Re: OT-CHAT: Need a little help


From: Gerry Snyder <gcsnyd@loop.com>

Dennis Kramb wrote:
> 
> From: Dennis Kramb <dkramb@badbear.com>
> 
> >From: Glenn Simmons <glenn_simmons@juno.com>
> >
> >I am terrible at "Brain Teasers" and my boy brought one home from school
> >that he is supposed to return and I have no idea what this means.  Any
> >one have an idea?  The brain teaser is below.
> >
> >In marble halls as white as milk,
> >Lined with a skin as soft as silk,
> >Within a fountain crystal clear,
> >A golden apple doth appear,
> >No doors there are to this stronghold,
> >Yet theives break in and steal the gold.
> >
> >Glenn
> 
> an egg?

A different version, from Tolkien's The Hobbit:

A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

Gerry
-- 
g*@loop.com
Gerry Snyder, AIS Symposium Chair
Region 15 Ass't RVP, JT Chair
Member San Fernando Valley, Southern California Iris Societies
in warm, winterless Los Angeles

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