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(Message started by: Noke Lieu on Aug 16^th, 2010, 10:43pm)

Title: I called her, she called me.
Post by Noke Lieu on Aug 16^th, 2010, 10:43pm

I've been away, I must confess.
Sorry to leave in such a mess.
Other matters were arranged
I now return, slightly changed.

There were two, you see,
Both were very dear to me.
Neither left, and one is right-
There is no end in sight.

There now is one, so it goes
Whatever happened, do you suppose?
Tears were shed, sabres rattled
Women talked, men prattled.

Put more cryptically
Fused metals changed from left to right handed.
or
Manchester loses head, and trails west.

Title: Re: I called her, she called me.
Post by ThudanBlunder on Aug 25^th, 2010, 1:28pm

Going by your recent puzzle Silly Romans (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_easy;action=display;num=1282008025), this one will have at least two independent levels of obfuscatory fuzzy logic protecting undecrypted references to ancient hieroglyphs whose secrets only meditating deaf mutes have so far been able to penetrate. LOL

Other than that, the clues (anagrams?) at the end ought to be accessible. :-/

[hide]Custody battle[/hide]?

Title: Re: I called her, she called me.
Post by Noke Lieu on Aug 26^th, 2010, 5:38am

Quite the opposite, it turns out.

Correct about the levels of obfuscation. Sorry.

The first part is plain- I was away, and did something. Here, I'm telling you about it. I'll admit my urgency hampered the crafting of the riddle.

The rest of the riddle is just abotu looking at things sideways- finding awkward ways of describign the obvious.

It'd help to know that (confusingly) here, Manchester isn't only a city... confusingly (http://www.google.com.au/search?sourceid=ie7&q=manchester+linen&rls=com.microsoft:en-au:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7ACAW_enAU393AU393&redir_esc=&ei=6V92TKLCI4LsvQPAruW-Bg)

Title: Re: I called her, she called me.
Post by ThudanBlunder on Aug 26^th, 2010, 6:49am

on 08/26/10 at 05:38:20, Noke Lieu wrote:

Correct about the levels of obfuscation. Sorry.

Nevertheless, I have duly encrypted 1-25, as asked, and thrown in 26 for free.

Title: Re: I called her, she called me.
Post by Noke Lieu on Aug 26^th, 2010, 7:09am

Yep, I noticed. Wasn't all that bad, was it?
(reference to silly romans here)

Title: Re: I called her, she called me.
Post by ThudanBlunder on Aug 26^th, 2010, 7:48am

on 08/26/10 at 07:09:29, Noke Lieu wrote:

Yep, I noticed. Wasn't all that bad, was it?

Nah, it was wicked, mon!

Title: Re: I called her, she called me.
Post by Noke Lieu on Sep 5^th, 2010, 5:09pm

so... any advance?

Title: Re: I called her, she called me.
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Apr 13^th, 2011, 3:22pm

The fused metals changing hands is hard. It would seem the last line provides "westinen" or something similar.

Title: Re: I called her, she called me.
Post by Noke Lieu on Apr 13^th, 2011, 9:24pm

Hey WTF! Nice approach, but wrong runway...

got another name for "linen"? And usually cryptic clues about West means it'd be "winen"...

Changing hands...Seconds to minues? L to R? R to S? D to L?