seaborgium wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 7:18 pm
"Auld" = old = not new, so not New Year's Day. No coin necessary.
I'm not so sure about that. Auld Lang Syne is generally sung after midnight at a New Year's party. I'd be reluctant to ring in and guess whether that's considered Eve or Day.
seaborgium wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 7:18 pmWhat season is foggy? I guessed autumn, but like "a great time to drink," I don't feel that really narrows it down. May be a YEKIOYD.
In northern European climates, autumn is the time for fog. Keats famously called it "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" in his poem "To Autumn".
seaborgium wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 7:18 pm
"Auld" = old = not new, so not New Year's Day. No coin necessary.
I'm not so sure about that. Auld Lang Syne is generally sung after midnight at a New Year's party. I'd be reluctant to ring in and guess whether that's considered Eve or Day.
seaborgium wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 7:18 pmWhat season is foggy? I guessed autumn, but like "a great time to drink," I don't feel that really narrows it down. May be a YEKIOYD.
In northern European climates, autumn is the time for fog. Keats famously called it "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" in his poem "To Autumn".
Hogmanay is New Year's Eve, so it's the Eve rather than the Day they're looking for.
As for the 'foggy' clue, you're both right with autumn, since foghar is (Scots) Gaelic for autumn. But I'd definitely consider this one very tricky for anyone not familiar with what is a fairly obscure language.
seaborgium wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 7:18 pm
"Auld" = old = not new, so not New Year's Day. No coin necessary.
I'm not so sure about that. Auld Lang Syne is generally sung after midnight at a New Year's party. I'd be reluctant to ring in and guess whether that's considered Eve or Day.
Yeah, but "Auld" isn't describing the new year in the song.
seaborgium wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 7:18 pm
"Auld" = old = not new, so not New Year's Day. No coin necessary.
I'm not so sure about that. Auld Lang Syne is generally sung after midnight at a New Year's party. I'd be reluctant to ring in and guess whether that's considered Eve or Day.
Yeah, but "Auld" isn't describing the new year in the song.
Right. It's looking back at the previous one. From the new one.
seaborgium wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 7:18 pm
"Auld" = old = not new, so not New Year's Day. No coin necessary.
I'm not so sure about that. Auld Lang Syne is generally sung after midnight at a New Year's party. I'd be reluctant to ring in and guess whether that's considered Eve or Day.
Yeah, but "Auld" isn't describing the new year in the song.
Right. It's looking back at the previous one. From the new one.
seaborgium wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 7:18 pm
"Auld" = old = not new, so not New Year's Day. No coin necessary.
I'm not so sure about that. Auld Lang Syne is generally sung after midnight at a New Year's party. I'd be reluctant to ring in and guess whether that's considered Eve or Day.
Yeah, but "Auld" isn't describing the new year in the song.
Right. It's looking back at the previous one. From the new one.
Yep, so the "auld" holiday is the Eve.
And the song is being sung on the Day. We can go back and forth forever without pinning this definitively to one or the other. If you want to take one more shot for your side, I'll take it for granted that you can work out the obvious response from the other. I suspect they'd have accepted "What is New Year's?" But I wouldn't be willing to ring in and find out.
TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 11:48 am
I still think "heresy" is an obscure enough word that I can understand it being a TS at $200 in any context. Let's see how it polls.
I thinking it might be a good idea for you to run your own poll of clues you wonder about, as you seem to have a disproportionate number of them (and Mark has limited room for poll options), you can combine as many as you want (within the poll limit). If you don't know how to make a poll, I can even talk you through the steps (in PM)
"Jeopardy! is two parts luck and one part luck" - Me
"The way to win on Jeopardy is to be a rabidly curious, information-omnivorous person your entire life." - Ken Jennings
TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 11:48 am
I still think "heresy" is an obscure enough word that I can understand it being a TS at $200 in any context. Let's see how it polls.
I thinking it might be a good idea for you to run your own poll of clues you wonder about, as you seem to have a disproportionate number of them (and Mark has limited room for poll options), you can combine as many as you want (within the poll limit). If you don't know how to make a poll, I can even talk you through the steps (in PM)
I think this sounds like a plan. Mark, please feel free to ignore all my poll requests this week.
TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2018 9:25 pm
Also don't know what "clotheslining" is.
You seen the gif alietr sometimes posts called “asshole penguin”? If the titular penguin stuck out its wing a few seconds earlier, knocking down the other from the front instead of behind, they would have “clotheslined” the victim. (Think running around the yard straight into a clothesline. (And *please* tell me you at least know what a clothesline is).
"Jeopardy! is two parts luck and one part luck" - Me
"The way to win on Jeopardy is to be a rabidly curious, information-omnivorous person your entire life." - Ken Jennings
dhkendall wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2018 12:35 am
You seen the gif alietr sometimes posts called “asshole penguin”? If the titular penguin stuck out its wing a few seconds earlier, knocking down the other from the front instead of behind, they would have “clotheslined” the victim. (Think running around the yard straight into a clothesline. (And *please* tell me you at least know what a clothesline is).
Our clothesline was high enough off the ground that it was impossible to run into the line unless you were like, seven feet tall.
"The furniture style named for him was meant to reflect the grandeur of his 1643-1715 court at Versailles."
No idea where you're getting a king out of that.
Generally only kings and judges hold court. Versailles points you to French royalty (or treaties with Germany in the 20th century, but this is much earlier).