would you mind if I vote against you being part of an earth delegation to meet them, Chris?
Not at all Annie. Those of us in the second wave of the entourage, will do the real business anyway. Those Presidents & Leaders in the initial welcome committee are more than welcome to be sprayed by formic acid :-)
Do we digress from jumbled words??
Of course we do ! That's the fun bit .... as for aliens I adore the gag in Mars Attacks where they are killed by a country & western song. That hit my giggle-vibe valve at least. Those exploding brains inside the helmets .... all high quality moments in my life. :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Oh dear. I forgot I hadn't done this already... My apologies, David :)
Quote:
HYPERSOMBATICGLUDS
Same correct letter that Chris had, and that the jumbled word had too
Quote:
SYMPATICODUBGHLERS
I LOVE dubghlers!!! Even the not so friendly ones! *give David ten points* However... they're not what I'm looking for. In fact, they're so not what I'm looking for, everything that can possibly be inbetween, as it were, is wrong. Completely and utterly so... except for the two that are right, which, as everyone should now know, can't be inbetween.
Summary hint:
For all the words put forward so far, position 18 has been wrong once, and position 1, 5, 14 and 16 have been correct once.
None of the three correct letters in number 2 are the same as the two correct letters in number 4
I'm afraid I haven't evaluated how useful those clues are yet... but I suspect they were very very useful indeed :) For which you are very very welcome :)
@Chris:
Quote:
Those of us in the second wave of the entourage, will do the real business anyway.
Oh. I was kind of hoping to live beyond the second wave too...
:)
@Mike: I LOVE Mars Attacks!! :)
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Me too, I also love Plan 9 from outer Space which won the award for the worst ever film. The B/W old sci fi movies are a hoot, with actors wearing cardboard boxes painted silver, and pretending to be robots! Got a soft spot for Lost in Space and Robby.
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Oh. I was kind of hoping to live beyond the second wave too...
It's OK you have a authorised get out of jail free card as the Official Lexicon Lady*
* Might have to teach ET Monopoly first though ......
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Oh dear. I forgot I hadn't done this already... My apologies, David :)
Quote:
HYPERSOMBATICGLUDS
Same correct letter that Chris had, and that the jumbled word had too
I'm going to take that to mean that every other letter is wrong.
Quote:
Quote:
SYMPATICODUBGHLERS
I LOVE dubghlers!!! Even the not so friendly ones! *give David ten points*
Well, then, I know what to send you for Christmas.
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However... they're not what I'm looking for. In fact, they're so not what I'm looking for, everything that can possibly be inbetween, as it were, is wrong. Completely and utterly so... except for the two that are right, which, as everyone should now know, can't be inbetween.
Summary hint:
For all the words put forward so far, position 18 has been wrong once, and position 1, 5, 14 and 16 have been correct once.
None of the three correct letters in number 2 are the same as the two correct letters in number 4
I'm afraid I haven't evaluated how useful those clues are yet... but I suspect they were very very useful indeed :) For which you are very very welcome :)
Well, let's just see how useful they are:
1 S
2 AOY
3 CDTM
4 HCG
5 E
6 DTYC
7 CDHY
8 RHYMC
9 YRMBO
10 GDMBA
11 UEOT
12 RB
13 LMCG
14 P
15 GAL
16 I
17 BURD
18 S
(This would have been easier if the [s] tag worked here. And I had to use orange because yellow barely shows up.)
So, we have five letters positively identified. However, only one of the two correct in the original jumble is known, leaving six possibilities as to the other one.
Quote:
@Chris:
Quote:
Those of us in the second wave of the entourage, will do the real business anyway.
Oh. I was kind of hoping to live beyond the second wave too...
Same here.
Quote:
:)
@Mike: I LOVE Mars Attacks!! :)
I suppose I should see that some time. Maybe I'll look into getting it for the library.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
However, only one of the two correct in the original jumble is known...
Oh.
Did I say that?
I must have been out of my mind at the time.
There's one.
Upon review, you did say one. I must have been having a pan galactic gargle blaster when I thought you said two.
So, the revised list is
1 S
2 AOY
3 CDTM
4 HCG
5 E
6 DTYC
7 CDHY
8 RHYMC
9 YRMBO
10 GDMBA
11 UEOT
12 RB
13 LMCG
14 P
15 GAL
16 I
17 BURD
18 S
Quote:
@everything else you said: Yes, do that
@Chris: nooooo... not MOnOPoly...
I really need to make something of the gibberish you tried to say about Chris having a group of four, but not right now. School is out, and therefore the library is rather loud.
Meanwhile, I will not pass Go and collect $200.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
something of the gibberish you tried to say about Chris
It's this effect that I have on women David! Turns the most sensible into mere vestiges of their former self. Give 'em a pan Galactic Gargleblaster on the rocks as well though, and they adore you forever*
* Trouble is that it only works in a certain restaurant (No, not Alices) in a place where they don't take Visa cards. Douglas Adams well dropped off there.....
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Probably not much use to you yet, but Chris had a significant string of four letters in his word. All wrongly placed... of course *roll eyes pedantically* :) however the lead letter started where the last of the four should have ended.
Are you referring to his original word with too many letters, or to the version after you removed the excess letters?
And then there's
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You've struck out completely in the first four positions, *withering gaze* but it's the next string of consecutive wrongness where you've truly excelled... doubly so...
Are you speaking of Chris's wrongness or mine? Or both? Although I can't see how the hint is at all helpful if it's both.
Might I be at all on the right track with
S---E--ATCH--P-I-S
?
ooo ooo ooo!
... No, forget it. I thought it might end with pumpkins, but then I remembered there's only one P and no K.
So instead, I will try to flesh out the above blanks:
SURLEYBATCHOMPDIGS
There, that must be it.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Chris had a significant string of four letters in his word. All wrongly placed... of course *roll eyes pedantically* :) however the lead letter started where the last of the four should have ended.
*SCOWL*
I thought I put it rather succinctly. Perhaps I should have another go at it...
the first letter in the string of four (that were correctly strung in order, but incorrectly positioned within the surrounding letters) in patchydermoSlugbis (but NOT in redpatchydermoslugbuis) was put (by Chris) in the position that the last letter of the string of four is in when within the unjumbled word when it is unjumbled.
How's that? :) Better?
Interestingly, in the jumbled version I provided you with, that letter is where the second from last (or third letter in the string) should be, within the unjumbled word you are seeking :)
Furthermore, if all that red stuff in your list is of letters that are not there, you're right. They're not.
@Chris
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You always win with the four stations, the Vine Street gang, and Mayfair!
I don't enjoy winning. Especially at monopoly. Unfortunately one family member does, and the game gets so unpleasant I have had to ban him from playing. There's only so many times you can see your little ones reduced to tears during "family time" by either: a bad-tempered walk-off-in-a-huff midgame event; or a crowing rub-your-nose-in-it megalomanic event. But I do make a very generous banker and landlord :)
I've never played upwords...
*pause for thought processing* I do hope Mike didn't do himself a mischief with that bag he was breathing into...
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RE: RE: would you mind if
Of course we do ! That's the fun bit .... as for aliens I adore the gag in Mars Attacks where they are killed by a country & western song. That hit my giggle-vibe valve at least. Those exploding brains inside the helmets .... all high quality moments in my life. :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Oh dear. I forgot I hadn't
Oh dear. I forgot I hadn't done this already... My apologies, David :)
Same correct letter that Chris had, and that the jumbled word had too
I LOVE dubghlers!!! Even the not so friendly ones! *give David ten points* However... they're not what I'm looking for. In fact, they're so not what I'm looking for, everything that can possibly be inbetween, as it were, is wrong. Completely and utterly so... except for the two that are right, which, as everyone should now know, can't be inbetween.
Summary hint:
For all the words put forward so far, position 18 has been wrong once, and position 1, 5, 14 and 16 have been correct once.
None of the three correct letters in number 2 are the same as the two correct letters in number 4
J: P a c h y d e r m G u i l t S o b s
0. redpatchydermoslugbuis
1. patchydermoSlugbis
2. lodgechymbusspairt
3. hypersombaticgluds
4. sympaticodubghlers
I'm afraid I haven't evaluated how useful those clues are yet... but I suspect they were very very useful indeed :) For which you are very very welcome :)
@Chris:
Oh. I was kind of hoping to live beyond the second wave too...
:)
@Mike: I LOVE Mars Attacks!! :)
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RE: @Mike: I LOVE Mars
Me too, I also love Plan 9 from outer Space which won the award for the worst ever film. The B/W old sci fi movies are a hoot, with actors wearing cardboard boxes painted silver, and pretending to be robots! Got a soft spot for Lost in Space and Robby.
It's OK you have a authorised get out of jail free card as the Official Lexicon Lady*
* Might have to teach ET Monopoly first though ......
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
RE: Oh dear. I forgot I
I'm going to take that to mean that every other letter is wrong.
Well, then, I know what to send you for Christmas.
That is useful.
Well, let's just see how useful they are:
1 S
2 AOY
3 C DTM
4 H CG
5 E
6 D TYC
7 CDHY
8 R HYMC
9 YRMBO
10 G DMBA
11 UEOT
12 RB
13 LMCG
14 P
15 GAL
16 I
17 B URD
18 S
(This would have been easier if the [s] tag worked here. And I had to use orange because yellow barely shows up.)
So, we have five letters positively identified. However, only one of the two correct in the original jumble is known, leaving six possibilities as to the other one.
Same here.
I suppose I should see that some time. Maybe I'll look into getting it for the library.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: However, only one of
Oh.
Did I say that?
I must have been out of my mind at the time.
There's one.
@everything else you said: Yes, do that
@Chris: nooooo... not MOnOPoly...
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@Chris: nooooo... not
@Chris: nooooo... not MOnOPoly...
You always win with the four stations, the Vine Street gang, and Mayfair!
In our family it is "Upwords", you'll never ever beat me at that!
CHALLENGE
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
RE: RE: However, only one
Upon review, you did say one. I must have been having a pan galactic gargle blaster when I thought you said two.
So, the revised list is
1 S
2 AOY
3 CDTM
4 HCG
5 E
6 DTYC
7 CDHY
8 RHYMC
9 YRMBO
10 GDMBA
11 UEOT
12 RB
13 LMCG
14 P
15 GAL
16 I
17 BURD
18 S
I really need to make something of the gibberish you tried to say about Chris having a group of four, but not right now. School is out, and therefore the library is rather loud.
Meanwhile, I will not pass Go and collect $200.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: something of the
It's this effect that I have on women David! Turns the most sensible into mere vestiges of their former self. Give 'em a pan Galactic Gargleblaster on the rocks as well though, and they adore you forever*
* Trouble is that it only works in a certain restaurant (No, not Alices) in a place where they don't take Visa cards. Douglas Adams well dropped off there.....
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Trying to make something of
Trying to make something of this:
Are you referring to his original word with too many letters, or to the version after you removed the excess letters?
And then there's
Are you speaking of Chris's wrongness or mine? Or both? Although I can't see how the hint is at all helpful if it's both.
Might I be at all on the right track with
S---E--ATCH--P-I-S
?
ooo ooo ooo!
... No, forget it. I thought it might end with pumpkins, but then I remembered there's only one P and no K.
So instead, I will try to flesh out the above blanks:
SURLEYBATCHOMPDIGS
There, that must be it.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
I presume you're referring to
I presume you're referring to this gibberish?
*SCOWL*
I thought I put it rather succinctly. Perhaps I should have another go at it...
the first letter in the string of four (that were correctly strung in order, but incorrectly positioned within the surrounding letters) in patchydermoSlugbis (but NOT in redpatchydermoslugbuis) was put (by Chris) in the position that the last letter of the string of four is in when within the unjumbled word when it is unjumbled.
How's that? :) Better?
Interestingly, in the jumbled version I provided you with, that letter is where the second from last (or third letter in the string) should be, within the unjumbled word you are seeking :)
Furthermore, if all that red stuff in your list is of letters that are not there, you're right. They're not.
@Chris
I don't enjoy winning. Especially at monopoly. Unfortunately one family member does, and the game gets so unpleasant I have had to ban him from playing. There's only so many times you can see your little ones reduced to tears during "family time" by either: a bad-tempered walk-off-in-a-huff midgame event; or a crowing rub-your-nose-in-it megalomanic event. But I do make a very generous banker and landlord :)
I've never played upwords...
*pause for thought processing* I do hope Mike didn't do himself a mischief with that bag he was breathing into...
edit: Oh... I missed a couple of posts... I will peruse them now...
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