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Noke Lieu
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Tomb ectoparasite...
« on: Apr 28th, 2004, 7:54pm » |
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This deer is 0.3048 m long.
Tail- 0.51477 metres per second, ~201m.
Determine it's depth, and you'll get the solution.
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Re: Tomb ectoparasite...
« Reply #1 on: Apr 29th, 2004, 6:19am » |
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I would guess that the measurements want to be converted into imperial - making the deer a foot long (I think). Not too good with imperial measurement conversion to metric, and vice versa, though... Which might give some clearer clue, or something
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Re: Tomb ectoparasite...
« Reply #3 on: May 17th, 2004, 8:06pm » |
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....my dear Watson.
There's a lot of homophonery going on here. Muddled with cryptic clues. Find out what is significant for the distances and the speed.
It's all beautiful in the end. Trust me.
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Re: Tomb ectoparasite...
« Reply #4 on: May 17th, 2004, 11:52pm » |
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Well, let me see:
0.3048m = 1 foot
0.51477m/s = 1 knot
201m = 1 furlong
This deer is a foot long.
Tail- knot, furlong.
"- knot" could mean backwards "knot" or "not"; which could be "ton"
"furlong" could be "for long"
One could *tail* "ton" onto "furlong" to get "furlongton"
A "long ton" is 2200 pounds.
2200/40 = 55 (40 is the density of a deer in pounds/cubic-ft)
When the US national speed limit was set to 55mph under Reagan, it was known as the "Double Nickle (sic)".
"Doublemint gum" follows logically.
So the answer is based upon with what one would mint nickel; which is a coke-furnace.
Now, Noke wouldn't want to make the riddle "too easy" / "2 e's e" / "ee", so we take those out; which turns "deer" into "dr".
"Dr" clearly is short for "Dr Pepper" which, like "Coke" is a carbonated beverage which verifies that this is the main clue.
"Carbonated" obviously refers to "Carbon Dating" which relates to things that are old.
The logical breaks in "Beverage" are "Bev", "er", and "age". A tiny leap yields "Beverly her age".
This sentence fragment is meaningless until one turns it into "Ask Beverly her age."
Premise 1: Any woman, when asked her age, replies "29".
Premise 2: Beverly is a woman.
Using the Modus Ponens rule of inference, our conclusion is that Beverly is 29.
The riddle said "Determine it's (sic) depth, and you'll get the solution." Beverly's depth is 29ft.
Since everyone knows that men are twice as shallow (half as deep) as women, a man's depth would be 14.5ft.
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Q: Who was 14.5ft below the ground?
A: Saddam Hussein.
QED
I guess I'm not really so much part of the solution, as part of the precipitate.
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Noke Lieu
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Re: Tomb ectoparasite...
« Reply #5 on: May 18th, 2004, 12:05am » |
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Bingo! 
King T, that was funny. Mighty funny. Glad I didn't go home now.
Not quite that depth of logic leaping.
that was funny.
Oh, got the words right... but they all tie together somehow. With out a pun about trefoils etc...
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Re: Tomb ectoparasite...
« Reply #6 on: May 18th, 2004, 2:02pm » |
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"This deer is 0.3048 m long."
=> This deer is a foot long.
=> This, dear, is a foot long.
No, that's probably too rude...I'm stuck.
"Tail- 0.51477 metres per second, 201m"
=> Tail less a knot, furlong.
=> Tell us not for long.
"Determine it's (sic) depth, and you'll get the solution"
=> My PFA answer is that this riddle refers to the graverobbing of King Tut's tomb; which is lame on my part as I'm just going on the title and the last clue, and not the first two clues, with which I actually seemed to get farther.
Speaking of whom, it's times like this that I wish I'd listened to my father. But since I didn't, I don't what he would be saying right now and I can't impart any helpful third-party advice.
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Noke Lieu
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Re: Tomb ectoparasite...
« Reply #7 on: May 18th, 2004, 5:35pm » |
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Wow... imagine having a foot!
Instead of this damned long thing. 
Getting closer. Missing one distance though..........
(Update)
Remove long from the first line.
Need to work on the answers.
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Re: Tomb ectoparasite...
« Reply #8 on: Jul 8th, 2004, 6:42pm » |
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Disappearing for a while, off to Uluru / Kata Juta for a week.
Thought I'd revive this instead of posing a new one.
The title is "Crypt tick".
Maybe the duck is also 0.3048m.
And the roo. and to give an obvious clue football as well.
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Re: Tomb ectoparasite...
« Reply #9 on: Jul 9th, 2004, 6:29am » |
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Aha!!
:: The game is afoot. <tail - probably needs some substitute word>-(k)not, for long. All in all, seems to have something to do with Sherlock Holmes - especially given some of the other comments given by Noke...::
I'm sure someone else will fill in the few remaining holes in this investigation
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Re: Tomb ectoparasite...
« Reply #10 on: Jul 14th, 2004, 10:01pm » |
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When I first saw this one I was intrigued. Then I saw KingT's reply, and almost fell off my chair. And, I thought I had the answer, it was floating someplace in my head waiting to come out. But, now that I have come back, it all seems to have leaked out of my left ear...
Anyway.
The first part is still cryptic, but
Dear hoof, but not for long.
The last part has to be "but not for long" changing "tail" to "butt" then to "but". <has to be means I hope>
Then, the first part seems to include ducks and roos somehow. I tried to find some famous quotes ending in "but not for long" but found nothing.
Animal hooves, but...
Any mal hooves, but...
Any ma loves, but... (Is this getting naughty? ?)
Deer hooves, but..
De rooves, but..
The rooves, but..
Animal paws,
Any ma pause,
Any ma pa's,
In he ma pause,
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Re: Tomb ectoparasite...
« Reply #11 on: Jul 14th, 2004, 11:16pm » |
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Okay, after compiling all our answers I've got something. I'm soon going to strut around with my finger in the air in the classic "We're number one" dance regardless of it's accuracy.
Line 1: The game is afoot. (Sherlock Holmes' famous saying)
Line 2: But not for long. (Temporal allusion)
Line 3: "Determine it's depth, and you'll get the solution."
We need a link from depth to Sherlock Holmes. There's a film coming out titled "Mark Twain's Greatest Adventure - It's a Matter of Time"; it's a time-travel film which has, among others, Mark Twain and Sherlock Holmes in it.
Mark Twain & depth you say??? In nautical terms, a "Mark" is a depth of six feet. "Twain" is another way of saying two, as in "never the twain shall meet". Ergo "Mark Twain" is twelve feet deep. This was said to be something like the shallowest safe depth for a Mississippi riverboat. Among Samuel Clemens' early jobs was on a riverboat; that's from where he chose his nom de plume.
So my answer(s) is (are):
Either "Mark Twain's Greatest Adventure - It's a Matter of Time" is being filmed near Noke, Noke is in said film, or it's actually about to be released into theatres (all I've found is that's still in pre-production but will be out in 2004).
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Re: Tomb ectoparasite...
« Reply #12 on: Jul 14th, 2004, 11:23pm » |
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Okay, I have finally caught up with you guys. duh.
The game....
I like your reasoning, but nothing to add.
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Re: Tomb ectoparasite...
« Reply #13 on: Jul 15th, 2004, 11:48pm » |
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Determine it's depth, and you'll get the solution.
A well? But, that does little for the first two.
Plumb the depths. 
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Re: Tomb ectoparasite...
« Reply #14 on: Jul 18th, 2004, 11:28pm » |
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One done.
Two, true.
Three still waiting...
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Re: Tomb ectoparasite...
« Reply #15 on: Aug 8th, 2004, 10:12pm » |
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am losing track of my unanswered riddles... so will kill this one.
1.83m
Hence:
The Game is afoot
But not for long
Fathom it out and you'll get the solution.
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Re: Tomb ectoparasite...
« Reply #16 on: Aug 10th, 2004, 8:57am » |
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That's nice.
1.83 m = 6 feet = most likely the the depth of a grave (tomb)
This riddle could be solved so much sooner and without all that Sherlock and Mark Twain sh*t.
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Re: Tomb ectoparasite...
« Reply #17 on: Aug 11th, 2004, 1:12am » |
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EZ_Lonny
6 foot is a fathom. The reason 1.83 is orange is it's a link. check out the verb transitive definiton of fathom.
The answer I was looking for was:
The game is afoot, but not for long, fathom it out, and you'll have the answer.
The tomb thing as about it being CRYPTic.
Like I said, its sort of self referential-
The game is afoot (there's a challenge been set)
but not for long (as it turned out, a couple of months)
Fathom it out, you have the answer (and you've completed the riddle)
In retrospect, the last line should have been :
determine it's depth to be 1.83 m, and you'll have the answer.
Don't blame me for the Mark Twain stuff, that's our erratic comic genius King T. I loved it. Suspect a few others did.
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