Contact - 2017-05-02 (page 4 of 5)

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Gareth McCaughan

5:00 PM

@GentlePurpleRain surely

and 7 must have been ANTEBELLUM

~~Oh wait, it isn't dead~~ slow Internet

1: Plant part

Thanks for the Makassar trivia, Gareth!

contact 1

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contact 1 @Rubio plant part

5:00 PM

My phone doesn't like the word, it seems

Gareth McCaughan

2. Cannibals

@GarethMcCaughan I thought it was Marc Antony, but couldn't figure out how to make it 7 :)

@GentlePurpleRain anterior is actually the front side, which is why I did not contact

GentlePurpleRain

@ffao You're absolutely correct. My bad.

Looks like some people would have got it anyway... :P

1 ANTHER

5:02 PM

He just swatted your anterior in the posterior

1: ✔

GentlePurpleRain

4: Like Lumiere or Cogsworth?

2 I think the word is ANTHROPOPAGIST?

contact 4

contact 4

Gareth McCaughan

@n_palum I was thinking of ANTHROPOPHAGI as a plural word for the people but that's good enough

5:03 PM

Ah missed the H

1: Coal

Gareth McCaughan

-phag- words tend to be about eating

contact 1 @Rubio coal

4 ANTHROPOMORPHIC

GentlePurpleRain

4: ✔

1 ANTHRACITE

5:04 PM

5: Study of confused gods, Thor and Pan, for instance?

2: Ana

Gareth McCaughan

I have to be AFK for a while. May be back briefly in 15 minutes or so, but distinctly intermittent for a while after that.

clue 3 will be just two letters, and ...

4: Study of human culture amongst other things

Surprised this is standing so long

5:04 PM

contact 4

Woah like all of those showed up at once

Gareth McCaughan

so in particular you may or may not want to treat 1 as contacted if no one else contacts it

Pass 4

yah ok contact 4

Gareth McCaughan

@n_palum same happened to me

5:05 PM

4: ANTHROPOLOGY

Yes

Gareth McCaughan

boom!

right, off for a bit now

@Sconibulus yup

yeah that was odd. mass blast of message

seeya @gareth

have fun

5:05 PM

@Rubio happened to me as well

GentlePurpleRain

New letter!

Apparently the SE api is down (if that should affect anything)

Silly GPR

that was his word

What's 5? @Sconibulus

5:07 PM

anthropoganda ?

yeah what is that

also Anthropology, just clued dumbly

oh. i was looking for an anagram out of "gods thor and pan"

GentlePurpleRain

Okay, Im off. Thanks for the fun!

most of the letters are in there :)

who's defending now?

5:08 PM

you are

I pass then

@Rubio gods THOR and PAN

it was a bad clue

who else wants to defend?

I could do it, should be free for a while

but do we have enough remaining for a game?

okay, go ahead

I'm here

5:13 PM

I'm here but might be multitasking

I'm partial

@Rubio anthropogdands

same deal here as with buisness cat

Ok,

Sconibulus defending: F

1: !true

contact 1

5:17 PM

contact 1

1: FALSE

true

3: Bye ...

3: FRIENDS?

3: no

5:18 PM

contact 3

contact 3

3: For now?

no

tentative contact 3

1: Half an odd couple

5:21 PM

oh, 3: Felicia?

3: ✔

What is that a reference to?

OHH haha that's not at all what I was thinking

It's a meme

Even though I say it a lot =/

5:22 PM

@Rubio if only i knew this

I know where to look for #1

I thought it was farewell lol

I usually am not acquainted with most memes

@LeakyNun now that song from the sound of music is in my head...

2: Cookies (and their maker) of renown?

1: Fran?

5:24 PM

1: not fran

lul

2: Fig Newtons?

is Rubio the only one making clues?

2: no :)

I was just going to ask that myself

2: Fortune?

2: no

5:25 PM

@MistahFiggins that was not me typing

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3. Where to find ents

contact 3

contact 3

3: Forest

Gareth McCaughan

(here for a bit but only intermittently)

3 is not FOREST

5:25 PM

still contact 3

3: FANGORN

I seriously forgot most of the names in Lotr

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3 was FANGORN, yes

3: Ent genre

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4. Namesake of Mendelssohnian cave

5:26 PM

contact 3

6: Disrespectful

3: FANTASY

3: ✔

I got a "You have fully used your vote allowance for today" several minutes ago, but recently I just starred a message

weird. maybe it reset when the API went insane

5:27 PM

5: Unbelievable

You're a wizard Harry

contact 5, i think

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contact 5 @BusinessCat

3: Pretend

5: Fantastical?

6: Fractious?

3: Fictitious?

Gareth McCaughan

5:28 PM

contact 3 @Rubio though again I might quibble

5: no

5: Farcical?

6 no

5: no

Gareth McCaughan

if 5 isn't close enough to FANTASTICAL to let him have it then I withdraw contact (I thought it might be FANTASTIC and FANTASTICAL should definitely be accepted if it's that)

I am getting timeouts and things; looks like there's some server or network dodginess...

5:29 PM

It's not close at all

Gareth McCaughan

@BusinessCat ok, then uncontact 5 until I think of something better

also, AFK (at least mostly) for 10 minutes or so

with apologies if someone guesses 4

chat is broken for me

I think it's working ok for me?

It was borky some time ago

3: One of the countries that got a portion of Germany after WWII (if I got my history right)

Contact 3

5:32 PM

3: FRANCE is next door...

oui

7: 4C

ouch. the whole room exploded on me

7: Force?

uncontact 5

5:34 PM

nope

7: Foresee?

8: pal of Bar and Baz

3: Fictitious, Fantasy, or Farce?

contact 8

8: Foo

5:35 PM

contact 8

3 is none of those

@Sconibulus yes

Gareth has a contact on 3, but is gone, the contacts on 5 have been withdrawn... am I missing any?

3: Forgery?

contact 3?

contact 3??

5:40 PM

3 not forgery

pass 3

fake?

feign?

not fake

FEIGN ✔

@ffao that's more like it

5:41 PM

Sconibulus defending: F E

5 dies, was FARFETCHED

1 lives

2 dies, was FAMOUS AMOS

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4 was FINGAL and is dead

(here briefly on mobile)

as a piece of trivia, the Portuguese word for "pretend" is very similar to "feign". We do have a word "pretender" that actually means "intend" and confuses all English learners

2: It helps keep you in good standing?

Gareth McCaughan

5:44 PM

Until 30 seconds ago I assumed all four letters of "ffao" were initials of things

if you consider my name to be things, you weren't too far off

Gareth McCaughan

oh, so the -ao suffix is coincidence?

yep, my initials happen to end in -ao

Gareth McCaughan

(sorry, afk again for a bit now.)

3: Coprolites are fossils of ____

5:46 PM

^^

contact 3 lol

contact 3 but I trust rubio should know

afk a couple, ping me if needed

3: FECES

yup

5:53 PM

2: Fees?

Did chat explode again?

"explode"?

rubio is just afk this time

Gareth McCaughan

(back again at least for a bit)

3: A barrier + "ing" (7)

3: Fencing

5:56 PM

My first try at a CCCC (if it counts as one)

Gareth McCaughan

3. Hungarian name roughly equivalent to Francis

5. Rock

2 is not FEES

3: Felix?

Gareth McCaughan

3 is not FELIX

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