Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!topaz!jaffe From: jaffe@topaz.ARPA (Saul) Newsgroups: net.games.trivia Subject: Re: Another TP Anomaly Message-ID: <243@topaz.ARPA> Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 23:02:07 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.243 Posted: Sat Jan 12 23:02:07 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 00:41:20 EST References: <32800001@smu.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 22 > > As I was passing through a room where TP was being played (sorry I don't know > the edition), the question being read was: > > What was it that Rumpelstiltskin's daughter had > to spin into gold? > > No one I have discussed this with has caught what's wrong with this question. > Any takers out there? Or am I getting _too_ trivial? > > McD As I remember my fairy tales, it was the miller's daughter who spun something (I don't want to give away the correct answer) into gold. Rumplestiltskin aided her and did the work for her in return for her child. -- Saul Jaffe Systems Programmer Rutgers University ARPA: Jaffe@Rutgers UUCP: Jaffe@Topaz