(1) _____: the (2) _____ of the (3) _____.
Re: (1) _____: the (2) _____ of the (3) _____.
Another additional aspect of the game -- a burden on the author of the riddle and the clues, not on the people trying to solve the riddle.
(Sorry that I didn't get everything across at first; it's been a long time since I last presented this game to people unfamiliar with it.)
Once a blank has been correctly filled in, the author of the riddle and the clues must explain how each numbered clue points to its corresponding numbered blank. Besides showing that the author did not just pull clues out of her or his ass, this also gives an indication of the particular author's way(s) of formulating clues.
"Silence" is a term for lack of flavor in a distilled spirit, which explains "Flavorlessness". "Tower of Silence" is a term for a tower upon which some Zoroastrians place dead bodies, which explains "Tower of the dead."
(Sorry that I didn't get everything across at first; it's been a long time since I last presented this game to people unfamiliar with it.)
Once a blank has been correctly filled in, the author of the riddle and the clues must explain how each numbered clue points to its corresponding numbered blank. Besides showing that the author did not just pull clues out of her or his ass, this also gives an indication of the particular author's way(s) of formulating clues.
"Silence" is a term for lack of flavor in a distilled spirit, which explains "Flavorlessness". "Tower of Silence" is a term for a tower upon which some Zoroastrians place dead bodies, which explains "Tower of the dead."
Reason is valuable only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe.
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Shriver...3. Once a Massachusetts sergeant?
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Silence: the crux of the biscuit
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
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Bergen: the Brown of the Murphy.MajGenl.Meade wrote:
1. Silence
2. Pope
3. Murphy
Meade's guess made it much easier for me to figure out....
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Silence: the seduction of the Sirens
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
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Silence: the Sirens of (the) Kafka...sorry getting carried away
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Gandhi
Silence; the highest virtue of the strong
Silence; the highest virtue of the strong
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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See I don't get virtue from paramour let alone greatest virtue, too stupid to play this game I guess
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So to recap where we are:
1. Flavorlessness, Tower of the Dead = Silence
2. Paramour, Pious eminence = ?
3. Past changes?, Once a Massachusetts sergeant? = ?
Okay, I'm trying to get the hang of this, but I confess that so far, I'm still stumped.
ETA: Are the answers each one word?
1. Flavorlessness, Tower of the Dead = Silence
2. Paramour, Pious eminence = ?
3. Past changes?, Once a Massachusetts sergeant? = ?
Okay, I'm trying to get the hang of this, but I confess that so far, I'm still stumped.
ETA: Are the answers each one word?
GAH!
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Yes, each blank is for one word. For more than one word, the proper format would be, e.g., (1) _____: the (2) _____ (3) _____. For that reason, even setting aside the clues, MajGenl.Meade latest guess is necessarily incorrect.Sue U wrote:Are the answers each one word?
Also, in the interest of fairness, the maximum permissible number of blanks is three.
On the contrary, you appear to grasp it clearly: Because virtue bears no evident relationship to paramour, virtue is not correct.Rick wrote:See I don't get virtue from paramour let alone greatest virtue, too stupid to play this game I guess
Reason is valuable only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe.
Re: (1) _____: the (2) _____ of the (3) _____.
Silence: the (2) __________ of the (3) __________.
2. An old one is best.
3. Down, out, high and low.
(A tactical note: Because the winner is the one who fills in the last empty blank (which need not be blank (3)), if you think that you know one of the blanks, it might be advisable to keep it to yourself until the other blank is filled in. On the other hand, if you are wrong about the guess which you do not make public, you could set yourself on a completely wrong path.)
2. An old one is best.
3. Down, out, high and low.
(A tactical note: Because the winner is the one who fills in the last empty blank (which need not be blank (3)), if you think that you know one of the blanks, it might be advisable to keep it to yourself until the other blank is filled in. On the other hand, if you are wrong about the guess which you do not make public, you could set yourself on a completely wrong path.)
Reason is valuable only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe.
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You're not actually helping, you know.
But I can't wait to see what comes next.
But I can't wait to see what comes next.
GAH!
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2) reflection
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2. Friend
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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2. Love
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Congrats to Guinevere for filling in blank (2).
Friend is a euphemism for a paramour. "Friend of God" is a term for someone "eminent for piety" (OED). The song "Old Friends" begins with the lines "Old Friends / Are the best friends".
Friend is a euphemism for a paramour. "Friend of God" is a term for someone "eminent for piety" (OED). The song "Old Friends" begins with the lines "Old Friends / Are the best friends".
Reason is valuable only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe.
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3. Artist? (I'm thinking John singer)
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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Bit of a stretch getting 'friend' from 'pious eminence' then... Actually, 'pious eminence', as written (not to mention 'eminent for piety'), would suggest a state of being rather than a noun.Andrew D wrote: "Friend of God" is a term for someone "eminent for piety" (OED).
Now if you'd written: "A person of pious eminence", (or "a person eminent for piety") it would make a lot more sense. However, even then the answer would be 'Friend of God' rather than 'Friend'.
Just nitpicking really...
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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An eminence can be "a person of high rank or attainments". Thus, a gray eminence is "a person who exercises power behind the scenes".
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(3) Dead?
People who are wrong are just as sure they're right as people who are right. The only difference is, they're wrong.
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— God @The Tweet of God