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Hot house, cold house
« on: Apr 4th, 2004, 3:18am » |
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My old house is cold, my new house is hot.
I am popular, and my moving meant great upheaval.
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #1 on: Apr 4th, 2004, 11:46am » |
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Are you planning on moving back in 6 months?
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #2 on: Apr 4th, 2004, 9:30pm » |
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No. It would be rather difficult to do so.
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #3 on: Apr 4th, 2004, 10:15pm » |
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heh. I thought the answer was you- a reference to you changing jobs, disappearing on us etc... 
Now, I am thinking its more like a roast chicken, taken out of fridge.
Fuji-san might fit this quite nicely... 
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #4 on: Apr 5th, 2004, 2:30am » |
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Not me, not fried chicken and not Fuji-san...
Keep guessing though.. 
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #5 on: Apr 5th, 2004, 12:34pm » |
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This makes me think of a meteor falling into the earth's atmosphere.
Space is cold.
Upon entering the atmosphere, it begins to burn up...so hot.
People always wish on 'shooting stars,'
As for the upheaval, the only thing I can think of is that some people put great religious value on the movment of heavenly bodies (remember Hale-Bop?).
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #6 on: Apr 5th, 2004, 4:24pm » |
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That sounds like it might be on the right track, but perhaps a particular event is intended, with a different "new house"?
How about Comet Shoemaker-Levi 9 colliding with Jupiter. That one satisfies "great upheaval" without any stretching.
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #7 on: Apr 5th, 2004, 8:31pm » |
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Good tries all, but no cigar as yet...
It happened on earth...
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #8 on: Apr 5th, 2004, 9:06pm » |
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Could it bbbeeeeeeeeee......SATAN!?!
>does the Church-lady face and dance<
Moving from Heaven (a cool place)
to Hell (very hot)
Popular (took 1/3 of the angels with him)
Great Upheaval (great war in Heaven)
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #9 on: Apr 5th, 2004, 10:20pm » |
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It says the first place is cold. I don't think heaven would be considered cold. I'm more comfortable hot than I am cold... then again...
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #10 on: Apr 6th, 2004, 3:14am » |
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Did you know that some Inuit/Eskimo cultures considered the place bad people go after they die (he!!) to be very cold. So, is it any wonder that, with origins in the desert, Christians consider it hot? 
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #11 on: Apr 6th, 2004, 4:44pm » |
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Little Boy?
[e]Scratch that. Definitely not "popular"![/e]
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #12 on: Apr 6th, 2004, 5:48pm » |
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evergreena3: a wonderful stab, and in many ways better than my answer - but not the answer I'm looking for..
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #13 on: Apr 6th, 2004, 6:49pm » |
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I would think that the notions of hell would be reversed, Eskimos would be more used to cold temps, so they would be uncomfortable where it is hot (like hell) and vice versa for the desert folk. Guess we learn something new every day 
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #14 on: Apr 6th, 2004, 6:53pm » |
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Eskimos know and fear the cold. They did not have much experience with blistering heat, and had little cause to fear it.
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #15 on: Apr 6th, 2004, 7:01pm » |
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I know, you are a customer service call center located in Anchorage, Alaska (where you were moved to take advantage of low salaries). Everybody was glad to see you arrive as it meant jobs in an office for people who probably would have been working at manual labor. But, along comes off-shore financial strategies. The corporate management decide that they can better fill company coffers if they move your jobs to Bombay (Mumbai ) where the operators will be paid much less than you and be given absolutely no benefits. Everybody was very upheaved when you left. Of course your popularity remained great when you arrived. 
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #16 on: Apr 6th, 2004, 10:20pm » |
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This one is very simple to answer...
It is obviously ::freezer popcorn:: that he is referring to...
Is this lime green obnoxious? 
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #17 on: Apr 7th, 2004, 5:50pm » |
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An amusing interpretation, Speaker! And Raven, I'm sorry but freezer popcorn is not the answer either...
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #18 on: Apr 7th, 2004, 7:24pm » |
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Are you a volcano?
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #19 on: Apr 7th, 2004, 7:36pm » |
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on Apr 6th, 2004, 3:14am, Speaker wrote:| Did you know that some Inuit/Eskimo cultures considered the place bad people go after they die (he!!) to be very cold. So, is it any wonder that, with origins in the desert, Christians consider it hot? |
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According to Dante, the ninth circle of Hell is freezing cold. That is where Satan himself lives and that is where the worst sinners go in the afterlife.
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #20 on: Apr 7th, 2004, 7:41pm » |
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I didn't know that Dante was an Eskimo... 
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #21 on: Apr 7th, 2004, 10:05pm » |
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My friend BabyBull had a couple of possible solutions...
:: Michael Jackson ::
:: a Bulb i.e. a Tulip ::
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #22 on: Apr 8th, 2004, 6:59am » |
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Tulip ...I like that.
In Florida, my uncle keeps roses and tulips.
As the weather rarely freezes, he has to keep the bulbs in the freezer for at least a few weeks, or else they will not germinate later.
So, that is the cold house, and a hothouse could be the greenhouse...or simply the warm soil.
Great upheaval is satisfied by the growing of the flower through the soil.
Oh, and popular....similar enough to poplar? As in Tulip Poplar tree?
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #23 on: Apr 8th, 2004, 5:05pm » |
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I'm sorry, a volcano, bulbs or tulips are not the answer I had in mind...
... but thinking in terms of geology is a good idea.
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Re: Hot house, cold house
« Reply #24 on: Apr 8th, 2004, 5:15pm » |
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Is this a hot spring.
The water deep in the earth is cold (or maybe the glacial waters are frozen). Then there is some upheaval as the water travels through a geothermal area and is heated (or maybe the upheaval is the river cascading down the mountain). The water finally reaches the hot spring (or normal) bath which is very popular.
There, two answers in one.
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