Contact

@JanDvorak 44 is probably VACCINATION though I seem to recall that the disease in question can be called VARIOLA as well as smallpox (and it's prevention rather than cure)

Jan Dvorak

44 ✔️

Gareth McCaughan

11:11 PM

@JanDvorak I wonder whether 43 is VESPERS.

Jan Dvorak

It's not

45: twisted evil

Contact 45

contact 45

Contact 43??

@JanDvorak perhaps 45 could be the evil wizard Lord VOLDEMORT?

Jan Dvorak

11:13 PM

not that guy, nope

Gareth McCaughan

alternatively and more likely it would be VILE

Jan Dvorak

45 ✔️

Gareth McCaughan

I'm confused by 43 so pass 43. @Sp3000 your guess?

Sp3000

VI?

Gareth McCaughan

ah, clever idea

Jan Dvorak

11:14 PM

not VI, sorry.

Gareth McCaughan

phew

Sp3000

Drat :P

Jan Dvorak

no other contact, I think?

Gareth McCaughan

I don't think there were any other contacts

Jan Dvorak

43: Vista

Gareth McCaughan

11:14 PM

so @JanDvorak what was it?

oh!

also a clever idea

Sp3000

Ah right

Gareth McCaughan

sorry (but not very sorry) it didn't work out

Jan Dvorak

Don't apologize for that

Sp3000

10. VA (as a school subject)

Helka Homba

er

Sp3000

11:15 PM

10'. VA (as a performer)

Gareth McCaughan

@HelkaHomba I'm going to guess that 62 might be VOAT

Helka Homba

62 yes...meant to say goat

Gareth McCaughan

@Sp3000 10 might be VISUAL ARTS

Jan Dvorak

46: impaler

Sp3000

10. Yup

Gareth McCaughan

11:16 PM

@JanDvorak 46 would be VLAD

Jan Dvorak

46 ✔️

I have a vague guess for 12

Gareth McCaughan

is that a contact or a not-contact?

Jan Dvorak

Contact. But it's probably wrong.

Helka Homba

contact 12 with another vague guess cause why not

Gareth McCaughan

ok, then pass 12

Jan Dvorak

11:17 PM

vertically fastened door?

Helka Homba

VICIOUSLY?

ffao

Contact 10'

Gareth McCaughan

I find Jan's guess more plausible than HH's

Sp3000

12 is VERNACULARLY (from A Series of Unfortunate Events)

Gareth McCaughan

gosh

Jan Dvorak

11:18 PM

eugh

Sp3000

(not that I've read it, but lots of VFDs there)

Gareth McCaughan

I find the real answer less plausible than either Jan's or HH's

10' seems like it probably has hundreds of possible answers, but my ignorance is immense and I'm having trouble thinking of any.

Rather than dredging my brain, pass 10'

@ffao what's your guess for 10'?

ffao

Voice actor

DJMcMayhem

How many letters have been revealed?

Sp3000

10'. Yup

Gareth McCaughan

11:19 PM

@DJMcMayhem Just the initial one, but another one is coming right up.

Damn, I was trying to think of specific performers.

Gareth defending: V E

@ffao @HelkaHomba status of your attacks?

Jan Dvorak

47: common Greek

ffao

6 dies, was another clue for vote

5 lives

Jan Dvorak

(I think)

Helka Homba

63 was VIGGO

Gareth McCaughan

darn, should have thought of 6

Viggo Mortensen was Elrond? Is he a king?

Jan Dvorak

11:21 PM

contact 5 perhaps

ffao

Viggo was aragorn

Gareth McCaughan

oh, he was Aragorn? D'oh.

Who was Elrond? I know he was the same guy who played Smith in The Matrix but my brain is failing to give me his name.

Sp3000

7. Ace

Helka Homba

Hugo Weaving

Gareth McCaughan

oh, of course. Thanks.

ffao

11:22 PM

Hugo weaving?

Yeah

DJMcMayhem

42: Off-course

Gareth McCaughan

@JanDvorak 47 might I suppose be VERNACULAR though I don't see why Greek

Sp3000

Contact 42

Jan Dvorak

47 ✔️

contact 42

Gareth McCaughan

@DJMcMayhem perhaps 42 might be VEERING?

Helka Homba

11:22 PM

60: Skype precursor (I think)

DJMcMayhem

@GarethMcCaughan I was thinking veer but that's close enough

ffao

Contact 60 maybe

Gareth McCaughan

pretty sure I don't know whatever 60 is, so pass 60

Jan Dvorak

48: U2 song

ffao

I'll guess ventrilo

Helka Homba

11:24 PM

60 was VENTRILO

Gareth McCaughan

impressive. I've never heard of it.

Gareth defending: V E R

48 lives

7's Ventura

@ffao 5 alive?

if so, uncontact

11:25 PM

Nope, was veneration

DJMcMayhem

@JanDvorak I like U2 a lot, so it's killing me that I can't think of one

Jan Dvorak

I hope it's named that...

Sp3000

8. Alcohol

Gareth McCaughan

@Sp3000 perhaps 8 is VERMOUTH?

ffao

Contact 48

Sp3000

11:26 PM

8. Yup

49: node

contact 48

14: Bones

@JanDvorak 49 is probably VERTEX

Jan Dvorak

49 ✔️

Gareth McCaughan

11:26 PM

@DJMcMayhem Perhaps the bones of 14 are VERTEBRAE?

DJMcMayhem

@GarethMcCaughan yep

Jan Dvorak

vertebrae aren't bones, though

Helka Homba

60: 1.0

Jan Dvorak

contact 60

Gareth McCaughan

@HelkaHomba 60 sounds like a VERSION NUMBER

DJMcMayhem

11:27 PM

@HelkaHomba contact

Contact 60

yep

9. Verd?g??s

61: trig

40: Treaty of

11:28 PM

contact 40

Gareth McCaughan

@Sp3000 9 is VERDIGRIS (surely you could have omitted more?)

Destructible Lemon

contact 40

Gareth McCaughan

@JanDvorak 40 is VERSAILLES

Jan Dvorak

40 ✔️

Destructible Lemon

dangit

Sp3000

11:29 PM

Maybe, I just wanted to get the word out of the way :P

Gareth McCaughan

@HelkaHomba perhaps 61 is the little-known VERSINE, outdone only by the even more awesome haversine?

Helka Homba

@GarethMcCaughan not quite

Sp3000

(brb for a bit)

Gareth McCaughan

@HelkaHomba hmm, maybe VERTEX then? (probably not)

Helka Homba

nope

Jan Dvorak

11:30 PM

41: truthlikeliness

Destructible Lemon

2. confidently, truly

5: Red

hmmm

contact 5

@JanDvorak 41 is perhaps VERISIMILITUDE? Or, less accurately, VERACITY?

Jan Dvorak

11:31 PM

41 ✔️

Destructible Lemon

contact 5

Gareth McCaughan

@DestructibleLemon 2 might be VERILY or even VERY?

DJMcMayhem

I think 41 and 2 are the same

Destructible Lemon

verily yup

Gareth McCaughan

@ffao 5 is probably VERMILION

ffao

11:31 PM

Yes on 5

Gareth McCaughan

@DJMcMayhem Turns out they weren't :-).

Helka Homba

still contact 48

Gareth McCaughan

oh, sorry, didn't notice there was a contact on 48

Helka Homba

ffao too

ffao

Two actually

Destructible Lemon

11:33 PM

@ffao ninja'd

Jan Dvorak

42: die, chip et al.

Gareth McCaughan

I don't think I know the names of any U2 songs so I suppose I should just guess a few things before passing. It might be a person's name: VERONICA perhaps. Or VERMILION, already mentioned, would make a nice song name. Or VERTIGO has a nice dramatic sound.

Jan Dvorak

48 vertigo ✔️

Gareth McCaughan

phew

Jan Dvorak

` youtube.com/watch?v=98W9QuMq-2k

ffao

11:35 PM

Hello hello

Helka Homba

good song, even if it's associated with apple

ffao

(Hola!)

Destructible Lemon

2: truthiness but it doesn't contain a c

Helka Homba

contact 2

Jan Dvorak

hm...

Gareth McCaughan

11:36 PM

@DestructibleLemon I assume 2 isn't VERISIMILITUDE again. So perhaps it's VERITY?

Destructible Lemon

ok

it was

Gareth McCaughan

(though that's truth rather than truthiness)

ffao

So much for a quick game, what are we missing

Destructible Lemon

ok

1: |

Jan Dvorak

43: a lot

Destructible Lemon

11:38 PM

contact 43?

Helka Homba

62: lots in THPS

contact 1

Gareth McCaughan

pass 1

Helka Homba

VERTICAL BAR

Destructible Lemon

well, technically I was just going for vertical

ffao

I was going to clue that

Gareth McCaughan

11:39 PM

Gareth was defending: V E R T I C A L

Destructible Lemon

oh ok then

yay

Jan Dvorak

I did guess vertical for VFD

Gareth McCaughan

(ettiquestion: should I have admitted that when someone wrongly guessed VERTICALLY for VFD? I think the answer is no)

ffao

I agree with no

Jan Dvorak

Good ettiquestion.

Helka Homba

11:39 PM

no, that's guess doesn't mean to reveal

ffao

But it did block the word from my mind for a while

Jan Dvorak

^

Gareth McCaughan

we've had that discussion before (on an occasion where I chose to reveal in that situation; but that time I was aiming for a quick game :-) )

ffao

I just noticed that wasn't Gareth 's guess

Jan Dvorak

Any guesses for 42?

Gareth McCaughan

11:40 PM

I think no is the right answer, but it's good to have an occasional reminder that that's the way the rules work

because it would be easy to be misled

yay for reminders

43 very many much?

nope

42 sounds like it's referring to integrated circuits but I am currently failing to think of anything beginning with VER that works. I think there's a maker of FPGAs called Vertex but that doesn't seem close enough

ffao

I'd say very high...

Gareth McCaughan

11:41 PM

maybe VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION

(VLSI)

ffao

Something

Oh yeah, it's very large

Jan Dvorak

Which means my red herring worked perfectly

Helka Homba

61 final guesses? versine was very close

Gareth McCaughan

@JanDvorak I did consider the possibility that it was a red herring but that didn't help me either

Jan Dvorak

I'll add "tilt" to the list for 42

ffao

11:42 PM

It didn't work perfectly if the attackers didn't get it either

Jan Dvorak

Good point

Gareth McCaughan

@HelkaHomba I can't think of anything "very close" to versine that an attacker wouldn't immediately give away after being offered VERSINE.

Helka Homba

how about VERCOSINE ;)

Jan Dvorak

also "track"

Gareth McCaughan

is there actually a vercosine?

ugh

isn't that, like, the same as the secant or something?

Destructible Lemon

11:43 PM

anyway I'm gonna have a word now

ah, no, it isn't

1 + cos(x)

42 is just ... VERB

for all I know there's vertangent

Gareth McCaughan

@JanDvorak oh, ugh

Destructible Lemon

11:44 PM

@JanDvorak ...

Gareth McCaughan

and was 43 VERY MUCH?

Jan Dvorak

43 was just VERY

Gareth McCaughan

ah

anyway, game over, well played all. I'm off now.

Destructible Lemon

I was thinking 43 was verily again

IDK

Jan Dvorak

Who's left for a game?

Gareth McCaughan

11:44 PM

verily doesn't mean a lot, it means truly

yeah

kinda here

ok

(the "a lot" meaning of "very" is because it originally meant "truly" and people abused it. Perhaps one day "literally" will mean "a lot" too)

Jan Dvorak

Apologies for 42

Gareth McCaughan

11:45 PM

but that process never happened to VERILY perhaps because it was always a bit rare

Destructible Lemon

Destructible Lemon defending: I

Gareth McCaughan

no apologies needed

anyway, gone now; have fun!

ffao

Very interesting tidbit on etymology there

Jan Dvorak

1: ... (1)

Destructible Lemon

yeah it is not i

Jan Dvorak

11:46 PM

making sure :P

:P

40: boot-shaped

c40

hmmm

contact 40

11:47 PM

pass 40 then

ITALY

40: ITALY

o nice

40 ✔️

Destructible Lemon defending: I D

Jan Dvorak

11:48 PM

41: f f x = f x

Destructible Lemon

ooh

DJMcMayhem

41 contact, I think?

Destructible Lemon

I almost got the spelling of my word wrong :O

41= idempotence

Jan Dvorak

41 ✔️

DJMcMayhem

Oh, I was wrong

99: No difference

Helka Homba

11:49 PM

contact 99

bold please

contact 99

Contact 99

pass 99

99 IDENTICAL

11:50 PM

99: IDENTICAL

Destructible Lemon

...

DJMcMayhem

Yes

Destructible Lemon

Destructible Lemon defending: I D I

Helka Homba

60: saying

Alconja

contact 60

Jan Dvorak

11:51 PM

42: formerly a medical term

Helka Homba

contact 42?

Destructible Lemon

60: idiom

42: idiot

30: quirk

42 ✔️

yes 60

11:52 PM

contact 30

c30

@Volatility contact

30: idiosyncracy

30 correct

12: Movie

11:53 PM

4: (of a mineral) Having proper form

Alconja

contact 12

Destructible Lemon

pass 12

DJMcMayhem

@JanDvorak Why'd you delete? I would have contacted

Jan Dvorak

I think I've misspelled

Helka Homba

I think jan was clueing idyllic

DJMcMayhem

11:54 PM

Oh yeah

Jan Dvorak

Feel free to reinstate

Helka Homba

@Alconja guess 12

DJMcMayhem

That's what I thought, I just didn't realize spelling either

Alconja

12: IDIOCRACY

DJMcMayhem

Ding ding ding

Deusovi

11:55 PM

Ooh, Contact's happening!

Jan Dvorak

o/

Alconja

shit, everyone scarper

Helka Homba

did lemon destruct?

Jan Dvorak

43: Police song (I think)

Helka Homba

we're waiting for a new letter

ffao

11:57 PM

We need a new letter before clues

Deusovi

@DestructibleLemon?

Destructible Lemon

yes

I'm back

Destructible Lemon defending: I D I O

Jan Dvorak

oh, I didn't recognize "ding ding ding" as a confirmation

43 dies prenatally

DJMcMayhem

What was it?

@JanDvorak Sorry, I could have been clearer

ffao

My clue lives (don't remember the number)

7: ad hoc

Deusovi

11:59 PM

8. Synonym of itself, with the first letter removed and one other letter changed to an A

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