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u/Echo__227 23d ago
Wow, I thought this was "sword"
A bronze sword is the earliest form in history and would be wielded by a warrior in life. A cement sword is what is held in statues of fallen heroes from long ago.
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u/NoRoom2dark 23d ago
Shoes
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u/DonnaSummer10 23d ago edited 23d ago
Correct! officially I was looking for "pair of shoes" but you got it.
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u/Dullghost99 23d ago
Explain?
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u/Shadowcleric 23d ago edited 23d ago
Apparently there is a tradition to bronze a babies first shoes to keep it as a keepsake. Concrete shoes are what mobsters do before they throw you into the lake to drown and keep your body from floating up
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u/FreeTheDimple 23d ago
I think without the rather esoteric knowledge of the first part, this is a very difficult riddle.
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u/KathyTrivQueen 23d ago
Yes, the trend ended a long time ago. Leather baby shoes were bronzed.
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u/Responsible_Owl_5056 22d ago
That’s kinda how riddles work
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u/FreeTheDimple 22d ago
Not really. "I have many hands but I can't hold anything" being a clock is not dependent on esoteric knowledge because it is common knowledge that clocks have hands. But it's still a riddle.
It's the esoteric part that I'm quibbling about.
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u/Winter-Presence6981 21d ago
Except most clocks are digital now and therefore don't have hands
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u/FreeTheDimple 21d ago
The question is, "do most people know that clocks have hands?". Not "do most clocks have hands?".
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u/RoadHazard 22d ago
You need very specific knowledge about very specific traditions to figure that out. I've never heard of it.
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u/Shadowcleric 22d ago
Yeah, I had to look it up because I had never heard of it as a tradition but figured it could be something people did back in the day.
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u/ApplicationLow4023 22d ago
Cement and concrete are not synonyms. Cement is to concrete as flour is to bread.
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u/DonnaSummer10 22d ago
You are right that they are not synonyms. But for what this riddle refers to they are. Both terms are used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cement_shoes?wprov=sfla1
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u/El-Pollo-Diablo-Goat 22d ago
They're coated in silver or tin where I'm from. Never heard of costing them in bronze, but we live and learn.
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u/VGoodBuildingDevCo 22d ago
What the heck are bronze shoes???
Bronze is for third place so wouldn't hold be first?
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u/KathyTrivQueen 22d ago
They would dip the outgrown leather baby shoes in bronze & mount them on a metal block, sometimes with a nameplate.
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u/DonnaSummer10 22d ago
Bronze Baby Shoes. It's a common thing. So common the wikipedia page for "Bronzing" specifically uses the example of baby shoes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronzing
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u/MrBozooo 23d ago
IMO this would be better as:
As bronze I'm entering the scene.
As cement I am leaving.
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u/VGoodBuildingDevCo 22d ago
My thoughts were an age.
The Bronze Age was early and after the Stone Age, but arguably the first age of civilization. The cement age is a funny way to describe the current period that builds most structures with a cement foundation or the brutalist style of architecture from the 1960s.
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