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| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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So what are we looking for, a 5th king? | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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By Dena Elbling (Ladyzinga) on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 05:37 pm: Something about the CD, though I can’t say I understand it. The doorkeeper was almost going to take it before, but he didn’t. Perhaps it was not intended for him... By Simon Downham (Beroean) on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 05:39 pm: So what are we looking for, a 5th king? we have four olden kings - David, Charlemagne, Caesar and Alexander from the pack of French playing cards. All we need is a fifth, or some representation of a fifth... | ||
| Dena Elbling (Ladyzinga)
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Perhaps the suit of armor, if it has the proper coronet soldered to the helm? | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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By Dena Elbling (Ladyzinga) on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 05:48 pm: Perhaps the suit of armor, if it has the proper coronet soldered to the helm? I'm afraid I can find no royal markings on the suit of armour. | ||
| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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Could this be the CD that has the recording of King Canute engaged in a battle of wills with the ocean? | ||
| Hannah Kinghern (Kdoc)
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what about the bust of Henri - do we still have that? | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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By Simon Downham (Beroean) on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 05:55 pm: Could this be the CD that has the recording of King Canute engaged in a battle of wills with the ocean? It doesn't sound like tides refusing to be driven back by royal command. For a start, there aren't any royal commands. By Hannah Kinghern (Kdoc) on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 07:57 pm: what about the bust of Henri - do we still have that? We don't - we gave it to the third doorkeeper. But... | ||
| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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Can we borrow the original from the doorkeeper from in room 3 and make an impression using beeswax or cheese? Or maybe we can just give it to the current doorkeper? Or do we need to barter? | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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By Simon Downham (Beroean) on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 09:34 pm: Can we borrow the original from the doorkeeper from in room 3 and make an impression using beeswax or cheese? Or maybe we can just give it to the current doorkeper? Or do we need to barter? Well, let us see... I return to the third room, where the doorkeeper is sitting reading a letter. A French Pyrenean sheepdog lies at the doorkeeper's feet, both dog and man in a state of abject despondency. Wrapping paper litters the floor. A bust of King Henri I of France and a photograph of the 2003 Arsenal football team are among the debris. The doorkeeper looks up. "My true love sent them back", he says dolefully. "This letter... she's met a bloke who keeps sending her poultry... she says she hopes we can still be friends..." His words die away into a kind of strangled sob. Unwilling to intrude on private grief, I pick up the bust and return to the fifth room, where I hand the bust and the four kings from the French pack to the doorkeeper. "Here you are", I say. "Five olden kings." "Excellent!" cries the doorkeeper. "Just what I need. Proceed, my dear fellow!" He opens the door, and I walk into... | ||
| Mosquito (Mosquito)
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A room? | ||
| Johanna (Buzzard)
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Wait, don't tell me - let me guess: a room! with a doorman! | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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Right, down to business - how about trying six cheeses swaying for the next doorkeeper? | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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By Mosquito (Mosquito) on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 10:02 pm: A room? By Johanna (Buzzard) on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 10:03 pm: Wait, don't tell me - let me guess: a room! with a doorman! ...a field. But console yourselves with the thought that your ratio of successful to unsuccessful guesses in 2006 cannot possibly get any worse. This is a grassy meadow, surrounded on three sides by a high wall. At the far side of the meadow from where I stand is a river, with a bridge across it. The bridge appears to be guarded by a large troll. | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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By Lynne (Lynne) on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 10:14 pm: Right, down to business - how about trying six cheeses swaying for the next doorkeeper? Well, we can certainly acquire six cheeses. Do you have any ideas as to how to make them sway? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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Could you make one of those desk games that were popular a few years back that were supposed to demonstrate perpetual motion? Instead of balls of steel make them cheese balls. I'm sure a troll would love it... | ||
| Mosquito (Mosquito)
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Could you take the threes out of your pack of cards, plus the jokers, and place them in front of the troll as if to make a meld? And see how impressed (or otherwise) he is by six threes a-playing? | ||
| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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Perhaps Daisy and Diego would appreciate grazing on some fresh grass, so could you allow them both to have a nibble in the meadow? | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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By Lynne (Lynne) on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 10:58 pm: Could you make one of those desk games that were popular a few years back that were supposed to demonstrate perpetual motion? Instead of balls of steel make them cheese balls. I'm sure a troll would love it... Well, let me see... There are some trees in the field. It is a matter of moments to cut off a branch with the axe and, using the cheese knife, to fashion a frame. It is as well that I took the perpetual-motion-machine-making badge along with oriental rugs when I was a Scout. I cut six identical balls of cheese from the Gouda, and string them to the frame with the gold thread spun by Rumpelstiltskin. I take the finished contraption to the troll. He pushes one of the cheese balls. It strikes the second with a dull thud, and sticks to it. The other cheese balls do not move. The troll looks at me. "You idiot", he says - a phrase I seem to have heard a lot recently. | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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Could you make an Australian style hat out of Rumplestiltskin's thread and hang the cheeses from it? | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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By Mosquito (Mosquito) on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 11:01 pm: Could you take the threes out of your pack of cards, plus the jokers, and place them in front of the troll as if to make a meld? And see how impressed (or otherwise) he is by six threes a-playing? Not very. You see, he knows the rules of Canasta, which do not allow threes to be melded. By Simon Downham (Beroean) on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 11:04 pm: Perhaps Daisy and Diego would appreciate grazing on some fresh grass, so could you allow them both to have a nibble in the meadow? They seem to have gone ahead without waiting for permission - somewhat surprisingly, after all that straw Daisy ate in the fourth room. Perhaps it was Chinese straw. | ||
| Mosquito (Mosquito)
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Can you cut up your branch a bit more, suit up and get the beehive as before, persuade Rumpelstilskin to join you in a few moments' devotions, and thereby assemble sticks, bees, us praying? | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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By Lynne (Lynne) on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 11:11 pm: Could you make an Australian style hat out of Rumpelstiltskin's thread and hang the cheeses from it? I think I had better get Rumpelstiltskin to do this - I did not have time for the Australian-hat-making badge. The dwarf, eager as ever to assist, whips out a needle from his tunic and sets to work on the thread. Before long, a fine golden bush hat with six balls of cheese suspended from the brim is ready to be presented to the troll. He inspects it from all angles, then with a disgusted snort throws it in the river. "I'm not giving my true love that", he says. "She only wears Kangol." Presumably this is some other dwarf. |
