Once, again, Mr. Punch, with my help, is offering up a true Victorian riddle. The first person to answer correctly--by posting in the comments--will receive public congratulations.
So, here's this week's riddle. We ask that you don't Google the answer. Mr. Punch would not find that sporting at all. Give it a shot and see what you can come up with. Here we go... No cheating...
My body is light,
My head it is white,
With a cord I am laced around;
I am beaten with sticks,
Yet not for bad tricks,
But to animate, by my sound,
The unthinking youth,
Not heeding the truth,
Which would save them from every alarm,
To fight, kill, and die,
And cause much misery,
To those who have done them no harm.
Curses! I forgot to put up the answer. Here it is!
A DRUM!
Frankly, I liked all of your answers better. Many thanks to all of you for brightening my day with your wit...and Angelo. Make sure to come back next Friday for another of Mr. Punch's Puzzles.
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My head it is white,
With a cord I am laced around;
I am beaten with sticks,
Yet not for bad tricks,
But to animate, by my sound,
The unthinking youth,
Not heeding the truth,
Which would save them from every alarm,
To fight, kill, and die,
And cause much misery,
To those who have done them no harm.
Curses! I forgot to put up the answer. Here it is!
A DRUM!
Frankly, I liked all of your answers better. Many thanks to all of you for brightening my day with your wit...and Angelo. Make sure to come back next Friday for another of Mr. Punch's Puzzles.
19 comments:
Kristin Chenoweth.
A balloon.
I don't know hoe many people fight and kill over a balloon.
I am Oz the Great and Powerful.
"WHO ARE YOU?"
Carol Channing.
Close.
NExt week I get a short riddle.
Yes, Angelo. Just for you.
A pinata.
Again, not usually associated with war.
E.L. James?
Marsha is close. It is a sheep piñata. That would incite violence anywhere.. April would tie it up and beat it.
Fifty shades of funny.
We should make that for April. She'd love it!
I'll go ahead and say it's Liza.
Oh...you would.
Fine. Here's Liza.
"Mama always told us that the best things in life were free, but she didn't take into account the subway tokens. Oh, how she loved those...those...they were like little coins, but they had a...a...like an empty space. A hole! A hole. They had a hole in them. So, mama always used to take them and put yarn through the hole and hang them from her...those things, you know. Those fleshy, big...ears. Her ears. So, one day, just after Mama had decided to divorce Mr. Luft, we were having a dinner party and Mama was wearing these holy coins--they were coins with holes in them--these TOKENS, and Mama had made them into a necklace, but Joey--my little brother--Joey Luft, he ate them, not all of them, but most of them, and he still had the yarn hanging out of his mouth. Now, Joey Bishop was one of the first people to react to anything and eh said, "Dammit, Judy, get that little brat out of here, he's spitting on my tie." You see, Regis Philbin had given him that tie when he stole it from Dean Martin, and it was very, very important--special. It was a special tie. So, Mama grabbed Joey by the hand and screamed, "Liza--make him stop!" So I...I was about fifty seven at the time...I grabbed Mama's signed copy of the Magna Carta and I hit Joey across the back with it and up came all of Liz Taylor's pearls. So, that was a good day."
Could it be Wayland FLowers and Madame??
That makes as much sense as anything.
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