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John Dvorak

2:29 PM

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@Mithrandir, what happened to your face? :P

Defending: H

Erik the Outgolfer

@GentlePurpleRain he copyrighted it

Mithrandir

2:33 PM

1: weather

Erik the Outgolfer

contact 1

Mithrandir

@GentlePurpleRain my ears grew

1': weather

GentlePurpleRain

1, 1': HUNKER DOWN, HOLD OUT

Erik the Outgolfer

contact 1'

GentlePurpleRain

1, 1': HURRICANE

Mithrandir

2:34 PM

1*: o_o no

John Dvorak

40: {a:1, b:2}

GentlePurpleRain

1*: HAIL

1*: HANG IN THERE

Erik the Outgolfer

contact 40

Mithrandir

Your weather is pretty different from mine

GentlePurpleRain

If my latest guesses for 1 are wrong, then pass 1

Erik the Outgolfer

2:37 PM

so I contacted 1

Mithrandir

Yeah, they're wrong.

GentlePurpleRain

To weather a storm = To hang in there.

Erik the Outgolfer

1: HUMID

Mithrandir

1': correct

GentlePurpleRain

He was guessing 1, not 1'.

John Dvorak

2:38 PM

Erik the Outgolfer

@GentlePurpleRain doesn't matter?

GentlePurpleRain

Sure it does. I didn't pass 1'.

John Dvorak

I take it 1 is wrong then

Erik the Outgolfer

ok now gtg

Mithrandir

They're the exact same clue...

GentlePurpleRain

2:39 PM

If you want to make two clues with the same definition, you run the risk of exactly this happening...

John Dvorak

GentlePurpleRain

Okay, it's not like I would get either of them anyway...

Defending: H A

John Dvorak

40 lives

Mithrandir

1 dies; HOT

2: A small furry creature

John Dvorak

GentlePurpleRain

2:40 PM

@ppperry @Wen1now @Rubio @Deusovi @Sp3000 @dcfyj @GarethMcCaughan @ffao @JoelHarmon

2: HAMSTER

Mithrandir

2: sure

3: :D

GentlePurpleRain

3: HAPPY (FACE)

Mithrandir

3: correct (HAPPY)

John Dvorak

41: Giant with a set of lines in two directions

GentlePurpleRain

41: HAGRID

John Dvorak

2:42 PM

41 ✔️

GentlePurpleRain

(technically only a half-giant... :P )

Mithrandir

5: It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a... flying space object!

John Dvorak

c5?

Mithrandir

6: I don't think this one is overly so

Rubio

contact 6

GentlePurpleRain

2:44 PM

...pass 6

Mithrandir

50: ... unless you're GPR

Rubio

7: The minor fall, the major lift

6: HARD

2:44 PM

7: HALLELUJAH

6: correct

Defending: H A V

7 ✔

40 dies, hash map

5 dies; HALEY'S COMET

50 dies; HAWAII

Rubio

2:45 PM

1: The ones with money

1': The ones without

GentlePurpleRain

1*: HAVES, HAVE-NOTS

Rubio

✔✔

Mithrandir

3: Is that a backpack?

Rubio

2: The good kind of smoke?

Mithrandir

4: refuge

John Dvorak

2:46 PM

GentlePurpleRain

4: HAVEN

2: HAVANA

Mithrandir

4: (check)

Rubio

2 ✔

John Dvorak

42: Math function that contains another one inside

Mithrandir

8: You didn't!

GentlePurpleRain

2:48 PM

8: HAVE MERCY!

Rubio

1: What someone who lives and attends there might call it?

Mithrandir

8: ...no, and I don't know why you thought of that

GentlePurpleRain

1: HA(R)VARD

Rubio

✔

Mithrandir

I don't clue like Deus, mine are usually easy :P

Rubio

2:49 PM

I guess Hahvahd might have been better :)

GentlePurpleRain

Yes.

But I still got it.

John Dvorak

explain?

GentlePurpleRain

Harvard is near Boston. The Boston accent pronounces "Harvard" as "Hahvahd"

John Dvorak

GentlePurpleRain

Any contacts?

Mithrandir

2:51 PM

AFK for a bit, sorry

John Dvorak

I think not. Should I give a hint for 42?

GentlePurpleRain

If you like. I may not know it at all.

Higher math is not my area of expertise.

Rubio

1: Amok

John Dvorak

dcfyj

11: nearly a pleasant afterlife

John Dvorak

2:53 PM

1': Physics engine

GentlePurpleRain

11: HAVEN (again)

dcfyj

I wasn't paying attention :P

Sid

12. Destruction and disaster

Rubio

heh

contact 12

Sid

...contact 1

GentlePurpleRain

2:54 PM

I feel like 1 and 12 are the same, and I should know them, but I'm coming up blank.

John Dvorak

c12

GentlePurpleRain

1: HAVOC

12: HAVOC

Rubio

✔

Sid

12. Yes

Rubio

I was sure that was your word. heh

GentlePurpleRain

2:54 PM

1': maybe HAVOK?

John Dvorak

1' ✔️

GentlePurpleRain

pass 3

But Mith is gone, and no one has contacted. :(

My word was HAVERSACK

Sid

...Never heard of that..

John Dvorak

42 was haversine

GentlePurpleRain

nor have I

So Mith got it, but is AFK. Anyone else to defend?

Rubio

2:58 PM

stepping away, sorry

GentlePurpleRain

Okay, everyone, don't all jump up at once.

We can all take turns!

dcfyj

@GentlePurpleRain I'm so glad I didn't clue the handy haversack from D&D then lol

Sid

Gah, fine. I can.

Speed round, though.

Sid defending: U

GentlePurpleRain

Speed it up!

dcfyj

11: Not a guitar

GentlePurpleRain

2:59 PM

7: Overarching

contact 11

John Dvorak

c11

GentlePurpleRain

4: Everywhere

John Dvorak

40: Element

41: Planet

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