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On a plane at an airport in Vladivostok, Russia, a woman goes into labor. While the plane is taxiing down the runway, her first child is born at 9:00am, January 1st, 2009. The plane flies to Anchorage, Alaska, USA. The flight takes 1 hour, but crosses the International Date Line and therefore touches down at 11:00 am, December 31st, 2008. The woman gives birth to her second child--born after the first, but on in a different, earlier year.
^ Sounds right to me.
Yeah, togre, if you can think of a new puzzle, that would be great! It is your right!
(And, unfortunately, your responsibility. Of course, after this much time, you can allow yourself to be considered "shamefully unconcerned" with that responsibility, and then ANYONE might choose to do the next puzzle! Or you can just say that you were waiting for Mark's verification, and quickly post the next puzzle.)
Bob is 6 feet tall, works as a butcher's assistant and has size 11 shoes. What does Bob weigh?
Sorry. Been distracted. Yes. More later.
Meat.
Yep, prendrelemick! :party:
Now its your turn.
My age is 26 plus half my age, what's my age?
52? :shocked:
If it's not, I'm looking forward to finding out why.
Course it is!
note to self : Must try harder.
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Originally Posted by MarkBastable
They didn't have camels, they rode around on Theban cycles.
On the twin thing, togre was right on the money.
This is how it's explained in the draft of the novel. Every time I read it I drive myself slightly nuts trying to work out whether I've got the direction right.
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“Tell me about your twin brother,” Alice said during the next session.
“What’s the relevance of that?”
“Maybe none. I don’t know.”
I sighed. “Okay – here’s the quirky thing about me. I was born in a different year and a different country to my twin.”
Alice gave the quizzical look I’ve come to expect when I trot out that freakish fact. “How so?”
“I was born at two o’clock in the morning, January 1st, 1963, in the Solomon Islands. In the airport, in fact. I was two weeks early and I had decided to come into the world just as a spectacular typhoon was about to hit.” I picked up my bottle of mineral water from which I took a swig. “My father, God knows how, persuaded an American airforce plane to take my mother and I – still bloody and blue – on board. No one had any idea that the birth wasn’t over. The plane flew east and was forced down in Samoa, where my brother Pablo was born.”
“Amazing,” Alice nodded.
“But the plane had crossed the international dateline into the previous day. So Pablo was born on 31st December, 1962 – after me, but the day before me.”
Alice clapped her hands, laughing. “Oh, I love that.”
“It breaks the ice at parties,” I admitted.
I knew a boy who was born on a flight over the arctic.. Suppose he was born exactly while above the pole, Is there a time there?
I've just noticed something in my extract that leaves me clammy with mortification.
Ok, it's me again? Decipher the following message:
YYURYYUBICURYY4ME
Too wise you are
Too wise you be
I see you are too wise for me.
Good one togre.
While I think of something, can we try and guess what mortified Mark?
Right on. That's one my father taught me years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
From his tone I assume it's some unforgivable proof reading error or using "your" instead of "you're" but I looked for a couple of minutes and couldn't find anything scandalous.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
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Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Could it be "International Date Line" is the clammy-causing calamity? If so, that's a pretty acute conscience to be pricked so sharply by such a slip.
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Originally Posted by MarkBastable
A trifle inelegant perhaps?
Funny you should say that. I edited that sentence on the fly as I pasted the passage in, and didn't really read it back to myself. So, yeah - I'll do something about that.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
But that's not it. And it's not the lack of capitalisation on International Date Line, either, though I'da got that at final edit, I think.
my mother and ME!
Yeah, that's it.Quote:
Originally Posted by billl
It's a good example of one of the dilemmas of writing in the first person, actually. The narrator is exactly the sort of person who would make that over-compensatory error, so it's true to his voice. On the other hand, I'm exactly the sort of person who might make the error in speech but would correct himself immediately. So to leave the error in would require me to have a lot of confidence in both myself and in the reader's trust in me as the writer of a narrative voice.
I ought to leave it there, really, and learn to live with the cringe.
I noticed that, but thought it was ok as mother and narrator were the subject of the sentence. However, in 1970s comprehensives we didn't do grammer - or spelling.
I,ve done another rhyming slang one.
To remind you how it works, a word is substituted by the first word of a common phrase. The last word of that phrase rhymes with the substituted word.
For example "Car" can be substituted by "Jam" because "Jam Jar" rhymes with car.
I've no chocolate and it gives me quiche to admit it, I was a pig's in my chicken life. I was a cup, living in a cottage, my life was a parma.
Harsh cucumber? Perhaps, but I need to rogan this chow away and turn over a new roast. It would be ground to be able to change your life as easily as a kiwi and apple and start a new parsley.
So far....
I've no chocolate and it gives me quiche lorraine (pain) to admit it. I was a pig's trotter (rotter) in my chicken korma (former) life. I was a cup, living in a cottage, my life was a parma ham (sham).
Harsh cucumber? Perhaps, but I need to rogan josh (wash) this chow mein (stain) away and turn over a new roast beef (leaf). It would be ground meat (neat) to be able to change your life as easily as a kiwi fruit (suit) and apple pie (tie) and start a new parsley.
Mostly right so far.
This question is about as popular as a *********** in a **** tub.
No, we're just going through a phase, I think. It's pretty challenging coming up with new ones--I've developed a fear of posting correct answers (it'd be rude! to make people wait for me to provide a good one in order to keep things going), and so I sometimes just figure someone else will get one, and I'll get back in the game once I've got something in pocket that I can deploy upon a successful solution to the latest offering.
Something like that--I will get back to this one (thanks for bumping--I had actually forgotten that there was a new one in play, sometimes we just sit for a while waiting for the next one...) hopefully this weekend. I think I had actually come up with something for "chocolate" but can't remember it at the moment...
A possible bit of progress...Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
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I've no chocolate scones (stones) and it gives me quiche lorraine (pain) to admit it. I was a pig's trotter (rotter) in my chicken korma (former) life. I was a cup, living in a cottage pie (sty), my life was a parma ham (sham).
Harsh cucumber? Perhaps, but I need to rogan josh (wash) this chow mein (stain) away and turn over a new roast beef (leaf). It would be ground meat (neat) to be able to change your life as easily as a kiwi fruit (suit) and apple pie (tie) and start a new parsley.
Time for some breaking news (clues) for the phrases
Chocolate: a light fluffy pudding or an elk.
Cucumber: you often cut corners to make this, and the edges as well.
Ground: Tarzan author had this for his middle course.
Parsley: A wise herb.
Cup: In my day, a bun
Cottage pie is right, but not sty.
Chocolate: a light fluffy pudding or an elk
chocolate mousse. Er, use? If so, it's a specifically North-of-Derby construction. Where I come from it'd be 'am' rather then 'have'. So I'm not convinced I've got the rhyme right.
Cucumber: you often cut corners to make this, and the edges as well.
cucumber sandwich - langwidge.
Ground: Tarzan author had this for his middle course.
Rice? So, nice? I'da got this a lot quicker if a) I'd ever heard of ground rice and b) I hadn't convinced myself that Tarzan was written by H. Rider Haggard.
Parsley: A wise herb.
parsley and sage - age
Cup: In my day, a bun.
Cupcake - fake.
Cottage pie is right, but not sty.
If it weren't for that 'in' I'd say it was lie.
Best laugh all week!Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Just to let you know I sweated and cogitated about that inapropriate "in" but left it there anyway, for the sake of the cottage imagery.
Didn't you have school dinners? Ground rice pudding with a blob of something jam-like in the middle.
Otherwise, you're half way there with "use." and threequarters there with "age."
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Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Typo - meant 'page'
Oh - excuse.
Phrases, idioms and sayings containing 'and'. (I mean, not any old 'and'. Phrases where the 'andness' is intrinsic to the meaning and usage.)
1. PSR&T
2. SC&P
3. HL&S
4. YF&S
5. S&D&R&R
6. AME&BM
7. LS&B
8. RH&PAW
9. FH&C
10. AM&NT
11. OSOP&OH
12. F&FF
13. YG&B
14. B&PF
15. AA&AL
16. C"GFHE&SG!"
17. TH&B
18. GS&M
19. HSK&T,K&T
20. OTH&FA
MarkBastable;1038754]Phrases, idioms and sayings containing 'and'. (I mean, not any old 'and'. Phrases where the 'andness' is intrinsic to the meaning and usage.)
1. PSR&T parsley sage rosmary and thyme
2. SC&P snap crackle and pop
3. HL&S
4. YF&S young free and single
5. S&D&R&R
6. AME&BM
7. LS&B lock stock and barrel
8. RH&PAW
9. FH&C
10. AM&NT
11. OSOP&OH
12. F&FF
13. YG&B young gifted and black
14. B&PF
15. AA&AL
16. C"GFHE&SG!"
17. TH&B
18. GS&M
19. HSK&T,K&Thead shoulders knees and toes, knees and toes.
20. OTH&FA[/QUOTE]
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Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Not sure about No 8?
Brilliant.
But 8 is not the one I had in mind. In fact, I'd argue that 'awhile' is one word. It's debatable, admittedly.
I thought 5 would be the easiest of the lot.