We can lift you up, and help your day.
Sarcastically taken we can go either way.
Short as a whole, lengthy in the middle.
Six letter word brings laughter to this riddle.

What are we?

Don Vito Corleone would not have submitted this riddle if there were not a more original answer than "smiles", and there is !!

"short", as a whole, is "short".
"lengthy", in the middle, is "g".
"short" + "g" = "thorgs" !!!

A thorg is either:

(a) a member of Denis Hebbelynck's organization for playing chess by e-mail. (http://users.skynet.be/THORG/)

OR

(b) a monster in a dungeons-and-dragons game
(http://camelot.allakhazam.com/Mobs/search.html?cmob=4013)

A good chess opponent will lift you up and help your day. A monster will do the opposite. So, sarcastically taken, thorgs can go either way.

Enough of this foolishness... I have to get back to "Cicak and Kancil", an Indonesian play I was reading. Indonesian plays go well with your morning coffee, since there's nothing like a good cup of java when you're perusing a Java script......

Posted by Penny on 2003-12-17 12:34:27