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Riddles
- Thread starter FayetheAspie
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To pick apart the clues:
“Build it from here with a down to earth feel,”
In shipbuiliding, you first lay the keel. Usually on the ground.
“But then wrap it up, be sure of the seal,”
Then you “wrap” the hull around the ribs, usually from the keel upwards. The hull better be sealed tight.
“One way it is steady, you’re glad I am there,
Assured with a wave there’s still air in your hair,”
The keel assists the stability of a vessel, resisting it capsizing when hit by a wave. So you still have “air in your hair”, rather than water.
“But let’s not be shallow, there’s more we both love,
Water below us and sky up above.”
Every mariner worries about having enough water under the keel, otherwise you run aground.
“There’s three rhymes in there, one may give you a clue.
Attention to me is the first thing you do”
The feel/seal rhymes with keel.
As already stated, shipbuilding starts with laying the keel.
“If you find that answers don’t come to your head,
there’s no cause to worry nor, worse, drop down dead.”
To “keel over” is a colloquial phrase meaning to fall down abruptly, or die, cognate with a boat capsizing, with the “keel over” rather than under.
“To anyone listening, this clue is the last.
The base of the boat’s at the foot of the mast.”
The foot of the mast is traditionally set on the keel.
“Keep your eyes on the couplets, they each hold a clue,
Even though sometimes quite overdue.
Everyone has a chance to come head of the pack,
Leaving others behind farther back.”
Here the answer is spelled out in an acrostic.
“Build it from here with a down to earth feel,”
In shipbuiliding, you first lay the keel. Usually on the ground.
“But then wrap it up, be sure of the seal,”
Then you “wrap” the hull around the ribs, usually from the keel upwards. The hull better be sealed tight.
“One way it is steady, you’re glad I am there,
Assured with a wave there’s still air in your hair,”
The keel assists the stability of a vessel, resisting it capsizing when hit by a wave. So you still have “air in your hair”, rather than water.
“But let’s not be shallow, there’s more we both love,
Water below us and sky up above.”
Every mariner worries about having enough water under the keel, otherwise you run aground.
“There’s three rhymes in there, one may give you a clue.
Attention to me is the first thing you do”
The feel/seal rhymes with keel.
As already stated, shipbuilding starts with laying the keel.
“If you find that answers don’t come to your head,
there’s no cause to worry nor, worse, drop down dead.”
To “keel over” is a colloquial phrase meaning to fall down abruptly, or die, cognate with a boat capsizing, with the “keel over” rather than under.
“To anyone listening, this clue is the last.
The base of the boat’s at the foot of the mast.”
The foot of the mast is traditionally set on the keel.
“Keep your eyes on the couplets, they each hold a clue,
Even though sometimes quite overdue.
Everyone has a chance to come head of the pack,
Leaving others behind farther back.”
Here the answer is spelled out in an acrostic.
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So obviously at this point it is the keel. Those are some interesting facts to learn about ships. I don't really know much about their structure.
In my teens I had a Special Interest in tall ships. (I didn’t know it was special at the time - I didn’t know I was autistic for another 50 years.) A bit later I spent a season as foredeck hand on a 30 foot racing yacht. I’d been mucking around in boats from about the age of 7 or 8. Somewhere around the house are detailed plans for a faering, a replica of a traditional Nordic sailboat. I never did get around to having it made…
Never having come across them, that kinda makes it a wee bit unsolvable without knowing that?
This is really specialist stuff! I hate getting the answer by guessing, feels like cheating so if anyone else has something ready before I can think of one that can't be guessed in 25.73 seconds (or there abouts!
), it seems only fair they get a shot!
Aw, sod it, I'm too tired to come up with better, will have to do unless someone has a good one instead?
My soles stick firmly to the ground,
Even as I walk around.
I'm pulled to the left to turn to the right,
Leave others standing with nary a fight.
When the heavens open I always get wet,
But in spring and summer that turns to sweat.
I'm loud, even noisy, and give you the wind,
If you want to join me, you'd best be thick skinned!
My soles stick firmly to the ground,
Even as I walk around.
I'm pulled to the left to turn to the right,
Leave others standing with nary a fight.
When the heavens open I always get wet,
But in spring and summer that turns to sweat.
I'm loud, even noisy, and give you the wind,
If you want to join me, you'd best be thick skinned!
I am thinking some.excavating machine where the feet or bottom part that are like the soles of shoes when it moves but stays always on the ground, like a digger. It has a tough exterior. The lever can go one way I think and the bucket of the digger another
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A crane.
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