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When Apterous goes down and I know it, you will all be treated to a humorous little link. From now on, we shall refer to this as my "Brucie-roll."
When Kirk Bevins Brucierolled me, I was surprised because I didn't think he would take it so seriously. Kirk should listen to me and know that I have some sense.
When I Brucieroll all of you, please do not take it to heart. Do not take it as a threat, but rather a warning.
Thank you!
Now, let's fold our hands for Charlie Reams that he comes back from Italy soon and take his comment, "So long, Britain" as a joke.
When Kirk Bevins Brucierolled me, I was surprised because I didn't think he would take it so seriously. Kirk should listen to me and know that I have some sense.
When I Brucieroll all of you, please do not take it to heart. Do not take it as a threat, but rather a warning.
Thank you!
Now, let's fold our hands for Charlie Reams that he comes back from Italy soon and take his comment, "So long, Britain" as a joke.
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But this is only the first step. There should be far more rolling than there is.
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I don't know what is going on.
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And the next photo is presumably, adding a dash of salt ?
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Jason, "so long" is an expression that means the same as "goodbye". When people go away on holiday, it's not unusual for them to say "goodbye" before they leave. It doesn't mean they won't be coming back. Charlie went on holiday and said "goodbye" before he left. That's all. It wasn't a joke.Jason Larsen wrote:Now, let's fold our hands for Charlie Reams that he comes back from Italy soon and take his comment, "So long, Britain" as a joke.
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Thank you kindly, Phil.
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Let's what? Are you folding them round anything?Jason Larsen wrote:Now, let's fold our hands for Charlie Reams
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Let's fold our hands around both oceans for Charlie!
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There are only two oceans? Typical American.Jason Larsen wrote:Let's fold our hands around both oceans for Charlie!
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The Atlantic and the Pacific, Kirk.
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You conveniently left out the Indian. Racist.
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And the Arctic ocean.
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Not to mention the Southern ocean
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Or the 1970s rock band, 'ocean'.
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Turn a globe so that you are viewing Antarctica at the top, then you can see it's just one ocean - the 'World Ocean' - maybe as in Plato's description of the location of Atlantis? Atlantis was 'the navel' in the world ocean. So Antarctica (once in a temperate climate zone) is Atlantis.Jason Larsen wrote:The Atlantic and the Pacific, Kirk.
Simples.
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They're the two oceans closest to us.
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We're not particularly close to the Pacific, Jace, what with it being the other side of the planet.Jason Larsen wrote:They're the two oceans closest to us.
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You forgot Ocean the software developer and games publisher, who were responsible for bringing us such games as Worms, New Zealand Story, and most importantly, Daily Thompson's Decathlon. Ocean now goes by the name Infogrames, who in 2002 acquired Shiny Entertainment, the games developer responsible for bringing us Earthworm Jim and for making a celebrity of programmer David Perry, who had already built up a formidable reputation as a great games designer through his work for Virgin Interactive, for whom he oversaw the development of such hits as Aladdin and Cool Spot. Let's fold our hands around David Perry and Richard Branson, and all subsidiary and related videogames companies.
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ZOMG he did a decathlon everyday?Ben Hunter wrote:Daily Thompson's Decathlon.
DECATHLON is one of 3 9s that uses the letters LOATHED. Name the other 2
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ETHMOIDAL and TOWELHEAD.Dinos Sfyris wrote:DECATHLON is one of 3 9s that uses the letters LOATHED. Name the other 2
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Did you do that without cheating? LOATHED is the one stem I know for 8s and 9s.Phil Reynolds wrote:ETHMOIDAL and TOWELHEAD.Dinos Sfyris wrote:DECATHLON is one of 3 9s that uses the letters LOATHED. Name the other 2
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What's cheating? There was nothing in the question that said "without searching through a word list, especially not with a computer".Kirk Bevins wrote:Did you do that without cheating?
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If you're allowed software, the Quinapalus <i>Word Matcher</i> http://www.quinapalus.com/cgi-bin/match gives:Phil Reynolds wrote:What's cheating? There was nothing in the question that said "without searching through a word list, especially not with a computer".Kirk Bevins wrote:Did you do that without cheating?
aldershot (+rs) bloodheat (+bo) deathblow (+bw) deathroll (+lr) decathlon (+cn) ethmoidal (+im) handtowel (+nw) headcloth (+ch) holderbat (+br) holdwater (+rw) joltheads (+js) lashedout (+su) tallyhoed (+ly)
Obviously Aldershot is out - I've not checked the others against Lexplorer
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I'm sorry.
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But surely it's bloody easy to answer a question like that using solvers? I thought it was trying to get you to work them out/know them? Pretty fucking pointless quiz if you're allowed to use aids.Phil Reynolds wrote:What's cheating? There was nothing in the question that said "without searching through a word list, especially not with a computer".Kirk Bevins wrote:Did you do that without cheating?
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Anagrams: serious business.Kirk Bevins wrote:But surely it's bloody easy to answer a question like that using solvers? I thought it was trying to get you to work them out/know them? Pretty fucking pointless quiz if you're allowed to use aids.Phil Reynolds wrote:What's cheating? There was nothing in the question that said "without searching through a word list, especially not with a computer".Kirk Bevins wrote:Did you do that without cheating?
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+1... haha excellentBen Hunter wrote:Anagrams: serious business.
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aids increases your anagramming skills? fuck, I should be having sex with menKirk Bevins wrote:But surely it's bloody easy to answer a question like that using solvers? I thought it was trying to get you to work them out/know them? Pretty fucking pointless quiz if you're allowed to use aids.
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...Too late.Michael Wallace wrote:aids increases your anagramming skills? fuck, I should be having sex with menKirk Bevins wrote:But surely it's bloody easy to answer a question like that using solvers? I thought it was trying to get you to work them out/know them? Pretty fucking pointless quiz if you're allowed to use aids.
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Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
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?Kai Laddiman wrote:...Too late.
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These days they wrongfully teach kids on the curriculum that if you want to sleep with men you have to start before the age of 16. After that, it's just too late to begin. Kai's just misunderstood. We all know that really you can begin any time you want. TONIGHT!Michael Wallace wrote:?Kai Laddiman wrote:...Too late.
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I didn't use a solver FWIW, although it still wouldn't have been "cheating" (in the sense of "breaking the rules") if I had. I've never heard of either of the two words before, so it would have been impossible for me to answer the question without using the dictionary; and I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of constructing a search pattern to find the answers.Kirk Bevins wrote:But surely it's bloody easy to answer a question like that using solvers?Phil Reynolds wrote:There was nothing in the question that said "without searching through a word list, especially not with a computer".
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I just feel it somewhat ruins it if you're using an aid (I class this as cheating even if Dinos didn't state rules).
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But what do you class as an aid?Kirk Bevins wrote:I just feel it somewhat ruins it if you're using an aid (I class this as cheating even if Dinos didn't state rules).
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I would guess any form of external help - computers, solvers, other uncreditted people. That sort of thing.
Here is the wikipedia page on aids.
Here is the wikipedia page on aids.
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Yay Phil wins with his innovative dictionary method
From Mock the Week Subject: Things you wouldn't want to hear on a first date "When I said I was a positive person I meant HIV positive."
From Mock the Week Subject: Things you wouldn't want to hear on a first date "When I said I was a positive person I meant HIV positive."
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Even worse on a second date!Dinos Sfyris wrote:Yay Phil wins with his innovative dictionary method
From Mock the Week Subject: Things you wouldn't want to hear on a first date "When I said I was a positive person I meant HIV positive."
BTW kudos to Raccoon for the joke that started all this off - can't really put it in the Classic Posts thread because of the context, but it was brilliant.
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Dictionaries? That would certainly be external help. What I'm getting at is, either you're meant to know these obscure words already, which seems like a rather boring and elitist test to me; or you have to look for them in the dictionary. Having worked out an algorithm for doing so, you then either apply it manually (which would take a prohibitive amount of time) or use a computer to speed up the process. I don't see why this is cheating. It's no different to maths tests where, once you've demonstrated that you know the method, you're allowed to use a calculator to work out the actual numerical answer.Kieran Child wrote:I would guess any form of external help - computers, solvers, other uncreditted people. That sort of thing.
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Not in a non-calculator test and you should treat all puzzles as non-cheaty puzzles. You wouldn't be asked a riddle on here then Google it and give an answer and feel smug would you? You should leave it to those that can think and figure it out themselves. I think it's akin to posting beaters in the spoilers thread without getting them yourself - we can all use solvers so it's pretty pointless.Phil Reynolds wrote:Dictionaries? That would certainly be external help. What I'm getting at is, either you're meant to know these obscure words already, which seems like a rather boring and elitist test to me; or you have to look for them in the dictionary. Having worked out an algorithm for doing so, you then either apply it manually (which would take a prohibitive amount of time) or use a computer to speed up the process. I don't see why this is cheating. It's no different to maths tests where, once you've demonstrated that you know the method, you're allowed to use a calculator to work out the actual numerical answer.Kieran Child wrote:I would guess any form of external help - computers, solvers, other uncreditted people. That sort of thing.
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Take me through, step by step, how you think I should have solved the puzzle.
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If you couldn't work out the answer by playing double goatdown then leave it to someone else that can.Phil Reynolds wrote:Take me through, step by step, how you think I should have solved the puzzle.
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Haha. I did say it was elitist.Kirk Bevins wrote:If you couldn't work out the answer by playing double goatdown then leave it to someone else that can.
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Aren't all puzzles 'elitist' in that their aim is to filter off those who can solve it.
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Not all puzzles require specialist knowledge to solve them. Anyway, Dinos has already declared me the winner so yah boo sucks to you.Kieran Child wrote:Aren't all puzzles 'elitist' in that their aim is to filter off those who can solve it.
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I was never going to solve it. Had I been buried by bandits and given a hat like in the following diagram
then asked the question. I would have died of starvation before getting it. And I think that had the other people buried been other forum members, only those who I wouldn't consider to be 'cheating' would be able to solve it.
Nothing up for grabs though so it doesn't matter too much, especially since I couldn't have got it, I can just imagine it's irritating for Kirk.
then asked the question. I would have died of starvation before getting it. And I think that had the other people buried been other forum members, only those who I wouldn't consider to be 'cheating' would be able to solve it.
Nothing up for grabs though so it doesn't matter too much, especially since I couldn't have got it, I can just imagine it's irritating for Kirk.
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