A cartoon thought balloon (as opposed to a talk balloon)?
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What am I? (25)
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Re: What am I? (25)
by QBasicMac » Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:12 pm
MCC wrote:As a general rule, balloons float.
You would think this one doesn't, but it does.
What am I
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Hmmm, you didn't ask "What is it?" so I guess the answer is "You are a person who poses difficult riddles".
Yep. That's the answer.
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Re: What am I? (25)
by udosuk » Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:16 pm
QBasicMac wrote:Hmmm, you didn't ask "What is it?" so I guess the answer is "You are a person who poses difficult riddles".
Yep. That's the answer.
In that case shouldn't the question be "Who am I?" instead?
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Re: What am I? (25)
by QBasicMac » Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:24 pm
udosuk wrote:In that case shouldn't the question be "Who am I?" instead?
Good point. A better answer: "You are a quote containing a riddle".
LOL
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by udosuk » Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:27 pm
Final attempt: continental crust
This good source wrote:Continental crust is less dense (average density 2.7 gm/cm3) than either the mantle or the oceanic crust, therefore it "floats" on the mantle.
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by emm » Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:03 am
A long year = leap?
By en = ? wa-ay too obscure
An anagram - neon layer?
A 'physical object’ with an 'innate ability to float’ and ‘a passive resistance to the effects of gravity’ doesn’t sound like something heavy like the earth’s crust.
How about the earth’s magnetic field? Is that a physical object?
By en = ? wa-ay too obscure
An anagram - neon layer?
A 'physical object’ with an 'innate ability to float’ and ‘a passive resistance to the effects of gravity’ doesn’t sound like something heavy like the earth’s crust.
How about the earth’s magnetic field? Is that a physical object?
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by MCC » Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:35 am
udosuk wrote:Final attempt: continental crustThis good source wrote:Continental crust is less dense (average density 2.7 gm/cm3) than either the mantle or the oceanic crust, therefore it "floats" on the mantle.
But which bit of the continental crust
emm wrote:A long year = leap?
By en = ? wa-ay too obscure
A leap of imagination too far is like a burst balloon.
emm wrote:A 'physical object’ with an 'innate ability to float’ and ‘a passive resistance to the effects of gravity’ doesn’t sound like something heavy like the earth’s crust.
Well you know that:
"A 'physical object’" = a very large bit of the "lithosphere".
And:
The "'innate ability to float’ " = the lithosphere, being less dense, floats on the asthenosphere.
But the "‘a passive resistance to the effects of gravity’" is not riddle related, it refers to tarek's "Or could be that planet earth is floating in space......... " remark, which I queried with "can the Earth be said to be floating in space"
emm wrote:How about the earth’s magnetic field? Is that a physical object?
It's not the earth’s magnetic field, and is it a physical object?, debatable.
Another clue:
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:by MCC » Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:43 pm
You're still thinking too big.
What I'm after is a name, not the material/substance the object is made from.
As an example - you might offer "Uluru", to which I would reply, "no".
These two clues help, once you understand them.
The way to understand them is to think: Balloon - Pin - Burst Balloon.
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What I'm after is a name, not the material/substance the object is made from.
As an example - you might offer "Uluru", to which I would reply, "no".
These two clues help, once you understand them.
Long year by en
The berton
The way to understand them is to think: Balloon - Pin - Burst Balloon.
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