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Gareth McCaughan

23:01

I'm going to retract my 8 to make more space on the star-board because it's one of those things that either someone knows or no one does, and clearly on this occasion no one does. It's TINTINNABULI and I thought it was fair enough after Rubio guessed TINTINNABULATION for another clue :-).

Deusovi

yeah, never heard of it

Rubio

my word is TINTINNABULUM.

you have the win.

Deusovi

um. i just searched that on google and

nsfw-ish: puu.sh/vpNMk/aa7bb2c808.jpg

Gareth McCaughan

I was about to report the same

Rubio

wh...ahah/??!

Gareth McCaughan

23:03

and it gives that picture alongside a definition about Roman Catholic churches

Deusovi

Yeah...

Rubio

wow. that's just wrong on so many levels.

Gareth McCaughan

For what it's worth, I didn't actually know TINTINNABULUM (and I will bet no one else here did either) but if you choose to concede that's fine with me :-).

Rubio

it's the singular, so yeah

ffao

if no one knew the word this would never end anyway

Deusovi

23:05

yeah

I always try to go with non-obscure words

Rubio

yeah was just gonna say, once we got to TINTI it would have ground to a halt

Sp3000

Well my second one was TINT, not sure how far people got

Deusovi

nowhere.

please explain

Sp3000

(word ladder with an unclued gap)

Rubio

yeah please

Deusovi

23:06

ohhhh

Rubio

I saw "TENT" in the middle, but

ohhhhh

Deusovi

FIND HIND HINT TENT SENT SEAT

that's clever

Rubio

that's bloody unlikely ;)

Nice clue, I'm hoping that doesn't catch on though

Gareth McCaughan

wow

My abbey was TINTERN and my reporter, which for reasons that will rapidly become apparent I'm surprised no one got, was TINTIN.

Deusovi

I know nothing about him but the name

Rubio

23:08

heh. I've only heard the name, I have never seen/read it

Gareth McCaughan

Ah. I believe he is a (precocious child) newspaper reporter.

Sp3000

Huh, forgot about that aspect of TINTIN. I just remember him running around a lot

ffao

Gareth McCaughan

14-15 years old, originally. Apparently later on the artist thought of him as more like 17.

Rubio

tisane and tintern huh. to the dictionary I go :)

Gareth McCaughan

23:09

Tintern Abbey will not be in the dictionary -- it's a (ruined) building.

(It's in e.g. Wikipedia, though.)

Rubio

ahh. then I don't feel that bad

I've never met "tisane" before, thanks

Gareth McCaughan

I need to be AFK for about 10 minutes, and ideally longer than that, so if there's demand for another game I suggest someone else defend.

Rubio

I am also going to be stepping away for probably until the turn of the hour

Alconja

I'm around, but only in the background (i.e. offence only)

Gareth McCaughan

(note that at, as Rubio puts it, the turn of the hour, everyone gets their stars back.)

anyway, AFK for a bit now

ffao

23:17

I should probably go do what I was expected to be doing for the past couple of hours

Deusovi

that... sounds like a good idea

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