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Offline Swagomatic

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« Reply #60 on: Mar 18, 2007, 02:09:35 PM »
Good job!!  Jesus fish it is.  And, amusingly enough, the puzzle could have used a Volvo, too.  I've seen plenty of Jesus fish on Volvos :)
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« Reply #61 on: Mar 18, 2007, 05:02:40 PM »
Quote
Those numbers coorespond the the Greek alphabet and spell ICTUS. Placed inside a vulva, you get a Jesus Fish!
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Come on Evan, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar!  :D Vulva my arse!

Jesus.   :lol:

(Good puzzle, btw)
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« Reply #62 on: Mar 18, 2007, 05:07:44 PM »
The worst thing about getting this right is the endless quotes reiterating my misspelling if "correspond"  :oops:
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« Reply #63 on: Mar 18, 2007, 06:29:55 PM »
Holy mackeral! A Jesus Fish. Why didn't I think of that?  :roll:

Congrats Samuel.  :D
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« Reply #64 on: Mar 19, 2007, 04:29:49 AM »
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Good job!!  Jesus fish it is.  And, amusingly enough, the puzzle could have used a Volvo, too.  I've seen plenty of Jesus fish on Volvos :)


:lol:

I never would have got that riddle in a million years.  I had no idea the Jesus fish was anything of the sort.
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« Reply #65 on: Mar 19, 2007, 05:18:40 AM »
Nice work Smuel L!!  We have a winner.  These puzzles have improved SO much!
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« Reply #66 on: Mar 19, 2007, 03:12:05 PM »
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Nice work Smuel L!!  We have a winner.  These puzzles have improved SO much!


Are you implying that the puzzles used to suck? I think Evan's puzzles are fantastic! Except the rhyming ones, the ones with numbers, and all the other ones.  :P
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« Reply #67 on: Mar 19, 2007, 04:14:26 PM »
This seems pretty easy to me. But I guess I could see how it would be harder for some of you.

What's a Vulva? The outside of a woman's genitals.
What's the inside of the woman's genitals? The vagina.
What's another word for Vagina? A Vag.
What's inside of "VAG"? A.
What's an A, as related to anatomy? Like an A-hole.
What's another word for A-Hole? ANUS.

SO:, AN-9,22,8,20,18-US.

What do the numbers signify? Letters in the alphabet: IVHTR, respectively.

SO: ANIVHTRUS, which of course stands for:

Aberrated
Novella
Invalidated
Valienced
Hubbardistic
Thetens
Requiring
Unending
Scientologism

Using the scientology dictionary we can decypher. Basically what it means is that one of the Novellas is clearly a former Scientologist, while the other Novella is a mole for Scientology and is outing the other Novella through this riddle and recommending that his pain and multiple personalities require significant use of the Scientology tech to be corrected.

If I'm the first one to figure this out, I may have overestimated the intelligence of this group.
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« Reply #68 on: Mar 19, 2007, 06:02:40 PM »
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Quote from: "Mike"
Nice work Smuel L!!  We have a winner.  These puzzles have improved SO much!


Are you implying that the puzzles used to suck? I think Evan's puzzles are fantastic! Except the rhyming ones, the ones with numbers, and all the other ones.  :P


LOL - no just that they were more easily solved.  The last few really had to make you think.
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« Reply #69 on: Mar 19, 2007, 07:48:32 PM »
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LOL - no just that they were more easily solved.  The last few really had to make you think.


Ah well... now I know what my problem was.
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« Reply #70 on: Mar 19, 2007, 09:42:03 PM »
You and me both :)
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« Reply #71 on: Mar 20, 2007, 06:24:28 PM »
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LOL - no just that they were more easily solved.  The last few really had to make you think.

Idunno....this one I never would have gotten on my own.  For the last one I blurted out "crop circle!" the second I heard it (which was a few days after the podcast was released, so it was already solved [by someone who also likely blurted out "crop circle!" the second he heard it]).  The one before that I thought were dominoes, so I agree required some thought to solve.  The coin puzzle was also a pretty quick "aha!" solution.
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« Reply #72 on: Mar 22, 2007, 01:57:17 PM »
No longer relevant, but the gestation period for elephants isn't a hard and fast 22 months.  Our local zoo just birthed two elephants in the past year, and I talked to a few of the more experienced elephant docents.  It's not unusual for the birth to occur anywhere from mid 20th month to mid 24th month.  So everyone can expect to be on call 24/7 for as much as four months.
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« Reply #73 on: Mar 22, 2007, 03:19:16 PM »
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LOL - no just that they were more easily solved.  The last few really had to make you think.

Idunno....this one I never would have gotten on my own.  For the last one I blurted out "crop circle!" the second I heard it (which was a few days after the podcast was released, so it was already solved [by someone who also likely blurted out "crop circle!" the second he heard it]).  The one before that I thought were dominoes, so I agree required some thought to solve.  The coin puzzle was also a pretty quick "aha!" solution.


Alright, but the answer made you think about the question.  Not googling random words within the question to get the answer.  The last few were not googlable (is that even a word?).
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Re: Elephant Gestation Period
« Reply #74 on: Mar 22, 2007, 04:48:35 PM »
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No longer relevant, but the gestation period for elephants isn't a hard and fast 22 months.  Our local zoo just birthed two elephants in the past year, and I talked to a few of the more experienced elephant docents.  It's not unusual for the birth to occur anywhere from mid 20th month to mid 24th month.  So everyone can expect to be on call 24/7 for as much as four months.


./) It's not unusual to be birthed in 20 months.  *do do do do do dooo*
It's not unusual to wait for 4 months moooore. *do do do do do dooo*
But when I see an elephant giving birth in any zoo.
It's not unusual to see me cryyyy.
I want to die. ./)

(Tom Jones has ruined the phrase "It's not unusual" for me.)
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