...the ANSWER, and some other stuff...

Quilled Irony Of The Blog: If you complain about people always poking fun of your complaining when you don’t think you do it much, haven’t you just proven them right? (NOTE: This is not in any way directed towards Hizzy, just another irony.)

Now the moment you’ve all been craving – the answer to the riddle! (Actually, to be more specific and accurate, the moment Beaver has been craving; the guy was begging for the answer last night he wanted to know so badly.) Here’s the riddle and its solution:


“All people have known me since before they could crawl -

I have a several forms, yet known by all.

Some forms are loved, while others are cursed;

Can you figure my name by the end of this verse?

I bring feelings of joy, sadness, and pain;

The hint to the answer lies within this refrain:

I’ll tell you no story; I’ll spin you no lies –
My influence is huge, yet I have no true size.
From nation to nation, I’m a tie that binds;
Read me again, the solution you’ll find.


What am I?”


ANSWER: Music


Every baby experiences music before they can even crawl; some say that unborn babies can experience music inside the womb. Music has several forms, yet music is known in all corners of the world. Some forms of music are loved or hated, dependant on who you’re talking to. Music can elicit emotion in people, such as happiness, sadness, even pain, by association to experiences. Music’s influence is HUGE, and yet music doesn’t have a size that you could percieve in the physical sense. No matter what country you go to, a form of musical expression is there, therefore it’s one of the things we have in common. And what did the hint I posted have to do with all this? Well…just look closer. :)

“Can you figure my name by the end of this verse,” and “The hint to the answer lies within this refrain,” are the clues. Music has verse and often has a refrain to it; I even went so far as to post a refrain at the end of the riddle, with the ending asking you to repeat the refrain, just like in a song!

The people who got the closest to the solution of the riddle were Nix and Jon, who both answered words. Words – or language – fits everything except for the first line, as babies don’t have a solid concept of WORDS so much as they do SOUNDS before they start developing further. Good job, you two!

A bible, money, and weather are certainly not known to babies; and all three of them definitely have a finite and true size to them, one that you can hold on to or perceive.

Something That Needs To Be Perpetuated:

Yes, this is going to be politically oriented. Got this from Tom’s Live Journal, who snagged it from someone else, etc.

- Think Bush was bad staying on vacation instead of dealing with Katrina? Dick Cheney was shopping for a house!
- FEMA will not accept Amtrak’s help with evacuations
- FEMA turns away experienced firefighters
- FEMA turns away supply trucks from WalMart
- FEMA will not let Red Cross deliver food
- FEMA prevents morticians from entering New Orleans
- FEMA blocks 500 boat citizen flotilla from rescues and delivery of aid
- Chicago offers massive assistance. FEMA to Chicago: “Send one truck.”
- FEMA turns away generators
- FEMA: First responders urged NOT to respond
- This is how Michael Brown got this job that he is totally unqualified for
- Barbara Bush: “What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality…and so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.” (Yes, she actually said that publicly…)
- Did you know that our government has prison “concentration” camps in place should a martial law-type situation ever be needed for illegal aliens? Guess who runs it? – FEMA.
- Isn’t it funny that Congress managed to move their ass in ONE day for Terry Schiavo, and it took them FIVE days to respond to the devastation of Katrina? They say that they couldn’t because states of emergency have to be handled on a State level and the Federal government isn’t allowed to intervene in State legislation (States’ Rights). But, Schiavo was a State legislation, and not only did Congress interfere to the fullest extent, but George W. Bush himself personally rushed to the White House to stick his nose in it.

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Quilled Did You Know?:

The first parachute jump from an airplane was made by Captain Berry at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1912.

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Quilled Link(s) of the Blog:
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The Bug Juice Mega-Forum

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Quilled Tunes: “Blue Monday” – New Order

Quote of the Blog: “Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.” – Jean-Luc Godard

Literary Quote of the Blog: “. . . tell Wind and Fire where to stop,” returned madame; “but don't tell me.” – Charles Dickens, ‘A Tale Of Two Cities’

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Word(s) of the Blog:

copacetic \koh-puh-SET-ik\ adjective

: very satisfactory

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politesse \pah-lih-TESS\ noun

formal politeness : decorousness

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On This Day In History – September 9th:

1850: Under the Compromise of 1850, California enters the United States as a free state, in which slavery is illegal. California is the 31st state in the Union.

1914: The First Battle of the Marne ends, in which German troops in World War I are decisively halted in their drive toward Paris, France.

1968: Amateur Arthur Ashe wins the U.S. Open tennis tournament in the first year it is open to both professionals and amateurs.

1971: Inmates at the state prison in Attica, New York, take 30 guards hostage in a revolt over prison conditions. Forty-three prisoners and guards will die in the revolt, which is violently suppressed four days later.

1976: Mao Zedong, the leader of the People's Republic of China since its founding in 1949, dies of Parkinson's disease at the age of 82.

1997: As part of the peace process in Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein, the Irish nationalist political party associated with the Irish Republican Army, formally renounces violence.