by AlfGit » 30 Dec 2021 Read
Prop wrote:Ben Woolaston?
Big Ben, and ‘last on’.
Correct!
Grand > Big > Big
BenFinale > Finale (act) > Last On > Wool
lastonLittle Weed was a character in Bill and Ben.
I said it was a groaner.
All yours, Prop!
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by LDS » 08 Jan 2022 Read
Since we're at a natural breakpoint of a new year, a long gap while waiting for a question, and (about) a quarter of a century of pages since the last tally, I think it's time for a rankings update:
(Previous position in brackets)
No.1 - Prop (1) - 51 wins
2. LDS (2) - 35
3. Chen (2) - 34
4. Iranu (4) - 33
5. Alf (4) - 30
6. McFan (6) - 19
7. Bentley (8) - 5
8. Judd (7) - 4
9. Holden (8) - 2
10. HC (10) - 1
10. Mantrk (10) - 1
Since the last scores update, prop has won the most with 8 new wins, closely followed by Iranu and LDS with 6 and then chen with 5. McFan, Bentley and Alf all gained 3 more.
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by Prop » 08 Jan 2022 Read
rubbish, forgot all about this! Sorry guys. Will have a new one up some time today.
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by Prop » 08 Jan 2022 Read
Eviscerated city
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by Prop » 08 Jan 2022 Read
LDS wrote:Yan Bingtao?
Manchester minus the middle is Master.
A fair crack, but no.
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by Iranu » 08 Jan 2022 Read
Stuart Bingham?
Remove some of the ‘guts’ from Birmingham. Remote Medical Imaging also lets you see into a person’s guts.
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by Prop » 08 Jan 2022 Read
Iranu wrote:Stuart Bingham?
Remove some of the ‘guts’ from Birmingham. Remote Medical Imaging also lets you see into a person’s guts.
Got it
And I’m betting LDS wasn’t far off solving it judging by his last go. Well played.
I didn’t go as far as the RMI bit, just gutted Birmingham to make Bingham. All yours sir!
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by LDS » 09 Jan 2022 Read
Kind of, though it may have been a long time before I got to Birmingham. My next guess would have been Cao Yupeng, being CY, with the IT removed.
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by Prop » 09 Jan 2022 Read
LDS wrote:Kind of, though it may have been a long time before I got to Birmingham. My next guess would have been Cao Yupeng, being CY, with the IT removed.
I was expecting the early attempts to be along the lines of using the word city itself, rather than a specific city. So you did pretty well to immediately set your sights on the correct logic.
I had to think carefully about my reply. If I’d said you were using the correct logic I think you’d have got it within minutes. So I tried to be a bit ambiguous about it, without saying you weren’t using the correct logic and unnecessarily putting you off the scent completely.
Impressive quizzing, all the same.
And I did briefly look for an acronym for RMI to neaten things up. I came up short. Pretty cool that Iranu then found an appropriate one in his own workings
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by Iranu » 11 Jan 2022 Read
Behind Partition
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by McManusFan » 11 Jan 2022 Read
Patrick Wallace? Partition -> Wall, Behind -> ace (clutching at straws there!)
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by Prop » 11 Jan 2022 Read
Chris Wakelin?
A wake is behind a boat etc, and lin could be construed as ‘line’ or a border/partition.
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by Iranu » 11 Jan 2022 Read
Not Wallace or Wakelin
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by McManusFan » 11 Jan 2022 Read
Judd Trump?
Partition -> Divide -> Div -> Judd Trump
Not entirely serious with this one!
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by Prop » 11 Jan 2022 Read
McManusFan wrote:Judd Trump?
Partition -> Divide -> Div -> Judd Trump
Not entirely serious with this one!
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by Prop » 11 Jan 2022 Read
Actually, it could be Judd. But I’m struggling with making it work completely.
T(rump) > rump is the rear/behind.
I just can’t make the association between T and partition.
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by Prop » 11 Jan 2022 Read
Peter Lines?
If you take ‘line’ (partition) out, you’re left with ‘peters’. If something peters out, it fades away, or gets left behind.
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by Iranu » 11 Jan 2022 Read
It’s not Judd
or Lines
McManusfan’s first logic isn’t a million miles away. Think morbid.
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by Prop » 11 Jan 2022 Read
Tom Ford?
He’s as morbid as it gets. Can’t really find the logic though. I suppose a ford could be described as a partition
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by Prop » 11 Jan 2022 Read
Ohh hold on. Ford make a car called an ‘Edge’.
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by Iranu » 11 Jan 2022 Read
Not Ford
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by Prop » 11 Jan 2022 Read
Hmm. When you say morbid, do you mean in terms of someone’s character - gloomy, negative etc - or more literally regarding death and disease?
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by Iranu » 11 Jan 2022 Read
The latter, death specifically.
Brickwork
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by chengdufan » 11 Jan 2022 Read
Ricky Walden
Walled in
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by Prop » 11 Jan 2022 Read
chengdufan wrote:Ricky Walden
Walled in
Welcome back!
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by Iranu » 11 Jan 2022 Read
chengdufan wrote:Ricky Walden
Walled in
What a way to storm back onto the Island
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by chengdufan » 24 Jan 2022 Read
I had totally forgotten about this
Here's a new one:
Cheers House
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by chengdufan » 24 Jan 2022 Read
LDS wrote:Cliff Wilson
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