So have I killed this thread? let's try some milder ones:
The first:
What is a gentle slave to firm masters
Who mind its measure and feed it fairly
With a careful hand? To these it brings
Warm blessings, to those who let it run
Wild it brings a grim reward.
The second:
When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing.
The third:
Hundreds of heads but just one eye,
Two arms, two legs as it walked by,
Into the marketplace it came
And I ask you to give its name.
- Varnevian d'Saer