The Sphinx's Lair

Gareth McCaughan

12:00 AM

(or maybe someone is a 3D jigsaw fan)

bobble

3D jigsaw where?

do you mean the Hogwarts Lego set?

Gareth McCaughan

oh, I thought I recognized it as one of the Wrebbit 3D jigsaws.

Maybe it's actually a Lego set.

bobble

My ~~dad~~ family has giant Millennium Falcon, Ewok Village, and Hogwarts Lego sets, along with a bunch of smaller ones

Gareth McCaughan

We have a fair amount of Lego, but not sets that make particular things. Contrary to the usual gender stereotypes it's my wife and daughter who do almost all the Lego-making.

bobble

I usually end up making the Legos, but my dad likes looking at them afterwards

by the way, did I leave anything identifying in?

Gareth McCaughan

12:07 AM

I didn't spot anything.

oAlt

Same

bobble

sigh of relief

Gareth McCaughan

(And the places where you've censored things look as if you've censored them in a way that isn't readily reversible.)

bobble

you should also be able to see my mom's Winnie the Pooh ornaments

oAlt

Bumping my question from a few days ago: if the theme of the FTC were variety crossword grids, and I made one puzzle about that BUT made it a component of one larger puzzle, is this larger puzzle valid as an entry for FTC, or only the subpuzzle?

(didn't see any answers so forgive me if I overlooked)

merrybot

12:12 AM

@bobble ooh nice :)

Bubbler

@oAlt You'd need to ask in the FTC post if it qualifies or not. (For the current one, I explicitly allowed such kind of mashups).

Deusovi

@oAlt i'd say it's valid - i believe it's been done before, but i can't remember any examples off the top of my head

oh there was that "weird connect walls" entry that started as a masyu

and there was another (by ankoganit, iirc) that started as a connect wall and turned into something else

bobble

11

Q: What are these holes in my Connect Wall?

An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls "Why on earth are there blank spaces in your connect wall?" "In my defense, you just asked me to make categories with four words in them; you never said how many categories." "It's a 4x4 grid! How many categories do you think...

Deusovi

that's the one!

bobble

connect-wall -> slitherlink -> cipher

Deusovi

12:26 AM

so yeah, that's fine by me at least - as long as part of it uses the theme, i'm not gonna complain if more is added on

bobble

I got an idea... aggh, I was going to work on a Lit question. Should probably do that first.

oAlt

12:43 AM

@Bubbler ah, what I meant was something like variety crossword grid, PLUS (for example) a cipher, a language puzzle, and a maze, and all are combined into one puzzle

@bobble in this case though, one was supposed to solve it like a connect wall from the very start (well, after solving the cryptic clues) and doing so led to other types of puzzles

Bubbler

(Ah, mine doesn't say about combining with non-grid-deductions either)

but I'd personally allow them too

oAlt

hmm ok (thanks for the inputs)

bobble

By the way, Deus and I solved the crazy quintuple-chimera Fillomino, which you can see in the chatroom

If there's a whole chain of comments that is No Longer Needed, should they each be flagged, only the last one, only the first one, or flag one with a custom flag?

Deusovi

either all of them or custom flag

bobble

12:59 AM

Another thing I've been wondering - when a comment flag comes up in the queue, do you see just the flag, or the whole chain of comments and the post in question?

Deusovi

we just see the flagged comment

bobble

thank you for providing this most definitely needed information

Deusovi

(i can show you what it looks like if you don't mind us sharing your recent comment flags)

bobble

sure, that's fine

Deusovi

this is what we see for comment flags

bobble

1:03 AM

what does the "1" in a blue box mean?

Deusovi

one person flagging

bobble

thanks!

Deusovi

no problem! hope you enjoyed the peek behind the curtain into the (probably not very interesting) flag queue

bobble

Super Secret Mod Power Queue, you mean

and I have to leave now, so bye!

Deusovi

see ya!

Sphinx

3:46 AM

1

Q: A colorful little Connect Wall

This Connect Wall is pretty straightforward (?), but I thought it might be a fun mini-puzzle! Connect Wall rules: Divide these sixteen words into four groups based on something they have in common. You'll find that the four groups have something in common themselves. The words aren't in any parti...

connect-wall

bobble

4:34 AM

@Sciborg are you in need of some distraction?

Sphinx

0

Q: Day-in-the-sun chess

Inspired by this puzzle: Doubled Knights redux Let's make the following change to the rules of chess. Every piece can once per game (on its day in the sun) make a double move. Clarifications: Things allowed in the double move: walking in and out of check either by moving the king or by leaving a...

chess optimization construction

bobble

'borg!

Sciborg

I could use a distraction yes :p

bobble

did you see my Christmas tree?

Sciborg

Yes!!! It's super cute!

bobble

4:46 AM

you can see the barest hints that my family is nerdy

Sciborg

When I finish setting mine up, i will send a picture - still have to do some branch-fluffing and ornaments

Matt is going to lose it when he sees all my nerdy-ass Star Trek ornaments

bobble

ooh, Doodle Request: some bobblies trying to climb up to the top of a Christmas tree (obviously some of them are falling off)

Sciborg

on it

How has your day been? :D

bobble

mostly good, except that my sister had one of her "if you agree with me then you're not making choices for yourself, if you disagree then you're just being contrary" moods

Sciborg

ah yes, makes perfect sense

bobble

4:51 AM

and I got two cups of hot chocolate for making the tree

Sciborg

Awww

bobble

you may perhaps put some nerdy ornaments on the tree that the bobblies are climbing

Sciborg

We're doing both a family tree and our own trees this year, so i've been slowly setting up mine over the course of today. It's squished up next to my keyboard since my apartment is kinda small :p

bobble

our tree is half-blocking both the staircase and the entrance to mom's office, but oh well

Sciborg

There's no good place to put giant pine trees

bobble

4:56 AM

in the Hogwarts Great Hall

Sciborg

Correction: there's one good place to put giant pine trees

bobble

but it is a good place, you must admit

Sciborg

wistfully imagines what it's like to have floor space

bobble

we had floor space, then it was sacrificed to the bunnies

Sciborg

A worthy sacrifice :p

I'm putting little Santa hats on the bobblies

bobble

5:02 AM

this is a completely valid choice

Sciborg

Hmm, I think I'll make the Christmas tree lights rainbow too. I'm in a rainbow mood

bobble

you can show one at the top trying to stake a pride flag as the tree-topper

Sciborg

perfect

bobble

I'm in Step 1 of making an FTC sashigane - solve a bunch of other people's sashiganes to learn basic deductions and get break-in ideas

Sciborg

Ooh

3

here are the tree bobblies

bobble

5:21 AM

wonderful

I think that one of them may need to go back to Tree-Climbing school

now, have you seen any more SHIELD since, um, yesterday?

Sciborg

Not yet :)

bobble

has Poofy been squishy?

Sciborg

Poofy is squishy and is still my Desk Buddy

bobble

would you do your homework in the Great Hall, in your dorm, in the house common room, in the library, outside, or in an empty classroom?

Sciborg

Is this one of those online Sorting quizzes? :p

Usually i get Hufflepuff

bobble

5:27 AM

no, random question sparked by the Great Hall Christmas tree stuff

Sciborg

Probably my dorm, that was usually where i did homework in college. But sometimes I would hang out in the basement of the library because nobody went down there and it was quiet

Although the Hogwarts library probably wouldn't be quiet, given all the ghosts and stuff

bobble

but Madame Pince

Sciborg

True, true

I feel like if you were at Hogwarts, you'd absolutely be Ravenclaw

You would tutor all the Slytherin kids in math and Dark Arts

bobble

and also campaign for therapy and wifi

Sciborg

Yes

Hey, Matt's here :D

matt

5:39 AM

remind me never to eat pita chips

that is all

bobble

did you ever read the IT Wizard?

Sciborg

The IT Wizard?

bobble

oh wait it was The Setup Wizard

thesetupwizard.tumblr.com

premise is that a Muggle IT guy is hired by Hogwarts to do IT stuff

Sciborg

Perfect

bobble

and there is gayness if you read far enough in

Sciborg

5:41 AM

Even better

matt

@Sciborg hell yes, I must see

bobble

for maximum effect, you have to read oldest first

matt

@Sciborg this is amazing

Sciborg

I have a friend who reads like a hundred Tumblr series and webcomics, i'm gonna forward this to her

matt

let's not forget badconlangingideas.tumblr.com

(for bad conlanging ideas)

((obviously))

bobble

5:49 AM

hmm, looks like they resumed the series for Hogwarts remote learning

(it stopped when they ran out of time a while back)

also, absolutely bonkers sashigane: jacoblance.wordpress.com/2016/06/10/puzzle-132-sashigane

Sciborg

Goddamn

I also just realized i've run out of my favorite light green note paper, so future Doodles will have to be on dark green until i can get more :p

bobble

oh no!

we made too many Doodle Requests

Sciborg

No worries, i use it for tons of scribblings so it runs out a lot

I have like a pile of notepapers on my desk that are just random website passwords and reminders to do things i forgot :p

bobble

have you been solving any puzzles recently?

msh210

6:05 AM

@bobble interesting ritual. do you rip it up and put it on an altar?

bobble

we let it be covered by half-destroyed boxes and hay

msh210

@Sciborg pro tip: use the same password for absolutely everything, so you need to remember only one password. (kidding!!)

Sciborg

@msh210 of course, i see no problems with this :p

msh210

@bobble oh... so no midnight rituals involving candles?

bobble

sadly, no

Sciborg

6:07 AM

we only do midnight summoning rituals when we need to summon Deus

msh210

@bobble I am disappointed.

@Sciborg I must brush up on my theoviology

bobble

I plead forgiveness

msh210

@bobble you are forgiven, my daughter

go and sin no more

bobble

What shall I do in repentance?

Sciborg

The bunnies must be given cuddles, in accordance with the Scripture

msh210

6:13 AM

@Sciborg and treats

bobble

I shall give them two dried carrot treats apiece and pet them.

Sciborg

This pleases the Lord.

msh210

The only conceptual artist I know is On Kawara (whom I know only because he appeared in another puzzle). (Googling, of course, gets me more.)

Sciborg

?

msh210

(the C4)

Sciborg

6:17 AM

ah

msh210

I don't imagine that "conceptual" and "artist" are two different parts of the clue. I don't know how the wordplay would work then... and "conceptual" doesn't have many synonyms, certainly not short ones. So I think we're looking for a conceptual artist (or a synonym of "conceptual artist").

Sciborg

I know pretty much nothing about art except what I researched for Jeremy Dover's art puzzle a little while ago

jafe

montanan is an american, and that's On eaten by M'tanan, a fish in a south african mythology i just invented

msh210

Yeah, for "American" I think we need either a state demonym, like @jafe said, or a country demonym (using "American" broadly to refer to the Americas), or a term describing a Native American nation.

Sciborg

a flawless solve

msh210

6:21 AM

(respectively, Montanan, Bolivian, Cherokee, for example)

Sciborg

Now I'm wondering if "eaten by" means that "fish" is a container indicator and wraps around "American conceptual artist"? (or just "conceptual artist")

msh210

can't be around "American conceptual artist" unless it's &lit... and I highly doubt it's &lit

but yeah that seems likely (and is in fact what @jafe proposed above); an alternative is that "by" means concatenation

jafe

the first google hit i get for "conceptual artist" is Sol LeWitt... SOL seems like it could be a usable substring

(also, hi everyone)

Sciborg

Hello :)

bobble

I had to plead forgiveness from msh210

msh210

6:26 AM

@jafe huomenta

hehe nice

bye everyone

Bye!

bye

yoko ono is a pretty famous conceptual artist

american could clue a city demonym like Angeleno as well

Sciborg

If we take "conceptual artist" to be "ON", as in "On Kawara," that could be part of the wordplay?

Or "SOL" as in "Sol LeWitt", either one

jafe

6:41 AM

yeah it could be either of those inside some word for fish

or it could be just a name of an artist, with "conceptual" as a separate part... although i don't know any short synonyms for "conceptual" off the top of my head

there are so many words for "fish"

Sciborg

yeah, there's like 20 words for "fish" that come immediately to mind

jafe

could even be just a synonym for "eaten" and then a word for fish, with "american conceptual artist" as the def

Sciborg

Could also be that

jafe

like dined + gar making Din Edgar, the famous fake conceptual artist

Sciborg

!!!

That could be it

I mean, not that literal solution, but that could be the idea

jafe

6:44 AM

just made up din edgar, just to be clear :)

but eaten does have some usable synonyms i think

Sciborg

Right, I was excited because that is a very plausible idea for the wordplay, not at the mighty Din Edgar :p

jafe

heheh

Sciborg

Alternatively, what if "American conceptual" is the def...? i.e. an American ideal or something

seems kinda wonky though

jafe

i don't see it... conceptual can only be an adjective, right?

Sciborg

Yeah

jafe

6:52 AM

so the answer would have to be an adjective too

Sciborg

I'm kinda just grasping at random straws at the moment

It just feels like the surface of "American conceptual artist" is some kind of trick

jafe

no official u.s. state demonym or native american group included in the u.s. census apparently contains SOL or ONO

Sciborg

There goes that idea, then

ON?

jafe

yeah if "american conceptual artist" was the def it could just as easily have been "artist eaten by fish"

still possible, of course, but less likely imo

ON could be useful for sure

Arizonan has ON and is 8 letters

Sciborg

Oooooh

No fish called "arizan" that i can find, though

jafe

6:56 AM

so arizan must be a fish... come on google

msh210

@jafe magic 8 ball says: Don't count on it.

Sciborg

Oregonan?

nahh

Or maybe something like "national" or "regional", but there are no fish called "natial" or "regial"

jafe

to angle is to fish, and angeleno almost contains that but not quite

Sciborg

"colonial" maybe, but again, "colial" isn't a fish...

jafe

next conceptual artist with a usable name: Ian Burn

Sciborg

7:03 AM

ooooh

i like "IAN" being part of this

"Indianan"?

i get the feeling we've gone off the intended path by now

jafe

yeah maybe "conceptual artist" for Ian would be too specific... it's not like you see the name ian and are like "oh yes, the australian artist from the 70s"

Sciborg

i feel like this is gonna be another "old saw" clue where the answer is incredibly wild and not at all what we expected

jafe

those are the best clues

Sciborg

i'm gonna go down a two-day rabbit hole of learning about conceptual art and then it will turn out to be like, a clue for amoebas or something

jafe

hehehe

or it's a word like piscephagized meaning "eaten by fish"

think i mixed up latin and greek there but oh well

msh210

7:21 AM

@jafe right

@Sciborg don't blame Gareth for old saws. He wouldn't do that.

By the way, I figured out (a while back, just never mentioned) what exactly was wrong with that clue.

jafe

next up in conceptual artists: Tracey Emin

msh210

The problem was that it was a so-called definition by example. You don't clue MAN by "John Major": you need to use "John Major, for example".

oAlt

eyy jafe is back

jafe

what clue are we talking about

oAlt

@msh210 more so that john major could mean anything aside from man

msh210

7:23 AM

Same with "an old saw ends like this" -- it's an example, so you need to say "an old saw perhaps ends like this". I think that latter would be perfectly fine.

jafe

wait, EMIN eaten by SOLE is SEMINOLE, a native american

@GarethMcCaughan

oAlt

epic

msh210

@jafe there you go

nicely found

@oAlt so what?

jafe

and we learned about conceptual artists in the progress!

oAlt

(i think i tripped up on my english) i meant that it's not just the problem that cluing "John Major" is insufficient, but that John Major could also clue other things aside from man. for all we know, the answer could be "scientist", "pastor", "artist", "toilet", etc

like other, tighter definitions-by-example for "man" could have been used

oAlt

8:17 AM

hi athin :0

athin

Hey oAlt, uh, I actually accidentally clicked this chat instead of meta haha ><

oAlt

ahahah

athin

(I'm that kind of person who is actually.. too embarrassed to show up in a chat, so.. I think I may leave pretty soon ahahah)

Sphinx

0

Q: Norinori: QR-Code-ish

This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community. Here is a standard Norinori puzzle. Rules of Norinori: Shade exactly two cells in each bordered region. Each shaded cell must be orthogonally adjacent to exactly one other shaded cell, m...

logical-deduction grid-deduction

oAlt

8:57 AM

@athin that's fine. i was like that (and i think i still am sometimes when there are too many people in the group that i'm not close to) too

jafe

pretty sure i lurked for weeks or months before saying anything here

oAlt

same

Mithical

9:12 AM

I didn't. I'm pretty sure I popped in and just started talking, which is the total opposite to me in real life

oAlt

hahah

msh210

Usenet & listserv netiquette is to lurk awhile before posting to get a feel for the group. Dunno that that's true for chat in general, for SE chat in particular, or for this lair in more particular.

Mithical

You can't go too wrong taking cues from the other people chatting.

msh210

Right. I suppose a good policy is: lurking is necessary for chat too, but for a shorter timespan than on Usenet or listservs.

(And for SE chat in particular, which has history, checking that history can serve in lieu of lurking.)

oAlt

true

msh210

9:21 AM

(I'm not saying I always follow these guidelines, incidentally.)

Stiv

9:40 AM

Question for MODS (and wider community): Do we really need every tag wiki excerpt to contain a warning that general questions are off-topic but can be asked on a different site on the SE network? While this is useful info for the body of a tag wiki this seems excessive for the little stub that gives you info about what the tag actually is about, rather than what it's not...

The prolific tag wiki editing currently going on by a particular user does not seem like it's actually useful, and instead is now cluttering what were intended to be short little informative stubs.

(That's how it seems to me anyway)

(Specifically talking about the tag wiki excerpts here, in case that's not clear...)

Sphinx

10:30 AM

0

Q: Progressive Matrix question - lines, squares and circles

I found a free logical reasoning test which consisted of 10 questions. I managed to solve all the other questions correctly except for the last one: I could not find a pattern of how the squares and circles. I could only find one in the lines which is that the lines would move up as the sequence...

pattern visual progressive-matrix

Stiv

11:18 AM

Re my comments above, am also interested in views from other users (not just mods). I've Rejected several of these tag wiki excerpt edits today for 'no improvement whatsoever'... If consensus suggests these are genuinely useful alterations to the excerpts then I will revert to Skipping them (I cannot bring myself to Approve them).

Gareth McCaughan

12:04 PM

@jafe Yup, you got it. Well done!

jafe

12:46 PM

CCCC: Temperamental battalion's leader absent from soldier entombment (9)

had to look up "battalion" several times because it just looks wrong regardless of how many times i've checked that that's how it's spelt

my instinct is to write one T and two L's every time

Gareth McCaughan

It always looks wrong to me however many Ts and Ls.

oAlt

1:06 PM

hi bubbler

oAlt

1:58 PM

@jafe MERC + (-b)URIAL?

Sphinx

2:18 PM

3

Q: Open the curtains

Open the curtains to reveal some words of wisdom: ┏━┳━┳━┳━┳━┳━┳━┳━┳━┳━┳━┳━┳━┳━┳━┳━┓ ┃.┃.┃C┃O┃N┃D┃U┃C┃I┃V┃E┃.┃.┃.┃.┃.┃ ┣━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━┫ ┃.┃.┃.┃.┃O┃V┃E┃R┃E┃A┃T┃.┃.┃.┃.┃.┃ ┣━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━┫ ┃.┃.┃.┃.┃.┃.┃.┃F┃A┃T┃H┃E┃R┃.┃.┃.┃ ┣━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━╋━┫ ┃....

wordplay enigmatic-puzzle cipher cryptography

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Q: Dragon summoning spell

I was in my local library looking for the fifth volume in the series Bauxite Production and Processing, when I noticed a stairwell door was slightly ajar. Curious, I slipped through the door and down the stairs, down into the stacks. Who knew the library had so many fascinating books in their st...

wordplay enigmatic-puzzle graph-theory topology

jafe

@oAlt that's right

oAlt

feeling both confident and unsure about this one

CCCC: Clipped prompt: it's translated live, perhaps (11)

ugh, frick me. i'm doubting myself more over this ;_;

yeah, i might have to drop that one. would anyone be willing to confirm my doubts through onetimesecret?

msh210

2:38 PM

@oAlt I'd rather try to figure it out. :-)

. . . I think.

oAlt

that's fine if you really wanna do it

it's just that there's a small but crucial technicality i overlooked :'(

Ankoganit

@oAlt I'm no expert, but I can take a look via ots if you want

oAlt

hmmm

torn between leaking to ots versus letting it stand for a while now that at least one person is interested in solving it (and inevitably finding what is wrong with my clue)

on second thought i might let it stand for a while instead?

Ankoganit

Sure, up to you

msh210

2:54 PM

"a small but crucial technicality" . . . he omitted a noun

oAlt

@msh210 there is one possible interpretation of this that aligns with what i'm thinking right now, though we might not be thinking the same thing

Sphinx

3:09 PM

3

Q: What's the sixth word?

There's an integer n>0 such that subtracting n (where A=1, …, and Z=26) from some (more than one) of the letters in word #1 yields word #2. Replacing the first plosive in word #3 by a fricative and the first vowel by a syllabic approximant yields word #5. Replacing thunder with war in word #5 yie...

word

Stiv

@JeremyDover Your 'Office park' grid puzzle looks fantastic! And (although I've loved seeing the new grid-deduction types so far this fortnight) I'm glad to see someone devising something new as well, as I was debating doing just that myself - it's an encouragement to sit down and do it some time!

bobble

I have a great idea that I really hope I have the time to pull off - a puzzle where the only given puzzle text is the rules of the grid-deduction genre, no actual grid to solve, and then you have to extract a puzzle from the rule-text.

Prince North Læraðr

Any progress on the cryptic-clues?

bobble

oh, sorry - had too much to do yesterday. I can finish them up by tonight for sure.

Prince North Læraðr

Alright. Thanks!

Jeremy Dover

3:24 PM

Thanks Stiv! Don't know if it's really new or not, but once I started working it out, even this pretty easy example still had some interesting deduction in it.

Sphinx

4

Q: Office Park: A Grid Deduction Puzzle

This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community I had an idea for what I think is a new grid deduction puzzle which has some aspects of Statue Park and some from Skyscrapers, so Office Park seems a good temporary name. It may well have a...

grid-deduction

Gareth McCaughan

3:52 PM

@JeremyDover I must be misunderstanding something in the Office Park rules because it seems obviously impossible. How can you place any V piece if (1) nothing is allowed to overhang but (2) pieces aren't allowed to touch?

Jeremy Dover

@GarethMcCaughan: Maybe I didn't describe the pieces well. The piece descriptions are the number of cubelets in each stack looking down from the top. So a V is an L-triomino of cubes, with a 4th cube on one of the arms.

bobble

@msh210, @Sciborg: I'm sure you'll be pleased to know I have completed my penance.

Gareth McCaughan

4:10 PM

@JeremyDover Oh, no, the problem isn't that you didn't describe it right, it's that I'm an idiot and imagined it wrong. Sorry.

Jeremy Dover

@GarethMcCaughan: I'm already imagining a Frank Lloyd Wright variant where cantilevers are allowed, so you're not an idiot...just visionary :-)

Prince North Læraðr

Interesting that "clipped" and "prompt" can actually mean very similar things

Both meaning "short"

I have a sneaking suspicion it might be SCINTILLANT

oAlt

:O

Prince North Læraðr

I'm not a 100% sure how to get the wordplay to work though

oAlt

(running outta data so I might suddenly not talk)

Prince North Læraðr

4:23 PM

But I think "it's translated" is a literal indicator that it's a translation

bobble

I had to check my school's website because I forgot when class started over break D:

Prince North Læraðr

"Live" meaning that it's sparks, sparkles, etc.

Clipped I think might be SCINTILLA, but NT?

msh210

@bobble bless you

Prince North Læraðr

@oAlt What is that reaction? Was I right? (actually don't answer that)

oAlt

Tight lips indeed

Prince North Læraðr

4:27 PM

The SCINTILLA meaning "short" and SCINTILLANT seems too coincidental though

bobble

so you need to massage "it's translated live, perhaps" into = NT?

Prince North Læraðr

@oAlt The answer is SCINTILLA(+NT), where NT is a neurotransmitter, which is a prompt of a sort #greatc4solutions

bobble

you forgot the "n" in "scin"

oAlt

indeed (not) correct

Prince North Læraðr

Yay!

Hehe

bobble

4:42 PM

any one want to take bets on how long my econ teacher will rant about Cox?

Prince North Læraðr

Cox? Like the internet service provider?

bobble

yeah

Prince North Læraðr

How long do they usually complain?

bobble

he's tangented for an entire class several times

Prince North Læraðr

How long are your class periods?

bobble

4:44 PM

hour? I think?

Prince North Læraðr

Hm, I'm going to bet 45 miniutes

bobble

oh wait he changed to a rant about how politicians aren't following COVID regulations

now rant about Gray's Anatomy???

I've forgotten how strange this is

Ankoganit

Like the TV show?

Or the book?

bobble

TV show, and I might have spelled it wrong

matt

dang, bobble, you've got one weird teacher

:p

Ankoganit

4:51 PM

Not seeing the connection with Econ but ok

matt

that's the point

bobble

Nov 9 at 17:04, by Sciborg

typical econ class: supply-demand chains, productivity, finance
your class, apparently: "every law is enforced by the barrel of a gun..." *drags on weed pipe*

Ankoganit

Heh

Yeah that explains it

bobble

as a plus, I had time to finish all of North's cryptic clues - they will be landing in your inbox soon

matt

in whose inbox?

Prince North Læraðr

4:54 PM

@bobble Ey! Thank you!

matt

why hello there...

Nov 9 at 16:59, by Sciborg

"Prince North LRARHIHSRHRSRR"

bobble

I've actually learned a bunch from this econ class - almost entirely from the homework lecture videos

matt

hm

also, my school has decided:
1. cameras always on, else you are absent
2. respond when asked stuff, else you are absent
in other words, the entire school is using spanish's attendance system

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