| Author | Message | ||
| Tortiekitten (Tortiekitten)
New member Username: Tortiekitten Post Number: 85 Registered: 11-2010 |
Until a certain game was played, The image that my mind portrayed, About a country far away, Was somehow skewed, but in what way? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 239 Registered: 12-2010 |
The image of South Africas where the soccer worldcup was? | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 2356 Registered: 9-2010 |
this certain game that was played was it when I was present, you'd say Was it at home? by which I mean SJ Or in Davis, which is your home away? | ||
| Tortiekitten (Tortiekitten)
New member Username: Tortiekitten Post Number: 86 Registered: 11-2010 |
For Doriana I must act to steer her off of the wrong track. And by this rhyme I meant, her guesses are irrelevant. My sister dear did find the track, to the puzzle's end, and back. This game took place in San Jose, and it was our family that did play. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 2357 Registered: 9-2010 |
This game that challenged you geographically, Did it have the initials of T.P.? If it's so, and blue piece you pursued fruitlessly I should bow out, for I know it, most probably. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 10462 Registered: 4-2010 |
Let's mix up the rhyming scheme a bit... Wiggledy woggledy Trivial Pursuit is the Game which you played, I think: Is this correct? If not, the game is placed Subcategorically Into "board"? "Card"? Or some Other subject? | ||
| Tortiekitten (Tortiekitten)
New member Username: Tortiekitten Post Number: 87 Registered: 11-2010 |
Indeed, indeed, the game's T.P., and from it I had my epiphany. My mental image did unskew, whilst I was pursuing that wedge of blue. Oh dear sister, you know me well. I pray the answer, you do not tell. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 10465 Registered: 4-2010 |
Was the scrund that you had broken down By a question given on your round? Is the scrund of a nation, A place of creation, A state, sea, lake, river, or town? | ||
| Tortiekitten (Tortiekitten)
New member Username: Tortiekitten Post Number: 88 Registered: 11-2010 |
Let's mix up the rhyming scheme a bit... Wiggledy woggledy Trivial Pursuit is the Game which you played, I think: Is this correct? If not, the game is placed Subcategorically Into "board"? "Card"? Or some Other subject? Wibbley, wobbley, timey, wimey. This is the only way I rhymey. Trivial Pursuit is the game, as Balin said, you see. Now my scrund is left to name, How was I bad at geography? | ||
| Tortiekitten (Tortiekitten)
New member Username: Tortiekitten Post Number: 89 Registered: 11-2010 |
Was the scrund that you had broken down By a question given on your round? Is the scrund of a nation, A place of creation, A state, sea, lake, river, or town? The scrund was broken, when I heard the answer. Though who the question was for, I do not remember. And for the sake of this puzzle, it does not matter. The scrund itself was of a nation, and it's geographical location. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 2358 Registered: 9-2010 |
The question was mine, Tortiesibling my sis, And I was quite surprised at your unknowing miss. But not trying to give it away, I'll just need to say, The nation's a country, but its status is yopish. | ||
| Tortiekitten (Tortiekitten)
New member Username: Tortiekitten Post Number: 91 Registered: 11-2010 |
The question was mine, Tortiesibling my sis, And I was quite surprised at your unknowing miss. But not trying to give it away, I'll just need to say, The nation's a country, but its status is yopish. Thank you so much sis, for helping this time. I knew it was a country, but that didn't rhyme. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 10479 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is the country which your scrund was bent On [insert list of continents]? Did you think this country was on the coast, Or in the desert, baked like toast? | ||
| Fandres17 (Fandres17)
New member Username: Fandres17 Post Number: 26 Registered: 12-2010 |
Did you though before the question that the nation was located in a certain place, but when you looked at the answer you realized that you have no idea of this space? | ||
| Tortiekitten (Tortiekitten)
New member Username: Tortiekitten Post Number: 94 Registered: 11-2010 |
Is the country which your scrund was bent On [insert list of continents]? Did you think this country was on the coast, Or in the desert, baked like toast? Did you though before the question that the nation was located in a certain place, but when you looked at the answer you realized that you have no idea of this space? This country's part of Europe, and this much I knew. I thought it was just coastal, and while this is true, there is more to this story, to guess it's up to you. I guess it's also fair to tell, I didn't know its neighbors well. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 10538 Registered: 4-2010 |
Did you think the country was on the ocean, With rolling waves in super-slow motion? Does the country rather border a smaller Lake, river, or other body of water? | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 2208 Registered: 7-2009 |
Did you think it was an island, when in fact it never was one? Or perhaps it was, oh my, and you thought 'twas a landlocked cousin? | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 3174 Registered: 1-2007 |
If this is right I'll have to smile Did you think Rep of Ireland was an Isle While the Island of Ireland is indeed an Isle The North's been in the UK for quite a while. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 2397 Registered: 9-2010 |
it seems this scrund was even more scrunded; now Tortiesibling's brain is somewhat imploded I have extolled some more of my knowledge Geography wasn't sibling's fav even in college. | ||
| Tortiekitten (Tortiekitten)
New member Username: Tortiekitten Post Number: 101 Registered: 11-2010 |
Did you think the country was on the ocean, With rolling waves in super-slow motion? Does the country rather border a smaller Lake, river, or other body of water? Did you think it was an island, when in fact it never was one? Or perhaps it was, oh my, and you thought 'twas a landlocked cousin? If this is right I'll have to smile Did you think Rep of Ireland was an Isle While the Island of Ireland is indeed an Isle The North's been in the UK for quite a while. Indeed the country's on an isle, and I didn't think it was for a while. What surprised me more was its neighbors, my mind may have thought they were more like strangers. As for Peter365, his info gave me another suprise. My sister dear explained to me, so now my scrund will no longer be. My original scrund has not yet been told, is anybody yet so bold, as to make a guess to what is was, when my head seemed full of fuzz? | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 2216 Registered: 7-2009 |
So on the isle, is it alone? Or are its neighbors found there, too? Is the Atlantic its dear home? Or a sea or channel blue? | ||
| Tortiekitten (Tortiekitten)
New member Username: Tortiekitten Post Number: 103 Registered: 11-2010 |
So on the isle, is it alone? Or are its neighbors found there, too? Is the Atlantic its dear home? Or a sea or channel blue? Within the Atlantic Ocean, this island lies. Some of the country's neighbors are on it too, which gave me much surprise. I knew one neighbor was on an island, but this country I did not. So when I learned 'twas the same island, it made my poor jaw drop. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 10627 Registered: 4-2010 |
Higgledy piggledy Does this one island lie In the Caribbean? This I must know; For I am thinking with Predictability It might be Trinidad and Tobago. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 2419 Registered: 9-2010 |
Higgledy piggledy Weightless poetry Always seems to begin With that line: I've no idea why, But probably woubit Could figure it out, If he might have the time. (Where IS woubit?????) | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 736 Registered: 8-2010 |
Higgledy piggledy Methinks that there may be One more requirement For you to heed; You must use a word that's Sesquipedalian; On the sixth line is where It the poems need. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 10640 Registered: 4-2010 |
OK, just because this one (about this) ended up being up on the chatroom milk carton, it's stuck in my head again. As such, I will attempt to get it stuck in yours: Ziggidy zaggedy Julian Edelman Just ran a punt for some Ninety-four yards; How does he do this so Melodramatically? I am not sure, but it's All in the cards. | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 596 Registered: 9-2010 |
Is it the Republic of Ireland? And the Republic of Northern Mireland? Disregard the M it doesn't belong there. But I needed a rhyme, so why should you care? Or is it relevant that Iceland is Green? Or that Greenland is icy and that Leif Errikson has a spleen? | ||
| Tortiekitten (Tortiekitten)
New member Username: Tortiekitten Post Number: 104 Registered: 11-2010 |
Balin - Higgledy piggledy Does this one island lie In the Caribbean? This I must know; For I am thinking with Predictability It might be Trinidad and Tobago. Gregoryuconn - Is it the Republic of Ireland? And the Republic of Northern Mireland? Disregard the M it doesn't belong there. But I needed a rhyme, so why should you care? Or is it relevant that Iceland is Green? Or that Greenland is icy and that Leif Errikson has a spleen? Balin you are heading down the wrong track, you'll be safer if to Europe you go back. For Gregoryuconn you are very near, the new scrund that my sister dear, did break has to do with Ireland, as well as Northern "Mireland". The country that this puzzle's scrund regards, lies very close to to Irelund. Though I knew that Greenland is very cold, and Iceland's greenery is most bold. | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 2220 Registered: 7-2009 |
Is it the Kingdom that's United? Where England, Wales, et al. are sited? | ||
| Tortiekitten (Tortiekitten)
New member Username: Tortiekitten Post Number: 108 Registered: 11-2010 |
Indeed Scotland is within this kingdom, although my mind did not know. And when the answer to the question was read, this information surprised me so. Now I do believe it's time, for me to break this silly rhyme. I decided to spoil this puzzle now because the entire scrund involved the United Kingdom. For some reason, my mind just never placed Scotland on the same island with England as the United Kingdom. I would hear UK and think England only before this game of Trivial Pursuit was played (sometime while I was in High School I believe). As it turns out, I never understood the entire story. Until the other day, when my sister explained the whole geography of the British Isles I never completely seperated Wales and Scotland in my mind. I also didn't realize that the UK was formed by so many countries and that the whole archipelago had so many different words to name all of the different parts. I was never really good at geography, and this just confirms it. What is more sad is that my favorite show, as many of you know, is filmed in Cardiff and my mind couldn't decide whether it was in England or Scotland, and then I learned it was in Wales, and was dumbfounded. At this point I just feel very silly, and I appologize to anyone who may live on the British Isles for my ignorance. | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 756 Registered: 8-2010 |
To get any remaining scrund out of your brain, the UK is AFAIK one country from a political standpoint. | ||
| Tortiekitten (Tortiekitten)
New member Username: Tortiekitten Post Number: 109 Registered: 11-2010 |
brain...hurts...too...much... | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 758 Registered: 8-2010 |
And in case you didn't know, only part of Ireland (Northern Ireland) is part of the UK; the rest of it is independent. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 2490 Registered: 9-2010 |
yes, my Tortiesibling has been informed :-) Northern Ireland is also referred to as Ulster, is it not? | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 3183 Registered: 1-2007 |
yes, my Tortiesibling has been informed :-) Northern Ireland is also referred to as Ulster, is it not? Oh dear oh dear oh dear. You are right of course that Northern Ireland is often referred to as Ulster but this is geographically incorrect. The Island of Ireland (when Ireland was all one country) was divided into 4 ancient kingdoms now known as provinces namely : Ulster, Leinster, Connaught & Munster. Ulster which covers most of the northern third of the country contains 9 counties which are : Donegal, Derry, Antrim, Down, Armagh, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Monaghan & Cavan. Now here's the confusing bit . Only 6 of those counties form the state that is Northern Ireland and therefore are part of the United Kingdom. Donegal Monahgan & Cavan are in the Republic of Ireland (yes i know it's strange that two different states divide one province but Ireland has had a strange history). As a Monaghan man myself It drives me scatty when people refer to Northern Ireland as Ulster. I'm from Ulster but am not from Northern Ireland. The main culprits of this tend to be Northern Unionists who forget about the one third of Ulster that does not belong to the UK. Totally accept that this is confusing and you won't be the first or last to make this mistake but you've just waved a very red rag to this cranky bull. I jest of course as I've heard this so many times it no longer bothers me but thought I'd put you straight on this. For such a small country we've got one heck of a past. This should help explain There endeth the lesson | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 2496 Registered: 9-2010 |
Hence my careful wording of 'referred to' as Ulster...I actually knew that, but I was fairly sure my Tortiesibling didn't, and figured a true Irishman could outline it better than me. *pets Tortiesibling, hoping brain shall not explode or implode again* I'm very sorry to have upset you, Peter :-( Truly, I did understand that "Northern Ireland" and "Ulster" were not exactly the same. I just knew Tortie didn't know, and I felt inadequate at explaining. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 2497 Registered: 9-2010 |
Sorry for posting more. All I actually knew was that "All of Northern Ireland is Ulster, but not all of Ulster is Northern Ireland." I would have been useless at explaining after that. I'm glad you stepped up. By the way, my best friend in 9th grade (when I was 14; my first year of high school), who was in 12th grade herself (she was 17) was Jody Monaghan. Monaghan is a good name, even though I did not know it was Irish until now, which just makes it better. I, too, am partially Irish (though I think some of my ancestry is from the Republic, and some from Northern Ireland.) | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 3184 Registered: 1-2007 |
No apology necessary Kaylee. I was feigning outrage really . This is so old hat that it no longer bothers we southern Ulster folk. You should definately check out your Irish ancestry, there are some Census records on-line that date back to the start of the 20th century. All you need is a name and roughly where they lived. Monaghan is indeed a good name. In the Irish language it means "Land of the little hills" although the etymology is a little contrived. My best mate's surname is Monaghan which is cool because that's where he's from. In fact there are many other examples of surnames that are Irish Counties such as Dion Dublin (Soccer) , Dominic Cork (Cricketer), John Kerry (Presidential Candidate) , Doctor Kildare (you are probably a bit too young to remember the TV series of that name) Inspector Wexford (Ruth Rendell's fictional detective) James Galway (Flautist) and probably a few more. In fact Ireland itself is a not unheard of surname. A chap called Stephen Ireland has actually played international football for Ireland. Come to think of it Matt Holland has also played for Ireland, Joe Jordan and Alan Brazil have played for Scotland, Jason Scotland plays for Trinidad & Tobago and most strangely Mike England played for Wales (There's a puzzle in here just bursting to get out) Ok I know , I'm starting to ramble. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 2499 Registered: 9-2010 |
You're right...the only place I've ever seen the name "Doctor Kildare" before was from a mention of one of Harriet's classmates, in the book "Harriet the Spy", when the fifth-graders are all deciding who they should dress up as, for a themed costumed dance, or something like that...one of them said "Dr. Kildare and Ben Casey" should be involved. I never understood the reference. It's TV then? Definitely before my time though. I haven't read the book since I was about twelve, so over a decade ago, and I didn't remember that name until you mentioned it. And rambling is good. The only one I recognized out of the "county names" is, of course, John Kerry, though I don't know all that much about him, lol. Other than that he lost to President Bush in the 2004 election. Definitely there's a puzzle in there somewhere, though. I like rambling. :-) |
