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[MCC]

It looks like Underquark and Coloin know the answer.

Here is something that might help you.

Clue: He was not a Danger Man then or was he?


MCC

[emm]

I cannot answer your clues, MCC. I wasn't allowed to watch adult television in the 60s

But I found these quotes on the web

Questions are a burden to others. Answers are a prison for oneself.

By the time we finish with him, he won't know whether he's Number 6 or the cube root of infinity.

[MCC]

Come on emm, forget the clues, you could at lease try to answer the riddle or hazard a guess at them.


MCC

[emm]

Does anyone else have the feeling that they want to see this riddle put to bed, PJs on, lights out?

Could it possibly be ...

Classic TV show from the Olden Days
Portmerion, Wales
The Prisoner
Patrick McGoohan
Number 6

[MCC]

Ok, got your cocoa ready.


1 - What am I = The Prisoner

2 - Where am I = The Village

3 - Who am I = Number six

4 - Who, am I = Number One

5 - Who am I = Patrick McGoohan

R.I.P


MCC

[MCC]

What the clues mean.

Clue: Something relating to McGill (a character)should help you on your way. This is a bit hard, so to nudge you in the right direction, as Police Chief Mike Dorsett in '87, was he untouchable.

In the Untouchables, Chief Mike Dorsett was played by Richard Bradford which should have led you to 'Man in a Suitcase'.
The character in 'The Prisoner' was packing a suitcase when he was abducted. A bit obscure but it was only the beginning of the riddle.

Clue: The Muscat the Butler served was nice, but he was a bit of a dodgy character.

The butler in the series was played by Angelo Muscat.

Clue: I see things are bouncing along nicely.

This was in reference to the posts of Coloin and Underquark but also referred to the big bouncing balloons that appeared in the series.

Clue: A car pulls up to the kerb, a man steps into the kar, 120 Civic st please, he said to the driver.

The licence plate number of the car driven by Patrick McGoohan at the beginning of the series was KAR 120C.

Clue: On a motorway I am never an overtaker.

The person who gassed Patrick McGoohan at the beginning of the program was dressed as an Undertaker.

Clue: Miss Moneypenny is to marry Major Farthing. She will be taking the double-barrelled surname.

A reference to a Penny-Farthing, an early type of bicycle, it appeared in the opening titles, with canopy attached to the bike.

Clue: Oh what a carry on, is that fenella fielding I hear?

Fenella's voice was heard over the Village tannoy system.

Clue: A Macho man in the Navy or in Y.M.C.A.

Three songs from the Village people. A reference to 'The Village' where all the action took place.

Clue: He was not a Danger Man then or was he?

A reference to Patrick McGoohan who played the lead character in the program 'Danger Man'.

I should also say that Patrick McGoohan played Number 6 - Number 6 was forever trying to find out who Number 1 was - in the end it was discovered that Number 6 was Number 1.


MCC

[emm]

I'm glad you cleared that up, MCC. I was dying to ask how Number 1 got into the answer.

Here's lies a thread
Which now is dead
It ran on and on
But now it's gone.

[MCC]

Postscript.

6 - Where am I?
2 - In the Village
6 - What do you want?
2 - Information
6 - Whose side are you on?
2 - That would be telling . . .We want Information
6 - You won't get it
2 - By hook or by crook . . .We will
6 - Who are you?
2 - The new Number Two
6 - Who is Number One?
2 - You are Number Six
6 - I am not a number . . .I'm a free man!
(Mocking laughter)


MCC

[emm]

Here lies a thread
I said was dead
It didn’t die -
I don’t know why.

[MCC]

You wonder why
I did not die -
Would not lie entombed.
The reason why
I did not die -
I haven't been consumed.

[emm]

Call me last-word-emm
I hate to be outdone
I can go on and on like this
Into the setting sun

It isn’t you that I want dead
Dear riddler MCC
Is just that blessed Prisoner
Numbers 1,2, 4 - 6 & 3

[underquark]

Time to put a sarcophagus in it.

[MCC]

Aptly put.

A sarcophagus is a stone container for a coffin or body. The word comes from Greek "sarx" meaning flesh, and "Phagos" meaning to eat, so sarkophagos, which means "eater of flesh". The 5th century BC Greek historian, Herodotus, noted that early sarcophagi (the plural) were carved from a special kind of rock that consumed the flesh of the corpse inside. In particular coffins made of a limestone from Assus in the Troad had the property of consuming the bodies placed within them and so this limestone (also known as lapis Assius) was called sarkophagos lithos (flesh-eating stone). All coffins made of limestone have this property to a greater or lesser degree, and the name eventually came to be applied to stone coffins in general.

MCC

[MCC]

‘En Garde!’ She cried, twenty paces wide
I challenge you to a duel
At your will you may choose, an appropriate weapon of use
Unless you throw in the towel

Me! Throw in the towel, don’t be absurd
I know, I thought - I would throw emm
Tis me not thee that will have the final word
By choosing, a Limerick, Rhyme or Poem

[emm]

Sometimes I think my well is dry
I cannot write, although I try
I’ve done my dash, my race is run
Words won’t come – not even one

But then a thought pops in my head
And off I go - another thread!
I never know who’ll fire the gun
But someone does - and off I run

The rhyming couplet’s easy, see
No need to thumb the diction’ry
As you must do with poetry
And other things more liter’y

You think it’s hard, it’s not - watch me
See the words that rhyme with ee
Like thee and me and he and she
And stuffy old sarcophagee

Here’s the challenge I’ve been thrown
Is this one just for me alone?
You want a limerick, poem or rhyme
You haven’t had enough of mine?

OK – I’m off again, in print -
I like this size - you have to squint
To see the things I have to say
If you don’t want to – that’s OK

....................oOo.....................

There once was a lady you don’t know
Who fell for a man making cocoa
She wrote him a rhyme
To fill in the time
In bed, just like John and Yoko

.................ooOoo....................