Contact

GentlePurpleRain

9:00 PM

2: Donatello's weapon of choice

ManyPinkHats

1: it is not BACCHUS

Joey Dionne

20: Patrick told the story of an ugly one

ManyPinkHats

6: it is not BEES

Mithrandir

1: BACCHUS is correct.

GentlePurpleRain

6: correct

ManyPinkHats

9:00 PM

5: it is not BOTULISM

GentlePurpleRain

5: ✔️

7: Mary's classmates would have heard this a lot

ManyPinkHats

7: it is not BAA

GentlePurpleRain

7: ✔️

8: Waco cult

3: Sound of 6

ManyPinkHats

I think I can remember every word of 20 except the important one

Joey Dionne

c3

ManyPinkHats

9:04 PM

3: it is not BUZZ or BUZZ BUZZ or anything in the regex ^(BU?Z+ ?)+$

GentlePurpleRain

4: "Big" word coined by Swift

3: ✔️ BUZZ

ManyPinkHats

4: it is not BROBDINAGIAN or however it is spelled

GentlePurpleRain

4: ✔️ BROBDINGNAGIAN

ManyPinkHats

aha

GentlePurpleRain

7: Free pass to the next round

ManyPinkHats

9:06 PM

20: it is not BARNACLE

Joey Dionne

20: you found it :P

poor ugly barnacle

ManyPinkHats

7: It is not BYE

GentlePurpleRain

7: ✔️

Joey Dionne

c2 (finally remember it)

GentlePurpleRain

5: EU - UK

Joey Dionne

9:08 PM

c5

ManyPinkHats

5: it is not BREXIT

GentlePurpleRain

5: ✔️

ManyPinkHats

and pass 2; no amount of digging is going to get TMNT back from the archives

Joey Dionne

it's a BO

GentlePurpleRain

2: ✔️

Joey Dionne

9:09 PM

I had bokken in mind from the start but knew it wasn't that XD

ManyPinkHats

dang, I remembered that one used sai, and I think one used nunchucks

Defending: B R

GentlePurpleRain

And a sword. (sabre)

Joey Dionne

yeah, sai, nunchucks, katana and bo

GentlePurpleRain

Yes, sorry, katana.

ManyPinkHats

I thought of katana, but I thought I might have been confusing it with something else

GentlePurpleRain

9:10 PM

8 lives

9: _____ in arms

Joey Dionne

c9

ManyPinkHats

9: it is not BROTHERS

GentlePurpleRain

1: It's supposed to be good for when you're sick

9: ✔️

Joey Dionne

21: Portugal's son

ManyPinkHats

1: it is not BROTH?

GentlePurpleRain

9:11 PM

contact 21

1: ✔️

ManyPinkHats

no idea on 21

pass 21

GentlePurpleRain

21: BRAZIL

ManyPinkHats

...

i'm a fool

Joey Dionne

yup :)

ManyPinkHats

there is zero excuse for me not getting that

Defending: B R U

GentlePurpleRain

9:13 PM

7: European capital

Joey Dionne

c7

ManyPinkHats

7: it is not BRUSSELS, Belgium

GentlePurpleRain

6: Word with fire or hair

Joey Dionne

(was about to clue the same thing XD)

GentlePurpleRain

7: ✔️

ManyPinkHats

9:13 PM

6: it is not BRUSH

GentlePurpleRain

6: ✔️

Joey Dionne

22: Black and yellow bear

GentlePurpleRain

3: Examples include Veronica Lodge, Lucy van Pelt, and Wonder Woman

ManyPinkHats

3: it is not BRUNETTES??

GentlePurpleRain

2: Et tu?

3: ✔️

Mithrandir

9:17 PM

c2

Joey Dionne

c2

ManyPinkHats

2: it is not BRUTE/BRUTUS

GentlePurpleRain

4: Savage

2: ✔️ I would have accepted either.

ManyPinkHats

4: it is not BRUTE/BRUTAL

GentlePurpleRain

4: ✔️ BRUTAL

contact 22

ManyPinkHats

9:18 PM

no idea on 22

pass 22

GentlePurpleRain

22: (Boston) BRUIN

Joey Dionne

22: ✔️

ManyPinkHats

ah, sports, an enormous trivia weakness of mine

I support a black and yellow team too, in the only sport I regularly follow

GentlePurpleRain

Surely you've heard of the Boston Bruins, though?

ManyPinkHats

Defending: B R U S

GentlePurpleRain

9:19 PM

Welcome, @V.Villacis

ManyPinkHats

Oh yes, I had heard of the Bostin Bruins; the clue was perfectly fair

Mithrandir

2: disgusting growing things

V.Villacis

thanks!

ManyPinkHats

It's just that sports didn't come to mind at all; I was trying to think of fictional characters from children's books or TV

GentlePurpleRain

5: 7 grows?

ManyPinkHats

9:20 PM

like if someone had made a bee/bear hybrid for a book and called it Brumblebear or something

5: it is not BRUSSEL SPROUTS

or BRUSSELS SPROUTS

I just realized that I have no idea if the S is there or not

GentlePurpleRain

5: ✔️ the second one.

The S isn't usually pronounced, but it's there.

8: Short, as speech

Joey Dionne

too many S in that vegetable

Mithrandir

c8

ManyPinkHats

ah, there we go

pass 8

GentlePurpleRain

I kind of figured that was it.

Mithrandir

9:22 PM

8: BRUSQUE

GentlePurpleRain

8: ✔️

ManyPinkHats

was defending BRUSQUE

Joey Dionne

that's an english word? ><

GentlePurpleRain

It is.

dictionary.com/browse/brusque

Joey Dionne

damn you english language for having too many french words so I never know if it's french only or also english!

GentlePurpleRain

9:23 PM

Interestingly, that says it can also be spelled "brusk". I've never seen that before.

Incidentally, the Waco Cult was the BRANCH DAVIDIANS. It should have died a long time ago; I forgot it was there.

Defending: S

We need a ping list for Contact.

Mithrandir

we have one

docs.google.com/document/d/…

GentlePurpleRain

Didn't know that.

ManyPinkHats

pls add me pls, thank you

GentlePurpleRain

@BusinessCat @Forklift @n_palum @Deusovi @Rubio @ffao @DavidFoong @MorganG @feelinferrety

ManyPinkHats

1: Grows, as before

GentlePurpleRain

9:26 PM

@You @boboquack @Pavel @MikeQ @WheatWizard @Downgoat @HelkaHomba @GarethMcCaughan @Mr.Xcoder @micsthepick

@Sherlock9 @EriktheOutgolfer @Christopher2EZ4RTZ @cairdcoinheringaahing

1: SPROUTS

ManyPinkHats

1 yes

Mithrandir

@ManyPinkHats done

ManyPinkHats

thank you

Yup

GentlePurpleRain

So all my pinging brought exactly one person in...

Joey Dionne

^^

GentlePurpleRain

9:29 PM

And now no one is giving me clues...

Joey Dionne

sorry, working on something else at the same time, I'll write something :P

Erik the Outgolfer

@GentlePurpleRain hi

GentlePurpleRain

Come join in!

Mr. Xcoder

6: Half-blood prince

Mithrandir

c6

GentlePurpleRain

9:30 PM

6: SEVERUS SNAPE

(spoiler alert)

Erik the Outgolfer

joins are implicit, remember? :P (btw yes, didn't know Contact was happening, will join)

Mr. Xcoder

6: correct

Joey Dionne

20: Ariel Titania Miranda

Mithrandir

1: spell that 6 created

GentlePurpleRain

1: SECTUMSEMPRA

20: SUBMARINES?

Joey Dionne

9:31 PM

20: X

Mithrandir

1: SECTUMSEMPRA is correct.

Mr. Xcoder

Contact 20

GentlePurpleRain

20: SATELLITES

Erik the Outgolfer

1: We are Spanish, we are palindromic!

Joey Dionne

20 ✔️

GentlePurpleRain

9:32 PM

1: SOMOS?

Erik the Outgolfer

1: yes

Joey Dionne

21: Big yellow ball

Mr. Xcoder

5: Not quite a word

Mithrandir

c21

Erik the Outgolfer

1: Eugh, I'm tired of job for today, let me just lie in theeee..aaahh, eughhhhhhhh, phewwwww...

Mr. Xcoder

9:33 PM

Contact 21

GentlePurpleRain

5: VTC: too broad

Joey Dionne

c1

GentlePurpleRain

1: SNOOZE?

pass 21

Erik the Outgolfer

1: um, if that's the answer, I wonder what was the job I did that made me so tired...

Mithrandir

21: SUN

Joey Dionne

9:34 PM

21: ✔️

Mr. Xcoder

I had the same guess

Erik the Outgolfer

21: duh duh duh >_< facepalm

GentlePurpleRain

^

Defending: S E

Erik the Outgolfer

1 dies: SOFA

Mr. Xcoder

5 dies: syllabe

Erik the Outgolfer

9:36 PM

173 [OBVIOUS]: We're part of it! Yeah, right now, as we're talking, we're its...users.

GentlePurpleRain

173: S(tack) E(xchange)

ManyPinkHats

1: Famous 20

Erik the Outgolfer

173: yes, told ya :)

Joey Dionne

22: Beside of the start

Erik the Outgolfer

173': Airlines, but kinda inverted.

Joey Dionne

9:38 PM

c173'

GentlePurpleRain

173': SENILRIA?

Mr. Xcoder

78: OEIS

Erik the Outgolfer

173': kinda inverted (wait that coincidence)

GentlePurpleRain

22: SECOND?

Erik the Outgolfer

c78(obvious)

GentlePurpleRain

9:39 PM

78: SEQUENCE

ManyPinkHats

dang, I was totally planning on cluing SENILRIA exactly like that in a bit

Joey Dionne

u173'

Mr. Xcoder

78: correct

78': ...

Joey Dionne

22: X

ManyPinkHats

64: What GPR is thinking of

Erik the Outgolfer

9:40 PM

64: nice clue

GentlePurpleRain

64: I assume you're implying SEX

Erik the Outgolfer

150: Photo that you take and is guaranteed to contain a face.

ManyPinkHats

64 ... no

Erik the Outgolfer

um, that doesn't seem very PG-13

Mr. Xcoder

Contact 150

Mike Q

9:41 PM

6. The reason why VI was afraid of VII

GentlePurpleRain

(based on the saying that men think of sex every 7 seconds)

Joey Dionne

c6

GentlePurpleRain

6: SEVEN ATE NINE

Mr. Xcoder

64': What GDPR is thinking of (sarcastic)

Mike Q

6 ✔️ I'm not sorry

GentlePurpleRain

9:42 PM

150 SELFIE

150: yes

64: SELF?

64: no

Is 64 contacted already?

Erik the Outgolfer

140: Supporting yourself.

Joey Dionne

9:42 PM

23: North

GentlePurpleRain

140: SELF-SUFFICIENT

Mike Q

8: "Speaking of which, here's a different topic..."

Joey Dionne

24: 9th

Mr. Xcoder

Contact 24

Erik the Outgolfer

140: uh...no :(, 1 guess remaining

GentlePurpleRain

9:43 PM

24: SEPTEMBER

Mr. Xcoder

Star 64' please?

Joey Dionne

24 ✔️

GentlePurpleRain

@EriktheOutgolfer I get as many guesses as I want.

Erik the Outgolfer

I'm thinking of revealing the clue as too broad after that, of course the last call is yours

GentlePurpleRain

140: SELF-SUSTAINING, SELF-SUPPORTING, SELF-STANDING...

Yeah, probably too broad.

Erik the Outgolfer

9:44 PM

yeah

140: SELF-ESTEEM [on hold]

c8

pass 8

8: SEGUE

"supporting" was in the sense of moral supporting

Mike Q

8 ✔️

GentlePurpleRain

9:45 PM

Defended: SEGUE

20: We already did SATELLITE.

So what was I thinking of, MPH?

Mr. Xcoder

It wasn't satellite

ManyPinkHats

CONTACT RULES The defender is thinking of a secret word.

Erik the Outgolfer

good question

Joey Dionne

23 was SEPTENTRIONAL

Erik the Outgolfer

well, he didn't defend SECRET though :P

GentlePurpleRain

9:46 PM

Yeah, that was on the tip of my tongue...

Joey Dionne

22 was SELECT

ManyPinkHats

I was about to put in the enumeration more explicitly as an edit

since 20 was "Satellite", 1: Famous 20 was SELENE

Erik the Outgolfer

@Mr.Xcoder uh, what was 78'?

GentlePurpleRain

I'm impressed you got it with only 2 letters!

Mr. Xcoder

"Security"

ManyPinkHats

9:48 PM

I thought that was 64', unless that was both?

Erik the Outgolfer

uh, that doesn't seem too related to ...

Mr. Xcoder

Yeah but the bodies of the two clues have a Levenshtein distance of 1...

GentlePurpleRain

I guess @Mike is up next.

Mike Q

Mike defending M

GentlePurpleRain

5: ^

Erik the Outgolfer

9:49 PM

1: The defender.

Mr. Xcoder

C1, C5

Mike Q

1: MIKEQ

5: MIKEQ

GentlePurpleRain

5: ✔️

Erik the Outgolfer

1: MIKE, but yes, that's acceptable, since it's really the same ~~thing~~

Mr. Xcoder

7: this.

Mike Q

9:50 PM

7 MESSAGE ?

Mr. Xcoder

Yup

GentlePurpleRain

17: Knew the answer to 1 and 5

c17

Contact 17

17 MR XCODER ?

9:51 PM

8: What all the clues so far have been

17: ✔️

Mithrandir

2, 2', 2'': o/

Mike Q

2 MITHRANDIR

is that 3 clues?

Erik the Outgolfer

c2

c2'

c2''

Joey Dionne

20: Kurt Masur

Mike Q

2' MAIAR, 2"... MANDALF ?

Rubio

9:52 PM

108: C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁ helps it reduce its altitude?

Mike Q

8 MONNIKERS ?

Erik the Outgolfer

@Mithrandir well, technical reasons for this ping

8: no

21, 21': and I

c21,21'

9:53 PM

contact 21, 21'

Rubio

contact 21, 21'

GentlePurpleRain

Hey, Rubio's here!

Mike Q

108 is that a MONOSACCHARIDE

Mithrandir

2: MITHRANDIR is correct.

Rubio

108 is not MONOSACCHARIDE

and hey, I'm here! neat!

Mithrandir

9:54 PM

2': MAIAR is incorrect.

Erik the Outgolfer

@Rubio is your connection fine?

Mithrandir

2'': MANDALF is definitely incorrect.

Rubio

it is. :)

Mr. Xcoder

Contact 108??

Mithrandir

My internet is awful.

Mike Q

9:54 PM

2' ME ?
2'' MYSELF ?

c2',2''

21 ME
21' MYSELF

u21,21'

u108

21 21' ✔️

9:55 PM

2': ME is correct.

GentlePurpleRain

brb

Mithrandir

2'': MYSELF is Incorrect.

Erik the Outgolfer

still c2''?

ManyPinkHats

c2'', maybe

Joey Dionne

22: Blue shapeshifter

Erik the Outgolfer

9:57 PM

c22

pass 2"

c22

22 is MYSTIQUE

22 ✔️

2'': MOD

I don't think this is clue time...

Mr. Xcoder

9:58 PM

Didn't see the pass

Mike Q

@Mith Can you confirm 2" is MOD ?

Mithrandir

2'': MOD(ERATOR) is correct.

Erik the Outgolfer

wow lucky

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