It is cold and it is hot
It is white and it is dark
It is stone and it is wax
But its true nature is meat
and its color is red.
I heard that Merlin was asked this by a Dragon, so it’s quite old.
Ooh, am I first?
The human heart.
Google, “white dark cold hot stone wax red meat”.
http://www.owlsdottir.com/dragons/dragons_and_riddles.htm
“The human heart”.
Total elapsed time–about 3 seconds.
So, what do I win?
…nothing, evidently…
[goes away cursing the slow server]
Oh, the joys of working for a software company with < 20 employees, but the network bandwith for over 100.
I can see hot, dark, meat, and red. But how is a heart cold, white, stone, and wax?
Cold hearted = mean, ruthless, etc.
I’m still confused about white, stone and wax myself.
I’d ask Merlin, but I don’t know where he is.
I’ve heard the phrase “heart of stone”.
Brings back memories of summer job in 1979, manning a paper baler with an AM radio to listen to. Which should it be today, the same 5 songs on WLS or the same five songs on WCFL? All summer long it was:
“Once I was in love, and it was a gas
Soon found out, I had a heart of wax.”
That and:
“muh-muh-muh-my Sharona!”
Heart of GLASS, I believe.
That’s the name of the song.
By Blondie.
Cold= cold hearted
Hot = heart full of fire, lust
white=Pure heart
Stone=A heart as hard as stone - evil,uncaring
Wax=A heart that melts
XicanoreX 
“My heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.”-Psalm 22:14
The steak was hot when it got to my table.
Its outside was dark brown char, as it’s supposed to be.
I ate the eggs first and the steak got** cold**.
I trimed away the wax-like rind from the steak.
To warm it up, I then dumped the bowl of hot grits on the steak, making it** white**.
I cut off a piece, burried it in grits and, ouch!, bit into a rock-hard, extra-burnt chunk of the charred outside.
But it was a NY strip steak, which is meat and its color was red since I ordered it medium-rare.
Heart? Only if it is served as the real answer is served: As an order of rare breakfast steak & eggs with grits on the side.
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:D [sup]bone[/sup]
P.S. It’s widely reputed that Merlin liked grits.
P.P.S. “Google, shmoogle.”
P.P.P.S. The full context of Psalm 22:14 is “I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.” which, means that there is no heart left–it’s all been melted. It seems that “wax” puts “heart” out of the running–if 22:14 is the best that you Googelish Heartites can come up with. :o