Wednesday, April 5, 2017

riddle - Another one for the road



Taken for a ride,
lost with many strides.


Pardon the old port,

a typer's resort.
OR
Fight unworldly wrath,
sleep after a bath.


Big bang creation?
Welcome inflation!




Answer



The answer is:




spare tyre or spare tire.



Taken for a ride, lost with many strides.



The spare tyre sits in the boot and goes wherever the car goes. Many strides, that is excessive walking, can make you lose your "spare tyre" – the ring of spare fat around your waist.



Pardon the old port, a typer's resort.



These two lines are wordplay: Spare (pardon) Tyre (this old Phoenician port); (a typer's re) "sorted" or rearranged gives spare tyre.




Fight unworldly wrath, sleep after a bath.



Two lines of worplay again: spar (fight) + et (extraterrestrial, as Mea Cupla had already found out) + ire (wrath); spa (a bath) + retire (go to sleep).



Big bang creation? Welcome inflation!



The spare tire comes into play when there was a "big bang" of one of the regular tires; keep it well inflated in case you need it.



And the title, of course, ...




... hints at the spare tyre's use: It's "another one for the road", in case one of the other four for the road is punctured.



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