Comments on: Thursday Morning Riddle

By: Neel Mehta

Neel Mehta — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:32:40 +0000

Up late, naturally.

As for your couplet, those words may rhyme out west, but not the way we pronounce them here.

Are you talking about “haunt”? The only way I know how to pronounce it is the way that rhymes with “Vermont.”

The couplet was difficult — for a moment, I considered just answering the riddle — because the Geneva drive and Lake Geneva are hard to describe in so few syllables, and in lines that end in “-ont”. Again, kudos on your 4-line rhythmic mastery.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:08:35 +0000

Neel, I had the answer GENEVA before I thought of the cookie angle, but once I had it, it did remind me of your Pic-Tac-Toe theme about the Pepperidge Farm cookies.

As for your couplet, those words may rhyme out west, but not the way we pronounce them here. And, as you suspect, your meter’s a bit off. But I like the content of the clues, and this was a hard word to find clues for.

Honorable mention to you for getting in so early. Or were you up late?

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:55:58 +0000

GENEVA is correct. Way to go, Ro!

By: ro

ro — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:44:28 +0000

Geneva

By: Neel Mehta

Neel Mehta — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:18:35 +0000

Excellent (and challenging) rhyme. If I may add a wordy couplet:

I’m all the rotary drive a Swiss watch could ever want,
And the lake that was the mother of Frankenstein’s haunt.

P.S. Was my Pic-Tac-Toe an inspiration for line 1?