pretty_ponyz 
Oct 11, 2004
| wow this teaser is cool |
love1723 
Oct 11, 2004
| I enjoyed this! Very well done  |
amqrcl
Oct 15, 2004
| I am very impressed!!! this is a great teaser!  |
Chosh
Nov 09, 2004
| This is excellent and brilliantly written. Good job! |
Kdub
Nov 10, 2004
| very good one |
koty
Nov 13, 2004
| awsome |
V_Bapat
Nov 19, 2004
| Excellent one.
Though I am not from an American country and do not know much about it, I must confess that even I had, I wouldn't have solved it.
Well done. |
gnosys
Nov 19, 2004
| I liked this too, but I thought the line about the locks was a giveaway. And I wasn't sure about the line about most meeting their fate on the rocks -- does that refer to Niagara Falls?
I grew up in upstate New York, so I definitely had an edge here.
You know, I haven't actually CHECKED the answer -- it would be kind of embarrassing if I were wrong about it being the Dionne Quintuplets...
Can anyone identify the following:
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams,
The islands and bays are for sportsmen.
And further below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of november remembered. |
puppy_love
Nov 19, 2004
| This riddle was impossible to get. Who in this world could think up something as crazy as that! It was really fun to try though. I will tell all of my friends! It was really good!  |
I_am_the_Omega 
Nov 19, 2004
| I thought of water.. but never lakes lol |
O_wise_one
Nov 19, 2004
| hey qnosys, I Believe that's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot. That's a good tune! |
gemtiger
Nov 19, 2004
| The last clue made it all clear. A good one! |
Tiggr
Nov 19, 2004
| VERY IMPRESSIVE! Althought even after I looked at the hint I was still cluless.  I guess I a simple minded person  |
goldmare
Dec 03, 2004
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goldmare
Dec 03, 2004
| Oh sorry, I accidentally hit the comment button before I even wrote my comment.
Anyway, this was a really good teaser. I found it easy, but of course I had a bit of an edge. I live right on Lake Ontario and I was taught the "HOMES" acronym in public school.
Still, the way it was written was very clever and well thought out. Nice job! |
chennachick
Dec 07, 2004
| wow that was awesome! very im pressed I soooo did not get it! i had NO clue! very good. def. one of my favs! |
chennachick
Dec 07, 2004
| *IMpressed ooops |
gllarge
Jan 06, 2005
| I think that should have been in trivia. but it was good  |
Rowsdower
Apr 09, 2005
| Splendid!! One of my favorites! |
froggygg
Apr 10, 2005
| Very good teaser. I didn't even come close to the correct answer!
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barhite
Jul 05, 2005
| the teaser was great, i liked it a lot |
nightowl19
Jul 12, 2005
| Great teaser! Too bad I couldn't figure it out. |
emily103
Sep 24, 2005
| great teaser!
I remember I was taught the HOMES acronym in third or second grade, but I still couldn't figure it out.
Very good teaser though. |
zonarita
Nov 12, 2005
| Awesome teaser |
Vigo95
Mar 26, 2006
| i thought it was the oceans at first then i realized that didn't work  |
azbee123
Apr 17, 2006
| very clever! loved the rhyming!
this one is going into my favorites!!!!! |
brainster
Apr 17, 2006
| This is written beautifully! Excellent piece of poetry... I did not get the answer though, but it was absolutely a great fit! |
OldChinaHand
Apr 17, 2006
| With the locks I was first thinking Panama, but neighborhood things, "HOMES" did it for me. Very good teaser.  |
paradisebabe 
Apr 17, 2006
| i didnt like it
it was to hard |
lmurray
Apr 17, 2006
| ????? |
coachpisco
Apr 17, 2006
| Made sense after I read it. Very good. |
windexnodrip
Apr 17, 2006
| very creative!!!
a too much 4 me..... |
bradon182001
Apr 17, 2006
| This is an excellent teaser. I didn't get it, but I had fun trying to figure it out. Once I saw the answer, ofcourse, it all made sense.Great Job. |
saleprice
Apr 17, 2006
| excellent!! I too had the Dionne Quints in mind at first, but ah well...
keep `em coming |
BeckyD
Apr 17, 2006
| Wow! That one was a toughie!! I don't think I would have come up with the answer in a million years! Good teaser, though. |
rachellanders
Apr 17, 2006
| I guessed fingers! That was the first thing that popped into my head. It was very difficult. Great- but difficult.    |
gussy48823
Apr 17, 2006
| I thought this one was easy--but I am from Michigan so the Great Lakes are a part of my life! |
iteachkids
Apr 17, 2006
| Well-Written teaser! Those who didn't know the answer learned something new today ... a good thing ANY day! |
RRAMMOHAN
Apr 17, 2006
| Too tough to solve for a person not from USA/Canada! I am stumped. An excellently worded and carefully thought out teaser. Keep it up! |
vlerma
Apr 17, 2006
| Today I agree with Iteachkids. Any day you can learn something is a good day. Great teaser and I did learn something. It was very well written with great poetry.
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schatzy228
Apr 17, 2006
| Slendid teaser!
Into my favs it goes.
Keep up the good work!
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AwwwSweet
Apr 17, 2006
| Wow, I guess I was really lucky on this one as I grew up in Chicago. It definitely took a second, but I got it! True Blue is what really tipped me off to it being about water. Great teaser, keep em comin'! |
Sara2009
Apr 17, 2006
| kewl |
cherokeerose
Apr 17, 2006
| you really stumped me
it was really a good riddle!! |
cathym60
Apr 17, 2006
| great one- thanks! |
thimblenoggin
Apr 17, 2006
|
I think if you had written- Many meet their fate upon "THEIR"
rocks, I would have gotten it. I think. Well done. |
bhssoccer23
Apr 17, 2006
| nice! liked it a lot! |
bhssoccer23
Apr 17, 2006
| p.s., I love how everyone who can't get it b/c it's too hard complains that it should be in the trivia section! I didn't get it, I live nowhere near the Great Lakes, and I still liked it! |
heystack9
Apr 17, 2006
| cool teaser! I havnt heard of any of those lakes tho' so i had i prob with it!
keep 'em coming tho'! |
Punk_Rocker
Apr 17, 2006
| That was really good! For some reason though, I found it really easy...Weird. Usually I'm bad at these!
Keep 'em coming!
---Alli |
ahpuppyeyes
Apr 17, 2006
| nice teaser |
wizofaus
Apr 17, 2006
| I've seen this before, but it's possible it was copied from here: is it original? |
jabdr
Apr 17, 2006
| Great teaser..could only think blue clouds in a neighborhood...shows how far off I was. But I loved trying to figure it out. |
cmp315
Apr 17, 2006
| did not really git it must have a wking knowledge of the goe area of michigan,and that of the termonology,but a interesting puzzle |
xolilangel827ox
Apr 17, 2006
| wow i actually got this one right!! nice teaser, very impressive!! i liked it a lot! |
doghouse270
Apr 17, 2006
| this was cool. i got the arrange the letters and you get something you find in neiborhoods good teaser |
pdmrphy
Apr 17, 2006
| Awesome!!! Best teaser I have read in a long time |
madleon
Apr 17, 2006
| that was a great teaser, great job |
king_leonard
Apr 21, 2006
| woh that was hard coz i liv in australia and wouldnt know anything about it but... OMG thats was a great and creative and really smart teaser!!! GREAT WORK!!
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doka13
Apr 21, 2006
| VERY VERY WELL DONE! i totally did not get past true blue but this is goin into my favs. gr8 wrk! |
tintiniscool
Nov 04, 2006
| WOW! This is GREAT!!!! One of my favorites for sure!! |
teasermaster
Jan 03, 2007
| I liked that one a lot! I can't believe I got it! Homes gave it away for me though. This is my favorite teaser yet! |
cloughme
Apr 17, 2007
| Well written!! Excellent! |
kauphi1976
Apr 17, 2007
| nice one n well worded. definitely hard
i thought of true blue and kinda thought of homes but never connected any of dots.
Genie-Ass |
anion
Apr 17, 2007
| I loved it! I didn't get the answer but some of that could be that I am functioning on only 4 hours of sleep. College life is hard! I was really impressed at how well written this teaser was and...as one of the other brainsters said...I did learn something. I know all the great lakes but I guess it never dawned on me that we share them with Canada. Really impressive riddle. Thank you. |
fiona86
Apr 17, 2007
| it's clever but irrelevent to those who aren't american/canadian! |
puttumup
Apr 17, 2007
| boo..yuck.dah.can you figuer out what i am saying..hint yore teaser was lame.... |
ariel777
Apr 17, 2007
| Very cool...
I think "locks" was the way in
(so to speak) |
bradon182001
Apr 17, 2007
| I remember this from last year so ofcourse I got it. I still think this is a really good teaser. |
dancerrox1201
Apr 17, 2007
| it was fun......at first until i got it!!! |
doehead
Apr 17, 2007
| Like I said yesterday!!! Repeats,repeats,repeats.  |
xxilove_ihatexx
Apr 17, 2007
| hard. to me. but i think ive heard it before.....
--paige |
ViaTunisi
Apr 17, 2007
| loved it!!!!
horray for michigan! |
Pizzazz2u
Apr 17, 2007
| A Very well-written teaser! Keep up the fantastic work! |
2ndhandrose
Apr 17, 2007
| I believe that was the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I'm a Canuck so three lashes with a wet noodle if I'm wrong.
Got the Locks part & Rocks gave away the water but still didn't get answer . EXCELLENT PUZZLE!! |
bookworm91
Apr 17, 2007
| Congrats on making teaser of the day! |
campfirecutie
Apr 17, 2007
| Being from Ohio and now living in Wisconsin I was able to get it right away but it was really fun and well thought out!! I will be sending this one to a few of my friends!! |
barf314
Apr 17, 2007
| I couldn't figure out the HOMES thing, but figure this out all the same. Guess my initial educators were a bit lacking the the acronym sector...or I slept through more of gradeschool than I realize.
Killer riddle. |
wordmama
Apr 17, 2007
| I should have gotten it, but didn't. I got as far as water-related! I know HOMES but I didn't think of it. Yes, THEIR rocks would have been fairer since grammatically it was implied that the siblings crashed on the rocks. I didn't know that there were locks on the lakes, as I'm 'just a Long Islander' (for those of you who know where I'm talking about!) And now I'll remember which sole lake is within U.S. borders!
Excellent job! Thank you!
And thanks for the reference to Gordon Lightfoot--loved his sound. (loved Sundown even better than Wreck) |
speedqueenkmw
Apr 17, 2007
| very challenging...so, of course, I didn't get it. Should have, though, cuz I live in Chicago. Keep up the good work. |
speedqueenkmw
Apr 17, 2007
| very challenging...so, of course, I didn't get it. Should have, though, cuz I live in Chicago. Keep up the good work. |
speedqueenkmw
Apr 17, 2007
| OOPS! |
parayik
Apr 17, 2007
| I grew up near the Great Lakes! Nice teaser! |
breathesunshine
Apr 17, 2007
| I got this right off, probably because the only canals with locks that came to mind were Panama and the Great Lakes! Thanks for the well written teaser. |
OhEmGee
Apr 17, 2007
| good one
now that its over im bored
M E S S A G E M E |
GobyDude
Apr 17, 2007
| I don't get the 'true blue' thing |
Trishgal
Apr 17, 2007
| Hard  ,but very interrrresting |
cooltigerr1
Apr 17, 2007
| haha nice |
lyndalee830
Apr 18, 2007
| I live in Michigan...I did'nt get it,absolutely noooo excuse for me.Great(no pun intended)one |
notsosmart111
Apr 18, 2007
| Thats definitely going on my fsvorites! |
j9mattfield
Apr 25, 2007
| Tough - even though I live by Lake Superior. The four belong to two threw me, but the locks and homes saved me. Thank you! |
oddrey
Apr 27, 2007
| I should have got that one! I'm a Michigander! I feel so stupid |
Qrystal
Jun 07, 2007
| WOW! That was awesome. Maybe I just think so because I struggled through it and got the right answer, but I don't believe I'm really that biased. I agree that "their" would have made that line clearer, because I was thinking that the siblings were crashing on rocks.. but disregarding that, and realizing that neither the five oceans nor the five continents that are represented by the Oylmpic ring logo worked to spell out anything neighbourly, I thought just a little harder... rivers? hmm noo there's too many of them, and I don't know how they're linked... ohh but I do know of five lakes that are nearby.... and lo and behold, that was it!
Anyways, I think that if the states that border the lakes would like to join Canada, we should be able to negotiate some kind of awesome deal that helps preserve this wonderful stock of fresh water, and say, not have to ship it down to California or anything silly like that. Yeah.
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crocodile 
Apr 17, 2010
| What's true blue? Great teaser! |
doehead
Apr 17, 2010
| Connected by locks gave it away. |
wordmama
Apr 17, 2010
| For me, I didn't get it until the arranged initials forming things in the neighborhood--and then went back and appreciated the opening lines more!! I don't usually get riddles (I hope that's what it was!), so answering this was exciting for me. |
wattsofawesome
Apr 17, 2010
| I got it!
I just knew living in WI would pay of one day!
Excellent teaser! |
patiencewithaP
Apr 17, 2010
| Well written, fun, and dang it, I didn't get it! |
TallTimber
Apr 17, 2010
| Nicely written. |
jcann
Apr 17, 2010
| I grew up on Lake Michigan's shore, so I got it right away. In those days we could actually go to the beach all day and the water was clear and the sand was fairly clean! (Oh, oh--I'm giving my age away!) |
Mathgeek007
Apr 08, 2011
| jcann- and HOW old are you?
(Also, 101st comment!) |
Babe
Apr 18, 2013
| I guess I am in the minority here. I did not like it at all. When it said many meet their fate upn the rocks,like another reader, I thought it still referred to the siblings. I knew it had something to do with water, but just did not care for it. Good you all liked it. |
HABS2933
Apr 18, 2013
| It was okay. Three of the lakes are wihin an hour or less drive so i have been to each of those on a fairly regular basis (despite my dislike of summer, sun and water). Michigan and Superior are much further away but I have also been to both of those.
I am not sure how many "meet their fate" on the rocks - the only shipwreck I am familiar with is the Edmund Fitzgerald and that happened in the open water, not at shore. |
cutebug
Apr 18, 2013
| An oldie but goodie. Going away tomorrow on a much needed vacation. See you in 2 weeks. |
gaylewolf
Apr 18, 2013
| I got the correct answer and I liked this puzzle. Being from Michigan made it easy for me. But the line that told me the answer is about the initials of the lakes spelling "homes" - we all knew that at a young age. Thanks for posting! CB, Enjoy your vacation! |
FatHead
Apr 18, 2013
| The last two lines helped. Everyone knows "HOMES". |
thecatladycac
Apr 18, 2013
| I enjoyed the quiz. Like many others, it took the last two lines for the answer to come to me, then reading back through the whole thing, I was certain! Good going! |
