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Birthdays and an Enigma
Feb. 8th, 2007 09:29 pmToday, I celebrated my thirty-ninth birthday for the second time, like the wonderful Jack Benny, I have decided thirty nine is the best age to be. Did not do anything terrible special, just dinner at Outback. Got some cards and presents, including the Season 2 DVD box set of the New Doctor Who, a DALEK t-shirt and other fun things. Oh, and I Created a new Fortune for the Legend of the Five Rings setting.
In preparation for my D&D game tomorrow, I picked up some books on puzzles and riddles from the UGA library. One of the books I picked up is full of really lame riddles (of the "When is a door not a door? When it is a-jar" variety) but it is from 1869(!) and had this glued on the last page on a machine printed piece of paper:
An Enigma, by the late Dr. Whewell:
"A headless man had a letter to write,
He who read it had lost his sight:
The dumb repeated it word for word,
And deaf was the man who listened and heard.
Curious, no?
In preparation for my D&D game tomorrow, I picked up some books on puzzles and riddles from the UGA library. One of the books I picked up is full of really lame riddles (of the "When is a door not a door? When it is a-jar" variety) but it is from 1869(!) and had this glued on the last page on a machine printed piece of paper:
An Enigma, by the late Dr. Whewell:
"A headless man had a letter to write,
He who read it had lost his sight:
The dumb repeated it word for word,
And deaf was the man who listened and heard.
Curious, no?