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| Posted by pretty_ponyz | 10/11/04 |
| wow this teaser is cool |
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| Posted by love1723 | 10/11/04 |
| I enjoyed this! Very well done :D |
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| Posted by amqrcl | 10/15/04 |
| I am very impressed!!! this is a great teaser! :D :D :D :D :wink: |
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| Posted by Kdub | 11/10/04 |
| very good one |
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| Posted by koty | 11/13/04 |
| awsome :D :D :D :D |
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| Posted by V_Bapat | 11/19/04 |
| Excellent one. :D :D :D :D :D :D
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. |
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| Posted by gnosys | 11/19/04 |
| 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. |
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| Posted by I_am_the_Omega | 11/19/04 |
| I thought of water.. but never lakes lol |
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| Posted by O_wise_one | 11/19/04 |
| hey qnosys, I Believe that's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot. That's a good tune! |
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| Posted by Tiggr | 11/19/04 |
| VERY IMPRESSIVE! :D Althought even after I looked at the hint I was still cluless. :oops: I guess I a simple minded person :cry: |
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| Posted by goldmare | 12/03/04 |
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| Posted by goldmare | 12/03/04 |
| Oh sorry, I accidentally hit the comment button before I even wrote my comment. :oops:
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! :D |
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| Posted by chennachick | 12/07/04 |
| wow that was awesome! very im pressed :D I soooo did not get it! :oops: i had NO clue! very good. def. one of my favs! |
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| Posted by chennachick | 12/07/04 |
| *IMpressed ooops :oops: |
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| Posted by Rowsdower | 04/09/05 |
| Splendid!! :D One of my favorites! |
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| Posted by froggygg | 04/10/05 |
| Very good teaser. I didn't even come close to the correct answer!
:oops: |
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| Posted by barhite | 07/05/05 |
| the teaser was great, i liked it a lot :D :D :D :D :D |
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| Posted by nightowl19 | 07/12/05 |
| Great teaser! Too bad I couldn't figure it out. |
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| Posted by emily103 | 09/24/05 |
| great teaser! :D
I remember I was taught the HOMES acronym in third or second grade, but I still couldn't figure it out. :oops:
Very good teaser though. :D |
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| Posted by zonarita | 11/12/05 |
| :D Awesome teaser :D |
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| Posted by Vigo95 | 03/26/06 |
| i thought it was the oceans at first then i realized that didn't work :o |
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| Posted by azbee123 | 04/17/06 |
| very clever! loved the rhyming! :D :D :D
this one is going into my favorites!!!!! |
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| Posted by brainster | 04/17/06 |
| This is written beautifully! Excellent piece of poetry... I did not get the answer though, but it was absolutely a great fit! :D |
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| Posted by OldChinaHand | 04/17/06 |
| With the locks I was first thinking Panama, but neighborhood things, "HOMES" did it for me. Very good teaser. 8) |
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| Posted by paradisebabe | 04/17/06 |
| i didnt like it
it was to hard |
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| Posted by lmurray | 04/17/06 |
| ????? |
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| Posted by coachpisco | 04/17/06 |
| Made sense after I read it. Very good. |
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| Posted by windexnodrip | 04/17/06 |
| very creative!!!
a too much 4 me..... :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: |
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| Posted by bradon182001 | 04/17/06 |
| 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. :o |
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| Posted by saleprice | 04/17/06 |
| excellent!! I too had the Dionne Quints in mind at first, but ah well...
keep `em coming |
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| Posted by BeckyD | 04/17/06 |
| 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. :oops: |
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| Posted by rachellanders | 04/17/06 |
| :oops: I guessed fingers! That was the first thing that popped into my head. It was very difficult. Great- but difficult. :o :-? :) :P :D :lol: :oops: |
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| Posted by gussy48823 | 04/17/06 |
| I thought this one was easy--but I am from Michigan so the Great Lakes are a part of my life! :wink: |
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| Posted by iteachkids | 04/17/06 |
| Well-Written teaser! Those who didn't know the answer learned something new today ... a good thing ANY day! :D :D :D |
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| Posted by RRAMMOHAN | 04/17/06 |
| 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! :roll: :roll: :roll: |
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| Posted by vlerma | 04/17/06 |
| :) 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.
:wink: |
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| Posted by schatzy228 | 04/17/06 |
| Slendid teaser!
Into my favs it goes.
Keep up the good work!
:D :D :D 8) |
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| Posted by AwwwSweet | 04/17/06 |
| Wow, I guess I was really lucky on this one as I grew up in Chicago. :D 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'! |
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| Posted by Sara2009 | 04/17/06 |
| kewl |
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| Posted by cherokeerose | 04/17/06 |
| you really stumped me :oops:
it was really a good riddle!! :roll: |
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| Posted by cathym60 | 04/17/06 |
| great one- thanks! :D |
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| Posted by thimblenoggin | 04/17/06 |
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:D I think if you had written- Many meet their fate upon "THEIR"
rocks, I would have gotten it. I think. Well done. :D |
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| Posted by bhssoccer23 | 04/17/06 |
| nice! liked it a lot! :D |
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| Posted by bhssoccer23 | 04/17/06 |
| 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! |
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| Posted by heystack9 | 04/17/06 |
| cool teaser! I havnt heard of any of those lakes tho' so i had i prob with it!
keep 'em coming tho'! |
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| Posted by Punk_Rocker | 04/17/06 |
| That was really good! For some reason though, I found it really easy...Weird. Usually I'm bad at these!
Keep 'em coming!
---Alli |
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| Posted by ahpuppyeyes | 04/17/06 |
| nice teaser :wink: |
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| Posted by wizofaus | 04/17/06 |
| I've seen this before, but it's possible it was copied from here: is it original? |
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| Posted by jabdr | 04/17/06 |
| Great teaser..could only think blue clouds in a neighborhood...shows how far off I was. But I loved trying to figure it out. :roll: 8) |
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| Posted by cmp315 | 04/17/06 |
| 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 |
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| Posted by xolilangel827ox | 04/17/06 |
| wow i actually got this one right!! nice teaser, very impressive!! i liked it a lot! :D |
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| Posted by doghouse270 | 04/17/06 |
| this was cool. i got the arrange the letters and you get something you find in neiborhoods good teaser 8) |
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| Posted by pdmrphy | 04/17/06 |
| Awesome!!! Best teaser I have read in a long time |
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| Posted by madleon | 04/17/06 |
| that was a great teaser, great job :D |
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| Posted by king_leonard | 04/21/06 |
| woh that was hard coz i liv in australia and wouldnt know anything about it :P but... OMG thats was a great and creative and really smart teaser!!! GREAT WORK!!
:D 8) :D |
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| Posted by doka13 | 04/21/06 |
| VERY VERY WELL DONE! :D i totally did not get past true blue but this is goin into my favs. 8) gr8 wrk! |
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| Posted by tintiniscool | 11/04/06 |
| WOW! :D :D :D :D :D This is GREAT!!!! One of my favorites for sure!! :D :D :D :D :D |
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| Posted by teasermaster | 01/03/07 |
| 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! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D |
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| Posted by cloughme | 04/17/07 |
| Well written!! Excellent! :wink: |
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| Posted by kauphi1976 | 04/17/07 |
| 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 |
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| Posted by anion | 04/17/07 |
| 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. :D |
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| Posted by fiona86 | 04/17/07 |
| it's clever but irrelevent to those who aren't american/canadian! |
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| Posted by puttumup | 04/17/07 |
| :o boo..yuck.dah.can you figuer out what i am saying..hint yore teaser was lame.... |
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| Posted by ariel777 | 04/17/07 |
| Very cool...
I think "locks" was the way in
(so to speak) :P :D |
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| Posted by bradon182001 | 04/17/07 |
| I remember this from last year so ofcourse I got it. I still think this is a really good teaser. :o |
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| Posted by dancerrox1201 | 04/17/07 |
| it was fun......at first until i got it!!! :D |
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| Posted by doehead | 04/17/07 |
| Like I said yesterday!!! Repeats,repeats,repeats. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: |
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| Posted by xxilove_ihatexx | 04/17/07 |
| hard. to me. but i think ive heard it before..... :-?
--paige |
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| Posted by ViaTunisi | 04/17/07 |
| loved it!!!!
horray for michigan! :D |
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| Posted by Pizzazz2u | 04/17/07 |
| A Very well-written teaser! Keep up the fantastic work! :wink: 8) |
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| Posted by 2ndhandrose | 04/17/07 |
| 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!! :oops: :-? :D |
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| Posted by bookworm91 | 04/17/07 |
| Congrats on making teaser of the day! :D |
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| Posted by campfirecutie | 04/17/07 |
| 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!! :P I will be sending this one to a few of my friends!! :lol: |
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| Posted by barf314 | 04/17/07 |
| 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. |
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| Posted by wordmama | 04/17/07 |
| 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) |
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| Posted by speedqueenkmw | 04/17/07 |
| very challenging...so, of course, I didn't get it. Should have, though, cuz I live in Chicago. Keep up the good work. :) |
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| Posted by speedqueenkmw | 04/17/07 |
| very challenging...so, of course, I didn't get it. Should have, though, cuz I live in Chicago. Keep up the good work. :) |
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| Posted by speedqueenkmw | 04/17/07 |
| OOPS! |
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| Posted by parayik | 04/17/07 |
| I grew up near the Great Lakes! :D Nice teaser! |
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| Posted by breathesunshine | 04/17/07 |
| 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. :) |
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| Posted by OhEmGee | 04/17/07 |
| good one
now that its over im bored
M E S S A G E M E |
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| Posted by GobyDude | 04/17/07 |
| I don't get the 'true blue' thing |
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| Posted by Trishgal | 04/17/07 |
| Hard :( ,but very interrrresting |
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| Posted by cooltigerr1 | 04/17/07 |
| haha nice |
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| Posted by lyndalee830 | 04/18/07 |
| I live in Michigan...I did'nt get it,absolutely noooo excuse for me.Great(no pun intended)one :lol: |
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| Posted by notsosmart111 | 04/18/07 |
| Thats definitely going on my fsvorites! |
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| Posted by j9mattfield | 04/25/07 |
| Tough - even though I live by Lake Superior. The four belong to two threw me, but the locks and homes saved me. Thank you! :D |
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| Posted by oddrey | 04/27/07 |
| I should have got that one! I'm a Michigander! I feel so stupid |
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| Posted by Qrystal | 06/07/07 |
| WOW! :o 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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| Posted by crocodile | 04/17/10 |
| What's true blue? Great teaser! |
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| Posted by doehead | 04/17/10 |
| Connected by locks gave it away. 8) 8) 8) |
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| Posted by wordmama | 04/17/10 |
| 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. :D |
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| Posted by wattsofawesome | 04/17/10 |
| I got it! :D
I just knew living in WI would pay of one day! :lol:
Excellent teaser! |
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| Posted by patiencewithaP | 04/17/10 |
| Well written, fun, and dang it, I didn't get it! :lol: |
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| Posted by TallTimber | 04/17/10 |
| Nicely written. |
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| Posted by jcann | 04/17/10 |
| 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!) :) |
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| Posted by Mathgeek007 | 04/08/11 |
| jcann- and HOW old are you?
(Also, 101st comment!) |
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| Posted by Babe | 04/18/13 |
| 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. |
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| Posted by HABS2933 | 04/18/13 |
| 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. |
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| Posted by cutebug | 04/18/13 |
| An oldie but goodie. :D :D Going away tomorrow on a much needed vacation. See you in 2 weeks. :D :D :D |
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| Posted by gaylewolf | 04/18/13 |
| 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! :wink: :) CB, Enjoy your vacation! |
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| Posted by FatHead | 04/18/13 |
| The last two lines helped. Everyone knows "HOMES". |
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| Posted by thecatladycac | 04/18/13 |
| 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! :D :lol: :D |
