| Author | Message | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 3683 Registered: 8-2001 |
I used to have a scrund about drowning, & I've recently discovered that most of my friends have it, too. Do you? Find the scrund & find out! | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 1252 Registered: 4-2007 |
Did the scrund concern: The events leading up to drowning? The way it feels to drown? The way that drowning causes death? What happens to the body after drowning? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 3686 Registered: 8-2001 |
Enjay (Enjay) New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 1252 Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 10:03 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Did the scrund concern: The events leading up to drowning? no The way it feels to drown? no The way that drowning causes death? no What happens to the body after drowning? no | ||
| Liquizt (Liquizt)
New member Username: Liquizt Post Number: 376 Registered: 5-2008 |
Anything to do with the positioning of arms? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 3687 Registered: 8-2001 |
Liquizt (Liquizt) New member Username: Liquizt Post Number: 376 Registered: 5-2008 Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 10:31 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Anything to do with the positioning of arms? no | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 41 Registered: 8-2008 |
Is the number "3" involved? | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 1450 Registered: 3-2006 |
Did you think that Stevie Smith, author of "Not Waving But Drowning" was a man? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 156 Registered: 6-2008 |
Is the drowning of some famous person relevant? a historical event were people drowned (or at least you thought so)? If you had read a story about an average person drowning in the (more or less) present day, before you had clarified your scrund, could the scrund have affected your understanding of that event? or is a specific person or time period relevant at all? Would you have had the same scrund about animals drowning? | ||
| Dlcygnet (Dlcygnet)
New member Username: Dlcygnet Post Number: 1374 Registered: 6-2005 |
Does the scrund have to do with what drowning really means? I.e. Water in the lungs killing person as opposed to lack of oxygen assimilation actually doing the killing? (In a sense, you can drown in space even though you're a million miles away from the nearest water source.) Does the scrund have to do with... who's more likely to drown? Some requirement for drowning? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 3688 Registered: 8-2001 |
Bigpurple (Bigpurple) New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 41 Registered: 8-2008 Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 11:04 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Is the number "3" involved? nNo. What's behind this question?? Woodworm (Woodworm) New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 1450 Registered: 3-2006 Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 11:21 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Did you think that Stevie Smith, author of "Not Waving But Drowning" was a man? No. I love her poetry, by the way! Biograd (Biograd) New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 156 Registered: 6-2008 Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 8:57 am: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Is the drowning of some famous person relevant? see mext answer a historical event were people drowned (or at least you thought so)? yes If you had read a story about an average person drowning in the (more or less) present day, before you had clarified your scrund, could the scrund have affected your understanding of that event? yesor is a specific person or time period relevant at all? no Would you have had the same scrund about animals drowning? yes Dlcygnet (Dlcygnet) New member Username: Dlcygnet Post Number: 1374 Registered: 6-2005 Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 9:35 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Does the scrund have to do with what drowning really means? noI.e. Water in the lungs killing person as opposed to lack of oxygen assimilation actually doing the killing? no (In a sense, you can drown in space even though you're a million miles away from the nearest water source.) Does the scrund have to do with... who's more likely to drown? yopeSome requirement for drowning? yope | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 164 Registered: 6-2008 |
I'm confused. In one of your replies you said that a historical event was relevant, yet in the next set of questions you said that a specific time period was not relevant at all, and that an arbitrary present-day drowning would work just as well. Are you trying to say that both the present and the past would work, it doesn't have to be one or the other? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 3692 Registered: 8-2001 |
Biograd (Biograd) New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 164 Registered: 6-2008 Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 10:32 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) I'm confused. In one of your replies you said that a historical event was relevant, yet in the next set of questions you said that a specific time period was not relevant at all, and that an arbitrary present-day drowning would work just as well. Are you trying to say that both the present and the past would work, it doesn't have to be one or the other?The scrund is about a particular historical event, but it's not really relevant that this event occurred in the past rather than the present. | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
New member Username: Gourami Post Number: 171 Registered: 2-2008 |
Is the scrund about how one might prevent drowning? Drowning on purpose rather than by accident? Did the incident involve more than one person drowning? If so, could the scrund emerge from just one person drowning? Did they in fact die? Titanic relevant? Or any ship? | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 44 Registered: 8-2008 |
The three indicates the number of times a person will come up for air before actually drowning. It's something I heard of a long time ago as a kid. Of course it's not true, but I believed it for quite some time. | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 323 Registered: 5-2003 |
Is it about the Titanic, where most of the victims froze rather than drowned? Or any other disaster in the North Atlantic? | ||
| Tanvishashikant (Tanvishashikant)
New member Username: Tanvishashikant Post Number: 163 Registered: 9-2007 |
Is the scrund about the air in the lungs? Or in any other part of the body? Is it to do with holding of breath? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 3693 Registered: 8-2001 |
Gourami (Gourami) New member Username: Gourami Post Number: 171 Registered: 2-2008 Posted on Friday, September 12, 2008 - 12:56 am: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Is the scrund about how one might prevent drowning? no Drowning on purpose rather than by accident? no Did the incident involve more than one person drowning? yes If so, could the scrund emerge from just one person drowning? yesDid they in fact die? yes Titanic relevant? yesOr any ship? see previous answer Bigpurple (Bigpurple) New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 44 Registered: 8-2008 Posted on Friday, September 12, 2008 - 4:35 am: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) The three indicates the number of times a person will come up for air before actually drowning. It's something I heard of a long time ago as a kid. Of course it's not true, but I believed it for quite some time. I never heard this except in the Emily Dickinson poem that begins, "Drowning is not so pitiful." Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo) New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 323 Registered: 5-2003 Posted on Friday, September 12, 2008 - 2:28 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Is it about the Titanic, where most of the victims froze rather than drowned? yes Or any other disaster in the North Atlantic? no Tanvishashikant (Tanvishashikant) New member Username: Tanvishashikant Post Number: 163 Registered: 9-2007 Posted on Friday, September 12, 2008 - 3:50 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Is the scrund about the air in the lungs?no Or in any other part of the body? noIs it to do with holding of breath? no ********** SPOILER ***************** Along with most people I asked, I used to take it for granted that many people drowned when the Titanic went down. In fact, no one or almost no one drowned. They froze to death. Sorry it was so easy, but I think it's an interesting little fact, & I'm sure the new puzzle I'm about to post will be harder, even though I've been a lousy judge of that in the past. |
