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See how many sentences of an idea you need to read before
being able to guess who posted the idea. Today, I picked out
an idea as being posted by Rayfo before finishing the first
sentence of it and another idea as being posted by Vernon by
the time I got to the second sentence of the idea.
Invisibility Presentation
http://www.geocities.com/it2n/magic.html
Starring UnaBubba and rfr. [neelandan, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
A demonstration of the maleness of [bookworm]
http://moniplex.com...main.php?picture=11
[angel, Oct 30 2005]
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i can spot a petersealy annotation in one word... |
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congratulations steve! you're our new champion! tell him what he's won, bob... |
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<grin> I can spot a Vernon idea in 18 paragraphs. |
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PeterSealy: Well, gee, I never said that I was the greatest
Name That 'Baker player that ever lived. |
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Yeah, with dynamite, so it blows up... ho hum. |
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There are ways to find even deleted annotations, of course. However I readily accept that such approaches could be considered cheating so I'm keeping quiet about the identity of the baker. |
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I know who it is, but I have an unfair advantage. |
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(And the annotation still appears to be there, by the
way.) |
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I'll come out and say it: it's gotta be egnor. |
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He's one of the few who takes most ideas seriously enough to fully think them through...often, more thoroughly than the author. And, if he feels charitable, he goes the extra step of salvaging the idea. If it gets past egnor, I'd invest. |
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I don't think it's egnor. The first phrase is slightly too childish and insecure ("I think this would...") language for it to be egnor. And I don't think he ends sentences with 'etc.'
I like this game, by the way. Croissant! |
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beauxeault, degroof and egnor are all incorrect guesses
(nice analysis, lewisgirl, and thanks for the croissant!) |
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my three guesses are (in order): |
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1) mephista
2) potatostew
3) petersealy |
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I thought it was me, too. Or should I say "two"? |
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I went and read it in context, and I don't think it's really very insecure. In the eye of the beholder though, I suppose. To clarify exactly what I mean by the use of "etc."... in the as yet unclaimed example it says "and increase tourism, etc." whereas in egnor's quote he says "leaving them open face down for weeks on end, etc." The subtlety I'd like to highlight here is that the former example didn't really look like the author actually had anything to add to that list, but in the latter, the reader can be fairly confident that egnor could, if pressed, extend his book-destruction list considerably. This (I contend) is because he has already written supplements in the two other bracketed parts of the sentence. It is clear that his use of 'etc.', even at the end of the sentence (not a grammatical sin really), is simply to stop the sentence becoming far too long and unwieldy. The former sentence engenders no such confidence (apologies to whomever that sentence belongs!). Here endeth the lesson! |
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lewisgirl: it's potatostew's! |
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You can narrow it down to one of the US 'bakers, based on the spelling of 'organisation'. |
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Yes, I admit, it was my annotation. Childish and insecure
indeed! (well maybe a little). Actually, I often qualify my
negative statements like that simply because I am
subscribing to one of lewisgirl's own ideas: that of being a
little more kind with annotations. Plus, I hesitate to say
"This would have to" or "This must" since I realize I am not
much of an authority on anything at all. |
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As for the etc.: improve a city or town, increase tourism,
improve the economy, reduce crime, attract businesses,
help citizens feel more safe. |
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Press me, and I shall extend, lewisgirl. |
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There, I'm finished defending my two month old
annotation. How's that for childish and insecure? ;) |
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Potato, like I said above, apologies. And all the rest of you that were screaming 'PotatoStew' at me, thanks, but I was trying to describe the thought processes of Name That 'Baker more than I was trying to work out who it was. (and, PS, I'd rather not, thanks all the same..!) |
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lewisgirl: no apologies are necessary. |
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Here's another one... this may be easy because it's
recent, but we'll see: |
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"Table. Some asses are so 'out there' you could put a beer
can on 'em. Gotta have a Table Ass in the Scale listing. In
fact - there should be a Table Of Asses rather than a
Scale list. Of course, having a Table Ass listed within the
Table Of Asses would compound matters, so perhaps the
Table Ass should be referred to as the Cocktail Table. No,
wait." |
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name globaltourniquet,where the hell is he? |
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hahaha... I croiss! do another, do another! |
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(btw, Stew, this faceless medium gives me ample obscurity to be a sarcastic jerk, otherwise I over-qualify everything I say too, just because I don't think anybody ever gets it. heh. insecure, pfa! :) |
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ab: I'm glad you like! :) |
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mihali: my question to you is did you know that it was
thumbwax from the writing style, or did you just
remember/look up the posting? If it was the style, what
tipped you off? |
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truthfully, i remembered the post, because i had read it recently. but taking a second look at it, you can definitely see some of tw's wit and humour coming through. that and the content is a give away. (i.e. his 'ass' fetish. well, j-lo's mostly) |
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Wow. Imagine that - "style" and "thumbwax" mentioned in the same sentence. I'm flattered by each mention of Yours Truly. Didn't even know this category existed until I saw 'Tyger Bye Bye' on 'Recent' List. Turns out 2 of my least regarded ideas are on this list courtesy of jutta - damn, I make her work too hard. As for me, I can name the tune by AfroAssault, egnor, global- "you do the math" - tourniquet, Mephista, rayfro, Rods Tiger, Sparki, UnaBubba and Vernon in a hemidemisemiquaver note. |
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Don't I know it. I couldn't hide my grammatical signature if I tried. |
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In fact, I did try. [sdm] smoked me out first. |
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Hmmm! This game is trickier than it seems. |
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There's three of me. Hippo knows both, st3f knows one. Can anyone else guess? |
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I would like to state (for the record) that I can be bought. |
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Not as cheaply as me though. |
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I didn't say I would tell you if you guessed right.
I stated that once, st3f. Got me into a whole world of trouble... |
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So one of them *isn't* lewisgirl then? |
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Are they lewisgirl, hippo, and st3f? st3f being some split personality who only comes out when hippo's asleep?? |
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There were a lot of cleverly placed mirrors in that pub though. |
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From a picture of Jutta I saw, or at least her hair, there were some cleverly placed beer glasses as well... |
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Doggone it, where is a pic of jutta? I really want to see what she looks like. I have imagined her for 18 months and I must see. |
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Bristolz, all you can see in the picture is brown hair and a bunch of beer glasses... |
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Well, that just pisses me off. |
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<grin> Tell me about it, I always saw Jutta as nine feet tall and all-powerful... |
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thats a better description than the one blissmiss claimed I had made. |
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Yeah, that's her. Stunning. |
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I wonder what a google search on the word 'jutta' would turn up. I'm gonna go find out. |
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Any other running commentaries of what you are going to do/have done? |
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"Everybody with the letter "Q" in their name has to hold really still and not make any noise. Everyone else is free to move around, but if they have shoes on they must also wear a large hat or have a parrot on their shoulder. When speaking to each other, every sentence must end with the person saying "then I ate a toaster" unless they are asking a question, in which case they must end the sentence by saying "and may I feel your ass?" When answering a question, you must follow up with "but the Russians are trying to steal it." |
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All moving cars must have at least one naked person unless the car has been modified to look like a penis, in which case women and gay men have to explain "Now that's a hot rod!" at least once, and all men must say "Mine's bigger than that." Persons with sunglasses must also be eating a bucket of chicken from KFC. Anyone wearing a Steve Urkel t-shirt gets free choice of who they have sex with unless the other person has a fake id, in which case they can counter-choose who that person has sex with, excluding people with genital piercings (who must wrestle for 30 minutes before they are allowed to do anything else)." |
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Too easy, it's so obvious that's po. |
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Very good [po]. You're right, of course. |
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Now for something a little more . . . difficult: |
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"lumpy, ok, so you build the side of the house out of bricks. Ok, the bricks are going to get really frickin hot from all that gasolene that is burning on them. This will set the insolation on fire. So don't use insolation you say? Oh oh! Now the wireing or the curtains inside the house will be set on fire. If it were so easy and effective to build houses out of entirely non-flamable materials, then at least external source fires would be no worry. As you know, external source (that is, forrest, neighborhood, etc.) fires are indeed still a *very* big problem for houses in certain areas. There is no practical building material that will offer immunity." |
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fires are a problem in Australia -its not UnaBubba or Madradish. in Florida, too but its certainly not StarChaser (where has he got to? BTW). It sounds a bit like 8th but his spelling is better. who do we know that cannot spell? |
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[ sctld ] no he wouldn't say gasoline |
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is that a sentence [waugs]? |
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Err...please, miss. I spotted that the first one was Afro too. |
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Doh!
Heh! Just did a search on "insolation". You'll be very surprised at who seems addicted to that particular mis-spelling. Haven't got the foggiest about bristolz quote though. |
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Okay . . . it's <crisp little drum roll> . . . [JakePatterson]. Alright, I know, that was a tough one, but it was a distinct style and I thought maybe, just maybe, someone would figure it out. Alas, the time limit expired. |
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So, here is an offering from a halfbakery denizen who more frequently skips comments across the croissant laden waters: |
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"I love the idea of a machine that rips the shoes off Dutchmen.
Say... do the Dutch suffer abnormally high numbers of splinters in their feet?" |
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The clock is running; tick, tock. |
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[egbert] is da' winner! 'Tis [UnaBubba] from an idea named "Power-Unclog" that was deleted in Dec 02. |
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Well, okay then, now it's on to something a bit tougher but is a part of halfbakery lore (at least, I *think* it is a part of HB lore, anyway): |
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"I'd love to see Bart Simpson writing that on the blackboard. That or 'I will not try to violate the laws of physics.'" |
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""Tug of War" for cats: Additional tugging opponents, flashing tug-toys, shorter tugathons, and more scoring opportunities added to THE WORLD'S FAVORITE GAME, to make it interesting to cats, whose own perverted version of the game involves brief periods of bloodthirsty violence punctuated by long naps." |
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bris: (furrows brow) Wasn't me, was it? (st3f is obviously not sure of even his own identity and therefore probably shouldn't play this game). |
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No [st3f]. It wasn't you. |
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No, not st3f but...from the same idea we have "[m-f-d] science as magic.
st3f, Dec 05 2002 ". Heh!
I wouldn't have guessed the 'baker, bris, but the topic is certainly a recurring theme on the 'bakery. |
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When this is all over, will someone please tell me what the person, who is not me, wished that Bart Simpson had written on the blackboard. I'd really like to know (again). |
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You could say that he was one of the 'bakery's stars. |
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Very good. [centauri] was the name I was seeking, across space and time. |
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Okay, hmm, let's see here . . . how about: |
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"And yet here I am, as always, quite unprotected and happy. And there you are, living inside your fear and your hatred." |
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Sounds Mephista-ish to me. |
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Yep. You have it. It was [Mephista]. |
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Hmm! Difficult one bliss. There are so many Schrodinger addicts here, but I'm going to take a guess at st3f on this one.
Just so that I'm not being entirely passive in this game, here's a couple of, I think, pretty easy ones.
First up "bouzouki!"
Second up "I'm a tepid drink-temp kind of gal. I hate hot." |
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I think blissy's might be waugs |
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and perhaps one of DrBob's might be susen. hah no, a certain washington state resident. |
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"I lost my elf's socks in the exploding custard, your honour! Ain't we something." hey catch this one - sorry.. I have a gem.. someone SO bloody special! |
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ooh ooh thats Jutta! (and a rather fine line if ever I heard one!) well actually its the line below that which I like :P |
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Is the quantum toilet seat comment [beauxeault]'s perchance? |
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Annotation by beauxeault, in idea "halfbarkery.com", posted by waugsqueke. Another: |
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"Retrieve razor from on top of ceiling fan, being sure fan does not impart KE to author at time of retrieval. Retrieve cat from top of wardrobe. Call spouse in from garden." |
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No, its The Englishman Abroad from just up the page there. |
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no, thats The. hey it could be you. |
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<!> neelandan, I didn't even recognize my own effluvium until you identified it. I'm calling my doctor. |
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beau: It was a cat related anno on a dog idea. |
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An easy one:
"If you were to combine a basket, with, say, six eggs, then losing the basket would of necessity imply that you've lost each and every egg. In such a case, I would venture to say that the best strategy would be multiple-redundancy in basketware, combined with a distributed egg location paradigm." |
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12,712,358,249,234,023,457,135,812,391,356 |
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My answer is coded to avoid embarrassment if I am _wildly_ off the mark, but only until another guess or two follows. |
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Calum, I think yours is Rod's. If you see what I mean. Classic Tindale |
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<magnusson>Correct</magnusson> |
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Thank goodness I took covert action... |
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Hey, put that back now. Just because it's covert, doesn't mean we won't miss it! |
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"The "corpse" could have a viriety of lifelike orifices - NO, NOT LIKE THAT, I mean stab and gunshot wounds, blunt trauma to the head, ligature marks on the neck etc. which the would-be 'tecs could note and measure and even photograph. Real physical evidence !" |
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1,257,234,581,259,135,012,471,245 <g> |
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knew it was 8th even before I cheated. |
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If this really is the 'baker [8th of 7] then I guessed correctly also! <g> |
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Well done both of you. Unfortunately answers can only be accepted if they can be understood, so Po, your turn. |
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"One drawback is that people in the neighborhood now need pig - shock - broadcasters to protect themselves" |
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"You see hello, and I see goodbye" |
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I hate to think of 'bakers being stood-up so I'll give this one a go. |
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2,457,136,823,459,234,501? |
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(Still not ready, Btw, perhaps you can see what a blind man reads?) |
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BTW, we seem to have strayed into recognising annos whereas the original idea was related to recognising idea posts. Just saying. |
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I name that 'baker "Eric". |
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Oh, isn't that the idea, then? |
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Ha, I just spotted a Rod's Tiger idea before I got to the end of the summary. |
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"Set fire to the Millennium Dome in North Greenwich, London, captured as a high quality film project." |
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Believe it or not, this conversation did take place on this site: |
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"seeing as none of you lot want it, I'd like sex" |
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I think one of them are po, apologies if I'm wrong ;) I remember reading that somewhere. |
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"Now I utilize the fine art of disguising my WIBNI's, as a plausible creation, by substituting how it will work with the phrase..."powered by the super dooper, ____, that can be purchased at Wal-Mart". No one dare argue with that!" |
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He's the one who did invent such wild things as fake electrons and urine batteries. |
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I was probably taking the piss, back when I was known as Rods Tiger. |
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DogEd? Oop, do we get more than one guess? |
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Not DogEd, either. Sure, you can have as many tries as you want but they should be more than just guesses. Some halfbaked analysis should be in there, too. |
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A google search (cheating!) brought me back to this page. |
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I made efforts to prevent cheating and, no, it's not Wagster. |
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is it jutta in frivolous mode? |
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Nay. It's not an obscure baker, either. |
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DeathNinja? I still miss that guy. |
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Sounds like a [FarmerJohn] offhanded comment, to me. |
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I think it sound slike something [calum] might say... |
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it's not me, there's no cursing or spelling mistakes. I mean spolling mustakes. |
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Well, if we can't cheat, what fun is this game? |
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Sheesh, it's not even on Google. I wish I knew how to search through the waybackmachine. |
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Ok, here's my analysis. Don't know about other countries, but Wal-Marts are all over the place here, so I'll guess it's an American. They imply that one would be ashamed of admitting one has shopped at Wal-Mart. Who would assume that? Many, but I'd guess young consumers into fashion. The sentence "No one dare argue with that!" indicates someone not inclined toward proper grammar. Again, pointing toward a young American. |
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We know it's a common baker, and it must be someone who's had significant experience posting ideas to come up with an idea strategy just for WIBNI's. Add to that young, fashionable, and American, (cross-referencing with the HB user map...) I choose [yabba do yabba dabba]. Either that of [po], if I'm wrong on about about all counts. |
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(Hey! [Letsbuildy]'s back! Strangely, only to complain about someone else not being around.) |
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I'm not from US, I come from Mars, |
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OK this will take a month of sundays so try these two: |
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an alternative would be to place teeny-tiny doorbells and a sign that sez " All spiders ring before entry" |
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Make them Baah! to each other - like sheeps do |
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It is an American, yes, and a "common" baker (not sure about the use of "common," though, for anyone here). |
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One more hint . . . It's a woman and, no, not me. |
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[k_sra]'s standing in the corner looking suspicious. I guess her. |
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My guess for [po]'s quotes: [blissmiss] |
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Propriety shall be my top priority Mr. 'Gineer, sir. (colon close-parenthesis, colon p, lol, etc.)
And I've got no beef with Walmart--it's a great place to buy toilet paper. Seems that's all they sell, though. |
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Is [k_sra] an American? (blushes for not knowing). |
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It's not Susen, nor k_sra, nor yabba dabba. |
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On the right, a beatific belle. |
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Was thinking [pluterday], but she's not American - she's from the future. |
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Not our fair Alaskan, Hollajam, either. |
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I'm down to [blissmiss], though I have no reason other than I'm nearly out of American baker women and it sounds like it could be her. |
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You are correct. (The "right" being the eastern US and the beatific belle being a blissful Miss.) |
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of course - how stoopid of me. slap me sideways |
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Was I right about yours, [po]? |
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no, but she might provide some cheats. |
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I think that this is my favorite anno: |
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"that sounded so much like a newbie it wasnt funny it was like omg i just cant believe it phundug have you gone to teh other side i mean come on i didnt think that that was like you lol :p but what you need is to take a bunch of fat people it would be even better if they were rednecks and owned guns and maybe they were liberals then you shoot them with there own gun and tie a stapler and some tape to them the only bad thing is that you have a dead person laying there so maybe you could just feed it to the other fat people why should they care" |
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I thought that was Mach till I went looking and it isn't... |
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Here's one that is wise and distinct: |
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"Even so. But what is the definition of half-baked that we are to work with? |
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Obviously, if an idea is now totally actualized in the world, it is not half-baked. |
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At the same time, it is not necessary for an idea never to have been actualized AT ALL in order for it to be half-baked. Nor is it necessary for it to be impossible using current technology. |
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Too many times people are calling things "baked" (and thus presumably unworthy of inclusion in the site) simply because someone probably has done it in the past, or could have done so. |
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I think appropriate ideas for the site are those that one has thought of oneself, that one considers good, funny, or entertaining, and which are not so obvious that most people (though not necessarily ANYONE) would not have thought of them themselves. " |
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Well written and thought through. There are quite a few here I can imagine as the author. I guess [half] or [waugs]. |
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I actually wanted to argue against that, so my initial guess was Professor Curry. But I don't think he wrote that. Just wanted to say that if somone somewhere else already thought of an idea, then there's no way to check if "ideas for the site are those that one has thought of oneself." Hence "baked", I guess. |
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No accurate guesses as yet. |
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Way too articulate, wise and distinct to be me. |
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I think I remember reading that. Was it Vernon? |
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No and no but your guess has an element of the right answer, 2 fries. |
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(Actually, I had it vaguely associated with Vernon, too. But, it didn't sound like him. Must have been in an annotation on one of his ideas?) |
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Hah! Wonderful association, [half], dead wrong, but wonderful. |
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The thread that I recall that being anno'ed on has either been deleted or rendered unsearchable, but I think it was UnaBubba speaking to Vernon. |
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I always make sure they're not searchable and, no, not UnaBubba either. Sorry. |
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