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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Started conversation Feb 19, 2011
Taken some time to work out a devious clue this one.
I am a poor poet, and I know it.
Title is relevant, comments above not!
So....
Four wings with forewings supported me,
Two tails, all white, with nose black.
A score holds my name, and with six I hit three,
But broken wings did not hold me back.
With my siblings you get three, though events overtook me,
Yet still seen I can be, though power now I lack.
No google or wiki.
'Ware the tripwires.
GT
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hygienicdispenser Posted Feb 20, 2011
I'm guessing it's a flying creature of some sort, now extinct? Something that was once widely spread?
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Feb 20, 2011
An extinct flying creature?
Errr
Pteradon, maybe?
Sorry, 
-5
GT
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bobstafford Posted Feb 20, 2011
I think I know this is I came I saw I couqured need to be in latin or dose it just ment as traslated
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hygienicdispenser Posted Feb 20, 2011
Well, no, I didn't think pteranodon, specifically because your clue says 'four wings', and pteranodons (or, indeed, anything other than insects) only have two. I was trying to winkle out some facts. Is it a flying creature? Is it extinct? If either or both of those get a klaxon, fair enough.
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bobstafford Posted Feb 20, 2011
Hi HD I think we need to think outside the box here
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Rod Posted Feb 20, 2011
No expectation but
Four wings - four sails? Two more at the front - to help, in good winds
Two tails, in the water behind - slipstream
Nose black - figurehead
...
...
Three with siblings
Still seen
Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria?
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 20, 2011
Is it something like a recording device?
Veni Vidi Vici > Ceaser > Orator > Dictator> Dictaphone
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pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? Posted Feb 20, 2011
In trying to marry all the cluelets together into a whole I got a cricket motif going.
two tails all white are the umpires
A score holds my name speaks for itself
And with six I hit three, 6 balls an over three stumps to hit
With my siblings you get three is obviously a reference to Ian, Greg and Trevor Chappell.
So putting that all together I came up with the answer:
Battersea Power Station. I can be every bit as obtuse as GT and Clive! 
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Feb 20, 2011
Post 4 bob.
As translated leads roughly in the right direction.
ie. 'I' came, 'I' saw etc!
Post 5 hygenic.
Sorry, but 'extinct' linked to 'flying creature' is top of klaxon list. Sorry!
Post 7 Rod.
Sailing ship?
Obvious and wrong. -5
Post 8 Clive.
Does not refer to recording device.
Post 9 I am not a suffix.
Not a four winged building. But it was 'built' DGI +1
Post 10 bob.
I have my own copy of Nostrodamus, 
!
GT
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Feb 20, 2011
Carrying on...
Post 11 pebble.
Not Battersea P.S....
But why did you mention cricket first???
That gets an obvious -5
Post 12 Taff.
Dragonflies have four wings, so does 'it'.
However, dragonfly carries a tripwire instead of two tails! -5
GT
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toybox Posted Feb 20, 2011
A vehicle of some sort then?
Or a musical instrument? In German, a grandpiano is called 'ein Flügel', a wing. It could be the biggest grandpiano ever with four, er, something, needing two pianists to play. Pianists wear a tailcoats, so they would be the two tails.
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bobstafford Posted Feb 20, 2011
Ok then o devious one
The tails are they atached or do the follow as in the modern meaning to tail someone
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 20, 2011
The mention of couplets got me thinking about how stuff all goes together. 
Are we to assume the verse describes one thing or a collection of things
or perhaps 1 things viewed from different perspectives (eg perhaps over a life-time?)
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 20, 2011
I want to hear that from the one who has usurped my standing as "the devious one"
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- 1: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Feb 19, 2011)
- 2: hygienicdispenser (Feb 20, 2011)
- 3: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Feb 20, 2011)
- 4: bobstafford (Feb 20, 2011)
- 5: hygienicdispenser (Feb 20, 2011)
- 6: bobstafford (Feb 20, 2011)
- 7: Rod (Feb 20, 2011)
- 8: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Feb 20, 2011)
- 9: toybox (Feb 20, 2011)
- 10: bobstafford (Feb 20, 2011)
- 11: pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? (Feb 20, 2011)
- 12: Taff Agent of kaos (Feb 20, 2011)
- 13: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Feb 20, 2011)
- 14: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Feb 20, 2011)
- 15: toybox (Feb 20, 2011)
- 16: bobstafford (Feb 20, 2011)
- 17: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Feb 20, 2011)
- 18: bobstafford (Feb 20, 2011)
- 19: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Feb 20, 2011)
- 20: bobstafford (Feb 20, 2011)
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