Braingle: 'Scintillate, Scintillate!' Brain Teaser

Scintillate, Scintillate!

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Puzzle ID:	#198
Fun:	(2.89)
Difficulty:	(2.18)
Category:	Language
Submitted By:	Phyllis
Corrected By:	medster99

The following is a famous saying in big words. Can you translate it back to the original?

Scintillate, scintillate, globule of vivific
Fain would I fathom thy nature specific
Loftily poised above the capacious
Closest resembling a gem carbonaceous.

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Comments

username Aug 24, 2004	huh?
Atropus Feb 07, 2005	The gem carbonaceous gave it away for me ^_^
darthforman May 25, 2005	Cool!
peppamintp Nov 09, 2005	Was totally lost but I liked it
bookworm91 Nov 15, 2005	old one but still fun
hidentreasure Nov 27, 2005	OOOOOOOOHG. My head hurts.
azbee123 Nov 29, 2005	yay!
stephiesd Dec 18, 2005	i'm with hidden. did you know all these words, or use a dictionary or thesaurus or something?
DaddyDublin16 Dec 23, 2005	Very cool!!! I figured it out afdter i knew what gem carbonaceous meant!!!!
SPUTNIK2 Jan 27, 2006	the coolest
TehIgnored Feb 07, 2006	I knew all these words Steph..... I am an aspiring author, avid reader, and was an English Major for the few semesters I spent in college.
Vigo95 Feb 22, 2006	I ACTUALLY GOT THIS !!!!!! when i first saw it i thought i shouldn't bother . i'm glad i did .
mummeychic Mar 02, 2006	i got this one! i just tried to think of famous sayings, and that one came to mind...i thought it was easy and really really fun..good job!
Armaidenpriya Apr 26, 2006	Sweet! And you even made it rhyme!!!! Nice teaser
spazzyjazzy93 May 07, 2006	i cant believe you actually knew all those words! i dont even know about half of them!
tolkienfan27 May 09, 2006	It's a great teaser
banzai Jun 28, 2006	excellent!
Krystle Jul 23, 2006	nice one. big words are confusing to those with simple minds (being me ) keep it up!
buenos Aug 01, 2006	Very nice, but I don't think vivific is actually a word... and if it is a word it sounds like an adjective. (If it's an adjective then you would have to remove the "of.") I tried using Google's define function, but to no avail.
seanlandrews Aug 03, 2006	Great teaser!
Dishhead5 Aug 13, 2006	cool i thought i shouldnt bother too it came from a random but i liked it the the diamond bit gave it away..... but still cool keep it up
dimez_00 Oct 26, 2006	all i saw was scintillate, scintillate and i knew what it was!!! so proud of myself
MAroxmysoxonice Dec 24, 2006	i luv it!! that was sooo cool!
coryphaeus Jan 18, 2007	well done.
bgil7604 Feb 28, 2007	Didn't read the teaser, just need one more point to get to 100. Sorry
nerdyiscool Mar 18, 2007	I love these, they're so cool! I didn't get it, but I love big words!
jinzcarmela May 22, 2007	CREEPY WORDS
bear01 Aug 09, 2010	WOW.. that is sooo clever.. and i now i am singing this version of twickle twnkle in myhead..must sing it to my kids tonight thanks i got it straight away - my 2yr olds favourite song to sing. Everything he sings turns into twinkle twinkle by the second verse..lol.
baliset Feb 02, 2011	So fun! I got it with the "Loftily poised".
mom2boys Sep 17, 2012	The carbon based gem gave it away for me too. Nice one though!