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FrankieHeck wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 5:16 pm

Cindy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 3:55 pm

BrianMac wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 3:01 pm I just realized I submitted the wrong answer. I think a fair number of people are going to be unpleasantly surprised tomorrow.

Did we get pageanted?

Maybe he got hammed.

LOL, not nice

oldjudge wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 5:48 pm

FrankieHeck wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 5:16 pm

Cindy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 3:55 pm

Did we get pageanted?

Maybe he got hammed.

LOL, not nice

I see only one answer. It fits too well to be wrong.

Reading all these "pageant" comments, I will confess that the answer I submitted is somewhat suspect. I like it--a lot--but it was an extremely awkward get. On the plus side, I submitted it and didn't think about it again all weekend until I just looked at our blog. What I got for it was a peaceful weekend. If I did get it right, maybe a mug (yeah, right) and, if not, well it's water over the dam!

I am back on line using an ethernet as my computer WiFi is still down (not clear what the problem is because the WiFi worked at home)

So I will be combining my Sunday noon and final reports in a while.

Last Tuesday I was late for the weekly zoom muggle meeting as we were having bees removed from the wall of our house in Maine. A couple of muggles PM'd me about how it went and I sent them a link to the six minute time lapse video I put together for myself and the company that did the removal. The next question was how I did the video and they thought that there was enough interest that I created a topic in the Acapulco Lounge and in that posted a link to the video and a description of how the video was made.

Deb F wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 5:59 pm If I did get it right, maybe a mug (yeah, right) and, if not, well it's water over the dam!

There we go!

Was confidently on shore until I popped onto this thread after getting back to internet service.my curiosity is piqued for this week's discussion post-reveal!

Ksoav wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 6:39 pm Was confidently on shore until I popped onto this thread after getting back to internet service.my curiosity is piqued for this week's discussion post-reveal!

Yes, the discussion of the last hour or two is very intriguing.

Guess submitted. I can justify 3/4 of it. I have an alternative I could justify 1/2 of. So I'm going with the better odds. Either way, I'm expecting my dinghy to sink before getting to shore.

KayW wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 5:13 pm

TPS wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 5:05 pm If I learned one thing in law school that has kept me from having to deal with a lot of idiots who think they are funny - it’s train yourself never to use the word

KayW wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 4:58 pm ass-U-me

Use the word Presume instead.

I got that from my "legal education" as well. But mine was probably a different school than yours...
Felix Unger Assume

Too funny that you shared that clip! The digital channel "Decades" has been binging The Odd Couple all day today.

P.S. For whatever reason, I was taught the a$$-u-me lesson in middle school algebra class

P.P.S. I also eagerly await the pageant post-mortem.

tim1217 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 3:26 pm

TPS wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 3:08 pm

BrianMac wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 3:01 pm I just realized I submitted the wrong answer. I think a fair number of people are going to be unpleasantly surprised tomorrow.

This is why I double checked with someone just because I remember some of our better solvers making a simple mistake. But then again maybe I asked someone else who missed it!

Interestingly enough, my ex (a big meta fan but not a Muggle) got the correct part 1 completed and then arrived at the correct answer...but not via the part 2 that MG intended. To those that are 100% confident you have the correct answer (via a solid part 2 mechanism) you'll see that you can also get the same answer via another (less than elegant) process.

Hope that's the process I used, because it certainly wasn't elegant.

Still on board though there is a gaggle of artists with me... There's still time...

Said goodbye to the artists and am now safely on shore. Where's my negroni?

I submitted a desparate lob, hoping for a TD. I hope I'm wrong because if I'm right it's really stupid!

Our final count is 7 on the ship and 153 on the shore with more than a few Hail Mary's being thrown.

And a warm welcome to our newest Muggle - Georgeall

Since yesterday keeping Isaac company for the week are

whimsy
Guy L
Colin
SewYoung
and Debbie

Increasing the crowd on the shore are;

boharr - who was there along painting but I missed him
Susie G
yourpalsal - also on the beach yesterday
Peter L
Frank
Hidden in 3D
Gpiggies
Geezer
Burak
Paul D
Domenic
elementary
JeanneC
Schmeel crediting his 17 years old daughter
OGuyDave
edot
MatthewM
Annabelle
Susan G
Ann
AnnP (are they becoming like the Beth's?)
phofer
Emmajane
Kris
EscX
Devilbunny
norrin2
erosecomm
jag
JRS51
Georgeall
Mark L
Tom S
Scott M
MatthewB
and LittleGood

Good luck to all

On shore! Finally got it. The answer is clear even if it took me way too long to figure it out.

As usual, make that 8 on the ship. I think I've completely lost my mojo. Had a few good weeks, but, now, I'm 0 for the whole month of July.

tim1217 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 3:26 pm

TPS wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 3:08 pm

BrianMac wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 3:01 pm I just realized I submitted the wrong answer. I think a fair number of people are going to be unpleasantly surprised tomorrow.

This is why I double checked with someone just because I remember some of our better solvers making a simple mistake. But then again maybe I asked someone else who missed it!

Interestingly enough, my ex (a big meta fan but not a Muggle) got the correct part 1 completed and then arrived at the correct answer...but not via the part 2 that MG intended. To those that are 100% confident you have the correct answer (via a solid part 2 mechanism) you'll see that you can also get the same answer via another (less than elegant) process.

I am ashore by inelegant means. Your post gives me hope I arrived on the correct shore!

Enjoying a (slighly chilled) Cabernet Franc.

I am claiming to be ashore,
But it’s not very clean for sure,
If I had to bet,
I would have to set,
A limit just above the floor.

EDIT: at eleven-eighteen
Now I’ve found what before was not seen,
All now is in place,
This one I did ace,
And submitted my email all clean!

Flamel616 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 9:26 pm As usual, make that 8 on the ship. I think I've completely lost my mojo. Had a few good weeks, but, now, I'm 0 for the whole month of July.

Yeah what is happening? I've been addlepated for weeks.

Wow, I can’t fathom alternate answers or alternate paths to “my” answer. But I suppose that’s what happened with the pageant puzzle. Y’all have ruined any thought of an early bedtime!

(But tonight’s Endeavor finale has my adrenaline elevated even though we saw it last year and we will have to watch it again tomorrow night to figure out how all the plot lines resolved.)