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(Message started by: aero_guy on Apr 10^th, 2003, 4:39am)

Title: Once I passed through my whole.
Post by aero_guy on Apr 10^th, 2003, 4:39am

Once I passed through my whole. 'Twas beautiful;
'Twas like a fairy-land, so gay, so glad,
So free from care and sorrow. For a time
I stayed. Yet eagerly desired the day
When I might leave its simple joys. Ah me,
If but I might return to them again!
My first is always in my whole. Sometimes
My first is in my last. When, long ago,
Red Ridinghood on a kindly errand bent,
Walked to her grandma's cot across the wood,
My last was on my first.

Title: Re: Once I passed through my whole.
Post by cho on Apr 10^th, 2003, 6:41am

Give me a second.

Title: Re: Once I passed through my whole.
Post by maryl on Apr 10^th, 2003, 12:00pm

So, would that be [hide]childhood[/hide]?

Title: Re: Once I passed through my whole.
Post by Icarus on Apr 10^th, 2003, 5:24pm

Quote:

For a time
I staid.

Does this mean you were a quiet and reserved [hide]child[/hide]?

Title: Re: Once I passed through my whole.
Post by maryl on Apr 11^th, 2003, 12:27pm

???

Title: Re: Once I passed through my whole.
Post by Icarus on Apr 11^th, 2003, 4:03pm

To understand my comment, look up "staid" in the dictionary. The past tense of stay is "stayed".

Title: Re: Once I passed through my whole.
Post by maryl on Apr 12^th, 2003, 11:46am

I did look this up yesterday, but it still hasn't clicked. Thanks for the hints; I'm trying to change my train of thought on it.

Title: Re: Once I passed through my whole.
Post by aero_guy on Apr 12^th, 2003, 2:15pm

I think you don't understand, maryl. You got it right. Icarus is just razzing me for placing a homonym of the word I meant to use. It is fixed now.

Title: Re: Once I passed through my whole.
Post by maryl on Apr 12^th, 2003, 2:43pm

Oh, what a relief! I was going crazy there for awhile.

Title: Re: Once I passed through my whole.
Post by Icarus on Apr 12^th, 2003, 5:46pm

Sorry! I didn't mean to make you doubt your answer. I thought it clearly correct when I read it. :)

Though it took me awhile to finally understand the point of Cho's comment.

Title: Re: Once I passed through my whole.
Post by aero_guy on Apr 12^th, 2003, 6:09pm

I think cho's comment here is the most arcane answer yet, but the one I gave for his "one is two" might come close. I just have no idea if I would get it if I hadn't written it.

Title: Re: Once I passed through my whole.
Post by maryl on Apr 13^th, 2003, 11:54am

Yeah, Cho's answer through me off as well, still don't get the connection. And speaking of Arcane-I have to learn to give hints instead of answers, but some of the hints are so "Arcane", they make it harder to figure out. (Riddles help improve your vocabulary skills as well.) :)

Title: Re: Once I passed through my whole.
Post by blunt menchley on Apr 16^th, 2003, 6:27am

this is all well and good but if dwelt upon too long i fear we may pass through our holes

Title: Re: Once I passed through my whole.
Post by aero_guy on Apr 16^th, 2003, 6:45am

I've passed through other people's holes, but I'll be damned if anyone is passing through my holes.

Title: Re: Once I passed through my whole.
Post by Speaker on Apr 19^th, 2003, 2:16am

Maryl

Can you through me off, sorry just wanted to slow that back at ewe

Title: Re: Once I passed through my whole.
Post by maryl on Apr 19^th, 2003, 9:56am

on 04/19/03 at 02:16:02, Speaker wrote:

Maryl

Can you through me off, sorry just wanted to slow that back at ewe

Ha, ha.