plasmid Posted April 16, 2018 Report Share Posted April 16, 2018 I feast on meals of mindless fare With blubber to keep it all in For what’s inside should stay right there Or you’ll face a calamitous end ‘Neath peaking wave I spend the days While mostly conceal’d, I presume Unless my presence breath betrays As characteristic’s my spume Alas, I find myself engaged By man with a wretched harpoon Assaulted thus, I shriek enraged With hellish retort for the goon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Molly Mae Posted April 18, 2018 Report Share Posted April 18, 2018 (edited) On 4/18/2018 at 1:53 PM, plasmid said: Getting warmer, but I'll definitely cause you (the listener of the riddle) more calamity if my insides get out and have my own "peaked wave" in the sea to sit under (mostly). Expand Reveal hidden contents An oven? Thinking the peaked wave might be an oven hood. EDIT: Or a frying pan, thinking about bacon and the exploding spray of oil. Edited April 18, 2018 by Molly Mae Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Molly Mae Posted April 16, 2018 Report Share Posted April 16, 2018 On 4/16/2018 at 2:30 PM, plasmid said: I feast on meals of mindless fare With blubber to keep it all in For what’s inside should stay right there Or you’ll face a calamitous end ‘Neath peaking wave I spend the days While mostly conceal’d, I presume Unless my presence breath betrays As characteristic’s my spume Alas, I find myself engaged By man with a wretched harpoon Assaulted thus, I shriek enraged With hellish retort for the goon Expand Reveal hidden contents Coffee in a thermos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted April 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 On the right track, but not quite there yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Thalia Posted April 17, 2018 Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 Reveal hidden contents A sink disposal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted April 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 Not a sink disposal. While I imagine the last stanza has happened with some of those, I hope it's not commonplace enough to belong in a riddle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Molly Mae Posted April 17, 2018 Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 (edited) Reveal hidden contents A septic tank? I think it neatly fits. EDIT: Actually....I think I like freezer better. Edited April 17, 2018 by Molly Mae Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted April 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 On 4/17/2018 at 1:26 PM, Molly Mae said: Reveal hidden contents A septic tank? I think it neatly fits. EDIT: Actually....I think I like freezer better. Expand On the right track, but I get more riled up upon harpooning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 flamebirde Posted April 18, 2018 Report Share Posted April 18, 2018 Reveal hidden contents Some kind of balloon? Pressurized gas in a container? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted April 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2018 On 4/18/2018 at 12:33 AM, flamebirde said: Reveal hidden contents Some kind of balloon? Pressurized gas in a container? Expand Not a balloon, something else that's more characteristically under a peaked wave and mostly concealed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Molly Mae Posted April 18, 2018 Report Share Posted April 18, 2018 Reveal hidden contents A crock-pot/slow cooker? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted April 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2018 On 4/18/2018 at 1:20 PM, Molly Mae said: Reveal hidden contents A crock-pot/slow cooker? Expand Getting warmer, but I'll definitely cause you (the listener of the riddle) more calamity if my insides get out and have my own "peaked wave" in the sea to sit under (mostly). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted April 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2018 On 4/18/2018 at 3:46 PM, Molly Mae said: Reveal hidden contents An oven? Thinking the peaked wave might be an oven hood. EDIT: Or a frying pan, thinking about bacon and the exploding spray of oil. Expand I'll call that a hit. My thinking was... Reveal hidden contents ...a fireplace, but after thinking about it I can't tell the difference between a fireplace and a wood burning oven anyway. For the wave, I was thinking roof of a house (which is why the wave that the fireplace/chimney is mostly under is singular, although potentially in a sea of waves in a neighborhood). The oven's aroma is certainly as characteristic a spume as smoke from a chimney. The clue about harpooning is a reference to a fire poker which will rile the fire up, but it's apparently no longer commonplace enough to be widely recognized by everyone since people rarely have wood burning fireplaces any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Molly Mae Posted April 19, 2018 Report Share Posted April 19, 2018 On 4/19/2018 at 5:25 AM, plasmid said: I'll call that a hit. My thinking was... Reveal hidden contents ...a fireplace, but after thinking about it I can't tell the difference between a fireplace and a wood burning oven anyway. For the wave, I was thinking roof of a house (which is why the wave that the fireplace/chimney is mostly under is singular, although potentially in a sea of waves in a neighborhood). The oven's aroma is certainly as characteristic a spume as smoke from a chimney. The clue about harpooning is a reference to a fire poker which will rile the fire up, but it's apparently no longer commonplace enough to be widely recognized by everyone since people rarely have wood burning fireplaces any more. Expand Oh, man, I do like that answer. It does totally make sense. I was just too close to food, I guess. At one point, I was putting my hands in the shape of a "peaking wave" (and it totally is the shape of a roof) and wondering to myself what has that shape and would be above something insulated. And I landed on oven hood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I feast on meals of mindless fare
With blubber to keep it all in
For what’s inside should stay right there
Or you’ll face a calamitous end
‘Neath peaking wave I spend the days
While mostly conceal’d, I presume
Unless my presence breath betrays
As characteristic’s my spume
Alas, I find myself engaged
By man with a wretched harpoon
Assaulted thus, I shriek enraged
With hellish retort for the goon
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