h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

malachite (the green copper one)?

Nope.

*Hand up* Ooh! Me sir! Angry people see red!

A scripture says "be angry but sin not"
Angry people break things, they lash out, they sometimes injure or kill.

>>*Hand up* Ooh! Me sir! Angry people see red!<<

"Happily violence is short-lived, only for a very little while do even the gentlest persons see red."

Mr Dreadful + 3

someone said gold is used to make red stained glass.
would it be Gold, and if you leave out the l you get God?

Ah not it's not that but your thinking along the right lines the letter isn't "l"* and the word isn't "gold" but you're method is sound.


* no lists, only guesses and it it's got everything to do with that dehydrated minor Phoenician.

Um... this might be a long shot but I do remember reading that "Reed Sea" had at some point been mistranslated to "Red Sea"... Red Sea, see red...

I think that's the current running hypothesis for can we save from exodus - but it's not relevant here.

"See red" is the solution to "invite great anger" - you've solved that bit.

Reminder of the question.

Why would someone looking to score big and with nothing to loose dehydrate a minor Phoenician and thus see red?

bleh "loose" = "lose"

I'll risk a klaxon here:
and say the someone seeking to score was Sampson
He wanted to score big to get the girl
but had nothing to lose because she was never his.
they bound him with cords that had never been dried.
take out the r and they would never have been died.

another thing Sampson did was cutr off foreskins which would have dehydrated and in the process drawn blood causing the former owner of the foreskin to see red.

It's nothing biblical, so no.

Solve the clue "nothing to lose"

Incidentally, who cut off Samson's hair?

A barbor cut off Sampson's hair.
Nothing biblical Oh dear- I've been looking in the wrong place.
you've got me stumped.
I had an ancester who lost big because he backed the wrong side in the battle of Hastings. But I doubt if that has anything to do with it.

perhaps on a title deed you lose a Zero( nothing) and the monestery gets 10,000 acres for the price of 1,000.

I just got back and isn't this going well. Congratulations on this one Clive. Thanks for the generous allocation of points. In a desperate attemp to shed them before the end:
"but rather trying to conceal something name which if you can solve my riddles you should get."

Is it Yoda???

If you have nothing to lose - what do you in fact have?

you have 0, zilch, nada.
Clue one:
Why would someone looking to score big and with nothing to lose dehydrate a minor Phoenician and thus invite great anger?

related quote:Happily violence is short-lived, only for a very little while do even the gentlest persons see red .
We know it is nothing biblical
we know the Phoenician is a letter in the alphabet that we need to lose to solve this
that the letter has to be subracted from some ore (not Iron)
nobody lately has looked at “the gentlest persons”