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Quote from: Yarak on 22-Sep-09, 02:15:30 PM
Dragon Slayer in Isaura's Tree! Wet paint and wet head.
I don't get it?
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Quote from: Bird Crazy on 22-Sep-09, 07:04:45 PM
Quote from: Yarak on 22-Sep-09, 02:15:30 PM
Dragon Slayer in Isaura's Tree! Wet paint and wet head.
I don't get it?
Neither did I.
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Quote from: Bird Crazy on 22-Sep-09, 07:04:45 PM
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Dragon Slayer in Isaura's Tree! Wet paint and wet head.
I don't get it?
It's a riddle. What sits in trees and slays dragons?
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Quote from: Carol P. on 22-Sep-09, 07:55:49 PM
Quote from: Bird Crazy on 22-Sep-09, 07:04:45 PM
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Dragon Slayer in Isaura's Tree! Wet paint and wet head.
I don't get it?
It's a riddle. What sits in trees and slays dragons?
A DRAGON SLAYER???
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St. George?
Sigurd?
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If you have read Flann O'Brien's comic novel At Swim-Two-Birds, you will know that it is SWEENEY who has killed, and who is cursed to sit, wet and hungry, in a tree; O'Brien took the idea from Mad King Sweeney, a legendary king of Ulster (Ireland) in an ancient poem. For killing a psalmist, Sweeney is cursed: his weapons drop and he begins to levitate like a bird. From that point on, he leaps from spot to spot like a bird. Also like a bird, he can never trust humans and flees from place to place, living naked and hungry. (from Wikipedia) "Many poets have invoked Sweeney—most notably T. S. Eliot and Seamus Heaney...Another version from the Irish text [by Trevor Joyce] is titled The Poems of Sweeny, Peregrine."
So there, Sweeney is a Peregrine.
More than you wanted to know?
So what was in Isaura's tree?
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Quote from: Carol P. on 22-Sep-09, 07:55:49 PM
Quote from: Bird Crazy on 22-Sep-09, 07:04:45 PM
Quote from: Yarak on 22-Sep-09, 02:15:30 PM
Dragon Slayer in Isaura's Tree! Wet paint and wet head.
I don't get it?
It's a riddle. What sits in trees and slays dragons?
I think I got it...a bird who goes after dragonflies. Knowing the gorge...is the Dragon Slayer a Belted Kingfisher? But I still don't get the "wet paint"?
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Kestrel
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Quote from: Bird Crazy on 23-Sep-09, 11:28:22 PM
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Ding, ding, ding, ding! and the crowd goes wild!!!
Bird Crazy is correct. The dragon slayer sitting in Isaura's tree was a very handsome male Kestrel. While I stood in the rain (wet head), on a bridge that is getting a new paint job (wet paint), the Kestrel flew into a tree, flitted about and came back to land on Isaura's tree.
He caught something, but at first I couldn't determine what it was. As I watched through my binoculars, I saw a wing fall towards the ground. Not a birds wing, but a dragonfly wing.
and now you know why I called this little guy a dragonslayer. It just seemed appropriate.
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Great job in stumping everyone...well, everyone but BirdCrazy, that is!
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Carol,
Well done on your riddle.
I never would have guessed in a million years --- even if my life depended on it.
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cool,
I've been computerless for awhile just got back. What is the next riddle Carol.
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