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A riddle
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John Hale
Yarn Weaver
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Dec-8-2004 01:45
Hello all.
I'm fairly new to Sleuth and I thought I might share a little hobby of mine with you all. Here's something for that sad moment when the mysteries of the day are all done.
Thousands lay up gold within this house,
but no man made it.
Spears past counting guard this house,
but no man wards it.
What is it?
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Andy702
Pinball Amateur
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Feb-15-2005 01:58
Sam the Rose, I think (but am not sure) Ronald Coleman is one of the suspect pictures (the others I see are the same ones you listed, with the exception of Natalie Wood). As for the newspaper - the newspaper picture is that of Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.
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Sam the Rose
Old Shoe
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Feb-15-2005 05:32
YES Yeltsin! Thanks!
Some of these are from the silent flics, I'm sure.
I googled Coleman, and I didn't recognize him, but I'll keep looking.
Is one of them Robert Mitchum??
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Greyling
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Feb-15-2005 06:12
Yes, Robert Mitchum is there as well :)
Oh, and 2 more for your collection Sam ;) - Evita and Rudolph Valentino (although he's not so easily recognized) :)
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Greyling
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Feb-15-2005 06:35
And Olivia de Havilland, if I remember right, and I think I recently spotted Louise Brooks too - *lol* - I'm forgetting to concentrate on the alibis now :p
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Andy702
Pinball Amateur
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Feb-15-2005 07:57
Sorry, forgot he changed the spelling of his last name for acting - that should have read Ronald Colman. The picture I'm thinking of is a profile shot. I could be wrong, but it looks like from around the time of "The Lost Horizon".
Recently I'm sure I spotted Edna Purviance. I almost didn't recognize her because of the hat though.
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marylou
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Feb-15-2005 12:52
I agree with Reda, if nothing else it is still amusing when someone answers a riddle on the first page and it ends up at the back. Please somebody add more riddles. Jstkdn did you run out of ones from mindtrap?
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James_Lee
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Feb-19-2005 19:44
did you run out of ones from mindtrap?
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jstkdn
Well-Connected
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Feb-20-2005 07:35
No, I still got a box left. I was just too busy with my missions on Sleuth.
But here we go:
During WW II, several British naval spies no the lookout for enemy ships and activities, posed as Canadian lobster fishermen. They had large numbers of plastic, orange-coloured lobsters made for their covert operations. These lobsters came in various sizes with all authentic markings. At night, the spies loaded the lobsters in to weighed down traps and threw them overboard. At daybreak, they would hoist the traps aborad ship. The locals spotted them as fraudulent fishermen from quite a distance. How were they so easily detected?
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reda
Well-Connected
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Feb-20-2005 07:47
because the lobsters didnt move?
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Andy702
Pinball Amateur
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Feb-20-2005 08:00
They used a government ship?
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