Contact

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North

12:56 AM

how has no one played contact

Gareth McCaughan

1:09 AM

it requires a certain number of players before it's any fun, and there often aren't that many people around at once

North

1:23 AM

That's disheartening

Ooh game starting?

maybe

I'll defend lemme just think up a word

@North defending P

@pppery @JohnDvorak

John Dvorak

1:40 AM

70 Monitor a musical band

North

uhh 70 percussion (?)

John Dvorak

70 x

North

Yeah that's what I thought

70 principal?

John Dvorak

70 x

71 ||

North

71 `is parallel

John Dvorak

1:42 AM

72 choose a digging tool

71 x

North

71 are parallel lines?

... 71 x

contact 71

71 parentheses~?

contact 72

1:43 AM

71 x

North

72 pitchfork (i don't know)

John Dvorak

73 Vogon specialty

ohh

72 x

72 is pick

1:43 AM

contact 73

John Dvorak

72 ✔️

North

That was a good clue

Gareth McCaughan

is Lens dead? (not necessarily a bad thing if so, given how flaky it was)

North

Umm idk what vogon is so pass 73

Gareth McCaughan

3 is POETRY

pppery

1:44 AM

You mean 73, I assume

North

What or who's vogon

John Dvorak

73 ✔️

Gareth McCaughan

it's a reference to Douglas Adams's "Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

North

Gareth McCaughan

yes, of course I mean 73; sorry

North

1:44 AM

Yeah I only know the title of the book

it's pretty funny

You should read it

@North defending PE

70 dies, police

all I remember is that my friend said it's long and pretty confusing to explain

John Dvorak

1:45 AM

71 dies, pause

North

Gareth McCaughan

71 could also have been PIPES, as well as PARALLEL which (I agree with North) was the most obvious reading

North

My ` button keeps on getting jammed

Hmm I wish I didn't pick such a long word

John Dvorak

74 Mace but not melee (6 5)

North

When you say meelee I can only think Super Smash Bros.

6 5 as in (6,5)?

John Dvorak

1:47 AM

yes

Gareth McCaughan

1. Deficiency disease

John Dvorak

75 Angina

Deusovi

contact 74

Gareth McCaughan

2. Where it may not play

contact 75

North

Man everytime I defend I regret it because I don't know any of this stuff

Angina?

Deusovi

1:49 AM

35: Narnia series

38: ...Protagonist

John Dvorak

76 Bug (4)

North

I should know 35

But I don't

35 Peter?

Deusovi

PETER is correct for 35

contact 76

Alconja

contact 76

North

Why do i not know 76

Deusovi

1:51 AM

43: Recurring

45: ...Annoyance

76 pest ?

c43

45 pester

76 ✔️

PESTER is incorrect

1:51 AM

pass 43

John Dvorak

43 periodic

Gareth McCaughan

contact 48 if it lives

Deusovi

PERIODIC is incorrect; the answer was PET

John Dvorak

... how?

Gareth McCaughan

wat

North

1:52 AM

huh?

Deusovi

(there's no 48 clue out?)

there is a method to my madness

Gareth McCaughan

sorry, for 48 read 38

North

is 38 person?

Gareth McCaughan

anyway, contact 38 though I'm no longer sure I understand anything Deusovi is doing here

North

whoops typo

Deusovi

1:53 AM

38 is not PERSON

John Dvorak

77 According to a rare meme, this creature has four eyes (5 3 3)

North

what does a rare meme mean

Uhh

Deusovi

(just made a minor change to my two clues)

Gareth McCaughan

contact 45

yeah, OK, I understand now

contact 74

John Dvorak

78 Avian hierarchy

Deusovi

1:55 AM

contact 78

contact 78

umm i'll pass 78

78 is PECKING ORDER

78 ✔️

ohh

@North defending PER

Gareth McCaughan

1:56 AM

obviously 45 is PEEVE and 38 is PEVENSIE

Deusovi

and there go my two remaining clues

John Dvorak

77 dies, peppa the pig

Deusovi

and both of those are correct

Gareth McCaughan

2 was PEORIA and dies

John Dvorak

75 dies, pectoris

Gareth McCaughan

1:56 AM

clearly 75 was PECTORALIS

John Dvorak

74 dies, pepper spray

Gareth McCaughan

(surely that rather than PECTORIS?)

John Dvorak

... or maybe it was pectoralis

Gareth McCaughan

(Peppa is called "Peppa Pig" not "Peppa the Pig". "Pig" is a surname as well as a species.)

North

sorry I need to change my mode of electronic this might take a couple minutes

I'm not dead

John Dvorak

1:57 AM

... oh

Gareth McCaughan

incidentally, rare pig is a bad idea; you can get tapeworms and things

North

Unless I don't respond for like 15 minutes then I'm dead

Gareth McCaughan

1 is also dead; it was PELLAGRA

John Dvorak

Wikipedia says it's "pectoris"

Gareth McCaughan

huh

my apologies for doubting you

1. Chit-chat

John Dvorak

1:59 AM

79 What one may do to bullets when nervous

Deusovi

contact 79

Gareth McCaughan

contact 79

(though I have a prepositional quibble)

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