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Not sure why the poll didn't show up with the last post
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Thanks for kicking this one off MiKi. Not a ring, and I've made a minor edit to the last line.
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I'm tethered fast beside the well I'll toss a charm therein I'm lover's gift, offense propelled Mayhaps your skin is thin I lead my one from team of five The weakest in this play Among my hounds I pray survive 'less malice cross this way Apologies in advance if I can't log in everyday to check answers.
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I get the feeling this might be just a little too much for a riddle answer
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Ah, I vaguely remember having heard about or seen references to celebrities putting their handprints in cement, but didn't know there was a theater attached to it.
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There are various versions of the song, sung to the tune of the battle hymn of the republic. Some versions are more offensive than others, but one version I like is... My eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school We have tortured all the teachers, we have broken all the rules We marched up to the principal and told him he's a fool March on, fifth grade, march on Glory, glory hallelujah (pronounced halleluyer) Teacher hit me with a ruler So I bopped her on the bean With a rotten tangerine And watched the juice roll down her head (I claim no responsibility if you get yourself into trouble by singing it at school.)
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What?! How dare he give such a long, convoluted story and come up with some bogus moral that has absolutely nothing to do with anything!!! * looks aside and whistles *
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Just be careful not to go hitting them with rulers when they do, 'cause you know how the song goes... Sorry I don't have a bonanova star for ya, those are for his riddles only. Explications forthcoming if needed, but hopefully it's obvious.
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a heavenly guess
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Not bad guesses, but I've got a different thing in mind with twisted words (generally no longer germane) that will travel in a downward spiral throughout the land until the ruler falls on the perpetrator(s).
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If anyone wants to carry on discussions / debates / food fights about sak playing, would you be willing to do it in a separate thread on the "others" forum and let this one continue to be a signup thread? Or even better yet, a personal conversation that doesn't appear to everyone on the site? Because frankly, this is getting kinda nasty. Just post something along the lines of "I'ma start a personal conversation about sak playing mafia, anyone who wants to join and get stuff off their chest please PM me and I'll add you to it. kthxbai"
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A scroll... passing notes... both are so close and yet not quite it. A scroll would fit everything except perhaps leaving the last two lines without a clear explanation. And while passing notes is occasionally an aspect of the answer, passed notes are generally on something that's still germane, while what I have in mind is usually not by the time its time has come again.
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Neither communism nor superstition, I wouldn't make the real answer be something too close to what I say I'm not in the title. There are also a few clues that would not be obviously fit by a gun. Shakee's guesses were definitely down the right path, and the closest so far was the one about passing notes in class, but there's just a little bit more needed to nail it.
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Guesses are getting warmer all around. I don't think it'll need any more hinting, the clues from the riddle itself should be enough to identify the object from this setting.
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Nah, I tend to stick with pretty tangible stuff as my riddle topics. Intangible answers just seem to me too "mushy" and unsatisfying. And while handwriting is often involved, it's not itself the answer to the riddle. I'm holding out hope that this one will still be a head-slapper after 5+ pages of posts, but in the meantime here's...
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I think the OP intended to say that the ruler should be considered as a circular loop when you are taking sums, so for a ruler of length N one of the two-element sums would be element #N + element #1, and the three-element sums would include #(N-1) + #N + #1 and #N + #1 + #2. (At least, this assumption is based on the example given in the OP of the sums for ruler 1 2 4 3). So 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 would include 12+1 and 6+7 to make it not a graceful ruler.
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Not a geometric proof. Perhaps there is one out there that might fit this particularly well, but none come to mind. Neither a top or dradle or such stuff, nor a telephone as the machine would have trouble fitting the last stanza and the game the first stanza. Gravity's time hasn't come and gone and come again; and while that would be true for orbits, the orbits wouldn't have been forsaken and no longer germane. Will try to add some more hints to those from post 44 when I am not so sleepy from a brutal weekend.
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Still nothing barking up the right tree, so it might be time for
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I like the nucleic acid answers. A double helix and mRNA secondary structure are good literal interpretations of the twisted words. They're not what I had in mind. The part about my time coming and going and coming again is an important clue that doesn't clearly apply to a mutation, unless you're a molecular biologist who understands mismatch repair machinery, something I wouldn't want to have as a requisite background for a riddle answer. It would've been fair game if I asked this to my lab though. mRNA likewise is relatively quickly degraded and resynthesized to fit the first stanza, but would be a tougher fit for the last.
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Ok, I'm done harassing Molly Mae to my satisfaction. Some of you other peeps should dish out some abuse... it's fun!
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I can understand how a encryption in general and a Caesar cipher in particular would fit much of this well. If the answer were specifically a Caesar cipher, then I'd have trouble explaining the clue about how its time has come again. If the answer were encryption in general, then the last stanza about a downward spiral and ruler falling would be left hanging. Perhaps "wartime encryption" would work, although I tend to avoid stuff so intangible as an answer. It's also not an epidural or subdural hematoma. The stone age neurosurgeons were remarkable, but craniotomies would involve old blood and possibly clots falling rather than rulers. Old languages were brought up at one point, but were something I felt was too close to the title's exclusion of a forgotten philosophy to be a satisfying answer. If it's time for hinting yet
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This one's not about a revolution or social unrest except perhaps in a very tangential sort of way; I tend to riddle about more tangible stuff. Neither about Revelations, even though it's not a "forgotten" philosophy I would still consider it too close to the title's exclusion. I didn't have a cicada in mind, and am not clearly seeing how to stretch the metaphor that much, although maybe it would be possible. Also not about a yo-yo, I can clearly see how it would fit lines 3-4 and the last stanza, but less so the middle. It's funny that you should ask if the answer could be history. Well, yes actually. The answer could be history. That's not the answer to the riddle though. This bizarre and perhaps frustrating statement will become clear once the answer is discerned. I haven't used mobile devices, but I suspect that you could type [spoiler=" " with a close bracket, then your text, then [/spoiler with a close bracket to make stuff appear inside a spoiler.
