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(Message started by: KenYonRuKu on May 23rd, 2005, 4:52am)
Title: Why is the flower sad?
Post by KenYonRuKu on May 23rd, 2005, 4:52am
An old man was out walking with his two young grandsons, when they came upon a beautiful yellow flower. Taking a shiny silver coin from his pocket, he declared that whoever could give the best assessment of the flower's feelings could keep the money.

The elder grandson said "That flower must be so happy, because it's the yellowest flower in the world.." to which the younger piped up "No, it must be so sad."

The grandfather smiled and said "Ahh, because it is all alone, and it symbolises the fleetingness of life."

To which the younger grandson shook his head and explained why the flower was sad. When the grandfather heard his explanation, he gave him the money.

Why is the flower sad, according to the younger grandson?
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by towr on May 23rd, 2005, 7:43am
[hide]Because someone is bound to pick it, thus killing it?[/hide]
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by Grimbal on May 23rd, 2005, 8:53am
He sees the big fat cow approaching.
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by KenYonRuKu on May 23rd, 2005, 7:59pm

on 05/23/05 at 07:43:35, towr wrote:
[hide]Because someone is bound to pick it, thus killing it?[/hide]


Plausible, but not what the little boy said...
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by KenYonRuKu on May 23rd, 2005, 8:01pm

on 05/23/05 at 08:53:12, Grimbal wrote:
He sees the big fat cow approaching.


Aside from the flower, the grandfather and his two grandsons, there're no other people or animals in the immediate area...
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by Sjoerd Job Postmus on May 24th, 2005, 2:21am
[hide]His bright colors are to make up for his sad feelings.[/hide]
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by Ajax on May 24th, 2005, 3:34am
A flower cannot see, hear or smell (at least as I know), so it has no contact with it's environment. If you are prisoner of your body, you are either very very unhappy or you are gone crazy :'(
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by KenYonRuKu on May 24th, 2005, 4:16am
Good answers both, but no cigars yet...
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by Ajax on May 24th, 2005, 4:51am
It was a yellow rose, a very rare mutation of the common red rose. As everyone knows red roses are jealous of their rare brothers (others believe that they are simply the worst kind of racists with the different) and therefore have banished it from their society. They yellow rose is very grieved to be so alone
:'(
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by KenYonRuKu on May 24th, 2005, 6:43pm
Nope, but an interesting stab...
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by Grimbal on May 25th, 2005, 2:20am
The flower is a male, it can see a few sexy female flowers around, but just out of reach.

or

The flower is sad because it knows its feelings, but can not talk and earn the silver coin.
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by Ajax on May 25th, 2005, 2:25am

on 05/25/05 at 02:20:18, Grimbal wrote:
The flower is sad because it knows its feelings, but can not talk and earn the silver coin.



I like that ;)
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by KenYonRuKu on May 25th, 2005, 4:05am

on 05/25/05 at 02:20:18, Grimbal wrote:
The flower is a male, it can see a few sexy female flowers around, but just out of reach.

or

The flower is sad because it knows its feelings, but can not talk and earn the silver coin.


I love you second answer Grimbal, although it's not the answer that the boy said...
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by Ajax on May 25th, 2005, 5:43am
[hide]It is doomed to be in the same place from birth to death, unable to walk or fly. It mostly sees the same things (if it can see)[/hide]
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by towr on May 25th, 2005, 6:28am
Everything in life passes it by..
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by KenYonRuKu on May 25th, 2005, 2:43pm
Great guesses but no...
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by Grimbal on May 26th, 2005, 3:10am
The flower has no eyes to see itself, no nose to smell itself.  How would it know it is beautiful?

By the way, some people might be sad because they can see and smell themselves...
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by Ajax on May 26th, 2005, 4:19am
If it is the only of it's species in a great area, it is mostly improbable that it will fertilize or be fertilized, which is after all the major reason for it's existence.
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by Grimbal on May 26th, 2005, 7:14am
The flower is sad because being yellow for a flower is like being blonde for a human.
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by Deedlit on May 26th, 2005, 8:42am

on 05/26/05 at 07:14:15, Grimbal wrote:
The flower is sad because being yellow for a flower is like being blonde for a human.


It's a bimbo flower?  Why isn't it happy then?
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by Grimbal on May 26th, 2005, 10:03am
No, tha's it, it has a PhD in nuclear physics, but to all other flowers, it is just "one of these yellow flowers"...
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by DeMark on May 26th, 2005, 11:21am
The flower is yellow, and yellow is the color of jealousy. Maybe our flower is jealous for some reason?
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by towr on May 26th, 2005, 1:11pm

on 05/26/05 at 11:21:34, DeMark wrote:
The flower is yellow, and yellow is the color of jealousy. Maybe our flower is jealous for some reason?
Interesting. I thought yellow was the colour of cowardice, and green the colour of jealousy. (At least that's what american TV-series taught me. I'm not actually sure what local tradition has to say on the matter, if anything)

Maybe the flower is sad because it gets pissed off when it gets pissed on.. (damn dogs)
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by baddab457 on May 26th, 2005, 1:22pm
the flower was sad because it was growing out of little space between sidewalk slabs, and it knew it would be stepped upon
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by KenYonRuKu on May 26th, 2005, 6:03pm
Great guesses everyone, but no one's got it yet...

Try to combine Science with a bit of philosophy...
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by Grimbal on May 27th, 2005, 2:50am
The flower reached the top of its life.  It is as beautiful as it will ever be.  From there on, it can only decline.
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by Ajax on May 27th, 2005, 3:31am

on 05/27/05 at 02:50:08, Grimbal wrote:
The flower reached the top of its life.  It is as beautiful as it will ever be.  From there on, it can only decline.


Nice one! ;)

Or midlife crisis...
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by Ajax on May 27th, 2005, 4:03am
Or maybe [hide]it's a yellow daisy and sooner or later someone in love will ask it: sheloves me, she loves me not, she loves me...[/hide]
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by Grimbal on May 27th, 2005, 6:15am
... and [hide] it has an odd number of petals, so it knows it will not only get plucked, teared into pieces and thrown away afterwards, but also, it will make the one who'll do it happy.[/hide]
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by KenYonRuKu on May 27th, 2005, 9:38am
Interesting... but no...
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by SuperGuest on May 27th, 2005, 12:41pm
someone pissed on it
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by KenYonRuKu on May 28th, 2005, 5:31pm

on 05/27/05 at 12:41:17, SuperGuest wrote:
someone pissed on it


Errr.... no.
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by baddab457 on May 29th, 2005, 9:00am
hmm is[hide] it because its the only flower and it cannot reproduce and pollinate another flower, so it just was a fluke and will not have baby flowersers
[/hide]
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by Sjoerd Job Postmus on May 29th, 2005, 9:36am
Seeing as it actually is a fake flower, made of plastic... it can't be happy :)
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by tradish on May 29th, 2005, 11:21am
;) the elder of the two sons stepped on it
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by tradish on May 29th, 2005, 11:27am

[hideb][/hideb]the grandson shook his head in agreement wit the
grandpa and infact just rexplained the grandpas th
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by KenYonRuKu on May 29th, 2005, 6:18pm
I'm afraid it's not what he said...

here's a clue:

[hideb]The color of the flower is unimportant... think about the flower in terms of physics... [/hideb]
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by tradish on May 29th, 2005, 8:59pm
he has nothing to do with his own beauty
so this lack of control has it feelin sad
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by KenYonRuKu on May 29th, 2005, 11:29pm
Nope...

Ok, a further clue... [hideb]the "sad" object in question could be anything... a yellow flower was just an example...

Colour, but not any specific colour, is very important...[/hideb]
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by Speaker on May 30th, 2005, 12:13am
Well, it does not fit you last clue, but how about "Downcast". Because the flower was pointed downward, or because after it is picked it is cast away (down).

Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by Grimbal on May 30th, 2005, 12:32am
It is sad because it wishes it were white.  ???
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by Ajax on May 30th, 2005, 2:06am
[hide]If we accept that plants have no feelings, the son has the right to say whatever he wants and still not being wrong. Therefore, he says the flower is not happy and he's right.

The son is a botanologist and knows that the colour yellow for such a plant implies sickness or even better sadness[/hide]
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by KenYonRuKu on May 30th, 2005, 3:30am


Last clue: [hideb]the flower is a contradiction... why?[/hideb]
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by BNC on May 30th, 2005, 8:20am
How about this:
[hideb]

The flower doesn't like the yellow color. That is why it keeps (absorbs) all of the other colors, and rejects (reflects) only the yellow.
And yet... everyone... call it... a yellow flower...  :'(

[/hideb]
Title: Re: Why is the flower sad?
Post by KenYonRuKu on May 30th, 2005, 7:39pm

on 05/30/05 at 08:20:25, BNC wrote:
How about this:
[hideb]

The flower doesn't like the yellow color. That is why it keeps (absorbs) all of the other colors, and rejects (reflects) only the yellow.
And yet... everyone... call it... a yellow flower...  :'(

[/hideb]


YES!! BNC has it absolutely... well done!! A yellow flower of course rejects only it's own colour, so therefore what it is is what it isn't, which is surely very sad.


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