Lurker riddle

March Chase

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Sep 25, 1996, 3:00:00 AM9/25/96

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I was wondering if anyone knows the answer to the riddle ( I assume it's
a riddle) at the end of Lurker?

Clothes of brass and hair of Brown
seldom need to breathe
don't need no wings to fly
a heart of stone
a fear of fire and water
Who am I?

thanks
Erick

Jim Mackey

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Sep 26, 1996, 3:00:00 AM9/26/96

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Oh no, here we go again... :)

--
Jim, "PTE Expert"
San Jose, CA

FLIPPY

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Sep 26, 1996, 3:00:00 AM9/26/96

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I had heard somewhere, and always agreed with the answer...that it is
referring to planet Earth. Which goes along with the environmental theme
in DODO.

Clothes of brass and hair of brown- Crust of the earth is made up of
various minerals as well as dirt and trees
Seldom needs to breath don't need no wings to fly-Earth rarely breaths and
it rotates/revolves (flies) around the sun
and a heart of stone- Core is said to be made up of molten rock/metal
and a fear of fire and water who am I?- Fire can detroy the trees and
grasses while water can just erode...I'd
be afraid too. :)

I may be way off base...but I hopethis helps...

Marc

On 25 Sep 1996, March Chase wrote:

>
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows the answer to the riddle ( I assume it's
> a riddle) at the end of Lurker?
>
> Clothes of brass and hair of Brown
> seldom need to breathe
> don't need no wings to fly
> a heart of stone
> a fear of fire and water
> Who am I?
>
>

> thanks
> Erick
>
>

Pavlov

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Sep 26, 1996, 3:00:00 AM9/26/96

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mch...@sun.lclark.edu (March Chase) wrote:

>
>
>I was wondering if anyone knows the answer to the riddle ( I assume it's
>a riddle) at the end of Lurker?
>
>Clothes of brass and hair of Brown
>seldom need to breathe
>don't need no wings to fly
>a heart of stone
>a fear of fire and water
>Who am I?
>
>
>thanks
>Erick

The Earth?

mike neville

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Sep 27, 1996, 3:00:00 AM9/27/96

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Jim Mackey (J...@suprsrdy.vip.best.com) wrote:

: March Chase wrote:
: >
: > I was wondering if anyone knows the answer to the riddle ( I assume it's
: > a riddle) at the end of Lurker?
: >
: > Clothes of brass and hair of Brown
: > seldom need to breathe
: > don't need no wings to fly
: > a heart of stone
: > a fear of fire and water
: > Who am I?

:
:
: Oh no, here we go again... :)
:
:
: --
Yes, but I dont think we ever got a concrete answer the first time
around!!!

Jim Mackey

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Sep 29, 1996, 3:00:00 AM9/29/96

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Precisely. I'm not looking foward to another round of headaches... :)

Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems

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Sep 29, 1996, 3:00:00 AM9/29/96

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mike neville (mike...@phish.nether.net) wrote:
: Yes, but I dont think we ever got a concrete answer the first time
: around!!!

I don't know what you mean by "first time" -- I've been seeing
"answers" to this riddle for years. I have yet to ever see one that
satisfies every part of the riddle, let alone that makes any sense.
There's lots of answers which answer one or two lines, but when you get
beyond that the connections to the other lines are tenuous and don't
have the satisfying ring that a true riddle answer has -- once you hear
or guess the answer to a real riddle, the whole thing makes sense.

I only see two ways to ever answer this -- 1) if Tony Banks himself
does, which he won't -- he has been asked by people very close to him
and has not divulged the answer; or 2) if someone finds a book of
riddles or something that has this riddle in it. I'm actually quite
surprised I've never gotten any e-mail from some British person who is
accomplished with riddles explaining it to me! This may be a riddle
Tony made up himself, but I doubt it.

Scott