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See how many sentences of an idea you need to read before
being able to guess who posted the idea. Today, I picked out
an idea as being posted by Rayfo before finishing the first
sentence of it and another idea as being posted by Vernon by
the time I got to the second sentence of the idea.
(?) Invisibility Presentation
http://www.geocities.com/it2n/magic.html
Starring UnaBubba and rfr. [neelandan, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
A demonstration of the maleness of [bookworm]
http://moniplex.com...main.php?picture=11
[angel, Oct 30 2005]
[link]
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i can spot a petersealy annotation in one word... |
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congratulations steve! you're our new champion! tell him what he's won, bob... |
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<grin> I can spot a Vernon idea in 18 paragraphs. |
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PeterSealy: Well, gee, I never said that I was the greatest
Name That 'Baker player that ever lived. |
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There are ways to find even deleted annotations, of course. However I readily accept that such approaches could be considered cheating so I'm keeping quiet about the identity of the baker. |
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I know who it is, but I have an unfair advantage. |
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(And the annotation still appears to be there, by the
way.) |
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I'll come out and say it: it's gotta be egnor. |
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He's one of the few who takes most ideas seriously enough to fully think them through...often, more thoroughly than the author. And, if he feels charitable, he goes the extra step of salvaging the idea. If it gets past egnor, I'd invest. |
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I don't think it's egnor. The first phrase is slightly too childish and insecure ("I think this would...") language for it to be egnor. And I don't think he ends sentences with 'etc.'
I like this game, by the way. Croissant! |
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beauxeault, degroof and egnor are all incorrect guesses
(nice analysis, lewisgirl, and thanks for the croissant!) |
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my three guesses are (in order): |
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1) mephista
2) potatostew
3) petersealy |
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I thought it was me, too. Or should I say "two"? |
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I went and read it in context, and I don't think it's really very insecure. In the eye of the beholder though, I suppose. To clarify exactly what I mean by the use of "etc."... in the as yet unclaimed example it says "and increase tourism, etc." whereas in egnor's quote he says "leaving them open face down for weeks on end, etc." The subtlety I'd like to highlight here is that the former example didn't really look like the author actually had anything to add to that list, but in the latter, the reader can be fairly confident that egnor could, if pressed, extend his book-destruction list considerably. This (I contend) is because he has already written supplements in the two other bracketed parts of the sentence. It is clear that his use of 'etc.', even at the end of the sentence (not a grammatical sin really), is simply to stop the sentence becoming far too long and unwieldy. The former sentence engenders no such confidence (apologies to whomever that sentence belongs!). Here endeth the lesson! |
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lewisgirl: it's potatostew's! |
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Yes, I admit, it was my annotation. Childish and insecure
indeed! (well maybe a little). Actually, I often qualify my
negative statements like that simply because I am
subscribing to one of lewisgirl's own ideas: that of being a
little more kind with annotations. Plus, I hesitate to say
"This would have to" or "This must" since I realize I am not
much of an authority on anything at all. |
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As for the etc.: improve a city or town, increase tourism,
improve the economy, reduce crime, attract businesses,
help citizens feel more safe. |
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Press me, and I shall extend, lewisgirl. |
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There, I'm finished defending my two month old
annotation. How's that for childish and insecure? ;) |
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Potato, like I said above, apologies. And all the rest of you that were screaming 'PotatoStew' at me, thanks, but I was trying to describe the thought processes of Name That 'Baker more than I was trying to work out who it was. (and, PS, I'd rather not, thanks all the same..!) |
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lewisgirl: no apologies are necessary. |
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Here's another one... this may be easy because it's
recent, but we'll see: |
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"Table. Some asses are so 'out there' you could put a beer
can on 'em. Gotta have a Table Ass in the Scale listing. In
fact - there should be a Table Of Asses rather than a
Scale list. Of course, having a Table Ass listed within the
Table Of Asses would compound matters, so perhaps the
Table Ass should be referred to as the Cocktail Table. No,
wait." |
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name globaltourniquet,where the hell is he? |
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hahaha... I croiss! do another, do another! |
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(btw, Stew, this faceless medium gives me ample obscurity to be a sarcastic jerk, otherwise I over-qualify everything I say too, just because I don't think anybody ever gets it. heh. insecure, pfa! :) |
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ab: I'm glad you like! :) |
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mihali: my question to you is did you know that it was
thumbwax from the writing style, or did you just
remember/look up the posting? If it was the style, what
tipped you off? |
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truthfully, i remembered the post, because i had read it recently. but taking a second look at it, you can definitely see some of tw's wit and humour coming through. that and the content is a give away. (i.e. his 'ass' fetish. well, j-lo's mostly) |
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Wow. Imagine that - "style" and "thumbwax" mentioned in the same sentence. I'm flattered by each mention of Yours Truly. Didn't even know this category existed until I saw 'Tyger Bye Bye' on 'Recent' List. Turns out 2 of my least regarded ideas are on this list courtesy of jutta - damn, I make her work too hard. As for me, I can name the tune by AfroAssault, egnor, global- "you do the math" - tourniquet, Mephista, rayfro, Rods Tiger, Sparki, UnaBubba and Vernon in a hemidemisemiquaver note. |
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Hmmm! This game is trickier than it seems. |
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There's three of me. Hippo knows both, st3f knows one. Can anyone else guess? |
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I would like to state (for the record) that I can be bought. |
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Not as cheaply as me though. |
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I didn't say I would tell you if you guessed right.
I stated that once, st3f. Got me into a whole world of trouble... |
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So one of them *isn't* lewisgirl then? |
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Are they lewisgirl, hippo, and st3f? st3f being some split personality who only comes out when hippo's asleep?? |
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There were a lot of cleverly placed mirrors in that pub though. |
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From a picture of Jutta I saw, or at least her hair, there were some cleverly placed beer glasses as well... |
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Doggone it, where is a pic of jutta? I really want to see what she looks like. I have imagined her for 18 months and I must see. |
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Bristolz, all you can see in the picture is brown hair and a bunch of beer glasses... |
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Well, that just pisses me off. |
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<grin> Tell me about it, I always saw Jutta as nine feet tall and all-powerful... |
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thats a better description than the one blissmiss claimed I had made. |
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Yeah, that's her. Stunning. |
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I wonder what a google search on the word 'jutta' would turn up. I'm gonna go find out. |
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Any other running commentaries of what you are going to do/have done? |
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"Everybody with the letter "Q" in their name has to hold really still and not make any noise. Everyone else is free to move around, but if they have shoes on they must also wear a large hat or have a parrot on their shoulder. When speaking to each other, every sentence must end with the person saying "then I ate a toaster" unless they are asking a question, in which case they must end the sentence by saying "and may I feel your ass?" When answering a question, you must follow up with "but the Russians are trying to steal it." |
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All moving cars must have at least one naked person unless the car has been modified to look like a penis, in which case women and gay men have to explain "Now that's a hot rod!" at least once, and all men must say "Mine's bigger than that." Persons with sunglasses must also be eating a bucket of chicken from KFC. Anyone wearing a Steve Urkel t-shirt gets free choice of who they have sex with unless the other person has a fake id, in which case they can counter-choose who that person has sex with, excluding people with genital piercings (who must wrestle for 30 minutes before they are allowed to do anything else)." |
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Too easy, it's so obvious that's po. |
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Very good [po]. You're right, of course. |
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Now for something a little more . . . difficult: |
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"lumpy, ok, so you build the side of the house out of bricks. Ok, the bricks are going to get really frickin hot from all that gasolene that is burning on them. This will set the insolation on fire. So don't use insolation you say? Oh oh! Now the wireing or the curtains inside the house will be set on fire. If it were so easy and effective to build houses out of entirely non-flamable materials, then at least external source fires would be no worry. As you know, external source (that is, forrest, neighborhood, etc.) fires are indeed still a *very* big problem for houses in certain areas. There is no practical building material that will offer immunity." |
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fires are a problem in Australia -its not UnaBubba or Madradish. in Florida, too but its certainly not StarChaser (where has he got to? BTW). It sounds a bit like 8th but his spelling is better. who do we know that cannot spell? |
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[ sctld ] no he wouldn't say gasoline |
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is that a sentence [waugs]? |
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Err...please, miss. I spotted that the first one was Afro too. |
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Doh!
Heh! Just did a search on "insolation". You'll be very surprised at who seems addicted to that particular mis-spelling. Haven't got the foggiest about bristolz quote though. |
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Okay . . . it's <crisp little drum roll> . . . [JakePatterson]. Alright, I know, that was a tough one, but it was a distinct style and I thought maybe, just maybe, someone would figure it out. Alas, the time limit expired. |
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So, here is an offering from a halfbakery denizen who more frequently skips comments across the croissant laden waters: |
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"I love the idea of a machine that rips the shoes off Dutchmen.
Say... do the Dutch suffer abnormally high numbers of splinters in their feet?" |
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The clock is running; tick, tock. |
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[egbert] is da' winner! 'Tis [UnaBubba] from an idea named "Power-Unclog" that was deleted in Dec 02. |
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Well, okay then, now it's on to something a bit tougher but is a part of halfbakery lore (at least, I *think* it is a part of HB lore, anyway): |
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"I'd love to see Bart Simpson writing that on the blackboard. That or 'I will not try to violate the laws of physics.'" |
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""Tug of War" for cats: Additional tugging opponents, flashing tug-toys, shorter tugathons, and more scoring opportunities added to THE WORLD'S FAVORITE GAME, to make it interesting to cats, whose own perverted version of the game involves brief periods of bloodthirsty violence punctuated by long naps." |
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bris: (furrows brow) Wasn't me, was it? (st3f is obviously not sure of even his own identity and therefore probably shouldn't play this game). |
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No [st3f]. It wasn't you. |
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No, not st3f but...from the same idea we have "[m-f-d] science as magic.
st3f, Dec 05 2002 ". Heh!
I wouldn't have guessed the 'baker, bris, but the topic is certainly a recurring theme on the 'bakery. |
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When this is all over, will someone please tell me what the person, who is not me, wished that Bart Simpson had written on the blackboard. I'd really like to know (again). |
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You could say that he was one of the 'bakery's stars. |
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Very good. [centauri] was the name I was seeking, across space and time. |
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Okay, hmm, let's see here . . . how about: |
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"And yet here I am, as always, quite unprotected and happy. And there you are, living inside your fear and your hatred." |
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Sounds Mephista-ish to me. |
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Yep. You have it. It was [Mephista]. |
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Hmm! Difficult one bliss. There are so many Schrodinger addicts here, but I'm going to take a guess at st3f on this one.
Just so that I'm not being entirely passive in this game, here's a couple of, I think, pretty easy ones.
First up "bouzouki!"
Second up "I'm a tepid drink-temp kind of gal. I hate hot." |
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I think blissy's might be waugs |
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and perhaps one of DrBob's might be susen. hah no, a certain washington state resident. |
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"I lost my elf's socks in the exploding custard, your honour! Ain't we something." hey catch this one - sorry.. I have a gem.. someone SO bloody special! |
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ooh ooh thats Jutta! (and a rather fine line if ever I heard one!) well actually its the line below that which I like :P |
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Is the quantum toilet seat comment [beauxeault]'s perchance? |
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Annotation by beauxeault, in idea "halfbarkery.com", posted by waugsqueke. Another: |
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"Retrieve razor from on top of ceiling fan, being sure fan does not impart KE to author at time of retrieval. Retrieve cat from top of wardrobe. Call spouse in from garden." |
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No, its The Englishman Abroad from just up the page there. |
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no, thats The. hey it could be you. |
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<!> neelandan, I didn't even recognize my own effluvium until you identified it. I'm calling my doctor. |
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beau: It was a cat related anno on a dog idea. |
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An easy one:
"If you were to combine a basket, with, say, six eggs, then losing the basket would of necessity imply that you've lost each and every egg. In such a case, I would venture to say that the best strategy would be multiple-redundancy in basketware, combined with a distributed egg location paradigm." |
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12,712,358,249,234,023,457,135,812,391,356 |
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My answer is coded to avoid embarrassment if I am _wildly_ off the mark, but only until another guess or two follows. |
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Calum, I think yours is Rod's. If you see what I mean. Classic Tindale |
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<magnusson>Correct</magnusson> |
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Thank goodness I took covert action... |
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Hey, put that back now. Just because it's covert, doesn't mean we won't miss it! |
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"The "corpse" could have a viriety of lifelike orifices - NO, NOT LIKE THAT, I mean stab and gunshot wounds, blunt trauma to the head, ligature marks on the neck etc. which the would-be 'tecs could note and measure and even photograph. Real physical evidence !" |
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1,257,234,581,259,135,012,471,245 <g> |
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knew it was 8th even before I cheated. |
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If this really is the 'baker [8th of 7] then I guessed correctly also! <g> |
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Well done both of you. Unfortunately answers can only be accepted if they can be understood, so Po, your turn. |
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"One drawback is that people in the neighborhood now need pig - shock - broadcasters to protect themselves" |
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I hate to think of 'bakers being stood-up so I'll give this one a go. |
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2,457,136,823,459,234,501? |
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(Still not ready, Btw, perhaps you can see what a blind man reads?) |
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BTW, we seem to have strayed into recognising annos whereas the original idea was related to recognising idea posts. Just saying. |
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I name that 'baker "Eric". |
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Oh, isn't that the idea, then? |
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Ha, I just spotted a Rod's Tiger idea before I got to the end of the summary. |
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"Set fire to the Millennium Dome in North Greenwich, London, captured as a high quality film project." |
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Believe it or not, this conversation did take place on this site: |
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"seeing as none of you lot want it, I'd like sex" |
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I think one of them are po, apologies if I'm wrong ;) I remember reading that somewhere. |
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"Now I utilize the fine art of disguising my WIBNI's, as a plausible creation, by substituting how it will work with the phrase..."powered by the super dooper, ____, that can be purchased at Wal-Mart". No one dare argue with that!" |
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He's the one who did invent such wild things as fake electrons and urine batteries. |
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DogEd? Oop, do we get more than one guess? |
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Not DogEd, either. Sure, you can have as many tries as you want but they should be more than just guesses. Some halfbaked analysis should be in there, too. |
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A google search (cheating!) brought me back to this page. |
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I made efforts to prevent cheating and, no, it's not Wagster. |
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is it jutta in frivolous mode? |
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Nay. It's not an obscure baker, either. |
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DeathNinja? I still miss that guy. |
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I think it sound slike something [calum] might say... |
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it's not me, there's no cursing or spelling mistakes. I mean spolling mustakes. |
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Well, if we can't cheat, what fun is this game? |
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Sheesh, it's not even on Google. I wish I knew how to search through the waybackmachine. |
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Ok, here's my analysis. Don't know about other countries, but Wal-Marts are all over the place here, so I'll guess it's an American. They imply that one would be ashamed of admitting one has shopped at Wal-Mart. Who would assume that? Many, but I'd guess young consumers into fashion. The sentence "No one dare argue with that!" indicates someone not inclined toward proper grammar. Again, pointing toward a young American. |
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We know it's a common baker, and it must be someone who's had significant experience posting ideas to come up with an idea strategy just for WIBNI's. Add to that young, fashionable, and American, (cross-referencing with the HB user map...) I choose [yabba do yabba dabba]. Either that of [po], if I'm wrong on about about all counts. |
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(Hey! [Letsbuildy]'s back! Strangely, only to complain about someone else not being around.) |
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I'm not from US, I come from Mars, |
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OK this will take a month of sundays so try these two: |
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an alternative would be to place teeny-tiny doorbells and a sign that sez " All spiders ring before entry" |
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Make them Baah! to each other - like sheeps do |
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It is an American, yes, and a "common" baker (not sure about the use of "common," though, for anyone here). |
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One more hint . . . It's a woman and, no, not me. |
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[k_sra]'s standing in the corner looking suspicious. I guess her. |
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My guess for [po]'s quotes: [blissmiss] |
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Propriety shall be my top priority Mr. 'Gineer, sir. (colon close-parenthesis, colon p, lol, etc.)
And I've got no beef with Walmart--it's a great place to buy toilet paper. Seems that's all they sell, though. |
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Is [k_sra] an American? (blushes for not knowing). |
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It's not Susen, nor k_sra, nor yabba dabba. |
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On the right, a beatific belle. |
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Was thinking [pluterday], but she's not American - she's from the future. |
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Not our fair Alaskan, Hollajam, either. |
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I'm down to [blissmiss], though I have no reason other than I'm nearly out of American baker women and it sounds like it could be her. |
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You are correct. (The "right" being the eastern US and the beatific belle being a blissful Miss.) |
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of course - how stoopid of me. slap me sideways |
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Was I right about yours, [po]? |
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no, but she might provide some cheats. |
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I think that this is my favorite anno: |
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"that sounded so much like a newbie it wasnt funny it was like omg i just cant believe it phundug have you gone to teh other side i mean come on i didnt think that that was like you lol :p but what you need is to take a bunch of fat people it would be even better if they were rednecks and owned guns and maybe they were liberals then you shoot them with there own gun and tie a stapler and some tape to them the only bad thing is that you have a dead person laying there so maybe you could just feed it to the other fat people why should they care" |
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I thought that was Mach till I went looking and it isn't... |
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Here's one that is wise and distinct: |
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"Even so. But what is the definition of half-baked that we are to work with? |
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Obviously, if an idea is now totally actualized in the world, it is not half-baked. |
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At the same time, it is not necessary for an idea never to have been actualized AT ALL in order for it to be half-baked. Nor is it necessary for it to be impossible using current technology. |
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Too many times people are calling things "baked" (and thus presumably unworthy of inclusion in the site) simply because someone probably has done it in the past, or could have done so. |
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I think appropriate ideas for the site are those that one has thought of oneself, that one considers good, funny, or entertaining, and which are not so obvious that most people (though not necessarily ANYONE) would not have thought of them themselves. " |
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Well written and thought through. There are quite a few here I can imagine as the author. I guess [half] or [waugs]. |
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I actually wanted to argue against that, so my initial guess was Professor Curry. But I don't think he wrote that. Just wanted to say that if somone somewhere else already thought of an idea, then there's no way to check if "ideas for the site are those that one has thought of oneself." Hence "baked", I guess. |
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No accurate guesses as yet. |
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Way too articulate, wise and distinct to be me. |
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I think I remember reading that. Was it Vernon? |
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No and no but your guess has an element of the right answer, 2 fries. |
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(Actually, I had it vaguely associated with Vernon, too. But, it didn't sound like him. Must have been in an annotation on one of his ideas?) |
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Hah! Wonderful association, [half], dead wrong, but wonderful. |
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The thread that I recall that being anno'ed on has either been deleted or rendered unsearchable, but I think it was UnaBubba speaking to Vernon. |
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I always make sure they're not searchable and, no, not UnaBubba either. Sorry. |
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Ha! That's the first time that the words 'articulate', 'wise' and 'DrBob' have been included in the same sentence without the word 'not' also being included. |
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No, not Saint Threef, either. |
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Huge hint: he lived in an Asian country. |
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[bristolz] how do you make them unsearchable? I'm intrigued (and hoping to work out a way of cheating) |
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Only use deleted ideas that aren't in Google's cache? |
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No, not [neelandan] and, yes, [World], exactly. |
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Sounds too serious to be [benfrost] but he's my next guess, being the only 'baker that I am certain has lived in an asian country (assuming we include Japan with asian countries, despite being a series of islands not connected to the continent). |
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All of Asia, or the far east, including Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, Nepal, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet and all the other little ones I may have missed that are considered a part of the Orient. |
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I can think of a few islands, world, that believe they do not form part of their nearest continent :) |
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Ha. Yes, [po], forgot you know all about such controversies. The funny thing is I just searched for maps of asia to find out which islands are really considered part of Asia, and maps commonly include only the Indonesian half of New Guinea. I wonder who decides these things. |
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BEEP! Hey [bris] - I speak a little Jive. You dig? |
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? (looks over in left field, from whence it came, and sees nothing) |
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[bristolz] - how do you find the quote if it has been deleted, and not cached by google? (not to cheat but just for curiosity)
.........well, not much. |
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If you're looking to find a quote you can share here, one method would be to try the waybackmachine (google this term), and enter the user page web address of one of the many 'bakers who have deleted their account or ideas. |
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I assume the moderators have other sources for deleted ideas. |
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I printed my favourite - since deleted. |
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an alternative would be to place teeny-tiny doorbells and a sign that sez " All spiders ring before entry" |
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Make them Baah! to each other - like sheeps do |
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no, it's not him - 2 bakers here |
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This "idea" is not named "Search for that 'baker." It's about people, not search, acumen. This helps separate it from just shovelware and keeps me from marking it as a for deletion list (and thereby bending the rules a bit). |
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To keep it that way, the quotes I post are from mainstream users, generally, but from ideas that have been deleted and, sometimes, long since deleted. My source is a rather large personal archive of deleted ideas that has grown for the past few years through my saving a copy of every idea I delete that has some redeeming quality. |
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Some of the collection is of severe trolling which can be entertaining to look through. |
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own up, you are a closet librarian. |
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I should be offended that [po] thought I was the author of the monstrosity that [yabba] posted but I'm not. Just wanted to point out that at least I *pretend* to use correct punctuation and yeah, I say lame stuff *sometimes*, but never to that extent! My guess would be [EvilPickels] but there aren't enough spelling mistakes. I have no idea who could've written that. |
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Is your latest one by [contracts], bris? I don't know if he's lived in Asia, but I get the idea he's been in the military so maybe he's been stationed in Asia? I have no idea what I'm talking about... |
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monstrosity? sounded like gentle mocking to me. |
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Hm, now that you mention it I think you're right, [World]. I'm not very good at understanding things when taken out of context, it seems. |
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No, not [benfrost], nor [contracts]. |
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Sigh. I don't think this one is going to get guessed and, now that I read the annotation again, I think maybe I didn't pick one enough distinction. |
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Japan is the country and that's my final clue. I know that I could find the baker with that and the one other key clue I mentioned earlier on this page. |
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oh for gawds sake I wouldn't know me if I fell over me. |
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No problem, [po]. Just a slight misunderstanding on my part, it seems. |
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OK, I searched "lived in Japan" here on the HB site and came up with [mcgarym]. I don't know who that is. |
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Aaahh! No, it's [hippo], isn't it? |
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The name [yamahito] sounds Japanese. Don't know what he has to do with [Vernon] though. But your quote does sound moderator-like. |
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Oh, looks like [Mach] is right. [hippo] mentioned he lived in Japan in the Brocolli Vendors idea (I miss that one - I may churn it). |
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Geez. No one has it yet and not even I have ever heard of [mcgarym]. |
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I break a bit further and offer: "crows." |
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[Vance] keeps coming up in my search for Japan, including a search with the word crow. Never met him/er. |
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[Vance] is correct. He lives/lived in Japan and shares the letter "V" with [Vernon] ("an element of the right answer"). He was a relatively prolific user here a while back. |
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Since no one has probably looked at [yabba]'s question in a few months, I'll just say I'm flattered.
And, [Machiavelli], I was being retarded, for [phundug]'s sake. Look up his "Heavy Stapler and Tape Dispenser" idea for the context.
Oh, and:
//I AM ALSO GOING TO EAT YOUR BABIES// |
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[bris] is right! (and I use that phrase as often as possible :D) |
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Here's a simply heavenly quote. Who wrote it? |
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"You are the illegitimate whelp of a tavern-whore who serviced diseased camel-drivers for profit and diseased camels for pleasure." |
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You got it, [Shz]. Very good. Amazing, even. |
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Not so amazing, since the word "whelp" is searchable on this site, and the "Insult Tennis" idea still floats to the top of the recent pages frequently. Plus it was a pretty memorable insult coming from [angel]'s mouth. |
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I think [bris] is being sarcastic, [jurist]. It doesn’t get any easier than that. |
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I think thumb was working him (angel) with his hand up his back! |
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Perhaps but more than that I was just warming you up for the next quote: |
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"Quadratic equation sounds like a good place to start. A quadratic equation says: "give me a pair of numbers whose sum is this and whose product is that". Superimposition of periodic functions (such as sound waves) brings into play all sorts of sum and product relationships, so there's very likely something harmonious (or perhaps dissonant) about quadratics in general." |
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Ugh. I'd've said egnor, except he was more formal than that. But angel is into music. And there is a typo - should be "superposition," not "superimposition." |
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I always admired supercat's logic and his way with words. likewise, quarterbaker - btw its his birthday today. |
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I've got a good handful of bakers in mind that could have written this one. I think I even know which idea it is, though I'll keep from searching for it. I guess: [ldischler]. |
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The playful tone reminds me of [Rods Tiger], better known these days as [Ian Tindale]. |
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No one has gotten it yet. |
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It's a current user but I don't recall the idea. |
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Not guilty on this occasion. |
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Hm. Someone who has thought enough about quadratics to speculate on underlying characteristics, and explained it in laymen’s terms (helpfully, non-argumentative). Not necessarily one of our music gurus or it would have read more like directions for manipulating a sine wave on x synth. Detly? |
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I'm not sure he's a mathematician, but the easy layman's style, (and use of brackets) makes me think maybe Basepair? |
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I still can't get over angel spewing such filth, from his usually polite and even-tempered mouth. Gotta love that. (Sounds like he was taking UB lessons, or something.) |
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[bliss]: It was on 'Insult Tennis' and I was addressing [NickTheGreat]. |
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// I still can't get over angel spewing such filth// |
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That’s what made it so funny (and memorable). Oh did I laugh at that! - <still chuckling> |
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I can think of three ‘bakers that it might be. Guess #2, st3f? |
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If I were to take a guess, I'd say [bungston], but I have no idea why. |
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I'm wondering how bris remembers such a complicated quote when she can't remember the idea it was posted to. Perhaps it's a trick question. I'm going to guess it's bristol herself. |
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Nope. Besides, I would expect you to understand that I do not understand anything about quadratic anything. |
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I do recall the idea now and it's not the glissando microwave thing idea mentioned above. |
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bris: that would have been the trick part. |
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// I would expect you to understand that I do not understand anything about quadratic anything. //lord, that sounds just like a quadratic... |
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Psst, [World], that was my first guess. Guess #3, hippo? |
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Doh! Then change mine to [RayfordSteel]. |
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Okay. Changed. Still wrong but changed. |
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[Vernon] on a causal friday? (maybe I should just stop guessing - I'm clearly not good at this) |
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Thanks angel, that explains your potty mouthed behavior. |
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Let's see...jutta, or has that already been said? |
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[dentworth] perhaps? Well done [bris], you have the entire bakery waiting on your every word. Also I'm beginning to suspect that you just made the annotation up as I'd swear that we are running out of bakers. |
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Yeah. I like to be the center of attention. |
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And, no, no one has gotten it yet. |
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And the author of the quoted comment has commented here on the HB within the last week or so. |
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Well [hidden] that's the nicest thing anyone was ever wrong about me over. I don't know a quadradic from an aquatic. |
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I'll just throw [skinflaps]? in there again. |
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dent, Only if skin was two pints to the wind...and fell upon it by mistake. He is faaaaar too smart for that... |
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Is doctorremulac3 still around? It seems like a doctor thing to be saying. Or maybe Zimmy. |
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Ok one more try, [jurist] seems like a math guy. and writes long fluid answers with lotsa numbers. |
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An out-of-leftfield guess: [krelnik]? |
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krelnik's on a sabatical. [Lurch]? |
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//OHOH DrBob!//
I get that a lot. Never when talking about quadratic equations though. |
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Geez, you guys are LAME! LAME! LAME! |
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Can we get another clue please [bris]? I don't think any of us are going to get it from the quote. |
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No. It's not [oneoffdave]. I haven't seen him around for a while, either. |
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Well... it's not [Steve Degroof]. Does that help? |
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for real last one... [Steve DeGroof] |
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ARRRRRRGH! pleeeaaase.... Whining is always a help. |
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Okay: sometimes the author makes puzzling and almost cryptic comments. |
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Ha! Well, that's narrowed it down bris! |
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they don't get more puzzling than [mensmaximus]. |
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And puzzling ideas often with very technical underpinnings. |
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[etherman]! (based on "Lame lame lame" and having recently anno'd after a long absence - can't quite reconcile the 'puzzling' clues though...) |
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And a very similar user with, in the end, only a single difference in character is active on the site this morning ;-) |
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LoriZ, rather, very mathy person. AND Loris was on something this morning. HAH I got it didn't I !!!! |
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subflower? Arggh who is it!? |
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Nicely done, [dentworth]. It was written by [LoriZ]. |
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Heh. Some of the awful ideas I've read today reminded me why I stopped bothering. Finding this one still active reminds me why I wanted to come back. Howdy, y'all. |
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Well now, that was great fun wasn't it? It was for me, anyway. |
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Here's another morsel to ponder: |
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"You're at an important meeting. Your boss is there, your boss's boss, and the president of the company. They're about to sign a multi-billion dollar contract, and they're having one final meeting to get everybody's opinion on whether or not this deal would be a good idea. They go around the table, and finally reach you. "Will this help the company or not?" they ask you. You fold your hands, lean slightly forward, and reply, "Is it wise to store sandwiches vertically?" They all nod sagely at your wisdom." |
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Without looking, I'd say it was from Use Bizarre Metaphors, but I've no idea who would have written it. |
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With looking, I'd say it wouldn't be as easy to check that as it used to be. |
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Sounds vaguely [po]-ish, but then again, I had never heard of the last person. |
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Do I always guess [half]? Because it seems like I do. I guess everyone around here sounds like [half] to me. I guess [half]. |
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Not [po] or even [po]-ish or [half] or even [half]-ish. |
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I think I'm going to need hints. For now I will guess the well-honed story telling style of [pluterday]. |
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Anyone know when/why [raven] left us? |
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his own website/writing keeps him too busy apparently. |
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I've never seen the word boss's written before. |
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//Hint: Ebony mahogany// = AfroAssualt? |
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Sorry, [UB]; I think you'll find that [bookworm] is also of the male persuasion. |
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of course, we had a picture somewhere. |
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On the famous [DrCurry] calendar (linky). |
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Yes, it's [Ravenswood]. I guess that clue was a bit overt. |
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Here is one from one of the halfbakery regulars: |
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"no-one has a clue what I am doing in front of my monitor." |
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I can understand your train of thought but you'd be wrong. I think blissy and I are correct. |
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Well, no. UB did reply to that with a "We had noticed... " |
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I wonder what a true "train of thought" looks like. I see it as cartoon bubbles, hooked together with fruit loops. |
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Ok bris, ya got us all wondering, are you gonna give us a hint or what? |
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A hint for what, I pray thee to tell me? |
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I thought it was [UB] also. I think the hint must be tied to who sits beyond the glass screen doing mysterious things. |
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It wouldn't be the artist also known as benfrost, would it? |
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Having a lack of capital letters, I propose it's the work of our local teletubby. |
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//"no-one has a clue what I am doing in front of my monitor."// |
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Sorry, memory lapse. Hey neelandan, can we get a clue or what? |
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Hint ... to which the subj replied "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, loved that - might have expected a cheap remark like that, sweet viola!" |
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that lack of capitalisation (decapitation?) indeed does point to it being our red scooterist so World is - - - round. |
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I've completely lost the thread of this. |
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Then start from the beginning. Or just up to where I use the word [half] 3 times in an anno. Or start your own game - we're ready for a new one. |
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how far up is half, half, half? |
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About 1/15th the way up. Search for "Because it seems like I do" on this page. |
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'rattletrap' - what a great word. [waugs] would be my guess, too. Failing that - [scout]? |
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Nope, not him. He doesn't visit this site anymore, but he ensures me he never said:
"Just get in your rattletrap spaceship and go back to whatever pathetic rock you hail from." |
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Oh, okay. [World], one of yours? |
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[bliss]: Curses. Both for my incorrect guess and the fact the them mighty [w] is absent. |
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Oooo [UB] thats familiar! Cant think of who... I woulda guessed [waug] but it's not. |
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[po] i'm flattered that you guessed me as //"no-one has a clue what I am doing in front of my monitor."// Sounds like me. |
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UB, we need a hint! Or a new quote, if you dont remember. |
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That conversation was from one of my early ideas "Love Howto". It met with considerable disapproval and I thought it wise to delete it. The date was Nov 24 2001 so the participants have probably forgotten the exchange. I have a saved copy. |
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i will say that i am known for my grammar!! |
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A nice easy one for you, just to get the ball rolling again...
"I'm not as accident prone as I sound, honest." |
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Correctamundo!
Your turn! |
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One of my favourites. Unfortunately, you can find it using the search function, so try not to cheat: |
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"Deep in the archives of our collective memory, there's a little, tiny bell, that says |
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It's there for a reason..." |
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This hasn't been dug up in a while. I don't think it's on the webarchive or the google cache but here is one I copied to my hard drive a while ago. There might be at least one other user who knows who it is, but I'm hoping he'll keep schtum about it. |
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"I don't believe in butter, but I find it perfectly reasonable to go on for hours on end about Mystic Pagan Leylines and Magic Celtic Spam Wizards for hours at a time, in the mistaken belief that it makes me sound interesting and otherworldly, whearas in fact, it only accentuates my lonely, misguided and otherwise empty life."?" |
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Based on the tone, and usage of the words celtic, leylines, and spam, my guess is that the user in question is of a British persuasion. |
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who's going to risk offending anyone by identifying them with the association that they don't have a full social life? |
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having said that, I thought it was Rayford. :) |
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I'm getting an egbertian whiff from that quote, [h_t]. |
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//who's going to risk offending anyone by identifying them with the association that they don't have a full social life? // |
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From the way that sentence is enclosed in quote marks, it's possible the quoted 'baker could be implying someone else has those traits, rather than him/herself. |
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It is a Brit (I think), it's neither RayfordSteele nor egbert. And yes, it's a quote of a quote. |
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//I'm getting an egbertian whiff// That's funny, I was getting a faintly culumnian aroma. |
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Nope, not culumnian either. |
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I'm confounded that the baker who could spell "ley lines" could not spell "whearas". |
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Would it possibly be [panthaz paradise]? Admittedly, I haven't seen that nom de plume in a long, long time, but he's the only one I recall who ever employed that particular misspelling. |
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Am I that much of a judgementalist? Just to think, my good name being trampled while I was away from the bakery having a social life.... hmmmph! (wow, guess I am...) |
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Nice logic [jurist], but not [pp]. |
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Here's one! "Showering for me can often be perplexing, and this makes me wonder that perhaps I'm just not doing it right." |
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Hey, finally one I recognise! Well-chosen quote, [MoreCowbell] - good example of that 'baker's style, and quite possibly the best opening sentence to an idea ever. |
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None other than that intrepid adventurer into all realms bodily, [benfrost]. (The idea was something about a personal shower assistant to help people learn how to shower properly... ah, yep, 'Personal Shower Trainer'.) |
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Stupid me. I never would have guessed it was him.
"Explorers are we, intrepid and bold,
Out in the wild, amongst wonders untold.
Equipped with our wits, a map, and a snack,
We're searching for fun and we're on the right track!"
(B. Watterson) |
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Ah, C&H, now that was a quality comic strip, for sure! |
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Here's another one to guess (it's still searchable here, since I haven't been around long enough to know many of the deleted ideas, but it seems a good example of this baker's style): |
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"Perhaps it is the term 'dog' that is slightly misleading here, as a tortoise is not strictly a dog, genetically speaking, but the principle is sound." |
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[world] was fond of tortoises, I believe |
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That was just a vicious rumour put about by a few cheap and sleazy tabloids - Nothing was ever proved |
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//[world] was fond of tortoises, I believe// - What happened? Was there a falling out? |
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They realised they were turtley incompatible. It was a slow break-up, though. |
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Puns this bad have a limited shellf life... |
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That one made me groan out loud. *applauds* |
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A cryptic clue: Surprised to see a chook? |
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Lett uce have another guess:
Actually, I've just cheated. So I won't guess after all. |
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Damn. I was going to guess [hippo] too. |
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