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Grex Iq Item 156: Bi-lingual pun-riddle [linked]
Entered by albaugh on Thu Jun 7 22:21:59 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)

17 responses total.

#1 of 17 by danr on Fri Jun 8 00:39:52 2001:

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#2 of 17 by brighn on Fri Jun 8 02:55:31 2001:

somebody was naughty...

#3 of 17 by janc on Fri Jun 8 05:24:06 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.

#4 of 17 by danr on Fri Jun 8 11:27:30 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.

#5 of 17 by albaugh on Fri Jun 8 14:28:05 2001:

janc has the deduction juices flowing!

#6 of 17 by brighn on Fri Jun 8 14:37:43 2001:

#4> Methinks geocities is having problems...

#7 of 17 by brighn on Fri Jun 8 14:43:37 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 ;} ).

#8 of 17 by lynne on Fri Jun 8 16:47:50 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 :)

#9 of 17 by prp on Fri Jun 8 23:42:04 2001:

Bombay Fisherman?

#10 of 17 by albaugh on Sun Jun 10 06:36:45 2001:

It's a fish, all right.  But what *kind* of fish?

#11 of 17 by johnnie on Sun Jun 10 21:06:23 2001:

Looks like a walleye...

#12 of 17 by prp on Mon Jun 11 00:31:30 2001:

Flying fish?

#13 of 17 by orinoco on Mon Jun 11 00:36:56 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...)

#14 of 17 by rcurl on Mon Jun 11 06:05:54 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.

#15 of 17 by albaugh on Mon Jun 11 15:23:22 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.

#16 of 17 by tsty on Sat Jun 16 07:21:01 2001:

...popcorn .. where are yo when you ARE needed (again) ....?

#17 of 17 by albaugh on Mon Jun 18 14:41:20 2001:

"bomb bay" + walleye ~= Bombaywalla = a term for someone from Bombay
(similar to "New Yorker")

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