The Sphinx's Lair

6:59 AM

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Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

@Jafe Well, I remember that there are riddles that tell you gow to cross a stream without getting wet, in the winter. But that is quite a stretch...

Rand al'Thor

8:54 AM

@hexomino Congratulations on beating me to the gold tag badge in word and becoming the first PSE user to have two gold tag badges :-)

Sphinx

9:32 AM

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Q: My Prefix is the word I want. What am I

My Prefix is the word I want while also it describes the whole. My Infix is a negative that brings you close towards this goal. My suffix are two seperate words, which can describe the look. But users will not read through them unless they did what it took

riddle word rhyme affix-riddle

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

10:05 AM

Woooo, just like I said, hexomino is the new Deus

Deus the Jedi and Hexomino the Rabbi lol

hexomino

@Randal'Thor Thank you, I do feel quite proud of this.

@Anonymus25-ReinstateMonica Very kind of you to say, but I do think Deusovi is especially talented at puzzling whereas I still have a lot to learn.

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

10:30 AM

@hexomino What do you mean? Remember the time of the Kaboomy Numbers poem puzzle I randomly thought of? I must say you are almost like Deus, because you snipe puzzles before others can even pull the trigger lol :p

Que pew pew noises

Gareth McCaughan

10:52 AM

No one is the new Deusovi. Deusovi is still here. Hexomino is also a tremendously talented puzzle-solver.

I don't see anything particularly Jedi-like or rabbi-like about either of them, and I think calling someone "the Rabbi" is liable to feel pretty weird to anyone around here who happens to be actually literally Jewish.

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

Cuz Rabbi translate to "Teacher"

Lol

Gareth McCaughan

11:44 AM

If you were going to give one of them the title Teacher then I think it would be Deusovi rather than hexomino, because it seems to me that Deusovi has done more explicit-kinda-teaching-y things here than hexomino. (Most obvious example: puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/45984/cryptic-clue-guide)

And while "rabbi" does originally mean "my teacher" or "my master", in actual use calling someone "Rabbi" is not at all the same as calling them "teacher"; it's specifically suggestive of a particular sort of teaching and leadership.

Just as "madrassa" originally just means "place of study" but if you call somewhere a madrassa you're suggesting that a particular sort of study happens there. And "buddha" means "enlightened person" but you wouldn't use it, e.g., to describe the key figures of the European "Enlightenment" in the 17th and 18th centuries.

oh, actually I think it's more literally "awakened one". You definitely wouldn't e.g. use it to mean just a person who has literally woken up from sleep recently.

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

IT'S A METAPHOR OMAIGASH rolls eyes and facepalms

Btw, do you know where Rubio and GPR are?

Most inactive, I must say

Gareth McCaughan

I know it's a metaphor. I'm saying it's a bad metaphor. For which I have to explain what about it is bad, and then you say OMG IT'S A METAPHOR YOU MORON.

I think Rubio and GPR have been busy with Real Life.

(And the reason why I'm bothering to argue that it's a bad metaphor is that it's also a metaphor that's liable to make some people -- namely, people who are actually Jewish -- feei weird and uncomfortable, and I don't think a bad metaphor is good enough reason for doing that.)

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

12:24 PM

@GarethMcCaughan Sorry

Sphinx

1:49 PM

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Q: Give me an R and I'll run!

Give me an R and I'll run Give me an AR and I'll come running Give me a T and I'll stop you from moving Give me a D and I'll make you move Leave me alone and I'll send you in different directions! Can you tell my name? As far as I know, this is original.

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Sphinx

2:40 PM

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Q: Don't like those synonyms

Stand alone I am someone with authority Add a "B" or an "H" or an "L" All three are synonyms Who am I?

word word-property

msh210

5:09 PM

While I agree it was not a good metaphor, I have to say that personally it didn't make me uncomfortable (though I'm Jewish). That said, if someone had called me the rabbi of PSE, or of anything else, I definitely would be uncomfortable. Or, for that matter, if someone had called me the priest or imam of anything.

Mithical

It just struck me as weird.

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