I think this is more like what he's looking for, Mike *casually drop woolly jumper over dithyramb*
Dirthyamb - a gentle way of breaking the news that there is shortage of yams. As I am very fond of yams, there is no way gentle enough, and the whole thing is just too horrible to contemplate - so I won't.
Oh, and *fling eyes at David* - banging on about the Admiral and what he's been getting up to at seti... when I'm locked out... is not helpful *retrieve eyes* at all.
Then I feel fortunate that I am not aware of a shortage of yams (or yambs) to tell you about.
What Admiral was up to was largely irrelevant, since the clues I gave related almost entirely to what you posted here.
Meanwhile, you haven't been up to anything over there today. And I'm going to bed now, so if you make a guess there at this point, you'll have to wait some ten hours for me to respond.
But take heart. In just your last two guesses combined, you had all the letters right, two of them twice.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
DITHYRAMB - a male sheep with two thyroid glands as in "does he have a good pair or what?" :-))
{ my sister is a sheep grazier over in Western Australia, she reckons they are always on the lookout for a ram with two good ..... errr ... thyroids !! BTW if any of you are wearing wool there is a slight chance that it was grown in Boyup Brook }
Cheers, Mike.
Well, the definition is totally different than what I have:
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noun
1. any wildly enthusiastic speech or writing.
2. a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
but you have the right word, so you win.
OOoooops. I won. I was only trying to be silly. I could see 'thyr' in there and went for it. :-)
Hmmm sort of dysrhythmic : as in "we asked Mike to sing but he was disrhyrambic". As in not-rhythmic so 'we throttled Mike before he could continue with any dysrhyrambic singing". In self defence of course. Dionysus ? Oh DITHYRAMBIC Dennis the singing sheep herder. Shepherd. Oh that's why they have sheepdogs - to rip the throat out of any shepherds if they try to sing. Pre-emptively if his name is Mike.Did I mention that I couldn't sing ? Possibly not. I can sing in dreams though, those dreams where I am God and have special arrangements in place for anyone in my dreams that poorly appreciates good music.Now that I think of it here has been a drop in attendance figures for my dreams. Gate takings are right down.It'll be because I'm not singing enough .... yes that's it, fewer people are attending to my dreams ..... I'll sort that out.I'll have to think of a new puzzle word. Hey maybe I could sing it to them .... do talk amongst yourselves ( I am ) and look up the word 'solipsism' while you're at it.Disrhombus - not quite a rhombus. A singing rhombus ..... a rhombus wannabee. A rhombus that couldn't cut it on X-Factor. Rhombus loser.Arhythmic rhombus what a bombus ... sir, step away from the rhombus. Place the rhombus on the ground then kneel facing away from me. Lie down at the side of the rhombus .... don't touch the rhombus or I'll taser you. Place your hands behind your back and no singing.If you had brought your rhombus up properly in a good orthogonal family of shapes then we wouldn't be here tonite. The arrest warrant was issue by .... stop singing ! Hey. Good acting. Do you think anyone has read this far ? I think we're off camera now. You can get up if you want ... I didn't mean all that. I do like your rhombus. Really, I do. I'm going on holidays in two days time and not a bloody day too soon ....
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Why do the words physician heal thyself suddenly jump to mind :-))) Bit of a mystery really like Mikes disappearing text. Curiouser and curiouser said Alice!
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Where did THAT come from? I didn't see that... if I had I would not have traumatised myself over yambs. *glare in general direction of Earth*
So Mike won - and I didn't even congratulate him..... *trapezoid his rhombus... on purpose* oh no... oh dear... I am sorry :)
I'm a big fan of disappearing text, Chris... and Mike seems particularly good at it... I'm also a fan of invisible text - I used quite a bit of it in a previous TLPTWTPPPFT thread I was in charge of and no one noticed heh heh heh :) I would definitely say he needs that holiday though :)
I hope you slept well David :) I also hope to be over at seti in a bit - after I've seen what has been going on in potatoland...
Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.
I'm a big fan of disappearing text, Chris... and Mike seems particularly good at it... I
There is a lot of that in the small print of contracts Annnie .....
The Party of the first part hereby grants all rights to the first born male child and the sum of one thousand pounds consideration for services provided which will not fix the issue to date.
Where did THAT come from? I didn't see that... if I had I would not have traumatised myself over yambs. *glare in general direction of Earth*
So Mike won - and I didn't even congratulate him..... *trapezoid his rhombus... on purpose* oh no... oh dear... I am sorry :)
I'm a big fan of disappearing text, Chris... and Mike seems particularly good at it... I'm also a fan of invisible text - I used quite a bit of it in a previous TLPTWTPPPFT thread I was in charge of and no one noticed heh heh heh :) I would definitely say he needs that holiday though :)
I hope you slept well David :) I also hope to be over at seti in a bit - after I've seen what has been going on in potatoland...
I slept adequately, if not well, thanks.
I also used a bit of invisible text a few posts back and you didn't notice.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go make a parallelogram into a dodecahedron.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
We don't have those anymore ... we round up/down to the nearest $30 note instead.
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*trapezoid his rhombus... on purpose*
Glare through [strike]goblet[/strike] [strike]giblet[/strike] [strike]gimlet[/strike] oh stuff it : really narrow and suspicious eyes with a layer of malfeasance eyebrows looming like a monolithic overhang upon the psyche of the psycho ...... OK a generally unhappy look, right ? You do not muck about with the alignment of my rhombusi ( plural of rhombus, not officially but given that they are mine I'll call them what I want )! oooh isn't Micky Poo in a mood today. Mod in a mood ? It is so hard to fococusus when my Northern Beach Sojourn ( the 2012 solar eclipse place ) beckons.
FWIW Annnie : I have no idea what David was on about, what with an Admiral sitting in a goose nest etc. That, I will emphasise, was no help in the solution { so that's two of us }. Actually I like you with three N's Annnie. Adds gravitas, poise and flair. Not you average Annie but the unique sort which is a cut above all those other A******s. Make I call you Annnie ?
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parallelogram into a dodecahedron
Brilliant ! I now have a plan for the new word. Something fiendishly geometric and obtuse like 'Calabi-Yau subspace closure' or likewise poncy-highbrow-my-IQ-is-higher-than-your-IQ type of word. Speaking of IQ's : most of us have an IQ somewhere b/w Stephen Hawking and Sam The Sentient Spud { can you guess* which has the higher ? }.
Cheers, Mike.
* if you are unsure on this aspect then, as they say in the classics, welcome to the supermarket vegetable bin. FWIW IQ tests only really measure how much people give a crap about the IQ test. It is very ironic ( perhaps the multi-mega-solar-mass-black-hole of irony ) that such circularity was missed for ever so many years by the clever people. I remember some 35+ years ago the Melbourne wing of the [strike]dysfunctional lunatic group called the [/strike] Mensa Society was publicly challenged to complete the numerical sequence 97 35 62 __ __ : after several months of failed attempts it was revealed that it could be completed by referring to their phone number per the public listing. :-)
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: *look suspiciously at
)
Then I feel fortunate that I am not aware of a shortage of yams (or yambs) to tell you about.
What Admiral was up to was largely irrelevant, since the clues I gave related almost entirely to what you posted here.
Meanwhile, you haven't been up to anything over there today. And I'm going to bed now, so if you make a guess there at this point, you'll have to wait some ten hours for me to respond.
But take heart. In just your last two guesses combined, you had all the letters right, two of them twice.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: RE: DITHYRAMB - a
)
OOoooops. I won. I was only trying to be silly. I could see 'thyr' in there and went for it. :-)
Hmmm sort of dysrhythmic : as in "we asked Mike to sing but he was disrhyrambic". As in not-rhythmic so 'we throttled Mike before he could continue with any dysrhyrambic singing". In self defence of course. Dionysus ? Oh DITHYRAMBIC Dennis the singing sheep herder. Shepherd. Oh that's why they have sheepdogs - to rip the throat out of any shepherds if they try to sing. Pre-emptively if his name is Mike. Did I mention that I couldn't sing ? Possibly not. I can sing in dreams though, those dreams where I am God and have special arrangements in place for anyone in my dreams that poorly appreciates good music. Now that I think of it here has been a drop in attendance figures for my dreams. Gate takings are right down. It'll be because I'm not singing enough .... yes that's it, fewer people are attending to my dreams ..... I'll sort that out. I'll have to think of a new puzzle word. Hey maybe I could sing it to them .... do talk amongst yourselves ( I am ) and look up the word 'solipsism' while you're at it. Disrhombus - not quite a rhombus. A singing rhombus ..... a rhombus wannabee. A rhombus that couldn't cut it on X-Factor. Rhombus loser. Arhythmic rhombus what a bombus ... sir, step away from the rhombus. Place the rhombus on the ground then kneel facing away from me. Lie down at the side of the rhombus .... don't touch the rhombus or I'll taser you. Place your hands behind your back and no singing. If you had brought your rhombus up properly in a good orthogonal family of shapes then we wouldn't be here tonite. The arrest warrant was issue by .... stop singing ! Hey. Good acting. Do you think anyone has read this far ? I think we're off camera now. You can get up if you want ... I didn't mean all that. I do like your rhombus. Really, I do. I'm going on holidays in two days time and not a bloody day too soon ....
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Why do the words physician
)
Why do the words physician heal thyself suddenly jump to mind :-))) Bit of a mystery really like Mikes disappearing text. Curiouser and curiouser said Alice!
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Where did THAT come from? I
)
Where did THAT come from? I didn't see that... if I had I would not have traumatised myself over yambs. *glare in general direction of Earth*
So Mike won - and I didn't even congratulate him..... *trapezoid his rhombus... on purpose* oh no... oh dear... I am sorry :)
I'm a big fan of disappearing text, Chris... and Mike seems particularly good at it... I'm also a fan of invisible text - I used quite a bit of it in a previous TLPTWTPPPFT thread I was in charge of and no one noticed heh heh heh :) I would definitely say he needs that holiday though :)
I hope you slept well David :) I also hope to be over at seti in a bit - after I've seen what has been going on in potatoland...
Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.
RE: I'm a big fan of
)
There is a lot of that in the small print of contracts Annnie .....
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
RE: RE: I'm a big fan of
)
The Party of the first part hereby grants all rights to the first born male child and the sum of one thousand pounds consideration for services provided which will not fix the issue to date.
RE: Where did THAT come
)
I slept adequately, if not well, thanks.
I also used a bit of invisible text a few posts back and you didn't notice.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go make a parallelogram into a dodecahedron.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: RE: I'm a big fan of
)
I see you have improved my name... thank you! :)
Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.
RE: I also used a bit of
)
There is no answer to that is there folks!!
My pleasure I can assure you.
YYs U R YYs U B 4 I C U R YYs 4 Me
Chriiss
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
We don't have those anymore
)
We don't have those anymore ... we round up/down to the nearest $30 note instead.
Glare through [strike]goblet[/strike] [strike]giblet[/strike] [strike]gimlet[/strike] oh stuff it : really narrow and suspicious eyes with a layer of malfeasance eyebrows looming like a monolithic overhang upon the psyche of the psycho ...... OK a generally unhappy look, right ? You do not muck about with the alignment of my rhombusi ( plural of rhombus, not officially but given that they are mine I'll call them what I want )! oooh isn't Micky Poo in a mood today. Mod in a mood ? It is so hard to fococusus when my Northern Beach Sojourn ( the 2012 solar eclipse place ) beckons.
FWIW Annnie : I have no idea what David was on about, what with an Admiral sitting in a goose nest etc. That, I will emphasise, was no help in the solution { so that's two of us }. Actually I like you with three N's Annnie. Adds gravitas, poise and flair. Not you average Annie but the unique sort which is a cut above all those other A******s. Make I call you Annnie ?
Brilliant ! I now have a plan for the new word. Something fiendishly geometric and obtuse like 'Calabi-Yau subspace closure' or likewise poncy-highbrow-my-IQ-is-higher-than-your-IQ type of word. Speaking of IQ's : most of us have an IQ somewhere b/w Stephen Hawking and Sam The Sentient Spud { can you guess* which has the higher ? }.
Cheers, Mike.
* if you are unsure on this aspect then, as they say in the classics, welcome to the supermarket vegetable bin. FWIW IQ tests only really measure how much people give a crap about the IQ test. It is very ironic ( perhaps the multi-mega-solar-mass-black-hole of irony ) that such circularity was missed for ever so many years by the clever people. I remember some 35+ years ago the Melbourne wing of the [strike]dysfunctional lunatic group called the [/strike] Mensa Society was publicly challenged to complete the numerical sequence 97 35 62 __ __ : after several months of failed attempts it was revealed that it could be completed by referring to their phone number per the public listing. :-)
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal