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    Well, I'm stumped.

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    Ice? Near the horizon as in the sun sets lower in winter?
    "I am learning nothing in this trivial world of [humans]. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news." --John Muir

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    Ice ice baby! Ice is the answer.
    But I thought the giveaway sentence would have been,
    You can walk on it due to its power.

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    Feed me and I get stronger,
    But give me a drink and I die.

    What am I now?

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    Quote Originally Posted by JNI64 View Post
    Ice ice baby! Ice is the answer.
    But I thought the giveaway sentence would have been,
    You can walk on it due to its power.
    I meant to say you can walk on water due to its power

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    Quote Originally Posted by JNI64 View Post
    Feed me and I get stronger,
    But give me a drink and I die.

    What am I now?


    hendrix wrote a song about this......

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    Quote Originally Posted by TNhiker View Post
    hendrix wrote a song about this......
    Thanks for the clues but not the answer. I appreciate that ...

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    Ok ok ok, one more rock reference clue; Van Halen also has a song about this.

    And Richard Pryor found himself full of this.

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    Rich men lack it but poor men have it in abundance.And it is worse than the Devil.

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    Fire

    And Misery

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    Quote Originally Posted by HankIV View Post
    Fire

    And Misery

    sorry,no,wrong answer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Five Tango View Post
    Rich men lack it but poor men have it in abundance.And it is worse than the Devil.


    married with children's Al Bundy Dances.......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Five Tango View Post
    sorry,no,wrong answer.


    thats the answer to post 24......

    although, the answer JN is looking for is the first response....

    the second one is answer is the same thing but as a result, it's a bunch of misery...

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    Tread on the living, they make not a mumble.
    Tread on the dead, they mutter and grumble.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nsherry61 View Post
    I don't get the finding him in the creek part. I don't recall creek echos . . . okay, I take that back if creek echos are referring to the echoy burbling sound of water in some deep rocky areas. . . but then, the echo isn't really in the creek, it's in the walls around the creek. . . yeah, I just don't get it.
    We have one creek here thats literally echoing, therefore its valley is called "echo valley" and the other day I hiked through the specific echo point, again amazed how clear an echo this is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JNI64 View Post
    Tread on the living, they make not a mumble.
    Tread on the dead, they mutter and grumble.
    Nobody ??

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    Grass or weeds?

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    Quote Originally Posted by JNI64 View Post
    Nobody ??

    gotta give me a bit...

    just woke up...

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    Quote Originally Posted by JNI64 View Post
    Tread on the living, they make not a mumble.
    Tread on the dead, they mutter and grumble.



    this one leaves me stumped.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by TNhiker View Post
    this one leaves me stumped.....
    Leaves; they're soft and silent when alive!
    But crunchy and loud when dead.

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