by Prop » 10 Jul 2022 Read
LDS wrote:Cliff Thorburn?
Nope.
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by SnookerEd25 » 11 Jul 2022 Read
Prop wrote:LDS wrote:Cliff Wilson?
I like it, it works, but it’s not right.
Cliff Wilson is always right. If it’s not, the question is wrong
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by Prop » 11 Jul 2022 Read
SnookerEd25 wrote:Prop wrote:LDS wrote:Cliff Wilson?
I like it, it works, but it’s not right.
Cliff Wilson is always right. If it’s not, the question is wrong
You’ve got a point
Right then. New day new clue and all that. Think in terms of speech.
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by McManusFan » 11 Jul 2022 Read
Stu(arhhhh)t Bingham?
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by Prop » 11 Jul 2022 Read
McManusFan wrote:Stu(arhhhh)t Bingham?
We’re getting warmer…
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by Prop » 12 Jul 2022 Read
Again, McManusfan gets very close. Maybe a quick trawl of the rankings section on snooker.org might be all it takes for someone to get this one. It’ll be obvious when you see it.
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by Prop » 14 Jul 2022 Read
You’re looking for a young Irishman.
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by Prop » 14 Jul 2022 Read
LDS wrote:Aaron Hill?
“AAR!” on hill
Correct
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by LDS » 14 Jul 2022 Read
Lol. Nice one.
Since it's deadly quiet at the moment I'll take my turn to stir things up for a bit and suggest that mountains and hills are two completely separate entities, each with their own breadth of terminology.
Though I've no doubt no-one except possibly HappyCamper would know the precise definition of when one stops and the other begins.
I'll do another clue once everyone's finished two centing this, if anyone does.
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by McManusFan » 14 Jul 2022 Read
Dunno about separate. I'd probably say a mountain was a subset of hill, so hill over a certain size are mountains.
There was that film with Colm Meany in it, "The man who walked up a hill and walked down a mountain" or something like that. It was all about height I believe.
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by Iranu » 14 Jul 2022 Read
I think it’s dependent on how much Hugh Grant likes the people of the local town.
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by HappyCamper » 14 Jul 2022 Read
McManusFan wrote:Dunno about separate. I'd probably say a mountain was a subset of hill, so hill over a certain size are mountains.
There was that film with Colm Meany in it, "The man who walked up a hill and walked down a mountain" or something like that. It was all about height I believe.
the englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain. about a fictional welsh village where the villagers try to get their hill classified as a mountain by building an earth mound on top to increase the height.
but yes, there is no universal agreed on definition. usually just some arbitrary height.
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by Prop » 14 Jul 2022 Read
For the purposes of the quiz, it’s the association that’s key. You get to the hill after being presented with the mountain. A bit like a clue with ‘sheep’ in it, for Ben Woolaston.
But yeah. They’re two different things for me. In my mind’s eye, a hill is grassy, pleasant and not at all unwelcoming. Whereas a mountain brings up images of dangerous cliff faces, razor sharp slate rocks and stranded hikers, circled by birds of prey and a rescue helicopter.
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by LDS » 15 Jul 2022 Read
Don't worry, I haven't gone mad (well, maybe), thought I'd try something new, so the key to solving this clue will be in breaking the code!
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by Prop » 15 Jul 2022 Read
Ryan Day
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by Iranu » 15 Jul 2022 Read
The code seems to be Mark Key that’s all I got
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by LDS » 15 Jul 2022 Read
Not Day and not King, as Iranu has correctly worked out, now, if you can just finish it off by guessing the player from the clue words!
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by Prop » 15 Jul 2022 Read
Mark Allen then?
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by Prop » 15 Jul 2022 Read
Sincere apologies to ‘wanu.
Right then, continuing the theme:
Mirror Zhgilmzfg
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by Prop » 16 Jul 2022 Read
I think we might be here a while. So I’ll solve a letter, and I expect that’ll set things rolling.
Mirror Ahgilmafg
Edit: Forgot to add ‘mirror’, which is a hint to the method of decryption.
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by Prop » 16 Jul 2022 Read
LDS wrote:Dominic Dale, as the clue leads to Astronaut, the spaceman!
Excellent work, sir
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by Iranu » 19 Jul 2022 Read
Fergal O’Brien
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