Hi Watty
When I were a lad I had some Rupert books. They were pretty good. You know the one, he wore a red jumper and had a yellow scarf and trousers (or as you yanks call them, "pants").
Well anyway, in these books Rupert and his friends would go on adventures (his friends were human I think. Far out cause he's a bear, you probably know this though) and during these adventures they'd solve puzzles. In the books, you would be told "turned to page 12 if you want to take the left path, or page 14 for the right path", stuff like that. If you choose correctly the adventure continues, if not Rupert ends up in a dangerous situation! They are kids books though so usually it just ended with a friendly policeman coming by and giving him a lift home.
If you can get your hands on them I suggest you buy them. There was also a TV series but it's probably not available on DVD or anything, which is a shame. In one episode of the TV show there was a family feud going back a very long time, Rupert helped them solve their differences by getting them to realise it really wasn't important (the thing that caused the feud) and they all just got along after that. Rupert is a great guy, you could learn a lot from him.
What else happened? Hmm. I seem to remember a leprechaun had to give a pot of gold to some guy. The guy had to go away for some reason and the pot of gold was buried in the ground for some reason. He marked it with a rock and tied a handkerchief round the rock so he could remember where the gold was buried. He made the leprechaun promise not to remove the handkerchief. Being a leprechaun of great honour he couldn't remove it, but what he did do - get this - he got a bunch of rocks and placed them all over the place and tied handkerchiefs to them!! So the man, the man comes back, comes back with his spade, but he can't tell which is his handkerchief!! Being a very industrious leprechaun, he'd tied about one THOUSAND of these things to rocks. So the poor man had to dig for ages and ages and ages while the little leprechaun just laughed at him. I think the man died before he collected the gold.
The moral of the story was obviously that you should always carry a spade around with you in case of emergency; that's something that's stuck with me all these years.
Another good show was DuckTales. There was an episode where Scrooge went searching for the fountain of youth, hoping to become immortal or at least turn the clock back a few years. When they found it, though, all it did was show a reflection of them when they were young!! As the boys (Huey, Duey and Luey...... not sure about the spelling to be honest) were only young, it showed them as eggs!! Can you see how this relates to your situation, Watty?
Another one had the duck from olden times (like caveman times, so a caveduck I guess you could call him), something happened to him that made him super smart, but errr.... it didn't work out, he went back to being dumb again after that. I forget why. If anyone remembers please let us know, I'm sure Watty is dying to hear.
This post has been edited by Spider From Mars: 24 September 2007 - 12:23