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From: jaffe@topaz.ARPA (Saul)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Another TP Anomaly
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Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 23:02:07 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 12 23:02:07 1985
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> 
> 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