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Hope

Even before going to battle, vastly outgunned, the little gal was grinning away hopefully. I'm not sure she understood what was happening really.

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Riddle Me Cajoled

Cajoled or not, if you've any wit, click the title and leave it.


I'm in on it, and take control,

You're out of it for I cajoled

And shocked you seize as currents flow,

No sparks it starts from where you know

They'll hear, or else they'll surely see, slowly;

Don't move a me!

'You're in but I'm out? You're big but I'm small? You're strong but I'm weak?'
'And I'll never let you forget it.'
'Forget this, I'm going back to last week's blackberry crumble.'

 

Riddle Answer A Muscle

 

Riddle Explanation
I'm in on it, and take control - muscle in on something.

you're out of it for I cajoled - muscle someone out of something.

they'll hear, or else they'll surely see, slowly; don't move a me! - don't move a muscle.

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The Crawley

There was nothing creepy about her at all, other than that she crawled. In fact, I quite enjoyed hanging out with her.

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Riddle Me Laundered

If you've a clean answer, tap on the title and type it below.


You need me, without me you'd die,

I'm out, you're laundry slowly dries.

Despise? Not I, my kiss was given,

Didn't touch, but touching driven

Our relationship's important, my dear,

Let us make me clear.

'I'd die without you? You must be a blackberry crumble!'
'Oh yeah, I wish I was. I'd eat my own fingers.'
'Not if I got to them first.'

 

Riddle Answer Air

 

Riddle Explanation
I'm out, you're laundry slowly dries - to air something out.

not I, my kiss was given, didn't touch, but touching driven - an air kiss.

our relationship's important, my dear, let us make me clear - to clear the air.

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The Outdoors

Personally, I thought he was overreacting a little.

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Riddle Me Measured

If you find the riddle tried and measured, and have come up with a conclusion, click the title.


I measure by a leg progressed

But moving, I'm on toes, and fessed

They anger so make haste, alas

I'm on nothing, like air, a gas.

Don't worry, but now worry, throw a fit

And I'm on it!

'How can you both be on toes and on nothing?'
'How can you both have so few ideas and speak of so much?'
'Uncalled for.'
'Sorry.'

 

Riddle Answer A Step

 

Riddle Explanation
I'm on toes, and fessed they anger - step on someone's toes.

they anger so make haste, alas I'm on nothing, like air, a gas - step on the gas.

and I'm on it! - step on it!

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The Crowd

It's always better to stand out amongst the crowd, no matter how adorable the crowd is.

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Riddle Me Pomp

Don't just put on airs, if you've an idea, click the title and share.


I am a stand that holds atop

A sunlike pomp that duly drops,

Though I can't move, I'm off in huff

And after you I, er, might ruff-le

Feathers, as I sound the same, 

A baby-post, or so they claim.

'So you are pomp?'
'Well no, I hold up the pomp. But I suppose that makes me pomp, does it not?'
'I always thought you were. I was just asking what you thought.'

 

Riddle Answer A Stalk

 

Riddle Explanation
though I can't move, I'm off in huff - to stalk off in a huff.

after you I, er - a stalker.

feathers, as I sound the same, a baby-post, or so they claim - stalk and stork are homophones, and storks bring babies.

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The Cool Penguin

Forget happy feet, this penguin had the happiest and coolest look I'd ever seen.

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Riddle Me Distant

If you've a distant idea, click the title close above and bring it here.


I circle, searching distantly,

Then dive, no ocean or no sea,

My eyes you claim to have, for spot

You watch as I would though you're not

A tribe of Iroquois, or hair sides flee,

For that's mome.

'I've got your eyes, but who's got your nose?'
'It seems my nose was taken long ago.'

 

Riddle Answer A Hawk

 

Riddle Explanation
my eyes you claim to have - to have eyes like a hawk.

you watch as I would - to watch someone like a hawk.

mome - a mohawk. The Mohawk tribe where the term gets its name is the most easterly tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy based in Mohawk Valley, now upstate New York.

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Happy Birthday you

In recognition of my birthday last week I made an illustration of how I'm starting to slightly feel. Stop poking me in the nose, birthday!

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Riddle Me Sweet

If you think you know the answer, sweetly click the title and leave a comment.


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I sing sweet, though I've not a lip,

Or hand, though still I easy grip,

That's me in hand, I'm worth much more

Than there a bush of two, three, four

To smartly get all, you have thrown,

A hit both with a single stone.

'You've no lip? You've a lot of lip on you!'
'Even those without lips can be lippy.'

 

Riddle Answer A Bird

 

Riddle Explanation
that's me in hand, I'm worth much more than there a bush of two, three, four - a bird in hand (is worth two in the bush).

to smartly get all, you have thrown, a hit both with a single stone - to kill two birds with one stone.

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Snake Tamer

Whatever it was that they both noticed, it didn't sit well with them.

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Riddle Me Professional

If you know what I do, then click the title and do let me know.


I take what's yours but never keep.

You ask just so, and never weep,

Although I cut you nothing feel,

In fact, I cut and rather heal.

Gloves and socks and lovely frocks;

A tailor for your locks.

'You aren't an amateur?'
'Heavens no, would you let an amateur cut you?'
'I wouldn't let anyone cut me!'
'Not even if you were butter? Or a stage crew? How exhausting that would be.'

 

Riddle Answer A Hairdresser

 

Riddle Explanation
gloves and socks and lovely frocks; a tailor for your locks - a hair dresser.

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Astute Impala

He would keenly watch those around him, before deciding the join in or suddenly bound away.

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Riddle Me Anew

So we've changed and changed your mind, then click the title and let me know what's on it.


My apple right, banana early,

Going me and going burly

Paper bags or bring your own,

My light's ahead the path is shown,

So don't stop now, we've just begun the ride,

I'm in the countryside.

'So you're fruit?'
'I can be, but in fact you call me collectively your vegetables.'

 

Riddle Answer (The Colour) Green

 

Riddle Explanation
my apple right, banana early - a green apple and green banana.

going me and going burly paper bags or bring your own - go green.

my light's ahead the path is shown - to give someone the green light.

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Accessorise

I'd never seen such an interesting hairstyle...though I daren't get too close.

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Riddle Me Identical

If you think you can see what you've seen before, then click the title and let me know.


You think me made by man and grim,

Controlling, changed at corporate whim,

But I am natural, no bungle,

Ancient, when the world a jungle,

Now I keep a balance, all in health,

But first I keep myself.

'Are you twins?'
'By now I'd be triplets.'
'How do you start as twins and become triplets?'
'That's simple, make another of yourself that's the same but entirely independent.'

 

Riddle Answer Law

 

Riddle Explanation
but I am natural, no bungle - natural laws.

ancient, when the world a jungle - the law of the jungle.

now I keep a balance, all in health, but first I keep myself - self-preservation is the first law of nature.

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Celebrations

After all the celebrations, the next day, his head felt a little fuzzy, and his legs felt much more like a champagne flute stem.

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Riddle Me Repeated

If you've been listening then click the title and paste.


No nose, or mouth, but in my eyes

Your actions wrong and thus surmise

A lesson that my long arms teach,

No hands, yet still my long arms reach

Before I can you grab me, planned,

You take me into both your hands.

'You seem different.'
'Yet I'm exactly the same.'
'Perhaps it is I who has changed.'
'Undoubtedly.'

 

Riddle Answer Law

 

Riddle Explanation
no nose, or mouth, but in my eyes your actions wrong - in the eyes of the law.

a lesson that my long arms teach, no hands, yet still my long arms reach - the long arms of the law.

you grab me, planned, you take me into both your hands - to take the law into one's own hands.

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