I first want to congratulate you on having no zeroes.
3: 5, including a pair in the middle.
Er, um, no. Four right, no pair. But it does have a R-W-R-W-R sequence in it.
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4: jump back to what you said about my first guess on the last one, then take a step to the right.
In case it wasn't clear, this is a vague Time Warp reference, for no good reason except that it seemed like a good way to explain what's right.
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5: a solitary letter, seemingly sentenced to singleness in the world of rightness. And this wasn't the only time it was right.
This is an even vaguer MASH reference. If you didn't catch it, don't worry about it; it's not important. It's still accurate.
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Also, you have a regular (not a baker's) batch of rights.
With the correction on #3, this also becomes inaccurate. Among Annie's six guesses, there are eleven correct letters. Admiral has five letters right, two of them twice, none different from Annie's.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
You might have noticed, David, that I have completely ignored all your tips and reviews and reviews of your revised reviews ... and that depravity-inspired attempt to make me make sense of one of my own former clues... which if I had the time I would admire you for, but as I don't I won't.
You might also notice I haven't provided you with any definitions for these...
AnalogismSpins
SalpingianMoss
Magnolispinass
Napalmsosising
Nagansolipsism
AmassingLipnos
PangolinisMass
...be grateful. I didn't do it to spare you their ickiness or anything though :)
I did it to preserve my battery life...
Okay? Okay :)
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At the moment I'm in my comfy recliner (which is quite literally causing me a pain in the neck, a pain in the back, AND a pain in the butt) and don't have my notepad with the right word and all the guesses on it at hand. I suppose you're not in a hurry for feedback anyway.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
You might have noticed, David, that I have completely ignored all your tips and reviews and reviews of your revised reviews ... and that depravity-inspired attempt to make me make sense of one of my own former clues... which if I had the time I would admire you for, but as I don't I won't.
It was really good. And I'm going to refer you to it again below.
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11. AnalogismSpins
12. SalpingianMoss
13. Magnolispinass
14. Napalmsosising
15. Nagansolipsism
16. AmassingLipnos
17. PangolinisMass
Last things first. The number of letters remaining unguessed is down to one*.
Now then:
11 - 2
12 - 2
13 - 4
14 - 4
15 - 5, 3 in a row
16 -
17 - 6, 4 in a row (and nearly 2 more)... and the previous hint about the previous hint: take the first half of it and act like Janet, dammit.
*
I am truly starting to doubt my own sanity.
You may ignore the further review. I was right in the first place. There were three letters unguessed. Now there are two. Before, two the them were adjacent; now they are not. The one new one appears twice in the seven new attempts. Now, what else did I say was wrong that was really right all along...?
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3: 5, including a pair in the middle.
Er, um, no. Four right, no pair. But it does have a R-W-R-W-R sequence in it.
Half right, half wrong the second time. Four right, no pair, and no R-W-R-W-R sequence.
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4: jump back to what you said about my first guess on the last one, then take a step to the right.
In case it wasn't clear, this is a vague Time Warp reference, for no good reason except that it seemed like a good way to explain what's right.
Besides what I said here, this is the one with the pair in the middle.
I think my problem is that after I write down the correct word, I write down the jumble as posted with the number 0, and then I forget not to count it when I'm tallying up what's right in the guesses. Besides that, it would probably help if I did my writing on graph paper to keep my columns straight.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
4: jump back to what you said about my first guess on the last one, then take a step to the right.
In case it wasn't clear, this is a vague Time Warp reference, for no good reason except that it seemed like a good way to explain what's right.
Besides what I said here, this is the one with the pair in the middle.
Don't worry, I'm not correcting this again. I'm just adding to it: besides what I said before, there is also a sequence of three that are collectively one over from where they should be. Which is not what I was saying about all the other parts of it.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
...but I'm ignoring absolute middle for the pair because I've decided that I need one of the s's that are there, for something I am extremely confident about at the end of the word.
The trouble is you then said stuff about this one:
17. PangolinisMass having four in a row and it occurred to me to wonder whether there was an overlap... between the three in the wrong place but one, in number four, and the four in the right place in seventeen next to each other, which is when I got confused and wondered whether I'd done what I do when I emerge from a London underground station to its above ground exit, and walk in the opposite direction to the one I need to walk in in order to get where I wanted to end up at, and won't if I don't turn round. As I usually don't turn round until I've walked for at least ten minutes, I'm not going to reverse direction on the bit at the top... yet... but am instead going to plump for:
-----lis------
And then I'm going to add the bit I am very confident about which is this:
-----------ism
*hypnotise David*
which I know you're going to say I was right to be confident about, because saying otherwise is going to completely RUIN my exclusion thing-a-me which you really don't want to let happen. No. You don't. Which gives me this:
-----lis---ism
which leaves me thinking your word starts with one of these: GNPS, from whence I surmised following what you said about my number 6, that I should consider:
pa---lis---ism
although not confidently enough to rule out -ag--lis---ism as a possibility and then get very excited.
sagsplisnonism a speech trait characterised by a sort of running out of energy or ideas (or even the will to live - depending on audience reaction) around about the middle of a sentence, which is then followed by at least a modicum of recovery just before, or by, the end of it, out of a sense of enormous relief for having got there.
sansplisnogism - a homicidal urge induced by a wandering writing style that leaves readers: confused, despairing and more than a little miffed that not only have they just wasted the amount of time they spent reading it, by reading it, but the time they spent reading it, is time they will never get back *blink*
Well?
Oh... and I was very sorry to read about your comfy chair and its assault on your um... zones, David :/ Sounds like your feet had a lucky escape...
and happy thansgiving to you and to all those observing it :)
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All complete rubbish. Well, not complete. The first one is right but in the wrong place.
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...but I'm ignoring absolute middle for the pair because I've decided that I need one of the s's that are there, for something I am extremely confident about at the end of the word.
Let me just point out, although I'm sure you're at least subconsciously aware of it, that there are three Ss.
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The trouble is you then said stuff about this one:
17. PangolinisMass having four in a row and it occurred to me to wonder whether there was an overlap... between the three in the wrong place but one, in number four, and the four in the right place in seventeen next to each other
No, there isn't. What there is is an overlap between the time warp clue and the Janet clue. Quite a bit of it, in fact.
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, which is when I got confused and wondered whether I'd done what I do when I emerge from a London underground station to its above ground exit, and walk in the opposite direction to the one I need to walk in in order to get where I wanted to end up at, and won't if I don't turn round. As I usually don't turn round until I've walked for at least ten minutes, I'm not going to reverse direction on the bit at the top... yet... but am instead going to plump for:
-----lis------
If I may envision you plumping like Veruca Salt, then I must send you to the squeezing room.
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And then I'm going to add the bit I am very confident about which is this:
-----------ism
*hypnotise David*
This has never been done (as far as I know).
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which I know you're going to say I was right to be confident about, because saying otherwise is going to completely RUIN my exclusion thing-a-me which you really don't want to let happen. No. You don't.
No, I'm sure I don't.
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Which gives me this:
-----lis---ism
I don't know how you think I led you there, but I assure you it's not where you want to be.
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which leaves me thinking your word starts with one of these: GNPS, from whence I surmised following what you said about my number 6, that I should consider:
pa---lis---ism
The MASH ran the other day where a soldier comes in for surgery which wipes out one of his many tattoos, a girl named Louise. When he wakes up, Radar tells him her face is still pretty and her legs are fantastic. "What about her middle?" "There isn't any." This is not an exact analogy, but it's darn close.
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although not confidently enough to rule out -ag--lis---ism as a possibility and then get very excited.
I wouldn't get excited about that if I were you. It gives Louise a black eye. (No, "eye" is not any kind of hint about where to put an "i".)
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sagsplisnonism a speech trait characterised by a sort of running out of energy or ideas (or even the will to live - depending on audience reaction) around about the middle of a sentence, which is then followed by at least a modicum of recovery just before, or by, the end of it, out of a sense of enormous relief for having got there.
sansplisnogism - a homicidal urge induced by a wandering writing style that leaves readers: confused, despairing and more than a little miffed that not only have they just wasted the amount of time they spent reading it, by reading it, but the time they spent reading it, is time they will never get back *blink*
Well?
Both have six right. Both have one in the middle. One has four together; the other has two together and three together. In that order.
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Oh... and I was very sorry to read about your comfy chair and its assault on your um... zones, David :/ Sounds like your feet had a lucky escape...
My feet are quite capable of finding their own pain and don't need any help from the recliner (although they frequently get it anyway).
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and happy thanksgiving to you and to all those observing it :)
Thank you on both counts. In fact, out of gratitude I have put in your missing K. I hope and trust your latest troubles with the various British public utilities are resolved.
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P.S. The two letters that you haven't gotten right, remain ungotten right.
P.P.S. Now I'm going to pop into Seti to see if you have attacked the word there that has been languishing unmolested since I posted it some five or six days ago.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
All complete rubbish. Well, not complete. The first one is right but in the wrong place.
SNORT Oh yes. I remember what I forgot to do now :)
okay.... ----ngl-------
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Let me just point out, although I'm sure you're at least subconsciously aware of it, that there are three Ss.
SNORT Oh yes. I remember that I forgot that now :)
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And then I'm going to add the bit I am very confident about which is this:
-----------ism
*hypnotise David*
This has never been done (as far as I know).
I'm still confident about the end which is why I'm now doing this:
----ngl----ism
or maybe I'm doing this
--ngl------ism I don't know yet.
*continue reading* erm... *continue reading*
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Thank you on both counts. In fact, out of gratitude I have put in your missing K. I hope and trust your latest troubles with the various British public utilities are resolved.
Than you!! :) They are distinctly improved, yes.
Well, I need to go and amend the deducing mess I created the other day... and see where that gets me today... back in a bit...
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RE: RE: 5.
)
On further review, this has a group of four in a row, just in the completely wrong place. No overlap at all with where they should be.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Upon further further review
)
Upon further further review (occasioned by the news that Annie's okay), I need to edit some of my responses.
Er, um, no. Four right, no pair. But it does have a R-W-R-W-R sequence in it.
In case it wasn't clear, this is a vague Time Warp reference, for no good reason except that it seemed like a good way to explain what's right.
This is an even vaguer MASH reference. If you didn't catch it, don't worry about it; it's not important. It's still accurate.
With the correction on #3, this also becomes inaccurate. Among Annie's six guesses, there are eleven correct letters. Admiral has five letters right, two of them twice, none different from Annie's.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
You might have noticed,
)
You might have noticed, David, that I have completely ignored all your tips and reviews and reviews of your revised reviews ... and that depravity-inspired attempt to make me make sense of one of my own former clues... which if I had the time I would admire you for, but as I don't I won't.
You might also notice I haven't provided you with any definitions for these...
AnalogismSpins
SalpingianMoss
Magnolispinass
Napalmsosising
Nagansolipsism
AmassingLipnos
PangolinisMass
...be grateful. I didn't do it to spare you their ickiness or anything though :)
I did it to preserve my battery life...
Okay? Okay :)
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RE: I did it to preserve my
)
Accepted :-))
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
RE: RE: I did it to
)
Yes.
At the moment I'm in my comfy recliner (which is quite literally causing me a pain in the neck, a pain in the back, AND a pain in the butt) and don't have my notepad with the right word and all the guesses on it at hand. I suppose you're not in a hurry for feedback anyway.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: You might have noticed,
)
It was really good. And I'm going to refer you to it again below.
Last things first. The number of letters remaining unguessed is down to one*.
Now then:
11 - 2
12 - 2
13 - 4
14 - 4
15 - 5, 3 in a row
16 -
17 - 6, 4 in a row (and nearly 2 more)... and the previous hint about the previous hint: take the first half of it and act like Janet, dammit.
*
I am truly starting to doubt my own sanity.
You may ignore the further review. I was right in the first place. There were three letters unguessed. Now there are two. Before, two the them were adjacent; now they are not. The one new one appears twice in the seven new attempts. Now, what else did I say was wrong that was really right all along...?
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Half right, half wrong the second time. Four right, no pair, and no R-W-R-W-R sequence.
Besides what I said here, this is the one with the pair in the middle.
I think my problem is that after I write down the correct word, I write down the jumble as posted with the number 0, and then I forget not to count it when I'm tallying up what's right in the guesses. Besides that, it would probably help if I did my writing on graph paper to keep my columns straight.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: RE: RE: 4: jump
)
Don't worry, I'm not correcting this again. I'm just adding to it: besides what I said before, there is also a sequence of three that are collectively one over from where they should be. Which is not what I was saying about all the other parts of it.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Re the erm... *try to think
)
Re the erm... *try to think of a polite word* ...stuff... you said about 4... well I did this:
Manglisspianos
---ngl
----gli
-----lis
------iss
-------ssp
--------spi
...but I'm ignoring absolute middle for the pair because I've decided that I need one of the s's that are there, for something I am extremely confident about at the end of the word.
The trouble is you then said stuff about this one:
17. PangolinisMass having four in a row and it occurred to me to wonder whether there was an overlap... between the three in the wrong place but one, in number four, and the four in the right place in seventeen next to each other, which is when I got confused and wondered whether I'd done what I do when I emerge from a London underground station to its above ground exit, and walk in the opposite direction to the one I need to walk in in order to get where I wanted to end up at, and won't if I don't turn round. As I usually don't turn round until I've walked for at least ten minutes, I'm not going to reverse direction on the bit at the top... yet... but am instead going to plump for:
-----lis------
And then I'm going to add the bit I am very confident about which is this:
-----------ism
*hypnotise David*
which I know you're going to say I was right to be confident about, because saying otherwise is going to completely RUIN my exclusion thing-a-me which you really don't want to let happen. No. You don't. Which gives me this:
-----lis---ism
which leaves me thinking your word starts with one of these: GNPS, from whence I surmised following what you said about my number 6, that I should consider:
pa---lis---ism
although not confidently enough to rule out -ag--lis---ism as a possibility and then get very excited.
sagsplisnonism a speech trait characterised by a sort of running out of energy or ideas (or even the will to live - depending on audience reaction) around about the middle of a sentence, which is then followed by at least a modicum of recovery just before, or by, the end of it, out of a sense of enormous relief for having got there.
sansplisnogism - a homicidal urge induced by a wandering writing style that leaves readers: confused, despairing and more than a little miffed that not only have they just wasted the amount of time they spent reading it, by reading it, but the time they spent reading it, is time they will never get back *blink*
Well?
Oh... and I was very sorry to read about your comfy chair and its assault on your um... zones, David :/ Sounds like your feet had a lucky escape...
and happy thansgiving to you and to all those observing it :)
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RE: Re the erm... *try to
)
All complete rubbish. Well, not complete. The first one is right but in the wrong place.
Let me just point out, although I'm sure you're at least subconsciously aware of it, that there are three Ss.
No, there isn't. What there is is an overlap between the time warp clue and the Janet clue. Quite a bit of it, in fact.
If I may envision you plumping like Veruca Salt, then I must send you to the squeezing room.
This has never been done (as far as I know).
No, I'm sure I don't.
I don't know how you think I led you there, but I assure you it's not where you want to be.
The MASH ran the other day where a soldier comes in for surgery which wipes out one of his many tattoos, a girl named Louise. When he wakes up, Radar tells him her face is still pretty and her legs are fantastic. "What about her middle?" "There isn't any." This is not an exact analogy, but it's darn close.
I wouldn't get excited about that if I were you. It gives Louise a black eye. (No, "eye" is not any kind of hint about where to put an "i".)
Both have six right. Both have one in the middle. One has four together; the other has two together and three together. In that order.
My feet are quite capable of finding their own pain and don't need any help from the recliner (although they frequently get it anyway).
Thank you on both counts. In fact, out of gratitude I have put in your missing K. I hope and trust your latest troubles with the various British public utilities are resolved.
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P.S. The two letters that you haven't gotten right, remain ungotten right.
P.P.S. Now I'm going to pop into Seti to see if you have attacked the word there that has been languishing unmolested since I posted it some five or six days ago.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: RE: Re the erm...
)
SNORT Oh yes. I remember what I forgot to do now :)
okay.... ----ngl-------
SNORT Oh yes. I remember that I forgot that now :)
I'm still confident about the end which is why I'm now doing this:
----ngl----ism
or maybe I'm doing this
--ngl------ism I don't know yet.
*continue reading* erm... *continue reading*
Than you!! :) They are distinctly improved, yes.
Well, I need to go and amend the deducing mess I created the other day... and see where that gets me today... back in a bit...
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