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Poll Question: At what age did you feel your sanity had slipped from you?
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

I found your virginity over there in the corner of this thread.  I think the marbles are over in the opposite corner...


Well both of them can go screw themselves. I don't want them back If they come crawling back to me I'll tell um where to stick it.
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Whichever marbles I won back I'm losing right now at 28.
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My wife tells me all the time that I was born crazy, so...

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I found your virginity over there in the corner of this thread.  I think the marbles are over in the opposite corner...
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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I lost them the same time I lost my virginity. Something fishy going on there, I know it.
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                  Yo !!!! We was so po' we couldn't afford no marbles..........
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Probably when I was born. I've never had any marbles. I've never fit in any group (not even here do I fit anywhere) and have always been odd. So the closest I have been to having Marbles has been when I bought Marillion's album...
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Lewis Carroll, who wrote "Alice in Wonderland", was often asked about the solution but said he had no idea either. He gave two possible solutions to it though in his preface to "The Hunting of the Snark".
1) Because both can produce a few notes, although they are very flat, and are never put with the wrong end in front. (OK, in the case of the raven it is "nevar" instead of never").
2) Because Poe wrote on both of them.
But he pointed out that they were an afterthought.


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Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

Edgar knows this one.


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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

"Why is a raven like a writing desk?", to ask a famous riddle from literature.


''No, I give up'' Alice replied. ''What is the answer?''

''I haven't the slightest idea'' said the Hatter.

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"Why is a raven like a writing desk?", to ask a famous riddle from literature.


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Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:


Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

One of it's legs is both the same
That's the sparrow! Clap Do you know the one about the frog? The one about the telephone pole? Good stuff! Thumbs Up


Ah! A fellow ornithog...Orthono...twitcher.

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Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

One of it's legs is both the same

That's the sparrow! Clap Do you know the one about the frog? The one about the telephone pole? Good stuff! Thumbs Up
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Im 16 and I think im starting to go crazy! Its probobly from listining to too much post rock and pink floyd...
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Originally posted by Swan Song Swan Song wrote:

^ thanks! Smile

That's what the line "They must have taken my marbles away" in Pink Floyd's "The Wall" means; in that song many other phrases that mean being insane appear, like "toys in the attic".


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Originally posted by Swan Song Swan Song wrote:

I must confess I never heard this expression, "losing one's marbles" before this thread. Also, I'm still not sure what it means.

"Marble" has lots of meanings; here a dictionary definition:

mar⋅ble

–noun
1. metamorphosed limestone, consisting chiefly of recrystallized calcite or dolomite, capable of taking a high polish, occurring in a wide range of colors and variegations and used in sculpture and architecture.
2. any variety of this stone: Carrara marble.
3. an object made of or carved from this stone, esp. a sculpture: Renaissance marbles.
4. a piece of this stone: the fallen marbles of Roman ruins.
5. (not in technical use) any of various breccias or other stones that take a high polish and show a variegated pattern.
6. a marbled appearance or pattern; marbling: The woodwork had a greenish marble.
7. anything resembling marble in hardness, coldness, smoothness, etc.: a brow of marble.
8. something lacking in warmth or feeling.
9. a little ball made of stone, baked clay, glass, porcelain, agate, or steel, esp. for use in games.
10. marbles, (used with a singular verb) a game for children in which a marble is propelled by the thumb to hit another marble so as to drive it out of a circle drawn or scratched on the ground.
11. marbles, Slang. normal rational faculties; sanity; wits; common sense: to have all one's marbles; to lose one's marbles.
–adjective
12. consisting or made of marble.
13. like marble, as in hardness, coldness, smoothness, etc.
14. lacking in warmth, compassion, or sympathy: marble heart.
15. of variegated or mottled color.
–verb (used with object)
16. to color or stain like variegated marble.
17. to apply a decorative pattern to (paper, the edges of a book, etc.) by transferring oil pigments floating on water.
Origin:
1150–1200; ME marbel, dissimilated var. of OE marmel (in marmelstān marble stone) < L marmor < Gk mármaros, akin to marmaírein to sparkle

When people speak of someone losing their marbles they usually refer to 11, which I will repeat here:
11. marbles, Slang. normal rational faculties; sanity; wits; common sense: to have all one's marbles; to lose one's marbles.



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I must confess I never heard this expression, "losing one's marbles" before this thread. Also, I'm still not sure what it means.
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