Is this the riddle thread now?
The answer is "fire".
Did you know that HP quote in your sig is actually taken from my thread...?
Random thoughts
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Gaidal Cain
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T'is almost the same. This is the original:
I can have no color, though there may be darkness
within. I have no weight and hold nothing, and if placed
in a container it becomes all the lighter.
And here are the others:
Lighter than what I am made of, more of me is
hidden than is seen, I am the bane of the mariner,
a tooth within the sea. Speak my name.
A spirited jig it dances bright, banishing all
but darkest night. Give it food and it will live;
give it water and it will die.
The man who invented it, doesn't want it for himself.
The man who bought it, doesn't need it for himself. The
man who needs it, doesn't know it when he needs it.
The life I lead is mere hours or less, I serve all my
time by being consumed. I am quickest when thin, slowest
when fat, and wind is the bane of the gift that I bring.
The more that there is, the less that you see. Squint
all you wish when surrounded by me.
They come to witness the night without being called,
a sailor's guide and a poet's tears. They are lost to
sight each day without the hand of a thief.
They follow and lead, but only as you pass. Dress
yourself in darkest black, and they are darker still.
Always they flee the light, though without the sun
there would be none.
I have holes throughout, from back to front and top
to bottom to core. More nothing than something within,
and yet I still hold water.
I am free for the taking through all of your life,
though given but once at birth. I am less than nothing
in weight, but will fell the strongest of you if held.
Alive as you but without breath, as cold in my life as
in my death; never a thirst though I always drink,
dressed in a mail but never a clink.
Of all your possessions, I am the hardest to guard. If
you have me, you will want to share me. If you share me,
you no longer have me.
Now that I'm done putting you guys in your place, let's leave it with the riddles.
I can have no color, though there may be darkness
within. I have no weight and hold nothing, and if placed
in a container it becomes all the lighter.
And here are the others:
Lighter than what I am made of, more of me is
hidden than is seen, I am the bane of the mariner,
a tooth within the sea. Speak my name.
A spirited jig it dances bright, banishing all
but darkest night. Give it food and it will live;
give it water and it will die.
The man who invented it, doesn't want it for himself.
The man who bought it, doesn't need it for himself. The
man who needs it, doesn't know it when he needs it.
The life I lead is mere hours or less, I serve all my
time by being consumed. I am quickest when thin, slowest
when fat, and wind is the bane of the gift that I bring.
The more that there is, the less that you see. Squint
all you wish when surrounded by me.
They come to witness the night without being called,
a sailor's guide and a poet's tears. They are lost to
sight each day without the hand of a thief.
They follow and lead, but only as you pass. Dress
yourself in darkest black, and they are darker still.
Always they flee the light, though without the sun
there would be none.
I have holes throughout, from back to front and top
to bottom to core. More nothing than something within,
and yet I still hold water.
I am free for the taking through all of your life,
though given but once at birth. I am less than nothing
in weight, but will fell the strongest of you if held.
Alive as you but without breath, as cold in my life as
in my death; never a thirst though I always drink,
dressed in a mail but never a clink.
Of all your possessions, I am the hardest to guard. If
you have me, you will want to share me. If you share me,
you no longer have me.
Now that I'm done putting you guys in your place, let's leave it with the riddles.
In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Goodwill.
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Beelzebubba
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Milla aka. the Slayer
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- Location: Where Luna is: in the jacket
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Milla aka. the Slayer
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- Location: Where Luna is: in the jacket
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Beelzebubba
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- Location: Seattle
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Omega_Destroyer
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Omega_Destroyer
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Beelzebubba
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Omega_Destroyer
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The Spanish rule in cheesemaking IMO. Give me a good manchego or Idiazabal and I'm in heaven. Actually the other day I went to our local gourmet cheese shop and bought one called Winey (Drunken) Goat, an aged goat cheese marinated in red wine. It was pretty damn close. Sadly at over 16 dollars US a pound, I only bought a little. 
"What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?" - Richard P. Feynman
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