What to make of what life hands you
(a straightforward extrapolation from conventional wisdom)
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A Roguish Chrestomathy - The black box
the pultaceous wisdom of a word weevil
20 Marts 2008 @ 23:58
The black box
I went from guts to glory (maybe?). That's it. Good thing you know me; you need at least one simple friend.
Oh, I get the rule. I don't get all the examples, though.
I get all but the first. I'd post the ones I got in rot13, but even that might be a little too revealing of the structure.
I think I get the rule, but I also don't get all the examples.
And I think #4 is a little bit cheating.
More so than #2 or #9? I'm just resolving the hiatus.
Not more than 2 I suppose. 9 is one of the ones I didn't get. Also, do you have the last of the three you put up later backwards?
Oh, #9 is my favourite, I think. And no, #12 is the right way round.
#9 is funny, & very blog-appropriate.
I still have all but #1 (which I have a couple of ideas for, but they seem pretty weak). #10 required googling. I'm pleased to see #14 because I came up with it myself while grepping my /usr/share/dict for candidates for #1.
I still have all but #1 (which I have a couple of ideas for, but they seem pretty weak). #10 required googling. I'm pleased to see #14 because I came up with it myself while grepping my /usr/share/dict for candidates for #1.
...grepping my /usr/share/dict for candidates for #1.
Ah, well, that won't help; it's a proper name (which perhaps counts as pretty weak, but I figured it would at least amuse anyone who recognized it).
Not at all sure what that thing on the left in #1 even is. Otherwise, I think I recognize them all but #16--at least, once I decided that that building on the left in #6 really was too large to be a barrack. (Loved #4 and #9!)
Not at all sure what that thing on the left in #1 even is.
That would be Pintsize, the AnthroPC from the brilliant webcomic Questionable Content, by Jeph Jacques (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
qcjeph). (You should read it. God said so.) What's important here, though, is not who he is, but how he's dressed, and what it signifies (a concept for which I could also have used either a blocked garden hose or a British Invasion band).
Oh, okay—thanks. In that case I knew what it should be. Something Awful once did a couple of rather amusing Photoshop parodies of works by the author on the right of #1, in which Cthulhu made a few appearances.
Ah--now that I know that that's an outfit, it makes more sense.
Bravo! I also vote for #9 as the best; I got the example on the left immediately, but took a while on the right until I realize that most of the picture was darkened. And #2 eluded me for a minute because I kept thinking "rotini." I don't know what the guy on the left of #1 is, but I know what it has to be, as the style on the right is unmistakable.
I'm very proud of my self for having gotten 1 without the hints (and for having gotten the rule at all, since I usually suck at these things), but I'm still completely baffled by 8, 9, 10, 12 (apparently), 13, 16, and possibly 6. If 6 is what I think it is, then you way cheated on the spelling.
I think this one is especially hard because there's more than one way to pronounce the modulo. Or is that just because I'm bilangue?
I think this one is especially hard because there's more than one way to pronounce the modulo. Or is that just because I'm bilangue?
Spelling? Who cares about spelling? :-P
Here are some hints for the others:
- The occupation of the man in the portrait is crucial.
- You need to know some neurolinguistics for this one.
- You could just use Google to identify the film. Or it might be helpful to notice that the fish is resting on snow.
- I still don't know what you thought this was when you thought I had it backwards. The chicken doesn't matter, and neither does the bucket; it's all about what's in between.
- If you have the cot/caught merger, you can substitute a piece of celery for the thing on the left.
- There are a few different ways I could have illustrated the input for this one. I chose one of the G-rated options, but the iTunes store would have censored it anyway.
8. still dunno. I don't recognize the dude, so I may have to bring Dave in for help.
9. got it now.
10. the internets have now told me what the output is, and while the input is recoverable from that, it's still meaningless to me. I guess you found a hole in my vocabulary (not hard for you).
12. this hint is entirely consistent with my hypothesis that you had it backwards. I continue to be baffled.
13. Got it now. This is what I thought 12 was.
16. Still no clue.
Oh, and I have one of my own:
9. got it now.
10. the internets have now told me what the output is, and while the input is recoverable from that, it's still meaningless to me. I guess you found a hole in my vocabulary (not hard for you).
12. this hint is entirely consistent with my hypothesis that you had it backwards. I continue to be baffled.
13. Got it now. This is what I thought 12 was.
16. Still no clue.
Oh, and I have one of my own:
- I myself have no idea who the dude is; I only know what he is.
- 10 & 12 may be unfairly disadvantageous to vegetarians. Anyway, this can't be 13 backwards, mostly because the picture on the left doesn't fit what's depicted on the right in 13, but also because the chicken is raw. Only by cooking it would you get what's on the left in 13.
- Rhymes with 13.
And I like your addition. (After reading tahnan's comment about Versailles, I thought about doing this one, and I like your choice for the input.)
The most common pronunciation of #2, right, suggests that the following may also fit in:
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(sorry I couldn't find smaller pictures)
Edited at 2008-03-22 16:37 (UTC)
→ (sorry I couldn't find smaller pictures)
Edited at 2008-03-22 16:37 (UTC)
I was assuming a British pronunciation for 2, but I like this addition.
I like this one too, although it fits my pronunciation of 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13, and 15, and not my (less standard?) pronunciation of 2 (obligatorily) and 5 and 9 (optionally)
The final vowel I use for all but 2 (and maybe 5 and 9) is /ej/. This is the same vowel I use in the above example. The vowel I use for 2 (and 5 and 9) is /a/.