggs...because you have to "crush" an egg to make them...and they "shared" a middle...

Pickett's charge: two down, two to go!

General George Pickett is my great-great-great-great-great uncle actually :c)

I'm going to add frosted flakes or corn flakes maybe for #1 and fruit juice for #4...

Bah...rene beat me to it...:c)

The first line could be

Microsoft

, but I don't see how they relate to the rest of the clue. Fascinating!

My name comes from two; tiny and gentle -Micro and soft

Yet I'm described by my haters as quite temperamental -People who don't like Microsoft think its very buggy...

My father is named for those two 'fore him -Bill Gates (he's actually the third...his dad and grandpa were also Bill H. Gates)

And I'm a good son; have his pockets filled to the brim -Microsoft has brought him quite a bit of money

I started out strong, was beaten back, but kept growing -Could be multiple times during the company history...but probably the legal issues (see next line)...

Little old Sherman couldn't stop you from knowing... -Sherman anti-trust act...

So I agree...Microsoft...Nice riddle

2) MEATLOAF!

2) oatmeal

3) Eggs Benedict

A repasts' agenda begins all things here.

Move back to front and add you's "be" ... <-[yeah, right: the new word goes there]

You must, you see, for here rhymes belong

or else you'll discover that it is all wrong.

Now add a "look"; but "see" only a ghost

or a hint, or a border, if that, at most.

Add K to produce the young Spaniard's tool

which aided him recently down under to rule.

Move back to front, and again add an R

to get one who finds his prey, be't near or far.

Drop Spaniard's K, and also first's last

to get one whose livelihood's to always be fast.

Remove now the C, and flip middle two

and you will discover what's following you.

Then toss out the A, and give things a shake

And, Lo and behold: you've made a mistake!

I get the word "err"...it goes err (mistake), rear (follow you), racer (goes fast), tracker (finds prey), racket (tennis ==> Nadal), trace (hint/border/ghost)...and so I guess the word at the top could be "cater" since repasts' agenda would be to supply food? maybe?

In the correct context, your answer is right. No one has gotten that context yet. I'll write one more before I just spill it. These Haikus are more ambiguous than I would have hoped.

Horse for a neighbor

My battlefield's 8 by 8

No diagonal

Of course a rook (although, yes, the "tower" answer would probably count...as well as a possible "castle" since some people do call them that...), nice haiku riddle!

What animal has the head of an elephant, the body of an owl and the tail of a mouse?

That would be a female sheep :c)

just a quick question, who first thought of the fact that most numbers will not be Lychrel numbers and how do they know 196 is a Lychrel number, couldn't it become a palindrome sometime in the future?

It is true that technically speaking there are no PROVEN Lychrel numbers. There have been no mathematical proofs saying that all numbers will become palindromes, and none that say certain ones never will...

HOWEVER...Some people have spent a LOT of money working on these numbers (especially 196)...they have gone through millions of iterations and taken the number out to over 300 million digits and still no palindrome. And when you stop to think about it probabilistically, the larger the number becomes the less likely it will ever become a palindrome. There are plenty of websites out there that are "devoted" to Lychrel numbers and the search for palindromes...so, you could just do a search for Lychrel 196 or something and find these sites.

I don't know who thought of this whole process...but Wade VanLandingham came up with the Lychrel numbers (or at least the name for them)...

I wrote a simple program to determine which numbers become palindromes...and so, that's probably how someone figured out that most of them were NOT Lychrel numbers.

Hope this provides some insight.

Edit: added one missing number.

Nice...took me a little while to figure out your clue...

My guess is that the next "number" is actually "00"...

Bingo. I figured I had to give some dead on clue. Well done, as quickly as I expected.

I was debating between Kant and Bacon...alas, I chose wrong...*sigh*...nicely done.

Ok, so after being inspired by the likes of this Grayven fella, I figured I'd try my hand at this. I tried pretty hard to eliminate any ambiguities, but feel free to yell at me if this attempt is a failure.

A thinker I am, centuries-old I be

But rarely is one more righteous than me

Friedrich is bored, Thomas; a cynic

‘Twixt those I am, and never a mimic

The former will tell you that He is dead

Before him, I said He never mattered, instead

The latter is sure that we are all brutes

I think, rather, probity’s our truth

My maxim is universal, free of canon and tenet

Ethic’s within us; no deity is present

So sorry Aquinas, Aristotle, et al,

We need no belief in a soul at all

Rationality, logic, thus morality is our claim

It is imperative that you give up my name

Sounds like Bacon...He was very much against using faith as a basis for learning, and believed that all knowledge that was important was rooted completely in the natrual world...And depending which "Thomas" you are referring to (Aquinas, Hobbes, etc...), Bacon was between them and Nietzche in history...so...

89,8,91,8,509,2

Yes! Well done!

Was it Eliot's toilet I saw? - This is a palindrome. So that was a hint that the answer had something to do with palindromes. Almost every number can be used to get a palindrome by taking the digits in the number, reversing them, and adding them together...then repeating multiple times (sometimes 20+ times)...

Example: 59 ==> 59 + 95 = 154, 154 + 451 = 605, 605 + 506 = 1111 <== PALINDROME!

In this case, it appears not... - There are a few numbers, however, that appear to NEVER end in a palindrome (people have gone out millions of iterations to 300+ million digit numbers, and never found a palindrome)...these numbers are: 196, 295, 394, 493, 592, 689, 691, 788, 790, 879, 887...etc...etc...

But it makes no difference either way... - Take the difference between these numbers, and you have my sequence...

What matters is Cheryl seems really messed up right now... - This was a big hint towards these numbers...The sequence of numbers that don't end in a palindrome are called Lychrel numbers. It is an anagram of the name of the wife, Cheryl, of the guy who came up with the sequence. So "Cheryl messed up" ==> Lychrel.

Or perhaps you do... I don't know how you picked those numbers in that order.

well I didn't want to post my explanation right away in case it was correct and people didn't want to have the answer right in front of them...I just mean that if it is correct, then voltage would know that I knew how I got them...

However...if you're REALLY curious (since it may not even be correct):

starting with 5 on the number pad on the keyboard, just go in a counter clockwise spiral around the numbers...5 down to 2, 3, 6, 9, 8, 7, 4, 1, 0...

This sequence is only 10 numbers long. What is the 2nd half of the sequence?

5, 2, 3, 6, 9, ...

how about 8, 7, 4, 1, 0? If it's right, I don't think I need to put an explanation...

does this sequence ever end, or is it infinite?

hmmmm...I suppose it probably would continue infinitely (I know it goes quite a bit further), but I have no way of proving that...my hint still has some other key points...the Cheryl part has been figured out....

good job pickett. don't give an explanation just yet

wasn't planning on it...I figured you would know I knew it just by that...

This sequence is not mine, it is a few years old. You may have seen it already. I searched for it in previous topics but couldnt find anything.

What is the next number:

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, __

42...

does this have anything to do with lychrel numbers?

hmm...Lychrel = Cheryl all messed up doesn't it...nice catch...but what exactly?

99,99,99,99,97,2,97,2,95,4,95,4

I would love to hear your explanation...but no, that's not what I came up with...

I can guess your explanation is that the numbers repeat like ABAB, but after one repeat, the "A"s move down 2 and the "B"s move up 2...but that isn't correct...i can put the next few numbers up (which would show that isn't the case)...but like I said, I'll leave it for a bit to see what else people come up with.

P.S. please use spoilers

They said it wasn't a palindrome, or is it because "it makes no difference either way" but the Cheryl thing has me thinking as well.

0, 0, 0, 0 is in fact incorrect...

The clue is very helpful...if you can decipher it :c) some of you are slowly on the right track...I won't say any thing else for a little bit to see what people come up with...

(and i'm a "he" not "they")