From: "Travis Edmunds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Lets play a little game. I'll start things off by throwing a riddle on the
> table. The first person to correctly answer the riddle has the privilege
of
> posting a riddle of their own.
>
> This guy went into the forest one day. Once there he got it, but he
couldn't
> get it. So he left it there and brought it back home. What did he get?

In another message:

> You know, I would probably do the same thing you're doing right
> about now. However this is a classic case of over-analysis. The
> answer (or perhaps more accurately "my" answer) isn't a sense
> of anything, nor is it an intangible, abstract concept of any type.
> Rather it is something quite concrete.

Final guess:
Half of a tree.  Once there he got half a tree, but couldn't get the other
half of the tree (possibly because he didn't have the means to move a whole
tree), so he left half of the tree there and brought half of the tree back
home with him.

Michael Harney - who doesn't like this answer, but has read riddles with
worse answers.
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