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My steeple sours, great towering keep.
From near my base clear rivers weep.
Caverns lie in depths beneath,
which hold a gusty, unkempt heath.
I'm wise as time and smarter still.
I tell all good from ill.
'Why is it called a steeple?'
'Why is anything called what it is?'
'I think it's because it's a little steep.'
'So a table is a little tab?'
'Precisely. And a fable, especially here, is just a little fab.'
Riddle Answer A Nose
As we run into Christmas and the festive holidays, so partly because I'll be busy, and partly because I would like to share these pictures with you, I have decided to start a run of portraits that I made a few years back. Some of you may have seen some on Facebook before.
No better way to start this series than with the portrait of my first good friend I made when coming to Japan. He sadly passed away soon after, but I still look back fondly and remember him dearly. My friend, Maki.
''Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.''
- Oscar Wilde
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I tell you where your neck should bend,
But care! I killed your next best friend.
So take two geese, their goslings too,
And see where next I'll vanguard you.
Despite my risks, to use me yearn,
For how else would you learn?
'Well that mosling is simply precious.'
'What in the stars is a mosling?'
'Why, that baby moose.'
'Confound your gibberish.'
'Well, what do you call a baby moose?'
'...Indeed...that mosling is simply precious.'
Riddle Answer Curiosity
Riddle Explanation
but care! I killed your next best friend - curiosity killed the cat. The dog is claimed to be man’s best friend, though at least in a US survey as of 2007 about ten million more cats were kept as pets, possibly due to the higher number of multi-cat households. So if anything, the cat must at least be our second best friend.
so take two geese, their goslings too - to take a gander, or a look or peek.
'Everyday I think to myself; 'What hasn't bee-n yet that simply must?''
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I'm had by all, some two, three, four.
Some rich have few and poor have more.
There's something in me, though not clear.
Though shatterproof, don't drop me, dear.
You get me, keep, though half might change,
But never use, save with those strange.
'Why do you keep sending me watches?'
'To intimidate you.'
'How would that possibly intimidate me?'
'I'm watching you.'
Riddle Answer A Name
Riddle Explanation
there's something in me, though not clear - what's in a name? A frequently referenced line from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
though shatterproof, don't drop me, dear - to drop a name.
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In a more than animated game of Dominoes it had become apparent to most, though not all when some simply insist on being slow to pick things up, especially the Snail who was having trouble budging his domino tiles at all, that there were far too many pieces in play than there should be. In fact, half the pieces in play were kitchen tiles with dots and spots painted on them. And one of them was actually just the Woodlouse curled up to look like one dot, which admittedly had been played quite ingeniously. When it got to the point that punched movie tickets and stones were laid down, the room began to break into a holler.
‘You can’t lay that! What is it?’
‘Why not? It’s a bone.’
‘Well, you picked the wrong bone. It looks more like a straw. In fact, it is one of my straws. My last one!’
‘It is not!’
‘Cheater!’
‘Liar’
‘Cheater’
‘Quiet!’ Hooted the Owl, twisting its head all around and over the place to make sure everyone knew that they were included in the command. ‘Everyone touch cheeks, and we will see who is cheating!’
'Teach each to touch cheeks to check chatting cheats.'
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Lighter than your vital spark,
But dim the light, I bring the dark.
And silently, I change my pace,
But always covet second place.
Most joy when I'm behind, we run
Three-quarter dozen ones.
'I walk six paces of my feet, two yards I've crossed and fathom leaped,
But here I've come, the feats I've run and realised how I've fathomed none.'
Riddle Answer A Cloud
Riddle Explanation
but always covet second place - every cloud has a silver lining.
most joy when I'm behind, we run three-quarter dozen ones - to be on cloud nine.
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‘Don’t be ridiculous,’ said the Elephant rather unwisely, though it certainly had not forgotten anything. ‘I get far more wet than you, for the rain hits me first and I am soaked while you are still fur-dry.’ ‘What toddle-plop,’ the Mouse exhaled, for it really was toddle-plop. ‘I, being the smaller, must get far wetter than you, as a small amount of rain soaks me while you are still in parts quite skin-dusted.’ Though the Mouse didn’t know what skin-dusted was meant to mean, it sounded like a thing. The two went on in this manner, both utterly soaked and equally wet.
So as the wise man says; 'The elephant and mouse get equally wet in the rain.'
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My outsides wet as suckled milk,
yet inside dry and smooth as silk.
I'm soft and light, a tulip tree,
until you need a stouter me.
And in such case, my wings take flight,
against the world I fight.
'If you have an answer to a question never asked, give it to me, and I shall tell you if you have explained the senseless,' explained the Owl. 'Though don't let the other Woodworms see, or else it'll become far too lumbersome.'
Riddle Answer An Umbrella
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A Frantic Crude Lad
There once was a frantic crude lad,
Frenzied, foolhardy, and mad.
He flooded his room,
And in swimming costume,
Sat there with a yellowtail scad.
As Shakespeare would say;
'I'm quite sure thou've spelt it wrongly, thou odious wart.
Tis not bathroom, tis batheroom.'