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(Message started by: Lonky on Jan 25^th, 2008, 3:47am)

Title: Riddle Competition
Post by Lonky on Jan 25^th, 2008, 3:47am

A monthly riddle competition to win cash.

http://www.tricksandriddles.com/html/riddle_competition.html

This months riddle:

I begin with T, end in T and have T within. What am I ?

Good luck all! ;)

Title: Re: Riddle Competition
Post by Grimbal on Jan 25^th, 2008, 4:39am

[hide] tea pot [/hide]

[hide]teacart[/hide] or [hide] tenderfoot[/hide] would also do.

Title: Re: Riddle Competition
Post by Grimbal on Jan 25^th, 2008, 4:47am

on 01/25/08 at 03:47:35, Lonky wrote:

A monthly riddle competition to win cash.

5 pounds to be precise.

Title: Re: Riddle Competition
Post by mikedagr8 on Jan 25^th, 2008, 1:45pm

on 01/25/08 at 04:47:32, Grimbal wrote:

5 pounds to be precise.

I think your first answer deserves it. ;D

Title: Re: Riddle Competition
Post by Icarus on Jan 25^th, 2008, 7:29pm

I admit I don't get "Tenderfoot". How does tenderfoot have T within?

Title: Re: Riddle Competition
Post by Grimbal on Jan 26^th, 2008, 7:36am

I knew the word tenderfoot only in the context of a cowboy story where an Englishman comes to the wild west. His snobbish manners clash with the rude manners of the cowboys. They call him the "tenderfoot". Normally they would cover him with tar and feathers and send him back to where he belongs, but this one ends up earning respect and some of the manners of the cowboys.

Title: Re: Riddle Competition
Post by Icarus on Jan 26^th, 2008, 7:40am

That explains it, then. Growing up in the heart of the old west, I have far more associations for the word, so it didn't occur to me to think of it as meaning an Englishman.

Title: Re: Riddle Competition
Post by Grimbal on Jan 26^th, 2008, 2:35pm

My dictionary thinks the same.

Anyway, for reference:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/1902172035/ref=dp_image_text_0/203-8325361-2335915?ie=UTF8&n=266239&s=books

Title: Re: Riddle Competition
Post by Icarus on Jan 26^th, 2008, 3:11pm

Your dictionary doesn't do a good job with this word, (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tenderfoot) then.

Your story was written in 1968. The word "tenderfoot" dates back to the 1840s. It was (and is) used to describe someone new to western life. Or novices more generally.

Title: Re: Riddle Competition
Post by Grimbal on Jan 27^th, 2008, 4:43pm

What I meant is, my dictionary also tells me about "far more associations for the word".