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jenniegurl
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young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet,
« on: Jun 26th, 2005, 3:56pm » |
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a married couple is returning from his hometown to hers. on the way, they meet an old man. she calls him a beautiful young lady. the old man/lady ends up joining the couple as they attend a wedding...
what happened?
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Re: young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet
« Reply #1 on: Jun 27th, 2005, 12:50am » |
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He was a demented old coot. But hey, it's her grandfather, so she could hardly not invite him.
Or maybe he was a beautiful young lady in a previous reincarnation, and the bride just happened to be the previous reincarnation of the young lady's father.
Or perhaps they're all bonkers..
Or the old man wants to get married, so the bride takes a look at the russian mail-order bride catalog she just happens to have, calls him a beautiful young lady, who arrives by plane a day later to marry the old man. And of course the couple attends the wedding as they helped made it possible.
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Re: young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet
« Reply #2 on: Jun 28th, 2005, 12:37am » |
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Is she a reverend?
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Re: young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet
« Reply #3 on: Jun 28th, 2005, 5:48am » |
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When you say "she calls him a beautiful young lady" do you mean that she took her phone and asked a beautiful young lady to come for the old man?
Maybe the old man is a friend. She asked him to come to the wedding. The old man said "no, I don't want to go there as a single". So she calls an escort girl for the man and he agrees to come.
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jenniegurl
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Re: young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet
« Reply #4 on: Jun 28th, 2005, 6:41pm » |
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no she proclaims he is a lady instead of an old man.
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Re: young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet
« Reply #5 on: Jun 30th, 2005, 2:29pm » |
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I know what happened! 
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Re: young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet
« Reply #6 on: Jun 30th, 2005, 8:24pm » |
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1. She's blind.
2. He's in a beautiful young lady disguise.
Actually, my money is on towr's guess :
on Jun 27th, 2005, 12:50am, towr wrote:
Or perhaps they're all bonkers..
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Re: young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet
« Reply #7 on: Jul 1st, 2005, 1:50pm » |
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NO NO NO!
| hidden: | Quote (The Taming of the Shrew, act 4, scene 5, line 37-38):
Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet,
Whither away, or where is thy abode?
(of Katherine, returning with Petrucio her husband to her hometown) |
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Re: young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet
« Reply #8 on: Jul 1st, 2005, 3:21pm » |
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So that is where the title comes from. But I don't see how that answers the riddle itself.
My somewhat wild guess is that the "old man/beautiful lady" is some type of flower with multiple names.
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Better: The old man/young lady refers to the moon, whose face has reminded people of both. ("The man in the moon" is well-known. The lady is a profile of a woman's head taking approximately half the moon, and outlined by the mares.) The wedding occurs outside at night, so the moon shines down on it.
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Re: young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet
« Reply #9 on: Jul 1st, 2005, 3:51pm » |
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I'm thinking that with the title comes the riddle:
| hidden: | | Katherine was being "obediant" to her husband Petrucio. Hence the title "The Taming of the Shrew", as Petrucio in the end succeeded in pacifying the rebel Kate. Petrucio, as this was a comedy, called the old man a lady to see if Kate would agree. This leads to the line I posted earlier. |
That is what I think had happened.
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Re: young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet
« Reply #10 on: Jul 6th, 2005, 4:58pm » |
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yes you are all right.
apparently he was testing her obedience by calling this old man a lady, to see if she would go along with me, then he said he was an old man again just to push her buttons. it turns out to be the father of the groom of the wedding they're going to. the bride there is kat's sister bianca.
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