Daily puzzles/problems.

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Originally Posted by billl

For number 3, I know it can't be this, but I've been straining to get a better look at this dude's shoulder, with the blonde locks spilling down:

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I'm willing to sell you the answer to number three, but you better not send me a rubber check.

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Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle

I'm willing to sell you the answer to number three, but you better not send me a rubber check.

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Hmm.... OK, So I got number 3, now!! (Thanks, but maybe I should call the cops on you for interfering...)

Anyhow...

Let's see if we can find someone with 8, and then we can work on a Grand Bargain.

The six letters I have aren't enough to work with, so I'm just working on the pic for 8. It looks like something from a 90's album, I've been thinking Neil Young and Tome Petty, but those aren't it. Also was thinking Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, but no. Knowing Mark, and looking at the other ones, it's probably 70's - 80's though...

I might be happiest, in the end, if it's simply one I haven't seen before, because I really feel like I should be able to get it.

(also, i did an edit to the post you replied to that you might've missed)

I hate this puzzle! It,s like when there is something in the back of your mind, and you can't quite remember what it is - nine times over.

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Originally Posted by prendrelemick

I hate this puzzle! It,s like when there is something in the back of your mind, and you can't quite remember what it is - nine times over.

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Oh, good. That's the effect I'm after.

Bill - can you IM me the gossip on the chick in number 2?

Should I soon list the album covers that I've recognized (7 out of the 8)?

Maybe, given those "letters", someone might find it easier to guess number 8?

And if someone knows 8 already, let's make a deal?

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Originally Posted by billl

Should I soon list the album covers that I've recognized (7 out of the 8)?

Maybe, given those "letters", someone might find it easier to guess number 8?

And if someone knows 8 already, let's make a deal?

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Sure. I think it's gone on long enough.

Though if I were in your position, I'd be trading them one-for-one.

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Originally Posted by MarkBastable

Details from the covers of eight albums. The initial letters of the (first word of the) album titles can be arranged to form a word or words or phrase.

http://i447.photobucket.com/albums/q...r33012-1-1.jpg

The name of the file, incidentally, is nothing to do with anything. It's a screw-up in Photobucket.

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1. Bruce Springsteen, Darkness On The Edge Of Town
2. Tom Waits, Small Change
3. The Beatles, Rubber Soul*
4. Joni Mitchell, Blue
5. Steely Dan, Aja
6. Pink Floyd, Meddle
7. The Police, Synchronicity
8. ?, ?

The letters so far: A, B, D, M, R, S, S

*(Number 3 via Gilliat Gurgle)

Bass drum?

Whoa, quick work. Wikipedia actually has a "category" page/index called "English-language albums", and luckily the U's are a manageable collection to look over. But I saw nothing promising (checked Ummagumma, just in case, though).

And I thought Nine was the white album.

Yep.

So did someone identify the U?

Doesn't look promising for anyone getting the U. I didn't know any of them actually, but now that it was pointed out I can see the Springsteen one.

Unplugged in New York - Nirvana

http://defynewyork.com/wp-content/up...rk-frontal.jpg

An unexpected choice! That probably was in that list of English-language albums...

Nice job billl and jajdude.
I wasn't able to spend much time on this one. Having seen the answers, I doubt that additional time would have helped.
The "U" intrigued me as does the ukulele, but no luck going down that road.

Is my check in the mail billl?

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Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle

Is my check in the mail billl?

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I guess it's still bouncing around in the email system somewhere.

The following quotes or expressions all refer to a particular literary figure--name the person being discussed. Bonus points if you can also identify the speaker for the quotes marked with an *. As always, no googling.

*1. "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."

*2. "He was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it."

*3. "About eight years or so ago, Valentine's Day, I seem to remember, you received an extremely bad review…and this review, unlike most bad reviews, came accompanied with a very large advance."

*4. "What unfolds in his works is not a multitude of characters and fates in a single objective world, illuminated by a single authorial consciousness; rather a plurality of consciousnesses, with equal rights and each with its own world, combine but are not merged in the unity of the event."

*5. "Explaining metaphysics to the nation –
I wish he would explain his Explanation."

6. "Count No 'Count"

7. "Before [him] there had only been good and bad characters, deliverers and traitors, saints and blasphemers, in literature; here the hero is saint and fool in one and the same person."

8. "It is a better and a wiser thing to be a starved apothecary than a starved poet; so back to the shop [sir], back to plasters, pills, and ointment boxes."

*9. "Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks."

*10. "A beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain."

*11. "[He] was perhaps the first great nonstop literary drinker of the American nineteenth century. He made the indulgences of Coleridge and De Quincey seem like a bit of mischief in the kitchen with the cooking sherry."

*12. "[He] did a great many notable things for his country…it is not the idea of this memoir to ignore that or cover it up. No; the simple idea of it is to snub those pretentious maxims of his, which he worked up with a great show of originality out of truisms that had become wearisome platitudes as early as the dispersion from Babel."

I should probably add that one or two of the names might not necessarily rank as "literary." Or maybe they do; I suppose it depends on how stuffy you are on the subject.

8. Keats?

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Originally Posted by prendrelemick

8. Keats?

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Correct, sir.

11. Edgar Allan Poe.? There are many famous drunken American writers but Poe was definitely 19th century.

Wonder if the first one refers to Hemingway. He seemed to keep the vocab simple.

Poe and Hemingway are both correct. Doing good, folks.

I might add that the third quote came from an interview, which explains why that 'you' is in there.

9. Is intriguing "Local blacks" suggest an American like Mark Twain, but "Georgian" suggests pre revolution or British.

12. Wild guess time. Is it an ungenerous discription of Winston Churchill.

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Originally Posted by prendrelemick

9. Is intriguing "Local blacks" suggest an American like Mark Twain, but "Georgian" suggests pre revolution or British.

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I am outraged by your suggestion that Georgians are considered something other than American. I demand satisfaction, sir. Pistols, 6 o'clock. Gilliatt shall serve as my second.

Winston Churchill is incorrect. Funny, you just took a stab at the two individuals whose inclusion under the 'literary' title seemed most dubious--one because he's better known as a statesman, the other for the type of stories that he wrote.

6. Tolstoy?

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Originally Posted by Basil

I am outraged by your suggestion that Georgians are considered something other than American. I demand satisfaction, sir. Pistols, 6 o'clock. Gilliatt shall serve as my second.

Winston Churchill is incorrect. Funny, you just took a stab at the two individuals whose inclusion under the 'literary' title seemed most dubious--one because he's better known as a statesman, the other for the type of stories that he wrote.

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Not a subject of the Hanovarian Kings then.:biggrin5: Tell Gilliatt to keep his head down - I'm a lousy shot.



9. Joel Chandler Harris. (Ok I admit to Googling, but only after I thought of Uncle Remus.)

Joel Chandler Harris is correct, Tolstoy is not. I have a sneaking suspicion I'm going to have to give a clue for 6, since there really isn't anything there to enable one to "figure it out."

Sorry I blew up like that, Mick; I'm very sensitive about my Georgian heritage, particularly our origins as a debtor's colony. Idril brings it up all the time, and it's a source of great friction between us.

So to recap:

1. "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." Ernest Hemingway
2. "He was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it."
3. "About eight years or so ago, Valentine's Day, I seem to remember, you received an extremely bad review…and this review, unlike most bad reviews, came accompanied with a very large advance."
4. "What unfolds in his works is not a multitude of characters and fates in a single objective world, illuminated by a single authorial consciousness; rather a plurality of consciousnesses, with equal rights and each with its own world, combine but are not merged in the unity of the event."
5. "Explaining metaphysics to the nation –
   I wish he would explain his Explanation."
6. "Count No 'Count"
7. "Before [him] there had only been good and bad characters, deliverers and traitors, saints and blasphemers, in literature; here the hero is saint and fool in one and the same person."
8. "It is a better and a wiser thing to be a starved apothecary than a starved poet; so back to the shop [sir], back to plasters, pills, and ointment boxes." John Keats
9. "Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks." Joel Chandler Harris
10. "A beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain."
11. "[He] was perhaps the first great nonstop literary drinker of the American nineteenth century. He made the indulgences of Coleridge and De Quincey seem like a bit of mischief in the kitchen with the cooking sherry." Edgar Allan Poe
12. "[He] did a great many notable things for his country…it is not the idea of this memoir to ignore that or cover it up. No; the simple idea of it is to snub those pretentious maxims of his, which he worked up with a great show of originality out of truisms that had become wearisome platitudes as early as the dispersion from Babel."

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Originally Posted by Basil

...I demand satisfaction, sir. Pistols, 6 o'clock. Gilliatt shall serve as my second.

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Originally Posted by prendrelemick

..Tell Gilliatt to keep his head down - I'm a lousy shot.
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I'll bring the M1 Carbine for this one.

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Originally Posted by Basil

So to recap:
[*]"Count No 'Count"[*]"Before [him] there had only been good and bad characters, deliverers and traitors, saints and blasphemers, in literature; here the hero is saint and fool in one and the same person."

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6. Is it Mina Murray resisting the advances of the Count (Dracula)?

7. Perhaps Prince Myshkin from Dostevsky's The Idiot? or Alyosha Karamozov?

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Sorry, Gilliatt, I should have been more precise when laying out the quiz: these quotes refer to actual writers, not literary characters. The word author would have been a much better choice than the slightly murky term literary figure.

I don't actually own any firearms, but I am the assigned armorer for my unit--I could possibly get my hands on the Ma Deuce.

I'll repost the list, since we've carried over a page:

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Originally Posted by Basil

1. "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." Ernest Hemingway
2. "He was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it." Milton
3. "About eight years or so ago, Valentine's Day, I seem to remember, you received an extremely bad review…and this review, unlike most bad reviews, came accompanied with a very large advance."
4. "What unfolds in his works is not a multitude of characters and fates in a single objective world, illuminated by a single authorial consciousness; rather a plurality of consciousnesses, with equal rights and each with its own world, combine but are not merged in the unity of the event."
5. "Explaining metaphysics to the nation –
   I wish he would explain his Explanation."
6. "Count No 'Count"
7. "Before [him] there had only been good and bad characters, deliverers and traitors, saints and blasphemers, in literature; here the hero is saint and fool in one and the same person."
8. "It is a better and a wiser thing to be a starved apothecary than a starved poet; so back to the shop [sir], back to plasters, pills, and ointment boxes." John Keats
9. "Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks." Joel Chandler Harris
10. "A beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." Percy Shelley
11. "[He] was perhaps the first great nonstop literary drinker of the American nineteenth century. He made the indulgences of Coleridge and De Quincey seem like a bit of mischief in the kitchen with the cooking sherry." Edgar Allan Poe
12. "[He] did a great many notable things for his country…it is not the idea of this memoir to ignore that or cover it up. No; the simple idea of it is to snub those pretentious maxims of his, which he worked up with a great show of originality out of truisms that had become wearisome platitudes as early as the dispersion from Babel."

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2. Byron

I was thinking Byron for number 10. "Ineffectual Angel" is ringing bells somewhere in my head and putting me in mind of those Romantic poets Coleridge-Keats-Shelly-Blake-Byron.

IF Byron is number 2, and as he was mad bad and dangerous to know it is likely, and Keats has already gone, and Blake was no Angel of any kind, then Shelly for number 10.

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Originally Posted by Basil

Sorry I blew up like that, Mick; I'm very sensitive about my Georgian heritage, particularly our origins as a debtor's colony.

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Phew, (Takes off Kevlar boiler suit.) I'm a Yorkshireman - I understand. Here in Merry Old England, Georgian refers to a period, rather than a place.

Number 2 isn't Byron, but Shelley is correct for 10.

7. Could be refering to Gatsby, so Scott Fitzgerald ?

Not Fitzgerald. The first few words of that clue are key.

2. Milton.

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Originally Posted by Basil

Not Fitzgerald. The first few words of that clue are key.

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Dostoevsky?