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The Times (or, if you're American, you may prefer the New York Times) commissioned the construction of a table, in the shape of a diagonal cross ("X") upon which was engraved an array of small consecutive multiplicative sums.
What was this object called?
What was the array called?
Torpenhow Hill
http://www.thecumbr...enhow/Torpenhow.php
The name means Hill hill hill Hill. Not quite the same as this idea but a fine example of linguistic redundancy. [DrBob, Nov 25 2008]
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//Or a hung ornament, sporting a number of point-to-point communication devices, that is capable of moving around the house//
An ambulatory walkie-talkie picture frame? |
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//another piece of furniture//
Log lamp? |
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Perspective parallelogram porpoise? |
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I don't really know what's going on... |
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A ceramic model of the most populous nation on Earth. |
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zen-tom, I was a bit perplexed for a while as to how you could both give a wrong answer "Times Table" (I see you've edited it now) while suggesting another example which appeared to be valid... can I log you as tabling a log table log-table ? |
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I'd have said the object given in the main example would be a Times times times-table table, and the array would be referred to as the Times times table's times-table. |
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You'll have to help me with your second and third examples. |
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mobile mobile mobile, raised erasing enraisined ray ray - hurray! [edit: - Damn, [zt] gave the answers while I was typing] |
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Incidentally, I didn't really mean for the game to be one of solving an obfuscated description - although that's fun in itself. I just liked the idea of building up as long a series as possible. |
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So it would be perfectly fine to say:
Have you appreciated the sine wave that the movement that the point that the feather that the tip that the wing that the swallow has has has has has has? |
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-Purchasing a slightly used smallest clock arm but not first. |
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Second hand second hand second. |
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[edit] it could have been in the shape of a pointed finger making it a
Second hand hand second hand second. |
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Mount Mount Fujiyama.
Where's yamahito when you need him, eh? |
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//solving an obfuscated description //
[marked-for-tagline] |
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What about a small backless seat made from compacted dry shit? |
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A stolen stool stool strudel? |
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a stolen steel stool stool Stollen stole? (strudel)
Perhaps a linear record of a leaning Hungarian composer, first name Franz, noted not on paper, but braided wire, written in the second oldest high-level language still in use today? (alert) |
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I didn't get 'appropriate' for a second. |
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//List listing Liszt list LISP // You missed "litz" |
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A long recital from groups of animal babies, often unwanted, and piles of plastic bottles, thrown aside in the excess of language mutilation? |
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I've always wanted to be appointed to a fixed-position depot of office
supplies for the purpose of broadcasting information about the Roman
Catholic Church. What a position in society that would bring! |
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I have always wanted a portable illumination device that is on, if I disembark without my diet beverage. |
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//What about a small backless seat made from compacted dry shit?// |
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What about a wanker's fashioning of another wanker's devices that fix the above mentioned seat? |
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A tool tools a tool's tools for stool stools. |
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[theleopard] A stationary ([edit:] station) stationery station station station. What a station. |
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//I have always wanted a portable illumination device that is on, if I disembark without my diet beverage.// - I have one of those, but it's a bit heavy. |
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A light light alight, alights a "lite" light alight. |
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still struggling with [mylodon]'s. I am thinking tres, tray, stray, trash, although could be going pet, PET, |
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No - it's something to do with "litter".
An easy one: An ignorant, yet pleased-with-itself,
tea-drinking vessel. |
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//A lit light that lights when you Alight sans Lite?// Or if you're on a small river barge, "A lit light that lights when you Alight a lighter sans Lite?" |
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<slaps palm to forehead> Thanks [hippo]! |
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Little littered litter that litters liters, literally litter literarily? |
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Poetic reference to a mosquito not notorious for malaria transmission on a grandma called Anna. Oddly, I came up with this late last night, _before_ reading this post. It doesn't quite fit the description but is similar. |
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No bites? Anon on a nan Anna a non-Anopheles. |
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I'm sure you could squeeze "onan" in there, if you tried, [spidermother] |
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A tuneful exclamation by a male of the Middle East upon finding
himself amid the Viet Cong. |
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No, no, nothing to do with cheery Charles' Chorley Charlie. |
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//you could squeeze "onan" in there// Yes, but he'd just pull himself right out again. |
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