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(Message started by: maryl on Apr 5^th, 2003, 12:49pm)

Title: My body
Post by maryl on Apr 5^th, 2003, 12:49pm

My body's in full view,
But I cannot see a thing.
Everyone can see me though-
Funny thing.

What am I?

Title: Re: My body
Post by BNC on Apr 5^th, 2003, 1:14pm

A blind comedian :P

Title: Re: My body
Post by maryl on Apr 5^th, 2003, 1:26pm

Ahhh........Naaa! 8)

Title: Re: My body
Post by Icarus on Apr 5^th, 2003, 1:31pm

There are too many answers that seem to fit this one.
From Lenin to the Sun or the Moon.

Title: Re: My body
Post by maryl on Apr 5^th, 2003, 1:35pm

No, there's only one answer, and it's a living thing.

Title: Re: My body
Post by maryl on Apr 6^th, 2003, 12:41pm

Sorry Icarus, I should have mentioned I didn't mean "everyone" in the entire world; I just meant it as a general term.

Title: Re: My body
Post by aero_guy on Apr 7^th, 2003, 12:38am

This one definitely needs to be tweeked. Any Body of water could fit, but you said living thing. OK, any animal without sight. Any plant. Really, we need more detail.

Heck, even "body of evidence" fits the riddle.

Title: Re: My body
Post by maryl on Apr 7^th, 2003, 12:27pm

"I'm a bird but I can't fly-I'm so ashamed! Think I'll hide."

Title: Re: My body
Post by BNC on Apr 7^th, 2003, 12:30pm

You do know it's a legend, right? They don't really "hide" -- the just appear to hide, as they're picking food off the ground. ::)

Title: Re: My body
Post by visitor on Apr 7^th, 2003, 1:03pm

Maybe the bird is a [hide]cuckoo hiding behind a door[/hide]

Title: Re: My body
Post by maryl on Apr 7^th, 2003, 2:43pm

Thanks BNC for clarifying that; now I feel like hiding. It is a common assumption though-and you know what they say about assuming things. :o

Title: Re: My body
Post by Icarus on Apr 7^th, 2003, 6:27pm

No - It's a good puzzle, at least with the added line. Just because what it refers to is folklore, not fact does not disqualify it. (Of course, some obnoxious person will always bring up that it isn't true - but you have my permission to tell me to shut up. ;)) As for the original puzzle not being specific enough, these things often need a bit of work before they come out alright.

It's far better to have failed to formulate a puzzle perfectly on the first try, than it is to repeat a good puzzle, but mistate it so badly that the "correct" answer no longer works. You can find lots of those in this forum. One of the worst for this is the "gry" puzzle - so many versions of it are out there that no one is completely sure what the original puzzle was. Most of time when one comes across it, the version seen is just a lie, with no correct answer.