plasmid Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 To public places I depart Wherever the people assemble My cheerful face hides chilly heart And none in the multitude tremble I'm bankrolled by these fools, my prey Commanded, I drop off the payload Beware, for this I truly say You'll harvest the fruitage that I've sowed So are you shaking? Feel secure? The question's not just academic Anon, explosion you'll endure Or suffer the latest pandemic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 (edited) 1. Maybe a pig (swine)? 2. Maybe a cargo ship? Or maybe I keep thinking. edit: thought of 1 more.. Maybe the Anti-christ? Not sure if any of them follow all the lines tho. Edited June 15, 2009 by James8421 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 deannaart Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 Is it the U.S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plainglazed Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 a busker? maybe more specifically a juggler or fire eater. would like to go with fire eater... Say first guess because I have many as you always take us down so many paths only to find the whole route is not justifiable. Problem is (one of them anyway) once you're on one of those paths it's hard to redirect without confirmation you were lost all along. bah da bap ba bah, I'm lovin' it (like a Big Mac to my arteries). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted June 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 No chilly hearts within our porcine pals Cargo ships can't make it to most public places Lucifer takes commands from no one The U.S. is a bit too vague to be a good riddle answer With a fire eater, I can't see a connection to an explosion or pandemic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 hugemonkey Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 an icecream truck (the Good Humor Man)? The pandemic being obesity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 CrowdTo public places I depart Wherever the people assemble My cheerful face hides chilly heart And none in the multitude tremble I'm bankrolled by these fools, my prey Commanded, I drop off the payload Beware, for this I truly say You'll harvest the fruitage that I've sowed So are you shaking? Feel secure? The question's not just academic Anon, explosion you'll endure Or suffer the latest pandemic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 Crowd a garbage truck? Or port-o-john LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted June 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 an icecream truck (the Good Humor Man)? The pandemic being obesity? I think I can call this an acceptable solution, even though I had something slightly different in mind to cause an explosion, calling for an "Or" instead of an "And" to start the last line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plainglazed Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 To public places I depart Wherever the people assemble My cheerful face hides chilly heart And none in the multitude tremble I'm bankrolled by these fools, my prey Commanded, I drop off the payload Beware, for this I truly say You'll harvest the fruitage that I've sowed So are you shaking? Feel secure? The question's not just academic Anon, explosion you'll endure Or suffer the latest pandemic Realize of my last there was really no way But feel somewhat better 'bout this one this time For I'm thinking it's possible this guess might say Brother can you spare a dime? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 a slot machine or casino? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted June 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Not sure how a panhandler would cause an explosion or pandemic, and casinos can't go to most places where people gather (not throughout most of the US anyway). Hugemonkey got something that's close enough for me to give it to him, even though I had something slightly different in mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DudleyDude Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 if the answer is food related and also connected to where people assemble, then it sounds like Starbucks or something similar. Although I'm not sure how to make that work with explosion/pandemic... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 a street taco vendor. you eat one of their tacos and you'll endure explosions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted June 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 a street taco vendor. you eat one of their tacos and you'll endure explosions They're not chilly-hearted, but points for the comedy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plainglazed Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Not sure how a panhandler would cause an explosion or pandemic, and casinos can't go to most places where people gather (not throughout most of the US anyway). Hugemonkey got something that's close enough for me to give it to him, even though I had something slightly different in mind. And I was so sure that I'd been driven to rhyme for the first time ever. the panhandler was causing the explosion or pandemic, but that their mark was. Saw the whole last stanza as being about the panhandle-ee and the explosion and pandemic referring to the most recent economic downturn. Anyway like hugemonkey's ice cream truck better even tho I gave that guy ten bucks this afternoon for three sticks of frozen sugar water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 dope-dealer, but must point out that slyalys's taco vendor could be chili hearted if he really likes making chili tacos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted June 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 dope-dealer, but must point out that slyalys's taco vendor could be chili hearted if he really likes making chili tacos. All right, that has me convinced: slyalys has a perfectly acceptable (and punny) alternate answer. As for the other one: I'm afraid I don't know enough about how to go about scoring some smack to say how well it could fit the first two lines. Might be a regional thing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 EDM Posted June 18, 2009 Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 a joker or clown or funnyman...in a carnival Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted June 18, 2009 Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 All right, that has me convinced: slyalys has a perfectly acceptable (and punny) alternate answer. As for the other one: I'm afraid I don't know enough about how to go about scoring some smack to say how well it could fit the first two lines. Might be a regional thing... I wouldn't know; I'm going on tv and novels, myself. I sorta had this image of a guy in a trench coat-- he opens it, and it is lined with filled syringes and packets of powder, and mysterious vials... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted June 18, 2009 Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 To public places I depart Wherever the people assemble My cheerful face hides chilly heart And none in the multitude tremble I'm bankrolled by these fools, my prey Commanded, I drop off the payload Beware, for this I truly say You'll harvest the fruitage that I've sowed So are you shaking? Feel secure? The question's not just academic Anon, explosion you'll endure Or suffer the latest pandemic salesman. The explosion is the spouse discovering what is on the credit card. The pandemic is imminent bankruptcy or foreclosure and other evils of credit card spending. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted June 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 salesman. The explosion is the spouse discovering what is on the credit card. The pandemic is imminent bankruptcy or foreclosure and other evils of credit card spending. That and EDM's answer don't really nail the chilly heart clue. Hugemonkey's ice cream vendor was really close, it just leaves a clue in the last stanza hanging where it talks about an explosion after asking if you're shaking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DudleyDude Posted June 18, 2009 Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 that chilly explosions after shaking equals a cola vending machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 EDM Posted June 18, 2009 Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 To public places I depart Wherever the people assemble My cheerful face hides chilly heart And none in the multitude tremble I'm bankrolled by these fools, my prey Commanded, I drop off the payload Beware, for this I truly say You'll harvest the fruitage that I've sowed So are you shaking? Feel secure? The question's not just academic Anon, explosion you'll endure Or suffer the latest pandemic now i can only think of either lemonade seller or a man in a costume suit (i don't know why i thought of that!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted June 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 that chilly explosions after shaking equals a cola vending machine. That's it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plainglazed Posted June 18, 2009 Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 That and EDM's answer don't really nail the chilly heart clue. Hugemonkey's ice cream vendor was really close, it just leaves a clue in the last stanza hanging where it talks about an explosion after asking if you're shaking. re hugemonkey's fitting the last stanze, shaking from eating sold ice cream and explosion from eating it too quickly and the resulting brain freeze. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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To public places I depart
Wherever the people assemble
My cheerful face hides chilly heart
And none in the multitude tremble
I'm bankrolled by these fools, my prey
Commanded, I drop off the payload
Beware, for this I truly say
You'll harvest the fruitage that I've sowed
So are you shaking? Feel secure?
The question's not just academic
Anon, explosion you'll endure
Or suffer the latest pandemic
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