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(Message started by: william wu on Nov 6^th, 2003, 1:25am)

Title: When set loose I fly away
Post by william wu on Nov 6^th, 2003, 1:25am

When set loose I fly away
Never so cursed
As when I go astray.

What am I?

Title: Re: When set loose I fly away
Post by aero_guy on Nov 6^th, 2003, 8:43am

I have heard this one before and never been very satisfied by the answer. It just doesn't seem to fit the last part all that well.

Title: Re: When set loose I fly away
Post by maryl on Nov 8^th, 2003, 8:19am

Isn't it cursed because it's meant to be held onto?-if it's what I'm thinking.

Title: Re: When set loose I fly away
Post by Speaker on Nov 9^th, 2003, 6:41pm

How about [hide] a soul. In death it flys up to heaven. But, if it is a wayward soul, it is cursed to eternal damnation. [/hide]

Title: Re: When set loose I fly away
Post by Icarus on Nov 10^th, 2003, 5:15pm

I came across this riddle somewhere else the other day, along with "the" answer. I must say that it was not nearly so spiritual (unless you have a very weird religion :D).

If one interprets "going astray" as "going where I am not wanted", then this answer fits the last part fine. However, one could wish the first part held more strongly! ;)

Title: Re: When set loose I fly away
Post by Speaker on Nov 10^th, 2003, 6:07pm

Flatulance :o

This would seem to fit the word of the riddle, but not that of the riddle's character.

Were it a religion, a generous use of incense would be appreciated by the congregation.

Or maybe not.

Title: Re: When set loose I fly away
Post by Icarus on Nov 10^th, 2003, 7:55pm

My source was less genteel, but that was the answer provided.

Beans, beans, the magical fruit...

Title: Re: When set loose I fly away
Post by maryl on Nov 12^th, 2003, 4:33pm

Does Willy ever give out the answer??

Title: Re: When set loose I fly away
Post by willywutang in a lab on Nov 12^th, 2003, 8:40pm

Icarus, your source provided *farting* as the answer?! I'd say anal gas is always cursed, regardless of where it's headed.

Perhaps the answer I have in mind does not fit the riddle as well as one would like, but anyways, here's a fill-in-the-blank hint: [hide]war[/hide]

Title: Re: When set loose I fly away
Post by towr on Nov 13^th, 2003, 12:42pm

I just came across this riddle somewhere else (http://www.gamespy.com/comics/nodwick/gamespyarchive/gspynod138.html), and there the answer's supposedly [hide]money[/hide].

[e]updated link (as I had planned to do last year)[/e]

Title: Re: When set loose I fly away
Post by Speaker on Nov 13^th, 2003, 4:16pm

I came across this riddle on a LotR site, and the answer was [hide]a raft[/hide].

Title: Re: When set loose I fly away
Post by Icarus on Nov 13^th, 2003, 4:46pm

I just read the Nodwick and came here to post it, but towr has beat me once again! >:( Curses!

Title: Re: When set loose I fly away
Post by william wu on Nov 13^th, 2003, 6:09pm

How does money go astray?

My answer was an [hide]"arrow".[/hide]

Title: Re: When set loose I fly away
Post by Icarus on Nov 13^th, 2003, 7:05pm

on 11/13/03 at 18:09:51, william wu wrote:

How does money go astray?

All too easily, that's how! Do you really mean you've never opened your wallet, looked in and discovered that you don't have enough to buy what you've laid out in front of the cashier after all?

Quote:

My answer was an hidden

I'm beginning to think a better riddle would be "what doesn't answer this one?"

Title: Re: When set loose I fly away
Post by towr on Nov 14^th, 2003, 1:20am

on 11/13/03 at 16:46:19, Icarus wrote:

I just read the Nodwick and came here to post it, but towr has beat me once again! >:( Curses!

hehe.. foiled again, eh :P
You can never beat my l33t comic-reading skills (except on weekends), I read up to 200 webcomics, and still find time to sleep..

Quote:

I'm beginning to think a better riddle would be "what doesn't answer this one?"

pink slippers.. Oh wait, that actually could fit.. (kicking them off, having to step on a cold floor if you can't find them)
How about a mountain? hmm.. nope.. (vulcanic eruption, anyone That's setting loose in a sense, and at the same time going astray quite cursably)
A piece of lint, perhaps?

Title: Re: When set loose I fly away
Post by Icarus on Nov 14^th, 2003, 3:46pm

When let loose the wind carries lint away (where I am, there is always wind).

But when it goes astray into your belly button...

Title: Re: When set loose I fly away
Post by towr on Nov 15^th, 2003, 9:58am

I don't find belly button lint all that cursable, when it gets in the eye however..

So what else..

How about the earth? or the universe?

Title: Re: When set loose I fly away
Post by Icarus on Nov 15^th, 2003, 10:22am

If the Earth were ever "set loose" - i.e. the gravitational attraction of the sun was removed or blocked, it would indeed fly away. And should the Earth go astray from its orbit, I would call that an occasion for cursing - should any survive to say them!

The universe has already been set loose, and is flying away. And this "going astray" has cursed it with heat death, as far as we know.

Title: Re: When set loose I fly away
Post by towr on Nov 16^th, 2003, 7:21am

It indeed seems very difficult to find something that doesn't answer the riddle.. But let's not give up yet..

How about a seal? Or a boat, or a shoe, or an oxygen molucule?

Title: Re: When set loose I fly away
Post by maryl on Nov 16^th, 2003, 9:53am

Aww, so it's not a mountain? :P Well, I was thinking a simple balloon would work, of course kids are not supposed to curse but hey, ya just never know what they'd say if they really loved that balloon; or maybe second-hand smoke. After getting Willy's hint, I thought it was a good old bullet, or the famous carrier pigeon.