You've solved my word and I've (I think) solved your word. Who's going next? I suggest Mike.
Oh yes, I forgot to tell you that didn't I :) You were correct. It always seemed strange to me that whilst noshing an apple the leaves you'd grab would be fig, and how anyone could get them to stick. I've tried... they just don't unless you strategically recline... but the glue solves both annoying little problems..
I suggest Mike too
:)
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You've solved my word and I've (I think) solved your word. Who's going next? I suggest Mike.
Oh yes, I forgot to tell you that didn't I :) You were correct. It always seemed strange to me that whilst noshing an apple the leaves you'd grab would be fig, and how anyone could get them to stick. I've tried... they just don't unless you strategically recline... but the glue solves both annoying little problems..
I suggest Mike too
:)
I'll send him a PM, in case he's not paying attention.
I do have a doozie of a word ready to go, though.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
( edit ) I'll give one context clue : Isaac Newton
Okay... well I'll give you one in-context definition:
HibernatorScoch - his favourite autumn tipple.
And one knowledge-expansion fact:
Isaac only ever used one T per word. It has been postulated that if his surname had included two T's, he may have been more flexible, but it didn't so he wasn't.
There we go ;) Solved!
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ChinCharBooster - hairy filaments used to disguise the sudden and surprising loss of ones beard during scientific experiments
ChinerBachRoost - what the wealthy used to perch composers and musicians
on (in their studies and drawing rooms and generally dotted all
over their mansions) in the days before sound could be recorded and played back at whim.
ShinOorbThracce - olden-day form of the modern hockeystick... allegedly for use on vaguely round things, but more often weaponised as a lower leg basher, and sometimes head caver-in-er
BortShoccinHare - derived from Newton's dining-table anecdote about a purchase of what was meant to be a pet rabbit but wasn't
Now I have to go buy a shaver...but first I will make you a list
I think hibernatorscoch deserves 10 style points. Isaac was rather a recluse, and went through an alchemical phase too, so could well have imbibed a wee dram.
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
That's another way of saying it's wrong, isn't it...
Thank you :)
[pre]
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
A - - - - - - x - - - - - - - -
B - - - - - - - - x - - - - - -
CC x - - - x - - - - - - - - - -
E - - - - - - - - - - - - - x -
HH - x - - - x - - - - - - - - -
I - - x - - - - - - - - - - - -
N - - - x - - - - - - - - - - -
OO - - - - - - - - - x x - - - -
RR - - - - - - - x - - - - - - x
S - - - - - - - - - - - x - - -
T - - - - - - - - - - - - x - -
3 x x x x e r b a c h r o o s t 1
1 h i b e r n x t o r s c o c h 3
4 s x x x o o r b t h r a c c e 1
5 b o r t s x o c c i n h a r e 2
2 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x 0
[/pre]
There.
Here...
Bachtrhinecoros - formidable relative of the African rhinoceros indigenous to a stretch of the Rhine (near modern day Cologne) but now extinct. Apparently *look up from fact extension dictionary* they were drawn to the music of Bach, specifically his Brandenburg Concerto in D major which (during a little-to-not-at-all-publicised visit to the area, shortly before or after he died) Newton whistled in B minor, shocking the poor creatures into forgetting to come up for air. No wonder it's not common knowledge...
HashbCorrection - to incorrectly correct something that wasn't incorrect, but becomes incorrect due to it having been incorrectly corrected. It's comforting to know clever people do stupid things sometimes, isn't it? :) I wonder what he got wrong that he'd got right to start with
ChrronicToeBash - say no more. The apple must have hit his foot if it hit anything at all.
HborschReaction - (again demonstrating his T aversion) Newton's discovery that he didn't like soup when it was made out of beetroot. Interestingly, or perhaps not... I don't like beetroot made out of beetroot. It makes pretty, pink-crusted bread though so I wouldn't go so far as to eradicate it from the planet or anything.
AbhorrentChocis - aversion therapy practised by Isaac Newton when he realised that chocolate (invented by Aztecs some 3000 years before he was born and which he mysteriously knew about) might have detrimental rotundish sagging effects on the body after he invented gravity and stopped things floating about the place.
EarthioscBornch - refers to the squashing effect that gravity has on species that evolved without it and then found themselves in it
I'll put a fifteen down here for you so that you can paste it into the square brackets above... save you having to do that process of elimination thing you do with numbers over four
-> 15 <- there it is!
Oh you're very, very welcome!! :)
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I'm gonna hit you with 5 style points each of 6 through 11. Such fine quality.
HashbCorrection is especially interesting. It's a contraction on HashTagCorrection of course. Now 20 years ago ( cue vision of elderly male rocking chair on porch, polishing shotgun barrel, white hair and evil squint ) when I wuz yung : who wood have thunk it that sending a message of 128 or whatever characters via electric telephony devices become so popular ? Has the human race dropped out of the contest or what ?
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
Has the human race dropped out of the contest or what ?
erm... *look round thread...
...then at Mike*
Yes.
It definitely looks like it.
Never mind :)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
A - x - - - - x - - x - - x - -
B - x - - x - - - x - - x - - -
CC x - - - x x - x - - x - - - -
E - - - - - - - - x x x - - x -
HH x x - x - x x - - - - - - - x
I - - x - - - x - - - - - x - -
N - - - x - x - - - - - - - - x
OO - - x - x - x - - x x - - x -
RR - - x x - - - x x - - - - - x
S - - x - x - - - - - - x - x -
T - - - - - - - - x - - x x - -
11 e - - t h i - s c b - r n c - 3
1 - i b e r - - t o r s c o c - 3
10 a - h o r r e n - c h o c i s 2
5 b o r t s - o c c i n h a r e 2
4 s - - - - o r b - h r a c c e 1
3 - - - - e r b a c - r o o - t 1
6. b - c - t r - i n - c o r o s 1
2 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x 0
9 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x 0
8 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x 0
7 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x 0
[/pre]
Unfortunately, I made up came across these before reading your evaluation of my previously tendered words, Mike *discourteous blink*. Assuming you've not made an error somewhere *elevate several doubtful eyebrows at once* I probably shouldn't bother posting them, but as wild leaps of faith are not my strong point at the moment, I've decided to post them just in case.
Brachiostorench - experiment devised by Newton to test whether or not his work on gravity was successful. Involved climbing trees and other large herbaceous plantlife and then flinging himself at spindly branches to see if he and them would hit the ground or not.
SorbetChinchaor - (pronounced sore-bay-chin-cha-uh) Isaac's gravity experiments with fruit-flavoured ices on hot days became the basis on which a well-known square dance was choreographed, and enjoyed by English nobility to fill their time with after their servants had finished getting them dressed.
aSnortBichoerhc - (pronounced: a-snort-be-cor-she) refers to Newton's dabbling with optics. Inspired by his explorations into the properties of HibernatorScoch on the vision and how often he spent chatting amiably to coat racks towards the end of autumn.
Obviously, if you are correct then at some point I will redraw my eyebrows, and maybe even apologise for doubting you. Until then, I confidently propose that
AchieBrochnortsis the word you're looking for because it fits perfectly.
Also because it means: a collection of assorted pains experienced by a body (over the age of forty) in motion.
...which sounds very much like something Isaac would have come up with.
Brachiostorench - experiment devised by Newton to test whether or not his work on gravity was successful. Involved climbing trees and other large herbaceous plantlife and then flinging himself at spindly branches to see if he and them would hit the ground or not.
Reminds me of the Adams version of how to fly.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has much to say on flying. There is an art, it says, or rather a knack. The knack is in learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
There are several variations on this, in different books and audio versions. Some point out that you must also not mind when you fail to miss the ground, because you will do that rather a lot. It also goes on about the need for a distraction so that you don't notice that you have missed until after you have missed, and then you need to work very hard at not thinking about what you're doing.
(I still want to know how Arthur and Fenchurch did what they did while flying, though. Seems to me that gravity is rather important in that activity.) (Come (no pun intended (or is it?)) to think of it, though, they did it on the wing of a plane, so they did have a surface (and a lot of wind besides the gravity).)
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: You've solved my word
)
Oh yes, I forgot to tell you that didn't I :) You were correct. It always seemed strange to me that whilst noshing an apple the leaves you'd grab would be fig, and how anyone could get them to stick. I've tried... they just don't unless you strategically recline... but the glue solves both annoying little problems..
I suggest Mike too
:)
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RE: RE: You've solved my
)
I'll send him a PM, in case he's not paying attention.
I do have a doozie of a word ready to go, though.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Ok suckers for punishment,
)
Ok suckers for punishment, here it is :
ABCCEHHINOORRST
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) I'll give one context clue : Isaac Newton
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: Ok suckers for
)
Okay... well I'll give you one in-context definition:
HibernatorScoch - his favourite autumn tipple.
And one knowledge-expansion fact:
Isaac only ever used one T per word. It has been postulated that if his surname had included two T's, he may have been more flexible, but it didn't so he wasn't.
There we go ;) Solved!
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ChinCharBooster - hairy
)
ChinCharBooster - hairy filaments used to disguise the sudden and surprising loss of ones beard during scientific experiments
ChinerBachRoost - what the wealthy used to perch composers and musicians
on (in their studies and drawing rooms and generally dotted all
over their mansions) in the days before sound could be recorded and played back at whim.
ShinOorbThracce - olden-day form of the modern hockeystick... allegedly for use on vaguely round things, but more often weaponised as a lower leg basher, and sometimes head caver-in-er
BortShoccinHare - derived from Newton's dining-table anecdote about a purchase of what was meant to be a pet rabbit but wasn't
Now I have to go buy a shaver...but first I will make you a list
1. hibernatorscoch
2. chincharbooster
3. chinerbachroost
4. shinoorbthracce
5. bortshoccinhare
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Words with number of letters
)
Words with number of letters in correct place :
[pre]1. hibernatorscoch [3]
2. chincharbooster [0]
3. chinerbachroost [1]
4. shinoorbthracce [1]
5. bortshoccinhare [2][/pre]
I think hibernatorscoch deserves 10 style points. Isaac was rather a recluse, and went through an alchemical phase too, so could well have imbibed a wee dram.
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
RE: 10 style
)
That's another way of saying it's wrong, isn't it...
Thank you :)
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B - - - - - - - - x - - - - - -
CC x - - - x - - - - - - - - - -
E - - - - - - - - - - - - - x -
HH - x - - - x - - - - - - - - -
I - - x - - - - - - - - - - - -
N - - - x - - - - - - - - - - -
OO - - - - - - - - - x x - - - -
RR - - - - - - - x - - - - - - x
S - - - - - - - - - - - x - - -
T - - - - - - - - - - - - x - -
3 x x x x e r b a c h r o o s t 1
1 h i b e r n x t o r s c o c h 3
4 s x x x o o r b t h r a c c e 1
5 b o r t s x o c c i n h a r e 2
2 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x 0
[/pre]
There.
Here...
Bachtrhinecoros - formidable relative of the African rhinoceros indigenous to a stretch of the Rhine (near modern day Cologne) but now extinct. Apparently *look up from fact extension dictionary* they were drawn to the music of Bach, specifically his Brandenburg Concerto in D major which (during a little-to-not-at-all-publicised visit to the area, shortly before or after he died) Newton whistled in B minor, shocking the poor creatures into forgetting to come up for air.
No wonder it's not common knowledge...
HashbCorrection - to incorrectly correct something that wasn't incorrect, but becomes incorrect due to it having been incorrectly corrected.
It's comforting to know clever people do stupid things sometimes, isn't it? :) I wonder what he got wrong that he'd got right to start with
ChrronicToeBash - say no more. The apple must have hit his foot if it hit anything at all.
HborschReaction - (again demonstrating his T aversion) Newton's discovery that he didn't like soup when it was made out of beetroot.
Interestingly, or perhaps not... I don't like beetroot made out of beetroot. It makes pretty, pink-crusted bread though so I wouldn't go so far as to eradicate it from the planet or anything.
AbhorrentChocis - aversion therapy practised by Isaac Newton when he realised that chocolate (invented by Aztecs some 3000 years before he was born and which he mysteriously knew about) might have detrimental rotundish sagging effects on the body after he invented gravity and stopped things floating about the place.
EarthioscBornch - refers to the squashing effect that gravity has on species that evolved without it and then found themselves in it
List update is down there...
6. bachtrhinecoros [?]
7. hashbcorrection [?]
8. chrronictoebash [?]
9. hborschreaction [?]
10 abhorrentchocis [?]
11 earthioscbornch [?]
I'll put a fifteen down here for you so that you can paste it into the square brackets above... save you having to do that process of elimination thing you do with numbers over four
-> 15 <- there it is!
Oh you're very, very welcome!! :)
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Using the new fangled
)
Using the new fangled progressive scoreboard :
[pre]1. hibernatorscoch [3]
2. chincharbooster [0]
3. chinerbachroost [1]
4. shinoorbthracce [1]
5. bortshoccinhare [2]
6. bachtrhinecoros [1]
7. hashbcorrection [0]
8. chrronictoebash [0]
9. hborschreaction [0]
10 abhorrentchocis [2]
11 earthioscbornch [3][/pre]
I'm gonna hit you with 5 style points each of 6 through 11. Such fine quality.
HashbCorrection is especially interesting. It's a contraction on HashTagCorrection of course. Now 20 years ago ( cue vision of elderly male rocking chair on porch, polishing shotgun barrel, white hair and evil squint ) when I wuz yung : who wood have thunk it that sending a message of 128 or whatever characters via electric telephony devices become so popular ? Has the human race dropped out of the contest or what ?
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
RE: Has the human race
)
erm... *look round thread...
...then at Mike*
Yes.
It definitely looks like it.
Never mind :)
[pre]
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
A - x - - - - x - - x - - x - -
B - x - - x - - - x - - x - - -
CC x - - - x x - x - - x - - - -
E - - - - - - - - x x x - - x -
HH x x - x - x x - - - - - - - x
I - - x - - - x - - - - - x - -
N - - - x - x - - - - - - - - x
OO - - x - x - x - - x x - - x -
RR - - x x - - - x x - - - - - x
S - - x - x - - - - - - x - x -
T - - - - - - - - x - - x x - -
11 e - - t h i - s c b - r n c - 3
1 - i b e r - - t o r s c o c - 3
10 a - h o r r e n - c h o c i s 2
5 b o r t s - o c c i n h a r e 2
4 s - - - - o r b - h r a c c e 1
3 - - - - e r b a c - r o o - t 1
6. b - c - t r - i n - c o r o s 1
2 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x 0
9 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x 0
8 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x 0
7 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x 0
[/pre]
Unfortunately, I
made upcame across these before reading your evaluation of my previously tendered words, Mike *discourteous blink*. Assuming you've not made an error somewhere *elevate several doubtful eyebrows at once* I probably shouldn't bother posting them, but as wild leaps of faith are not my strong point at the moment, I've decided to post them just in case.Brachiostorench - experiment devised by Newton to test whether or not his work on gravity was successful. Involved climbing trees and other large herbaceous plantlife and then flinging himself at spindly branches to see if he and them would hit the ground or not.
SorbetChinchaor - (pronounced sore-bay-chin-cha-uh) Isaac's gravity experiments with fruit-flavoured ices on hot days became the basis on which a well-known square dance was choreographed, and enjoyed by English nobility to fill their time with after their servants had finished getting them dressed.
aSnortBichoerhc - (pronounced: a-snort-be-cor-she) refers to Newton's dabbling with optics. Inspired by his explorations into the properties of HibernatorScoch on the vision and how often he spent chatting amiably to coat racks towards the end of autumn.
Obviously, if you are correct then at some point I will redraw my eyebrows, and maybe even apologise for doubting you. Until then, I confidently propose that
AchieBrochnorts is the word you're looking for because it fits perfectly.
Also because it means: a collection of assorted pains experienced by a body (over the age of forty) in motion.
...which sounds very much like something Isaac would have come up with.
I filled this in for you
[pre]1. hibernatorscoch [3]
2. chincharbooster [0]
3. chinerbachroost [1]
4. shinoorbthracce [1]
5. bortshoccinhare [2]
6. bachtrhinecoros [1]
7. hashbcorrection [0]
8. chrronictoebash [0]
9. hborschreaction [0]
10 abhorrentchocis [2]
11 earthioscbornch [3]
12 brachiostorench [11]
13 sorbetchinchaor [11]
14 asnortbichoerhc [14]
15 achiebrochnorts [15] [/pre]
...to be helpful
Awww... you're welcome! :)
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RE: Brachiostorench -
)
Reminds me of the Adams version of how to fly.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has much to say on flying. There is an art, it says, or rather a knack. The knack is in learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
There are several variations on this, in different books and audio versions. Some point out that you must also not mind when you fail to miss the ground, because you will do that rather a lot. It also goes on about the need for a distraction so that you don't notice that you have missed until after you have missed, and then you need to work very hard at not thinking about what you're doing.
(I still want to know how Arthur and Fenchurch did what they did while flying, though. Seems to me that gravity is rather important in that activity.) (Come (no pun intended (or is it?)) to think of it, though, they did it on the wing of a plane, so they did have a surface (and a lot of wind besides the gravity).)
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.