The Sphinx's Lair

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humn

6:22 AM

This joint hit a low point a few months, perhaps a year, ago.

So glad to see a rebound!

Please take this with humour, dark as it is:

Moxy Fruvous - Splatter Splatter - live on Conan O'Brien 10-12-1999

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^ It's good music! ^

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humn

7:42 AM

@Randal'Thor once expected unsolvable puzzles from me. So i served softballs. Solved every one of both kinds. All up my sleeve are hard balls.

("Hard ball" = USAism for unhittable)

I take days to solve puzzles. Seconds to sprint. Not the same thing.

Weeks, months, to create puzzles.

Experience here is that most want to sprint.

Again, though, glad that this place has regained uplift!

Someone explained that best puzzles look easy. Not from me. They just look impossible.

They are not but do take days to solve. Trying to make each quicker.

That's why the puzzles are incipient. I do not want to make anyone feel insufficient. I just want to help persons feel.

Signed, editor.

A puzzle from yours truly is a signal of love.

The Who -- See Me, Feel Me -- Live at Woodstock 1969

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I feel inferior to and observant of everyone. IQ beyond limit. Emotion also.

That was not meant as last words.

I know how to play with the best.

And i see the best!

On some ways of measure.

Guess i should present a question.

Your guess is as good as mine.

What's the weather?

^ classic Suomen/Finnish question ^

^ always well meant ^

As how someone answers says more than intended.

And well received.

@Alconja , i'm plying you..

Not today. Bye.

Bye also, @Mithical . With love.

@Mithical , you have healed me more than once. More than one way. Thank you.

Oh oh oh @oAlt , thank you. I'm gone for now.

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Sphinx

11:24 AM

Q: Is this a real quote?

One of my cheekier students recently put this quote in an essay they wrote: "Art is the... bow* I aim, a UK air-bus I fly. Art was oui, no?" - Samuel Endeavour I can't find any online presence for the quote anywhere and I suspect there's something fishy about it... Can anybody help me figure ou...

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Jafe

1:02 PM

i think the c4 starts with HE or HIM but other than that i have no idea what's going on... i've searched for all kinds of songwriters named kelly with no success

(or HIS, i suppose)

msh210

1:15 PM

@Jafe nice idea. Another possibility, the definition is "Singer-songwriter", and Kelly clues e.g. HU.

Jafe

ah right

msh210

I really want "that guy's famous" to clue AMOS, but I doubt it….

AncientSwordRage

2:07 PM

@oAlt Technical Requirements document mentions 'import private key into bitcoincore' - getting kernel error? (9)

I do wonder if the C4 def is SINGER, but in the sense of a thing that singes/burns lightly

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Sphinx

3:35 PM

Q: I received a letter with a mysterious "%" seal on the front

It was addressed to me, U3Mg!y]lue!}98u.us. The letter was dated 1969 and 1801. The contents is as follows: p\-HMyIqa`I\9)HP9g9a4<Mo%{u}qyu7u$q\4P%$!4%j]-MZa[%e]-aV%X474P%V]U\x]qMju_asH(!X5}!H9BubuQHx9Bak4PDLXp\(aZ%?5Q5\]0p_p<a?]4\d]qMtqDH(uj5-p(X$044(MFu{Iy]45X4d%$M5%?DSH\ The message is exactl...

cipher

msh210

3:55 PM

@AncientSwordRage I think I did one of those here....

AncientSwordRage

@msh210 you did indeed

It's also a type of dog (loosely) and a brand of sewing machine (tightly)

msh210

@msh210 …yeah.

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Sphinx

6:54 PM

Q: Peak, in a hurry

What's the two-word (13 letters) phrase I'm looking for?

knowledge enigmatic-puzzle visual rebus

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Sphinx

8:09 PM

Q: Who is disgusting?

The students are Alex, Baker, Carol, Daquan, Eugene, Francois, Gilbert, and Hilbert. During a class in session, I claimed that one of the students is disgusting. You only see one clue however: 169 Who? There will probably be many ways to stretch an answer to work, clarifications will arrive as n...