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8:19 PM

\o?

hi.

yes

8:39 PM

o/

would give clues if someone defended

8:58 PM

Rubio defending: C

60: you are here

contact 60

50: It's not CONTACT

er 60

right

40: graveyard

9:04 PM

40: It's not CEMETARY

40: cemetery ✔️

61: MC 1.12 new item

contact 61 maybe

PASS 61, I don't even know what that is

I think it's concrete?

9:05 PM

yep, CONCRETE

(Minecraft = MC)

Rubio defending: C A

Colored, even

41: They're hovering right ABOVE US

62: take I-5 S out of OR

contact 41

hm

41: It's not CANADA perhaps

41 ✔️

Weird Al reference

9:09 PM

62: It's not CALIFORNIA

yep on 62

42, 43: Alpine transportation

(I hope I'm right)

63: these are floofy

44: hanging curve

64: do do do do doo-doo-doo

contact 44

9:14 PM

44: It's not CATENARY

44 ✔️

42,43: It's not CABLE CAR maybe?

42, 43 ✔️

45: fancy handwriting

45: It's not CALLIGRAPHY

45 ✔️

46: Young leaf-eater

9:18 PM

contact 46

65: boat

46: It's not CATERPILLAR

46 ✔️

65: It's not CATAMARAN

contact 65

66: boater

yep on 65

9:19 PM

66: It's not CAPTAIN maybe

right

47: One of the Spyfall locations

contact 47?

64 hint: no droids allowed

64: It's not CANTINA

yes

9:23 PM

Are we at CA right now?

Didn't know it had its own sound track

@DJMcMayhem yes

Who's defending?

me

@JanDvorak Contact

47: It's not a CATHEDRAL

9:24 PM

not that one

What's with the numbers? I haven't seen that in contact before

47: It's not a CASINO

47 ✔️

it's easier to refer to specific clue with a number

Do you just pick them arbitrarily?

9:25 PM

yep. They are to identify the clues.

yah

but please keep them to single or, at worst, double digit positive integers, unless there's a specific reason not to

and don't use one already in use. :)

67: small baggage

48: 6 (7)

"hint" usually means there is a prior clue. If it's a new clue, just pick a number and a bold clue

Done

49: Jane (8)

9:31 PM

49: It's not CALAMITY

49 ✔️

Gareth McCaughan

1. Diver or doubt?

ohai Gareth

Gareth McCaughan

hi!

68: former POTUS

Gareth McCaughan

9:32 PM

2. Not a bazaar

64 solved btw

Gareth McCaughan

contact 68

68: It's not CALVIN COOLIDGE

no on 68

40: It's thin and it sucks

Gareth McCaughan

9:34 PM

(someone kindly starred my 2 but there was also a 1 still unstarred)

(thanks)

67 hint: planes

Gareth McCaughan

contact 67

68: It's not Jimmy CARTER

yep on 68

67: It's not CARRYON

Gareth McCaughan

9:35 PM

3. Predestinarian

@Rubio ✓

@GarethMcCaughan contact (on 3)

hint 48: not quite human

3: It's not a CALVINIST

Gareth McCaughan

On 3 I was thinking of the man himself, but yes.

4,5. ____'s wife ____ must be beyond reproach

2: it's not CANTINA ?

Gareth McCaughan

9:36 PM

2 is not CANTINA

oh 2: It's not CATHEDrAL

Gareth McCaughan

yes, 2 was CATHEDRAL

remind me what that's from

41: subtitle

Gareth McCaughan

essay "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric Raymond, about open-source software. May possibly have been the first thing to call it "open source". Contains the famous-ish aphorism: "With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". Launched ESR's career as an open-source blowhard.

contact 41

9:39 PM

41: It's not CAPTION

41 ✔️

69: Another Cathedral Raymond

Gareth McCaughan

(someone star my 4,5?)

(thanks)

contact 63 though I expect I'm wrong

well.

PASS 63

Gareth McCaughan

It might possibly be CATS.

9:42 PM

63 is CATS!

Gareth McCaughan

wooo

of course Rubio, being a dog, would not get that

of course not.

:P

because I've been watching youtu.be/2xAoAHgVr3w

Rubio defending: C A R

9:43 PM

69 lives

40 dies, capillary

Gareth McCaughan

(It is hilarious to see Rubio, with all his erudition, give up a letter by not realising that cats are floofy)

hah

40, that's great

Gareth McCaughan

(not that I haven't had equal humiliation myself many a time)

48, CAPRICA six

Gareth McCaughan

9:43 PM

1 lives

In my defense. My cat is not floofy. He is large and puddle-like, but definitely not floofy.

ohhhhh 48 was bugging me

Gareth McCaughan

4,5 both die: CAESAR and CALPURNIA ("Caesar's wife must be beyond reproach" is an old proverb; J.C.'s wife was called Calpurnia)

contact 69 though again I think it likely I'm wrong

2. Antichrist

contact 1 but probably wrong

Gareth McCaughan

3. Aphorism from Dead Poets Society

umm

9:45 PM

contact 3

2: It's not CARPATHIA ?

3: It's not CARPE DIEM

42: corpse that sounds nothing like baggage

Gareth McCaughan

yeah, 2 is CARPATHIA from the terrible, awful, no good, very bad "Left Behind" books

and 3 is indeed CARPE DIEM

42: It's not CADAVER ?

Gareth McCaughan

contactr 42

9:46 PM

cadaver doesn't match letters

oh yeah

42: It's not CARCASS

42 ✔️

70: Turkey tool

70: It's not CARVER

right

9:48 PM

43: illegal agreement

Gareth McCaughan

contact 43

69 Wild guess, it's not CARR

43: It's not CARTEL

no

43 ✔️

Gareth McCaughan

4. Activity of maenads

9:49 PM

4: It's not CAROUSE maybe?

Gareth McCaughan

yup. (I was thinking CAROUSING, as it happens.)

60: Golden Slumbers lyric

Gareth McCaughan

5. Quinquireme of Nineveh...

6. Monastic order

(I think)

44: Textile product vehicle cuddles with

Gareth McCaughan

contact 44

(I just noticed that I accidentally swapped two words earlier which may have given the impression that I was in some way endorsing the "Left Behind" books. The reverse is the case.)

7. Sin of the Philippines, perhaps

9:53 PM

44: It's not CARPET ?

44 ✔️

Gareth McCaughan

1. How Harry knew Sally

45: 6 (6)

45: it's not CARBON

45 ✔️

9:55 PM

1: It's not CAR TALK? i forget

Gareth McCaughan

1 is not CAR TALK

actually I'm not even thinking of the right movie. lol

contact 1?

PASS 1

1 = CAREER?

Gareth McCaughan

9:56 PM

ah, no

probably just CAR actually

Gareth McCaughan

1 was CARNALLY. (The movie "When Harry met Sally" is mostly taken up with a sort of will-they-won't-they dynamic. Spoiler: They do.)

ugh

Gasp. You spoiled it for me.

Gareth McCaughan

Bet I didn't.

@JanDvorak sorry. I have to confess I rather liked that clue.

1. Big glass bottle

9:58 PM

It is ambiguous with car talk though

46: rifle

Gareth McCaughan

contact 46 I think

Contact 46?

46: It's not a CARABINER ?

that looks wrong

46 ✔️

Gareth McCaughan

9:59 PM

phew, my contact was right

(not that it helped)

Why wrong?

69 hint: already said

Gareth McCaughan

it does look rather unlike an English word

I thought it was carbine

Gareth McCaughan

(I still have tentative contact on 69)

(and that isn't refuted by the latest hint)

9:59 PM

oh - I missed the contact there sorry

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