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My first can be gold, a chocoholic's treat,
But beware of sand, law, and the drunkard's seat.
My second of old caused agonizing pain
Home of a spice, a stretcher, hunter's proud gain.
My whole, in the plural, born from peace and war
Not grad students' servant but their protector.
Solution and Explanation
First: BAR
You can have a gold bar, a chocolate bar, a sand bar, a law bar, and a drinking bar.
Second: RACKS
Racks were used as torture devices to cause agonizing pain. Other kinds of racks are spice racks and the name for a pair of antlers, or the "proud gains" of a successful hunt.
Whole: BAR + RACKS = BARRACKS
The Barracks, the informal name given to the Butler housing tract, was built to accommodate returning veterans of World War II to complete their studies in times of peace.
Several entrants correctly solved the charade, but failed
to relate "barracks" to Butler. While numerous buildings on the Princeton
campus have served as barracks at one time or another, Butler is clearly
the intended solution because the last line the riddle states that the
answer is not a servant (i.e., a butler with a lowercase "b"), but
a protector (i.e., shelter for the graduate students who live there
-- Butler spelled with an uppercase "B").
Winners
| #1 | Karen Livescu '96 |
| #2 | Sibel P. Bayrakci *99 PHY |
| #3 | Brian A. Lee *99 PHY |
| #4 | Jan Logan *78 RLL |
| #5 | Raymond Micaletti *99 CIV |
All those submitting correct entries were entered in the
Grand Prize drawing held in early July.
Congratulations!
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Charades ©2000 by Debbie Lee Wesselmann S*87. If you like these charades, then you may enjoy the novel Trutor & the Balloonist.
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