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Dec-18-10
 | | Domdaniel: <hms>
You've heard of the family Stein
There's Gert and there's Ep and there's Ein
Gert's poetry is bunk
Ep's sculpture is junk
And no-one can understand Ein. |
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Dec-18-10
| | Domdaniel: That limerick, given its references, was probably written around 1948. Since then, the family Stein
Acquired a chess genius named Wein
His Mum, Kasparova
Said 'that name is ovah!'
And no more was heard of Weinshtein. |
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| Dec-18-10 | | hms123: <Dom> I had heard the first limerick quite a while back--not quite as early as 1948, but certainly a while ago. |
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Dec-18-10
| | Domdaniel: <hms> I thought you might have. But remember you saw the second one here first. It's actually a difficult sub-genre, the 'family' limerick, due to the lack of suitable names. Another slightly awkward one, not mine, goes: The Ini hold many a beano
With Mussol dispensing the vino
There's Mart on the rocks
And Houd with his locks
And a solitary Ida Lupino. |
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Dec-18-10
| | Domdaniel: Hmm... the obvious, I guess...
If you dine with the family Son
You'll be forced to play chess with old John
Mated by Haw
And rated by Law
Then finally thrown one by Ron. |
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| Dec-18-10 | | hms123: <Dom> You are a bad influence on me. I went from <Stein way> to <What's a Steinway?> to <14 pounds>. I had to get it out of <My System>. Oh no! There's no cure. |
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| Dec-18-10 | | dakgootje: I couldn't even grab a lazy chair to take a nice long time to think about the different possibilities of the clue! |
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| Dec-18-10 | | MostlyAverageJoe: Hey, good job on Dylan and your #10! |
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Dec-18-10
 | | Annie K.: Congrats! :) |
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Dec-18-10
| | Domdaniel: Heh. See how easy the Klus get once MAJ retires? I tried 'Simple' first (missing word in title) then looked at Zimmerman (too many) and tried Dylan. Was about to give up halfway through, when I hit. Two. |
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| Dec-18-10 | | hms123: <Dom> That was quick! I saw the banner, went to the clue page, and found the puzzle had been solved. When I went to see what I had missed, I saw that you had been and gone. |
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Dec-18-10
| | Domdaniel: After this morning's Nimzo, missing a Dylan clue would have been a cause of grief. But I'd have "Told himself he didn't care/ pushed the window open wide/ felt the emptiness inside..." And been carried away in a snowstorm, by the look of it. |
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Dec-18-10
| | Annie K.: Guess there had to be *something* useful about being a Dylan fan... ;p |
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| Dec-18-10 | | dakgootje: <My #1 favorite food is as follows: take one can of minced tuna and one diced onion, mix them up in a bowl, add sour cream and salt, mix again. Serve with bread or a bun. > Ah yes, every now and then I toast some bread and make a similar mixture [as in: there is still tuna in it]. This time with tuna, mayonnaise, capers and sometimes some sliced olives. Simple but fairly nice :) |
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Dec-18-10
| | Annie K.: Hmm, mayo instead of sour cream sounds a bit like heresy to me... ;) |
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Dec-18-10
| | Domdaniel: And *Blood on the Tracks* has possibly been my favorite album for longer than anything else, since it came out in 1975. Eclipsed perhaps by Scott Walker and John Cale, but always up there. I *still* had a moment of doubt, halfway through the Dylans, when I thought 'somebody would have this by now if it was right'. I even checked anagrams of Fate, like Feta and Feat. But Dylanology will out. I saw him play in 1979 and 2007. We'd both aged slightly in the interim. |
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| Dec-18-10 | | MostlyAverageJoe: <Domdaniel: ... I *know* MAJ is a better decrypter, and has superior technology to boot> You're giving me too much credit, and not enough credit to the technology, which I use to quickly check ideas and find pattern matches based on incomplete information. Sometimes knowing too much is an impediment to finding the solution, btw, so ignorance pays off :-) In clue #40, for example, knowing that the first clue was Suzie (or Susie, allowing for CG's propensity to make mistakes in their clues -- like the "Yuri??? Geller"), and the second was 'ebill', having no clue whatsoever about the fairy, and suspecting that the last one was 'cheat', I'd assume that the first player name would be in the first column, and the second in any of the 2nd-5th. Both players with 4 letters in their names. Then, I'd run my partial player match finder trying to match <white black>==<Se.c '((Ub.h)|([SZ]i.e)|(Il.a)|(El.t))..'>, and this matching produces zip, thanks to the major snafu with Zita, which, I see, you also have noticed However, being an opportunistic leech of other people's ideas, I'd most likely start searching as soon as User: bumpmobile came up with Susie/Suzie, and looking up players matching <S... '[USZIE]...'> produces 12 player name combinations (and 6 more allowing for white/black reversal) - searchable enough (my recently improved search needs only about 5 seconds for a complete scan - yeah!). <Ragh: <MAJ> Would it be possible to get a copy of your program? Or is it a strictly copyrighted material?! :> While not copyrighted, it is considered a valuable trade secret :-) Also, it wouldn't be of any use without having access to CG's game zipfiles. |
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Dec-18-10
| | Domdaniel: I think <ragh> should send, oh, $10,000 to maj.dotcom.crypto.org, for a copy of this top-grade secret tech that solves puzzles. As long as the answer has something to do with chess. Just as chess engines in tiepins and hearing aids have made cheating commonplace OTB, the whole quiz world could collapse if everyone had a wearable google and a few tweaks. Better than coded coughing in the audience, anyhow. <Joe> You do yourself too *little* credit. You have an instinct for which way to jump. Remember, many others are jumping too, if not quite so speedily. |
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Dec-18-10
| | Domdaniel: Funny, too, how I complained about wanting *hard* clues that last for a few hours - but when they arrive I fail to crack 'em. But I get a couple of 30-second instinctives. |
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Dec-18-10
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> We'll have to agree to differ about Bob. And tuna. ;) |
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Dec-18-10
| | Domdaniel: Although both Dylan and tuna have "a mercury mouth in the missionary times*, I guess. |
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| Dec-18-10 | | dakgootje: you don't like tuna?
Although there obviously is a huge difference between 'fresh' tuna and canned tuna. |
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Dec-18-10
| | Annie K.: Well ok, if you don't like tuna, the same recipe with ham instead is an equal-value replacement. Even better, ackshly, just takes a little more work. ;p Basically, any fish, ham, or salami (diced and added cold or freshly fried), will do - the point is really the diced onions and sour cream... =) We can still differ on Bob. ;) |
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Dec-18-10
| | Domdaniel: I'm playing BOTT now, as a reward.
Some are mathematicians
Some are carpenters' wives... |
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Dec-18-10
| | Domdaniel: A good record for chess parodies, that. 'Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts' becomes the story of the Light-squared Bishop (there was no actor anywhere/ better than the LSB)... <In Habana the Old Masters
Were playing chess in a long and painful match
Nimzo took on Capa
Like a hitter forced to play at catch.
The suave machinelike Cuban was adored in his home town
nothin' Nimzo ever did
could cause the slightest frown
The champ had always beaten him
He had nothing left to lose
The stakes were suicidal
Yet he just could not refuse
He wiped away the sweat
And slid backwards with the LSB.>
I'll spare you the other 27 stanzas. |
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