Family Circle

Poogue Bob is in the heezee and I’m still a little bit confused on how this works, but I’ll figure it out. Poogue Bob out.

1) You can take away the whole and still have some left. You can take away some and still have the whole left. What is it? (SOLVED)

2) A man is six feet tall, is a clerk at a butcher shop, and wears size 11 shoes. What does he weigh? (SOLVED)

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3) What is the lowest trio of three consecutive odd composite numbers you can find?
(In other words, what three odd numbers in a row are not prime? For example, 3, 5, and 7 fits most of the requirements, except none of them are composite. All three numbers have to be composite.) (SOLVED)

4) Here’s something weird: According to high school essay standards, what is wrong (and will cause you to be marked off) with the following sentence?
He didn’t like the red cat.

5) What is the longest common word you can find that only uses one vowel? (The BEST answer is NOT strengths!)

6) What is the shortest word you can find that uses all of the vowels in alphabetical order (a, e, i, o, u)? (SOLVED)

7) In a mystical realm, only two rules are followed. The two rules are as follows: Angry and hungry both end in -gry. What is the third word that ends in -gry! (SOLVED)
Hint: Everybody uses the third word.

8) (Note: This is not a riddle.) What two words end in -shion? (SOLVED)

9) What single syllable word can be changed into three syllables by adding only one letter? (SOLVED)

It’s me! Poogue Camo! HOO-HAA

Dusk of the Second Sun, by PoogueWee is now out as a very Rough Draft as a page.
If you have trouble finding the page, click here.

I took Emily and David to Heather Farm park for the Easter Egg Hunt this morning. It was such a beautiful day, with spring just started two days ago, trees are wakening, birds singing and children running around. I can’t stop but try to capture the color of Spring, and share the freshness and joys with our friends.

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Hello everyone! Thanks for letting me join this website!

Especially David for letting me have an account!

“The Tale of Michael” has been moved to a page (see the sidebar on the right hand side) instead of regular posts. In this way, we can save up front page space because the old way of releasing episodes cluttered up the other posts (the episodes were very long and took up a lot of space). Episode 4 has been released.

If you have trouble finding the page, click here.

On a side note, our comments have equaled our post number, and our 1000th hit occurred a while ago. More milestones…

Tis the land of Markae, my friend,
Tis the wonderful land of Markae;
Where the flowers bloom
And the beautiful plumes of the
Magibird flutter in the wind.

For this story is of the Magibird,
With is master at its side,
The master’s name
Is quite the same
As the Magibird: Grorris-Iyde.

Grorris-Iyde would fly
With the Magibird at his side;
You are to become
A master-not that fun!
If you touched some of the Magibird’s hide.

But for poor Grorris-Iyde
He was not a master-he would cry.
But he would so much like
To be a master alike
His father and mother of Gagrkyie.

TO BE COTINUED…

Love. Cupid. Cards. Hearts. These all represent the day of love, Valentine’s Day. But how did this lovely day come to be? Why do we celebrate it? Why should we even bother to send expensive jewelry and flowers?

Valentine’s Day is celebrating St. Valentine. The character is so lost in history that we do not even know if we are celebrating one or two or even three saints of the same name. All we know is that he(or they) is a saint and that all the Valentines are buried in a church in Via Flaminia north of Rome. They can be:
1) A priest in Rome
2) A bishop of Interamna (Terni)
3) A martyr in the Roman province of Africa.

The Feast of Valentine was first celebrated in Rome, year 496. Now, it is traditionally celebrated on the Fourteenth of February. That is when the cards get sent around, hugs and kisses get exchanged, and flowers are bought.

The legend says that St. Valentine was forced to worship an idol. St. Valentine refused and said that he would never believe in any other god than God. He would always remain loyal. Emperor Claudius, brimming with anger, called for him to be beheaded. But right before he got beheaded, St. Valentine restored sight and sound to the blind and deaf daughter of the jailer. The jailer noticed, unfortunately, after the beheading, but immediately hurried the emperor and the emperor suddenly respected Valentine and changed religion.

But- who’s this? There’s a little flying baby boy buzzing around my head! He has a pack of bows and arrows and shooting them to make people fall in love! This is Cupid, or Eros, the God of Love, son of the Goddess of Love, Venus, or Aphrodite. Eρως, as he is called in Greek, would be portrayed as a winged baby or boy, naked or with a diaper. He carries a set of bows and arrows and shoots them to make people fall in love.

But that is all myths and history. Now, flowers are bought, cards are exchanged. In schools, classes will sometimes do a Valentine exchange, when each student gives valentine cards to the rest of the class. Couples would go out for a romantic dinner together; they will buy flowers, jewelry, and other symbols of love. Children might send valentines to neighbors and friends. Valentine’s Day is surely a day of love.

David participated the Baroque Festival (playing piano) over the past weekend, and won a first place prize.