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(Message started by: kandis21 on Nov 20^th, 2008, 10:20pm)

Title: what am i?
Post by kandis21 on Nov 20^th, 2008, 10:20pm

i got keys that dont unlock anything,
Space where i cant put anything,
and I can Enter but i cant go in?

Title: Re: what am i?
Post by gotit on Nov 20^th, 2008, 10:59pm

[hide]A Keyboard[/hide]

Title: Re: what am i?
Post by cheesepuff on Nov 21^st, 2008, 2:55am

hmmm. Capitalizing enter made it stick out even more.

Title: Re: what am i?
Post by drdyl111 on Nov 21^st, 2008, 4:29am

You also have power and control but you aren't a king,
Sleep and wake up but you aren't a living thing.
You 'see' with all ~~four~~ five of your eyes. ([hide]The 'I' key, an 'i' on each Shift and the 'i' on the 'Print Screen' key and, as Phlagellum pointed out, the 'I' on the insert key.[/hide])

You are poor but have all the signs of money
Can make faces if something is funny :)
And sometimes I have to ask myself 'why':

You have a star that's not in the clouds,
Can escape when it's not allowed.
And normally house three sets of bees ([hide]The 'b' key, the 'B' on the 'break' key and the 'b' on the Tab key[/hide])

You can shift things around to make them look tall
You have windows (sometimes) but not a single wall
And there are locks ([hide]three of them on most keyboards[/hide]) for all of those keys.

Or, at least, my [hide]keyboard[/hide] has/does all of those things.

Title: Re: what am i?
Post by phlagellum on Nov 21^st, 2008, 1:20pm

What about the "I" on the "Insert" key?

Title: Re: what am i?
Post by drdyl111 on Nov 24^th, 2008, 11:49am

You're right of course.
Can't believe I missed that one.

Title: Re: what am i?
Post by iono on Nov 24^th, 2008, 5:40pm

I dont have an I on the print screen key(it says prt scrn) but I have one on the Ins below the 0 key

Title: Re: what am i?
Post by cheesepuff on Nov 25^th, 2008, 5:22am

Depends on your keyboard then, because my print screen has an i

Title: Re: what am i?
Post by Grimbal on Nov 25^th, 2008, 6:03am

I don't have any. ;D

Title: Re: what am i?
Post by drdyl111 on Nov 25^th, 2008, 6:16am

My Print Screen also has an 'I' but it looks like I missed the one in 'Ins' as well. That's the problem with trying to take the riddle passed the way kandis21 worded it:

on 11/20/08 at 22:20:07, kandis21 wrote:

i got keys that don't unlock anything,
Space where i cant put anything,
and I can Enter but i cant go in?

it's very dependent on the keyboard. I'm sure I can find a keyboard somewhere that has a couple more 'I's.

Title: Re: what am i?
Post by towr on Nov 25^th, 2008, 6:39am

on 11/25/08 at 06:16:46, drdyl111 wrote:

it's very dependent on the keyboard. I'm sure I can find a keyboard somewhere that has a couple more 'I's.

Yeah, for example, mine also has an i in "Logitech"; and for some reason there's "find" on the front-side of the f-key; and "italics" on the i-key, and "print" on the p-key. I never even noticed all these i's staring me in the face.
The i of my right shift has been worn off though.

Title: Re: what am i?
Post by iono on Dec 1^st, 2008, 6:11pm

the keys on the front tell you the "ctrl+" commands they are for.
And apparently, there are three keys that CAN lock and unlock...