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(Message started by: Noke Lieu on Mar 24th, 2004, 10:26pm)

Title: Hebra Dairy
Post by Noke Lieu on Mar 24th, 2004, 10:26pm
Was going to try and create a raven-esque riddle. Damn, thats tough. :)
Here's an alternative.

I met some parrots,
All busy in a flock.
If they'd been us,
they'd have worn a smock.

They flew and left this behind,
It was in all, a curious find.

[hide]
Here's a little [/hide]clue[hide]
The parrots to Oz belong.
You'll know when your words are true
As it sounds like a song.[/hide] ???

Title: Re: Hebra Dairy
Post by raven on Mar 25th, 2004, 6:11am
I imagine all of these doctors wearing their surgical smocks... which are green like a parrot's feathers...

:-/

That's what happens when you work in medicine for too long ;)

I'll have to think on this one some more...

Title: Re: Hebra Dairy
Post by Noke Lieu on Mar 25th, 2004, 1:27pm
Before too many folk have read it,
I left something out! I shall edit...

you don't need to have that new line but it helps

Title: Re: Hebra Dairy
Post by Cathos on Mar 25th, 2004, 6:38pm
I thought surgical smocks were blue or wite...

Title: Re: Hebra Dairy
Post by raven on Mar 25th, 2004, 9:40pm
I guess you see more of them when working in veterinary medicine... but I found some on Google for both human and animal medicine

a green gown (http://www.slipperylogic.com/Raven/bits/gown1.jpg)

another green gown (http://www.slipperylogic.com/Raven/bits/gown2.jpg)

Title: Re: Hebra Dairy
Post by Cathos on Mar 25th, 2004, 10:28pm
Sorry, those look white to me.  I'm not very good with colors.

Title: Re: Hebra Dairy
Post by DeMark on Mar 25th, 2004, 11:49pm
Those look white to you? You're really not good with colours...

Title: Re: Hebra Dairy
Post by Speaker on Mar 26th, 2004, 12:03am
When I hear smock, I think of artists. And, when I think of flocking birds, I think of painting things white. So, did they leave behind a little modern art on the hood of your car?  ;D

Title: Re: Hebra Dairy
Post by raven on Mar 26th, 2004, 6:02pm
Follow this train of thought right into the tunnel… ::) off the top of my head...
::[hide] Hebra Dairy: Zebra Fairy, February, Secretary, Monastery… [/hide]::
::[hide] Smock Wearers ( to name a few ): Artists, Doctors, Monks… [/hide]::
::[hide] Smock: Gown, Dress, Coat, Tunic, Habit… [/hide]::
::[hide] Parrot: Brightly colored bird, to mimic… [/hide]::
::[hide] Flock: Family, Pack, Brood, Group, “A murder of crows”… [/hide]::
::[hide] Oz: Dorothy, Toto, Lion, Tin Man, Scarecrow, Wizard, Witches, Poppies, Ruby Slippers, Munchkins”… [/hide]::
??[hide] Abbots (monks) in habits (vestments) on arch. sabbats (sabbaths, holy days) [/hide]??
??[hide] Kids (munchkins) wearing winter coats (brightly colored smocks like parrots markings), making snowmen in February (Hebra Dairy), a carrot (left behind, rhymes with parrot)[/hide]??
??[hide] …or by, Salvador Seuss: Monks in trunks with skunks… [/hide]??

Title: Re: Hebra Dairy
Post by Noke Lieu on Mar 26th, 2004, 11:33pm
Okay...
The Oz you've chosen
Ain't the one I'm proposin'.

Disturbingly, you were close with the guano idea. But it hasn't got anything to do with poop.
I'll help translate the title a little [hide]
hebra dairy; hairy debra; harry debra, deborah...
[/hide] Sorry went a bit kooky there....

I guess you'll smash it soon though... :D

Title: Re: Hebra Dairy
Post by Speaker on Mar 28th, 2004, 5:09pm
Raven, we now have enough information to do a complete psychological work-up on your personality.  :o

The OZ is of course Oz-tralia.

And, finally just to make sure that this post is completely worthless, I have not where to go with the guano idea that is not poop.  ???

Title: Re: Hebra Dairy
Post by Noke Lieu on Mar 28th, 2004, 10:30pm
Indeed speaker. It is oz-tralia.
The guano comment was about the way raven discribed their "gift".
So the smocks are smocks worn by [hide] artists. Hey did you just highlight this out of habit?[/hide]
That means they left behind some...
Last thing is to get is the sort of parrot. We have many many many. Two famous ones though....


[e] Hey... looks like people have lost interest in this. Rather than reposting, which iwll bring it to the top of the list...

anyone still going on this? should I leave it unanswered?
[/e]



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