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I'm sorry Flex, but I can't seem to detect the oxymoron in your poem. I'm not sure if the oxymoron is really implicit or if it requires a lateral form of interpretation in order to be seen. Either way, I can't seem to see what could be oxymoronic about your poem. It is a nice poem, though. Really simple and haunting, just like Sadako without all of the TV-related horseshit.
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Scratch that, I've misinterpreted your sentence. My bad.
And yes, being good at writing bad poetry has got to be one of the most polar oxymorons ever.
Your poem isn't all that bad actually. It's simplicity makes it all the more ... somber. Kinda like a pale dude in a plain black suit standing all alone in a graveyard.
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Scratch that, I've misinterpreted your sentence. My bad.
And yes, being good at writing bad poetry has got to be one of the most polar oxymorons ever.
Your poem isn't all that bad actually. It's simplicity makes it all the more ... somber. Kinda like a pale dude in a plain black suit standing all alone in a graveyard.
Last edited by Trick; Apr 28, 2013 at 04:28 PM.
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I managed to find the riddle... here goes :
There is a dictator, who controls a very small country with a population of 100 people. One day, he decides to test if his country is intelligent so he goes to them and says "Tomorrow, I will line you up single file so that the person in the back can see everyone else, and the person in the front can see no one. I will then place a hat on each of your heads, either red or blue (the specific colors are irrelevent, you may request a different set of colors, and the distribution of the hats can be anything, 50/50, 83 red, 17 blue, or any combination of hats to make one hundred). Nobody will be allowed to talk or move unless I speak to them first, at which point they may only say one word and that word can either be blue or red, anything more and everyone dies. I will go to the person in the back, I will ask him what color hat he has, and I will begin a timer set for five minutes. At the end of this timer he must immediately say either "red" or "blue". If he answers correctly, he will live, if not, he will be shot in the head, so everybody knows he was wrong. I will proceed up the line asking each person. If you are intelligent enough, you will come up with a strategy to save at least 99 of the people in your town, If not, too bad. good luck." There are no bullshit answers like hold up a mirror, and they cannot see their own hats, there is a real answers.
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Also Timee, I was saying that one prince could tell the others what hats they have on, not his own... so he could save either one of them or both... That would mean he's a good, loving, brave brother
There is a dictator, who controls a very small country with a population of 100 people. One day, he decides to test if his country is intelligent so he goes to them and says "Tomorrow, I will line you up single file so that the person in the back can see everyone else, and the person in the front can see no one. I will then place a hat on each of your heads, either red or blue (the specific colors are irrelevent, you may request a different set of colors, and the distribution of the hats can be anything, 50/50, 83 red, 17 blue, or any combination of hats to make one hundred). Nobody will be allowed to talk or move unless I speak to them first, at which point they may only say one word and that word can either be blue or red, anything more and everyone dies. I will go to the person in the back, I will ask him what color hat he has, and I will begin a timer set for five minutes. At the end of this timer he must immediately say either "red" or "blue". If he answers correctly, he will live, if not, he will be shot in the head, so everybody knows he was wrong. I will proceed up the line asking each person. If you are intelligent enough, you will come up with a strategy to save at least 99 of the people in your town, If not, too bad. good luck." There are no bullshit answers like hold up a mirror, and they cannot see their own hats, there is a real answers.
My answer is this...
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Also Timee, I was saying that one prince could tell the others what hats they have on, not his own... so he could save either one of them or both... That would mean he's a good, loving, brave brother
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Yes Sab, I'm up for it. 
Me and Timee
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And Ysome like I said, my solution works only supposing that the person in front catches on to the hint... Still.. they have one day ahead to plan a strategy so I doubt he would not know, and if he would not know he could just take a guess, the chances are 50/50 to get a red or blue hat cause those are the only colors. Who knows he might just save the people in front of him as well as himself...
Me and Timee -----
And Ysome like I said, my solution works only supposing that the person in front catches on to the hint... Still.. they have one day ahead to plan a strategy so I doubt he would not know, and if he would not know he could just take a guess, the chances are 50/50 to get a red or blue hat cause those are the only colors. Who knows he might just save the people in front of him as well as himself...
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