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| User: | helloworld (80334) |
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| Name: | The Gay Ambassador to RPdom | |||||||||
| E-mail: | withano@gmail.com | |||||||||
| Bio: | SPHINX: You must answer my question or die! What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening? OEDIPUS: Samuel Johnson’s well-trained dog. SPHINX: No! The answer is man, who crawls as a babe, walks tall in youth, and uses a stick in his dotage! OEDIPUS: You said morning, noon and evening; not infancy, youth and dotage. SPHINX: It’s metaphorical! OEDIPUS: Besides, a baby doesn’t walk on four legs. It crawls on its legs and arms. Arms aren’t legs. SPHINX: [Utters a howling, glass-shattering shriek] Metaphorical legs! Not literal legs! Legs in a man-ner of speak-ing!. OEDIPUS: Well, it’s half metaphor and half literal, isn’t it; since the baby uses two legs and two arms. So of the four legs stipulated, two are literally legs and two are only metaphorically legs. SPHINX: Git! OEDIPUS: So, which is it to be, literal or metaphorical? SPHINX: I’m not listening! I’m putting my wings over my ears! La! La! La! OEDIPUS: And the noontime walking on two legs is literal, not metaphorical. So your riddle mixes metaphor and literal application in an inconsistent manner. SPHINX: Shut up! Shut up! OEDIPUS: Of these two answers to the riddle, mine better fits the terms of the question. SPHINX: That’s not the point. When I asked the question I was not inviting you to answer it; I was demanding that you guess what was in my mind! I was thinking of man, not Samuel Johnson’s dog; you didn’t guess that. So you must die! OEDIPUS: That’s hardly fair. Call your supervisor; I want to have a word with her. [There’s a great deal of squawking and shrieking. The Over-Sphinx comes in.] OVER-SPHINX: Can I help you? OEDIPUS: Yes. I’m far from happy with the level of service I’m getting from this Sphinx. In the first place she asked a thoroughly misleading question, and now she’s trying to palm me off with an illogical and internally inconsistent answer, even though I provided, as I was requestred to do, a perfectly reasonable answer. OVER-SPHINX: I do apologise sir. Might I offer you a replacement riddle? I can offer you ‘Is the present king of France bald?’ or ‘how many roads must a man walk down?’ OEDIPUS: No I think I’d like my money back. | |||||||||
| Memories: | 1 entry | |||||||||
| Schools: | None listed | |||||||||
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| Friend of: | 99: alyakins, angiela, armchairs, b8g8, banlieue, bollywood, bugsy, burrito, calliopes_pen, candydarling, carefully, carp, chelseamorning, chthonian, comagirly, connie, corporatecake, curtaincallmod, czolgosz, dalek, doombot5000, doomcrayon, druish_princess, faeriexlights, fawkes, freud, gairdie, geishawhite, gemi, goblinking, gonzocody, goodpilgrim, guerilla_radio, habituation, happytent, hello_from_dis, heyjude, hikky, hobbit, hprpgprincess, illogic, irridescent, jammer, jigglypuff, kavalier, laifana, lawlypops, lightningrapier, lilmagill, lovedbythesun, loveislikeabomb, mabelleoblivion, macguffin, milkandcookies, miss_mady, missbossyboots, musicaal, neruda, nutini, oceanic, onethingreal, peristyle, pigs_in_space, plum, prefect, pretzel, princessjessia, pronto, puja, quitedreadful, rainbowling, raptor, riotproof, rubberducky, sams, sassylime, seafaring, shirleyschmidt, skycornerless, soconvinced, speedforce, splott, spock, squeezit, starmie, stupidfingers, sycorax, synchronicity, tara_fleur, tentaino_konton, theblev, twatty, unintendedmuse, vikipedia, vimes, wonderwoman, xanthophiliac, yeti, zeebaneighba | |||||||||
| Member of: | 6: embargo, find_a_pb, find_a_player, icondust, pbsbyariel, peoplesquared | |||||||||
| Account type: | Free Patient | |||||||||
