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Think you can solve thrice-weekly riddles from mythology, folklore, history, and literature?
Try this Lorick on for size:
A tempestuous prince was misled
by incestuous king, hast'ly wed
there's a ghost, and a play,
and soliloquies fey...
in the end, nearly everyone's dead!
Hint: his father ghosted him.
Answer: Hamlet! Get it?
Lorick's host? Me, Yorick! Most soliloquized skull of all time!
If you're ready to match wits with a skeletal skald who wields riddles ranging from Alice to Apollo, Homer to Herodotus, and from Rapunzel to Ragnarok - then listen!
E'en subscribe! If you dare...
Try this Lorick on for size:
A tempestuous prince was misled
by incestuous king, hast'ly wed
there's a ghost, and a play,
and soliloquies fey...
in the end, nearly everyone's dead!
Hint: his father ghosted him.
Answer: Hamlet! Get it?
Lorick's host? Me, Yorick! Most soliloquized skull of all time!
If you're ready to match wits with a skeletal skald who wields riddles ranging from Alice to Apollo, Homer to Herodotus, and from Rapunzel to Ragnarok - then listen!
E'en subscribe! If you dare...
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Does Lorick #103 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! An infallible prophetess weaving Prognoses that none are believing of horses and cities and a girl that's too pretty All ignored - and it's SO aggrieving! Hint: I'm not to be confused with Chicken Little. I'm right!
Lorick #103, to confound and confusticate! An infallible prophetess weaving Prognoses that none are believing of horses and cities and a girl that's too pretty All ignored - and it's SO aggrieving!
Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #102: I'm a hero, by which I mean strong; I'm amazed! ...and confuse right from wrong. I killed a bull dead and was saved by a thread; and my list of debacles is long!
Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #132: he's a rebel who's hidden at birth and he grew to be greatest of jerks a philandering sort oddly shaped to disport making heros of dubious worth
Does Lorick #132 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! he's a rebel who's hidden at birth and he grew to be greatest of jerks a philandering sort oddly shaped to disport making heros of dubious worth Hint: he led, with great bolts, a mythic revolt!
Lorick #131: he's a rebel who's hidden at birth and he grew to be greatest of jerks a philandering sort oddly shaped to disport making heros of dubious worth But first, we solve #132 - here it is one last time: with merit in marshals to form square and misinformation as warfare my rise is electric my policies, metric conniving in exile: one more dare!
Does Lorick #131 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! with merit in marshals to form square and misinformation as warfare my rise is electric my policies, metric conniving in exile: one more dare! Hint: I'm weak when on islands... but wreak ruin on continents
Lorick #130: with merit in marshals to form square and misinformation as warfare my rise is electric my policies, metric conniving in exile: one more dare! But first, we solve #131 - here it is one last time: A late bloomer who ran from the heat returned when his god thought it meet. This adopted newborn fought a sorcerous war; a savior -- his end? Bittersweet.
Does Lorick #130 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! A late bloomer who ran from the heat returned when his god thought it meet. This adopted newborn fought a sorcerous war; a savior -- his end? Bittersweet. Hint: the arc of this man is full of commands
Lorick #130, to confound and confusticate! A late bloomer who ran from the heat returned when his god thought it meet. This adopted newborn fought a sorcerous war; a savior -- his end? Bittersweet.
Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #129: two boys, both beat from one drum contrariwise... their beats differ by crumbs! they dance and they rattle - engendering battle - and profess a red king solipsis-um!
Does Lorick #129 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! two boys, both beat from one drum contrariwise... their beats differ by crumbs! they dance and they rattle - engendering battle - and profess a red king solipsis-idum! Hint: from nurs'ry to carroll they rhyme
Lorick #128: two boys, both beat from one drum contrariwise... their beats differ by crumbs! they dance and they rattle - engendering battle - and profess a red king solipsis-idum! But first, we solve #129 - here it is one last time: the sixth of the eighth seemed insane... his memories lost, split in twain by a sudden exchange wealth both gained and estranged lessons learned, both returned -- one to reign!
Does Lorick #128 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! the sixth of the eighth seemed insane... his memories lost, split in twain by a sudden exchange wealth both gained and estranged lessons learned, both returned -- one to reign! Hint:
Lorick #127: the sixth of the eighth seemed insane... his memories lost, split in twain by a sudden exchange wealth both gained and estranged lessons learned, both returned -- one to reign! But first, we solve #128 - here it is one last time: the mask hides a mystr'y - its bearer an inmate long held.. for what error? when kings get their way by lettres de cachet caprice breeds its *own* kind of terror...
Does Lorick #127 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! the mask hides a mystr'y - its bearer an inmate long held.. for what error? when kings get their way by lettres de cachet caprice breeds its *own* kind of terror... Hint: thirty-four years in a cage in a cage and then died... of old age?
Lorick #127, to confound and confusticate! the mask hides a mystr'y - its bearer an inmate long held.. for what error? when kings get their way by lettres de cachet caprice breeds its *own* kind of terror...
Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #126: the first time i tried it i knew with the air all around me time flew i'm a bucker of trends ...since I hung with the men where I died? no one knows... in the blue...
Does Lorick #126 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! the first time i tried it i knew with the air all around me time flew i'm a bucker of trends ...since I hung with the men where I died? no one knows... in the blue... Hint: I've been missing a while... check the sea... near an isle...
Lorick #125: the first time i tried it i knew with the air all around me time flew i'm a bucker of trends ...since I hung with the men where I died? no one knows... in the blue... But first, we solve #126 - here it is one last time: the son of the morning, perhaps at first not the worst - 'til he snaps not quite best of the best by which, later, distressed once good, and then bad... then: collapse
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