REVIVAL: Stump the person below you! (game)

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Originally Posted by imnothere

i dance above, i dance below
you see me come, but never go
your eyes may burn to look to long
though soft and gentle i'm also strong

the song i sing no ear can hear
the sight i bring some may fear
you reach for me and then i'm gone
broken pieces scattered all along
the bank where i reside
come and find me where i hide.

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The Tide, I'd think.

i wrote it with a very spicific vision in mind, but i can see that the last two answers were well thought out and very appliacable so i will accept them and leave you with this pict

http://www.wunderground.com/data/wxi...bataku/270.jpg
the answer is the sun. more specifically sunlight on a rippling pond, which is why the first answer of water was close. because when you reach for the reflected sunlight it breaks the reflection scattering broken bits of water with the sun reflected in them along the bank where you are standing.
sorry i couldnt find a better pict for what i was seeing in my head when i wrote it.

no wait i did
http://image.shutterstock.com/displa...d-31469938.jpg

Brothers and sisters have I none,
But that man's father is my father's son.

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Originally Posted by Gnerphk

Brothers and sisters have I none,
But that man's father is my father's son.

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That man is your son, and you are the father.

"Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is."

That doesn't even work in this extreme case:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYlJH81dSiw

Try again.

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Originally Posted by Gnerphk

That doesn't even work in this extreme case:


Try again.

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Are ye daft man? You are your father's son, and you are the father of that man, who is your son.

If you have no brother's and sisters, then that man's father must be you, and you are the son of your father.

*chuckle* OK, OK. I confess, I just wanted an excuse to post the YouTube link. ;)

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Originally Posted by Gnerphk

*chuckle* OK, OK. I confess, I just wanted an excuse to post the YouTube link. ;)

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Lol, I didn't think there was any other answer. Now tackle this one:

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Originally Posted by Demonhero

"Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is."

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I was treating it seriously; I know that in middle English, "gry" refers to the dirt under someone's fingernails, but I doubt that's your intent... so I read it again looking for the promised clue.

How about "language"?

Well filigry as rare, alternate spelling of filigree.

But, that is mostly a product of people misspelling filigree so often, that filigry has become accepted by a small percentage of the population. I don't think the filigry spelling has made it into any dictionary. I don't think it should, but it probably will, eventually.