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11:00 PM
and was going to be my 2'' but that's ok
 
wow, I dodged a bullet there. So what was 2'?
 
2' was PINK BISMUTH, apparently what they actually call the crap generically
 
wow. I had no idea.
 
1: Alimentary oscillations
 
@Rubio 1 is probably PERISTALSIS
and I'm annoyed at how long it took me to remember the word having located the concept
 
11:01 PM
1: probably. ✔
;)
 
2: Eight-legged hands
 
12: soft toy
 
contact 12?
 
@JanDvorak 12 is probably PLUSH or PLUSHIE
 
12 ✔
 
11:02 PM
legs? with hands?
 
@MikeQ hmm, are they called PALPS? Or more specifically PEDIPALPS?
 
12': Soft plaything
 
2 PEDIPALPS ✔
 
536: Island
 
@Rubio I suppose 12' could be Silly PUTTY though that's decades out of date now.
 
11:04 PM
It's not. That was going to be "12'': Soft plaything (now this is getting silly)".
 
LOL
 
Also, they still sell Silly Putty in a lot of places, just fyi :)
 
I can think of some distinctly NSFW possibilities for 12' but my impression is that you are not likely to be intending those.
 
uhmmm. no.
if 3' is still alive, contact 3'?
 
11:06 PM
@JanDvorak Given the number I think your island must be PAPUA NEW GUINEA. But I vaguely thought the island was New Guinea and PNG was one of the countries on it.
 
536 ✔
 
14: Anti-congress
 
contact 14
 
Should I update my geography knowledge?
 
@JanDvorak Either you should update yours or I should update mine. Don't know which :-).
 
11:07 PM
1: Josie's companions
 
contact 1
 
@MikeQ 14 is probably PROGRESS, though it's tempting (as no doubt intended) to think of either some subversive political organization in the US or the Junior Anti-Sex League.
 
> Papua New Guinea, in the southwestern Pacific, encompasses the eastern half of New Guinea and its offshore islands
 
14 PROGRESS ✔
 
I was wrong then
 
11:08 PM
@Rubio I can't think of any famously-companioned Josie. Unless maybe she was one of the presenters on the old English children's TV programme called PLAYSCHOOL or maybe PLAYSKOOL ??
 
neither
 
If not, then pass 1
 
1 PUSSYCATS
 
1: ✔
 
anyone want to clue me in on what that's about?
 
11:09 PM
Josie and the pussycats?
 
Gareth defending: P O
 
"Josie and the Pussycats" is a band
 
Long tails, and ears for hats?
 
3' dies, was parlor
 
11:09 PM
never heard of them, sorry
 
No, it's an old cartoon show about a band
 
11 lives
 
I think it's both
... right.
 
34: It exists in many forms
 
@JanDvorak perhaps 11 might be POLICE
@JanDvorak Given the number (and only for that reason) I fear your 34 is PORN.
 
11:10 PM
11 ✔
 
12' dies, anyway. it was PLAY-DOH
 
2: Reversable science fiction cliche
 
34 ✔ (sorry)
 
probable contact 2
 
it's OK, I have no objection either to porn or to PORN.
 
11:11 PM
Darn I'm out of stars for today...
 
I have infinitely many stars
and so has Rubio
 
1: Ominously prophetic
 
3: Mad Maxian
 
@Rubio perhaps 1 is PORTENTOUS?
 
12: second after God, supposedly
 
11:12 PM
1: ✔
 
contact 2
 
aargh, 2 is annoying me
meh, pass 2
 
2 polarity
 
2 POLARITY ✔
 
ohh
how stupid of me
 
11:14 PM
Anything can be fixed by reversing the polarity.
 
Gareth defending: P O S
 
12 dies, was pope
 
1: Data brain
 
contact 1
 
@MikeQ 3 status?
 
11:15 PM
3 lives
 
contact 1
 
@Rubio since we're on science fiction at the moment, perhaps 1 is POSITRONIC?
 
2: Tony
1 ✔
 
11: I don't GET web protocols
 
contact 11
 
11:15 PM
@MikeQ perhaps 3 is POST-APOCALYPTIC?
 
3 POST-APOCALYPTIC ✔
 
@JanDvorak 11 is probably POST, the next most common HTTP verb after GET. Or maybe POSTER, with a bit of punning going on.
 
11 post ✔
 
4: n_palum is sitting on one
 
3: One of 5 spices
 
11:16 PM
contact 3
 
contact 3
11 conciseness
 
contact 3, why not
 
@JanDvorak I think you have too many essessssesses
 
1: You sure about this answer about cations? ...
 
@Rubio 1 yes, I'm POSITIVE. (No, that isn't my word.)
 
11:18 PM
1: ✔
 
@GarethMcCaughan I can't see any extra
 
conciseness
 
5: Hellish ailment
 
11:20 PM
3 is bugging me. I am wondering whether this is something that has different names on different sides of the Atlantic (not, for the avoidance of doubt, that that would make it unfair). More likely I'm just suffering from Contact Defender's Blind Spot, though.
 
6: Last name in Disney cartoons
 
Hehe, Gareth's comment on 3 is quite ironic
 
Indeed.
 
huh, perhaps the answer is the European name for something with a different name in the US
not that that's helping me just yet
ohhhh
sorry, @MikeQ, 3 is POSH
 
3 POSH (SPICE) ✔
 
11:22 PM
I am super-ignorant of popular music but not really quite that ignorant
 
and that's why I didn't say how ironic the comment was :P
 
but of course I was distracted as intended by the pseudo-reference to five-spice powder
and I still can't remember what the spices in that actually are
pretty sure none of them begins POS, though :-)
 
scary, sporty, posh...
 
baby, ginger
 
happy, sleepy, doc
no wait
 
11:23 PM
dasher, dancer, prancer
 
@JanDvorak just for the avoidance of doubt, is the extra S in 11 deliberate? if not, I can edit it for you
gluttony, sloth, lust
 
alfa, bravo, charlie,
 
It's not deliberately a typo
 
ok, fixed 11
 
..., alvin, simon, and theodore. that's all the spices.
 
11:24 PM
just so I don't keep thinking I'm trying to find something that means conciseness and then add an S in the middle
 
you forgot mendelevium
 
Don't forget pinta, nina and santa maria
 
you forgot the augean stables too
 
@Rubio I don't suppose 4 is POST?
 
4 - no
 
11:25 PM
is anything contacted at the moment?
 
apparently not
 
I'm scared of 4
 
1: Coordinates
 
you should know what you're sitting on
 
@MikeQ 1 sounds like POSITION
 
11:26 PM
I can think of a few answers I'm not crazy about
 
1 POSITION ✔ (just wanted to cover the obvious ones)
 
12: shiny stick in the middle of Europe
 
3: Potential
 
@MikeQ 3 would be POSSIBILITY I guess
 
3 POSSIBLE / POSSIBILITY ✔
 
11:27 PM
7: It said MSSQL 12.0 or better. so I installed this.
 
@Rubio POSTGRES/POSTGRESQL, obviously
 
7: ✔
 
(the same joke also works with many other database names instead of MSSQL)
 
I'd have used Informix, but .... nobody else did!
 
the correctness of the joke is disputable
 
11:28 PM
bah.
 
8: Unix family
 
contact 8
 
@MikeQ 8 (formerly 7') is probably POSIX
 
with a quibble
 
8 (7') POSIX ✔
 
11:29 PM
though I have what I assume is the same quibble as Rubio
 
Which is?
 
with a quibble, yeah
 
it isn't exactly a Unix family
 
POSIX is distinct from Unix
1: RPN
 
contact 1
 
11:30 PM
@Rubio 1 is POSTFIX
 
1: ✔
 
I mean 1 POSTFIX ==
@Rubio 4 might be POSTERIOR
 
13: Stack Exchange contributor
 
4: ✔
 
contact 13
 
11:31 PM
@JanDvorak 13 might be POSTER
 
13 ✔
 
1: Portrait subject
 
Contact 1
 
@Rubio 1 would be POSER
 
1: ✔
 
11:33 PM
1': Strike a _
 
contact 1'
 
@JanDvorak 1' would be POSE
 
1' ✔
 
(waiting for the obvious)
 
9. It could be parallel
 
11:34 PM
@Deusovi 9 would be POSTULATE
 
indeed it would be
 
nice
 
10. Ths
 
9': Assuming 9 is true
 
@Rubio I suppose 9' is POSTULATION
 
11:35 PM
hm no
 
contact 9'
 
weakly contact 10
 
or POSTULATING
 
nope
 
in the interests of clearing up the starboard a bit, pass 9' (I'm having trouble thinking what answer to it could be a better match than POSTULATING)
@Deusovi 9' guess?
 
11:37 PM
9': POSITING?
 
9' ✔
 
fair enough
Gareth defending: P O S T
 
5 dies (POSSESSION)
 
10 stands
 
2 dies, it was also POSH
6 dies, it was also POSSIBLE
 
11:38 PM
@Rubio Damn it, I though of that meaning of "tony" but still didn't guess it
explain 6?
 
both predating the other clues that used those words
 
11 lives, 12 dies and was a bad clue anyways
 
There's a Disney Cartoons show called Kim Possible
 
what was 12?
I had never heard of Kim Possible. Oh well.
 
as in, invalid. Pole.
 
11:39 PM
ah
@Deusovi 10 status?
 
@JanDvorak, do you still have contact on 10?
 
uncontact 10 if it lives
 
1 min ago, by Deusovi
10 stands
 
ah, sorry I missed it
 
i have no idea on 10. alas.
 
11:39 PM
D:
 
I have an idea for 10 but it's not great
 
@Deusovi Is 10 in fact POST? (POSIT, perhaps in reference to the previous clue, minus I?)
 
10 is not POST, no.
 
Good thing I didn't try to contact it
 
updated 10: T_a_
(made slightly easier, possibly. or not. I dunno)
 
11:41 PM
1: Autopsies, hopefully
 
contact 1 :P
 
@Rubio 1 is, I do indeed hope, POSTHUMOUS
 
1: ✔
 
2: Mail after maturity
 
3: Mail regardless of maturity
 
11:41 PM
@MikeQ is 2 just POST?
@Rubio is 3 just POST?
 
2 No
 
3 no
 
12: house of mail
 
contact 12, but Gareth's gonna get it
 
@JanDvorak is 12 POSTBOX perhaps?
 
11:42 PM
nope
 
or POST OFFICE?
 
yes
12 ✔
 
actually
contact 2 and I withdraw 3
 
interesting
perhaps @MikeQ 2 is POSTAGE (POST+AGE)
 
2 POSTAGE ✔
 
11:45 PM
3: Stump quickly?
what we're trying to do to Gareth?
 
@JanDvorak I don't suppose 11 is POSTAGE STAMP? (Thinking of the idea of things being small enough to write on it?) Or, along similar lines, POSTCARD or POST-IT?
@Rubio 3 is another one that could just be POST
 
nope x3
 
3 no
 
perhaps @Rubio POST-HASTE then
 
3: ✔
 
11:46 PM
4: In the future
 
contact 4
 
@Deusovi it feels like there must be about a hundred POST- words with approximately that meaning
so much so that I'm tempted to call Rubio's bluff. But that's probably too dangerous.
 
*chuckles archly*
 
12: soldier's trouble (4-9 6 8)
 
@JanDvorak POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
 
11:48 PM
12 ✔
 
would I think have been do-able without the enumeration
but maybe there are too many other options then
 
Did you even stop to think before starting to type? that was really fast :)
 
I'm impressed by your typing speed
 
@Rubio I think I thought for about one second
which is a long time in politics
 
indeed
 
11:49 PM
@GarethMcCaughan Who says it's a bluff?
 
but I do get rate-limited by the Contact chat room quite often
 
...oh wait, you do. Never mind.
 
13: Critical artist tips demon sort broken
 
@Deusovi The fact that it probably isn't a bluff is what makes calling it too dangerous
@MikeQ that looks like it might be an anagram of PTSD
 
13 Not even close
 
11:49 PM
if not then give me a minute to figure out what it is an anagram of
or more precisely what some substring of it is an anagram of
postmodernist
 
13 POSTMODERNIST ✔
Darn you're fast
 
(I was thinking that everything-before-broken was about the right length and had many of the right letters. Would have been funny.)
(And also impressive to find an anagram that fast)
 
Well, I'm out of ideas, and should probably leave the office soon, so ... best of luck yall
 
so anyway I suppose I'd better try to find some answers to 4
it could also be POSTMODERN or POSTMODERNIST but I expect not
 
1: Ring... Ring...
 
11:51 PM
@MikeQ bye!
 
11 still alive
 
...it was POSTMODERN
 
@Rubio 1 is the POSTMAN of course
 
D:
 
1: ✔
 
11:52 PM
and @MikeQ ruined it
 
@Deusovi nah, I'd already thought of that
 
What did I ruin?
 
but didn't guess it immediately because, y'know, actual postmodernism is not in the future
 
My clue.
@GarethMcCaughan oh, I'm fully aware of that
@MikeQ - "In the future" was also POST-MODERN. Just reinterpreting it for fun.
 
@JanDvorak yes, I know 11 is still alive but (1) I haven't thought of a plausible answer to it and (2) no one has contacted it :-).
 
11:53 PM
2: Like a bad check
 
@Rubio 2 might be POSTDATED?
 
2: ✔
3: Alconja, to s
 
@Rubio 3 might be POSTER or POSTER CHILD
 
3: ✔ POSTER CHILD
in The Sphinx's Lair, 2 days ago, by Rubio
and yeah. Alconja's are pretty much the poster children for the tag :)
 
yes, I vaguely remembered that remark
 
11:56 PM
that was 2 days ago? o_O
 
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
1: Scoliosis woe?
 
(AFK for maybe one minute, sorry)
 
2: Keyzer Soze's lawyer
 
@Rubio 1 might be POSTURE
 
1: ✔
that moment when clipboard doesn't have what you expected in it :)
 

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