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Old 19-June-2004, 06:46 AM
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I'm thinking water.
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Old 19-June-2004, 12:58 PM
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Yeah, definitely water.
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Old 19-June-2004, 04:15 PM
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An ocean.
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Old 19-June-2004, 05:56 PM
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One's too hard, 2 too easy
Here comes 3, I hope it's pleasy :P :P :P

#3
Quote:
It comes through doors yet leaves no tracks.
Can pass the sun without a shadow.
Sifts your grain, stokes your fire,
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Old 19-June-2004, 05:57 PM
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Darn, too easy again, I think it's wind.
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Old 19-June-2004, 06:01 PM
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For #1 I thought Sun, but Sun crystal on google only gets a kids book and art 'Sun crystals'.
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Old 20-June-2004, 10:28 AM
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Quote:
#1
It makes men blind
and lets them see.
It tells the time;
a crystal be.
I guessing Sand;

Glass is made of sand, and it blinds you when it gets in your eye.
I don't get the crystal line however.
Fra Mauro and Tranquility were on the right track.

Sand can make you blind. i.e. hard to see rather than clinicly(sp?) blind

Sand makes glass for glasses so you can see.

Sand in an hourglass for telling time

and Sand is a crystal.

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Old 20-June-2004, 05:39 PM
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Sand is not a 'crystal'. It may have crystals in it but it is not homogeneous.
Sand is a mixture.
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Old 20-June-2004, 05:42 PM
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To recap we have
  • #1 ___________
    #2 water
    #3 wind
Moving on.

#4
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Can fill a house, can fill a room;
cannot catch it in a spoon.
Used to preserve, to say hello,
yet often portends tragedy below.
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#4 Smoke?
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Old 21-June-2004, 12:49 PM
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Nitrogen :-? ?
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#4 Smoke?
That sounds good to me.
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Old 21-June-2004, 02:38 PM
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Oh yeah come to think of it, it does sound like smoke, but, smoke is used to preserve stuff? ops:
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Oh yeah come to think of it, it does sound like smoke, but, smoke is used to preserve stuff?
You ever had an Arbroath Smokie?
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Oh yeah come to think of it, it does sound like smoke, but, smoke is used to preserve stuff?
You ever had an Arbroath Smokie?
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Old 21-June-2004, 05:51 PM
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Smoke it is then.

Here's #5
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What has four fingers and a thumb
but neither flesh nor bone?
A digit protectorate
seldom alone.
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Old 21-June-2004, 05:56 PM
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A glove?
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Old 21-June-2004, 06:40 PM
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Smoke preserves meat.

#5 is a glove.
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Yeah, glove.

And it's only alone if you're Michael Jackson :-D

I'm a fan of sand for #1, as well (Glass is an amorphous solid)

Are we still wrong?
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Old 21-June-2004, 06:53 PM
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If the glove fits... :wink:

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It runs about the forest yet does not move.
Be warned: Always keep it in sight.
It casts no shadow, makes no sound,
but will lead you to the light.
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Old 21-June-2004, 08:26 PM
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Path (or trail)
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