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albaugh
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Bi-lingual pun-riddle
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Jun 7 22:21 UTC 2001 |
The picture at URL http://www.geocities.com/klalbaugh/images/riddle.jpg is
intended - through a bi-lingual play on words (pun) - to indicate a certain
kind of person from India. See if you can put together enough clues to lead
to the answer. I will provide hints if things get bogged down.
(advance apologies to non-graphics-web grexers)
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danr
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response 1 of 17:
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Jun 8 00:39 UTC 2001 |
This page is not available.
We're sorry, but this page is currently unavailable for viewing. If
this site belongs to you, please read this help page for more
information and assistance.
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brighn
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response 2 of 17:
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Jun 8 02:55 UTC 2001 |
somebody was naughty...
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janc
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response 3 of 17:
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Jun 8 05:24 UTC 2001 |
Shows up for me. For the graphically impaired, it depicts the underside of
a world war II vintage 4-engine US bomber. I believe it is a Consolidated
B-24 Liberator. The plane is in flight, landing gear up, bomb-bay doors
closed. An image of a fish has been pasted into the image, directly
over the bomb-bay doors of the Liberator. I'd guess that it is a perch,
but I'm less apt at identifying fish than at world war II bombers. It is
possible that the fish is supposed to be dropping from the bomb-bay of the
plane, tail first. It is also possible that the fish is supposed to be
pasted to the bottom of the plane, with it's tail pointing toward the tail
of the plane.
The obvious pun of bomb-bay / Bombay might have something to do what Kevin
has in mind.
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danr
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response 4 of 17:
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Jun 8 11:27 UTC 2001 |
Odd. I tried clicking on the URL in #0 again and got the same error
message. I fiddled with the URl a little, though, and did indeed get it
to show up.
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albaugh
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response 5 of 17:
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Jun 8 14:28 UTC 2001 |
janc has the deduction juices flowing!
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brighn
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response 6 of 17:
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Jun 8 14:37 UTC 2001 |
#4> Methinks geocities is having problems...
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brighn
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response 7 of 17:
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Jun 8 14:43 UTC 2001 |
It shows up for me now. It might help to know what the two languages are (I'm
not even going to presume one is English ;} ).
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lynne
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response 8 of 17:
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Jun 8 16:47 UTC 2001 |
I ate your web page.
Forgive me. It was juicy
And tart on my tongue.
I love MIT reponses when a web page isn't running properly :)
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prp
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response 9 of 17:
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Jun 8 23:42 UTC 2001 |
Bombay Fisherman?
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albaugh
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response 10 of 17:
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Jun 10 06:36 UTC 2001 |
It's a fish, all right. But what *kind* of fish?
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johnnie
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response 11 of 17:
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Jun 10 21:06 UTC 2001 |
Looks like a walleye...
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prp
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response 12 of 17:
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Jun 11 00:31 UTC 2001 |
Flying fish?
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orinoco
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response 13 of 17:
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Jun 11 00:36 UTC 2001 |
A walleye could be a play on "-walla," which means "person who sells ___"
in Hindi. I don't think you can use "walla" as a word all by itself,
though (although I really don't know), so you'd need to find one more
Hindi word in the picture for this to work.
I suppose a Bombay-walla could be someone who sells the city of Bombay.
(And if you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you...)
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rcurl
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response 14 of 17:
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Jun 11 06:05 UTC 2001 |
Well, its not a Bombay flounder, sole, sardine, tuna, baracuda,
eel, grouper, mahi-mahi, salmon, octopus (ok-not a fish), perch,
guppy, trigger fish, whale (ditto), or trout.
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albaugh
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response 15 of 17:
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Jun 11 15:23 UTC 2001 |
You've got the words to put together, but you must take the next step and say
*why* they go together. :-) To do so, of course, you need to have a little
knowledge of Indian culture and terminology.
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tsty
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response 16 of 17:
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Jun 16 07:21 UTC 2001 |
...popcorn .. where are yo when you ARE needed (again) ....?
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albaugh
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response 17 of 17:
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Jun 18 14:41 UTC 2001 |
"bomb bay" + walleye ~= Bombaywalla = a term for someone from Bombay
(similar to "New Yorker")
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