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Cliches and Riddles
I have read in quick succession today:
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I've also been trying to figure out a riddle related to the Sharpe series. I started watching the TV adaptations because Lindsey is reading the Temeraire books for the first time, and then I stumbled onto this delightful Sharpe/Temeraire crossover ficlet, and my dad conveniently has copies of the whole bloody series - all 14 episodes.
Sharpe, for those who are unfamiliar, is basically Horatio Hornblower on land, in a rifle company, with bonus impoverished-and-abused-orphan backstory. The TV series stars Sean Bean, who wears his uniform half-unfastened all the time and gets beat up a lot. I feel I need not explain more.
Anyway, the author has posted a riddle about Sharpe's unknown father, which is taunting me with its apparent simplicity.
He said: Has Sharpe's father appeared in one of my books? No. Clue? Take you out, put me in and a horse appears in this happy person! (eight letters)
Google searches yield very little - the few pages I found had a few attempts with horse species, with no luck. I even tried myself, but then I figured that a history buff - like, say, someone who's written two dozen novels set in the Napoleonic Wars - would be more likely use a famous historical horse than a breed.
And, oh look! Napoleon had a horse named Marengo. Working backwards from the riddle gets you "arngo" plus "you". And that's where I stalled out, due to a lack of history buffness and an enduring inability to do word jumbles.
I don't suppose any of you care to try? :D
- one zombie apocalypse fic
- one Cinderella AU
- two woke-up-in-another-universe stories
- one stuck-in-a-time-loop story
- ETA: and one love-potion-gone-awry fic
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I've also been trying to figure out a riddle related to the Sharpe series. I started watching the TV adaptations because Lindsey is reading the Temeraire books for the first time, and then I stumbled onto this delightful Sharpe/Temeraire crossover ficlet, and my dad conveniently has copies of the whole bloody series - all 14 episodes.
Sharpe, for those who are unfamiliar, is basically Horatio Hornblower on land, in a rifle company, with bonus impoverished-and-abused-orphan backstory. The TV series stars Sean Bean, who wears his uniform half-unfastened all the time and gets beat up a lot. I feel I need not explain more.
Anyway, the author has posted a riddle about Sharpe's unknown father, which is taunting me with its apparent simplicity.
He said: Has Sharpe's father appeared in one of my books? No. Clue? Take you out, put me in and a horse appears in this happy person! (eight letters)
Google searches yield very little - the few pages I found had a few attempts with horse species, with no luck. I even tried myself, but then I figured that a history buff - like, say, someone who's written two dozen novels set in the Napoleonic Wars - would be more likely use a famous historical horse than a breed.
And, oh look! Napoleon had a horse named Marengo. Working backwards from the riddle gets you "arngo" plus "you". And that's where I stalled out, due to a lack of history buffness and an enduring inability to do word jumbles.
I don't suppose any of you care to try? :D