{"id":2636,"date":"1998-06-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-06-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1998\/06\/15\/xx-unknown-comments\/"},"modified":"2018-01-14T20:40:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T04:40:15","slug":"xx-unknown-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1998\/06\/15\/xx-unknown-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"xx: What Has It Got in Its Pocketses? (Reader Comments and Addenda)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n<p>Answers to the riddles (I'll put up answers only to those that readers\r\nhave answered correctly):<\/p>\r\n<dl>\r\n  <dt>Tower for a cold queen;<br \/>\r\nDeath for the donor;<br \/>\r\nTickled by a master;<br \/>\r\nWealthy is the owner.<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Ivory.<\/dd>\r\n<p \/>\r\n  <dt>Stronger than a mountain,<br \/>\r\nSlower than a snail;<br \/>\r\nBlue as a cornflower,<br \/>\r\nColder than hail.<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>A glacier.<\/dd>\r\n<p \/>\r\n  <dt>A monster, a giant, my size ever grows,<br \/>\r\nMy tale ever stretches, yet only one knows<br \/>\r\nHow fierce is my bite, and how great is my strength,<br \/>\r\nWhich grows and grows with every drink.<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>The one that got away.<br \/>\r\n(Dominus guessed the Hudson River; Pierre guessed a tapeworm.)<\/dd>\r\n<p \/>\r\n  <dt>A story many thousands of years old,<br \/>\r\nAt a single glance it can be told,<br \/>\r\nOf a queen trapped by her lust for gold,<br \/>\r\nUnrescued by a knight so bold,<br \/>\r\nNow a treasure to be bought or sold.<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>A bee (or termite or ant) in amber. (Thanks to Stacey, Samuel, and Pierre.)<\/dd>\r\n<p \/>\r\n  <dt>Below your thoughts I am sent [scent] for you;<br \/>\r\nAbove your words I invent [in vent] for you.<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Your nose. (Thanks to Stacey and Samuel.)<\/dd>\r\n<p \/>\r\n  <dt>What is it you break even as you name it?<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Silence.<\/dd>\r\n<p \/>\r\n  <dt>What is it that a contented man desires,<br \/>\r\nA wealthy man requires,<br \/>\r\nAnd a poor man has,<br \/>\r\nMisers spend, and spendthrifts save,<br \/>\r\nAnd all men carry to their grave?<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Nothing. (Thanks to Pierre.)<\/dd>\r\n<p \/>\r\n  <dt>I went on a hunt with a view to kill.<br \/>\r\nThose that I caught, I kept with me not;<br \/>\r\nThose I did not are with me still.<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Fleas. (Thanks to Dominus and Danny Fahs.)<\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n<p>By the way, my \"rock\" riddle is a joke\/parody (which is why I included the answer), the point being that good riddles do not generally contain the answer explicitly along with half a dozen ultra-specific pointers to the answer. Metaphor and contradiction are part of what make riddles interesting.<\/p>\r\n<p>Here's another Medieval riddle from Jeepsie:<\/p>\r\n<dl>\r\n  <dt>One is sick, one cold<br \/>\r\nOne is thin, one bold<br \/>\r\nAll around the world we ride<br \/>\r\nFrom our vengance none can hide.<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>The four horsemen of the Apocalypse.<\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>(Last updated: 14 July 1998)<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1998\/06\/14\/xx-unknown\/\">Back to column xx<\/a><\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-llowercase-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}