bumblebee Posted June 14, 2014 Author Share Posted June 14, 2014 E Afraid not Patrick. Any reason why you chose E? Quote Link to comment
Patrick Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 Well reading from the bottom line up SSENT repeats on the third line up, so I applied the same rule to the second line ETTFF. OK back to the drawing board. Quote Link to comment
bumblebee Posted June 14, 2014 Author Share Posted June 14, 2014 Well reading from the bottom line up SSENT repeats on the third line up, so I applied the same rule to the second line ETTFF. OK back to the drawing board. It could be a long evening, I am sure there are better things you could be doing on Saturday night. Quote Link to comment
Patrick Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 Sure is the Monthly meet of the Melbourne Soul Club KTF Quote Link to comment
williethepimp Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 What is the missing letter in this logical sequence? Give a reason for your answer, cheers. - T T F F S S E N T E T T F F S S E N T O...easy peasy BB.....as easy as one,two three Quote Link to comment
pdogg Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 Looks like E to me so I guess Patrick and I are missing something. Quote Link to comment
williethepimp Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 Looks like E to me so I guess Patrick and I are missing something. O,its the initial letters of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 etc.....O=one.... which word written in capitals reads the same backwards,forwards and upside down? Quote Link to comment
williethepimp Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 SWIMS hhaa...i never thought of that one.....mine was NOON Quote Link to comment
pdogg Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 I, O,S, H,Z,X,and N are the same upside down. Hefe discovered a cool W-M combo that will work too. Quote Link to comment
Lefty Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 O,its the initial letters of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 etc.....O=one.... which word written in capitals reads the same backwards,forwards and upside down? Never mind Quote Link to comment
bumblebee Posted June 14, 2014 Author Share Posted June 14, 2014 O...easy peasy BB.....as easy as one,two three Spot on Willie. I can just picture you getting down to the J5. Quote Link to comment
williethepimp Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 since we're playing word games......heres something mildly amusing....weird al yankovitch doing Dylan's sub homesick blues in palindromes... 1 Quote Link to comment
SiamSam Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 Yes very amusing. Thank you. Quote Link to comment
Hefe Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 That song was really clever willie. My favorite has always been "Able was I ere I saw Elba" but that song had some real pips. Speaking of words I'm always interested in the origin of common sayings, like "rule of thumb" or "made it from scratch". Of course since we have several countries represented these probably aren't common but of regional usage. One of the more interesting ones, & forgive me if I posted this previously, is "and the whole 9 yards" as in "I went to the sale for one section but ended up with the whole nine yards." Growing up in New York City I never heard this term but when I transplanted to the midwest US it was in common & constant usage & I always assumed it referred to a football game. It was universal in the various other places throughout the country that I darkened with my shadow through the years as well . Here's the great thing: nobody knows what it means or what it refers to or it's origin. Lots of speculation & theories but they're all guesses. And it's not because it's lost in the distant haze of antiquity, the earliest known usage of it in print is from an obscure magazine in the late 1950s. Fascinating.... A term in constant usage of recent origin & nobody knows what it actually refers to or where it came from. (And apologies again if those of you outside the US never heard the term.) Quote Link to comment
pdogg Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 I used to like reading Safire's On Language column in the Sunday Times. When I got the Times delivered I could read it on Saturday or maybe I'd read it on Monday since it was more portable than the rest of the paper. I'm reckon you were a fan too Hefe. I won't hold it against him that he was part of the Nixon Whitehouse. Here's a collection of On Language, the most recent written by Ben Zimmer who is new to me. But it can be sorted Oldest First. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/features/magazine/columns/on_language/index.html Quote Link to comment
williethepimp Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 The original vid had weird al doing the song with captions written on cardboard like bob dylan did in the original sub homesick blues vid....i think his lawyers had it removed.............. seeing this is the trivia quiz thread.......what was the first palindrome ever uttered...? (its in the video) Quote Link to comment
pdogg Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 There are two countries in South America that do not border Brazil. Name them. Quote Link to comment
SiamSam Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 There are 2, perhaps 3: Chile, Ecuador, and the Falklands. Do the Falklands count? Quote Link to comment
pdogg Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 There are 2, perhaps 3: Chile, Ecuador, and the Falklands. Do the Falklands count? Correctomundo Mr Sam! Are the Falklands are country? Your turn SS. Quote Link to comment
SiamSam Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Hmmmm, no the Falklands are not a separate country under that name but part of the UK so hence my nit-picky-ness. But certainly for continently SA the only two are Chile and Ecuador for sure. Quote Link to comment
williethepimp Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 seeing this is the trivia quiz thread.......what was the first palindrome ever uttered...? (its in the video) seeing that no ones answered ....the 1st palindrome ever was uttered in the Garden of Eden........"madam I'm Adam " Quote Link to comment
bumblebee Posted June 21, 2014 Author Share Posted June 21, 2014 You know too mutt Willie. Quote Link to comment
williethepimp Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 You know too mutt Willie. 555...nah,not too mutt,just enough to keep me out of trouble BB Quote Link to comment
pdogg Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 seeing that no ones answered ....the 1st palindrome ever was uttered in the Garden of Eden........"madam I'm Adam " Good thing they spoke English way back when or we wouldn't have this palindrome, might be something more like uhu uhu uhu. Quote Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.