Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 "slartifer! slartifer! slartifer!" We shall continue in our attempt to banish the 331, now 332, soon to be 333 names of slartifer. Below, you will find a list of 40 PDNs (chronological) and 40 crossword-style clues (alphabetical). These are the next 40 PDN changes. At this point the changing was in full swing so this covers less than 2 months after the DLWH#2. Your task is to correctly identify which PDN is described by each clue. You will receive 1 point per reference correctly identified. Points will accumulate until all 333 names have been banished; and yes, there will be a prize at the end for the highest point totals. What is the secret? What is the secret to simplicity, to the pure and simple life? Are our appetites, our desires undermining us? Is the cart in front of the horse? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 118. Power Card v. Infinite Start — To straighten things out is 119. L'Enfer des Formes — The world around us, to an immaterialist 120. Les Autres — L'Enfer 121. Paperwork Crane — Government origami? 122. Mirror Ball-and-Chain — Weapon for Donna Summer, perhaps 123. Mighty State of Queen Fragg — Hysteria 124. Uninspiral — Blasé concatenation 125. Crucible of Words — You may play puns from your graveyard 126. Dark and Starstormy — A beginning for Poo 127. Principia Iridia — Manifesto pertaining to Lufia's alter ego's alter ego 128. Forest for the Sticklers — Bean counter habitat 129. Grey Bent and Wizened Tableau — Wizard on a bridge 130. Kernel Plotter — Sherman as protagonist 131. Iron Spiralite — Fools' Recursives 132. Fugitive of Consciousness — The madwoman in the attic, perhaps 133. Peripathetic — RTFM? 134. Crise de Signification — When paradigms fail 135. Stop the Room, Please — Dizzy plea 136. Glitch My Asthma — Amazon Frail 137. Banks of the Hyperspeed Stream — Reminescent of System's Twilight and Finnegans Wake 138. Swampshedding in Broad Daylight — The first step is admitting you have a problem 139. A Hyperlink to the Past — Marked a beta of the Board History 140. Burning Pleasures — First member: Benjamin Franklin 141. Anything Left to Parade — After a pleasant chat with the princesses 142. Displacer Feast — "Because you are… IDIOT! Zee! It IS NOT moving!" 143. Obsessieve-Complosive — Search and Destroy disorder 144. Sloop Sigmund F — This is the worst couch I've ever been on 145. Nom Prochain et Enchaîné — A parade of PDNs like prisoners 146. Changer, Changer, Enchaîné — Struggle of the neurotic 147. Monied Hexes and Parselmouths — Delphi 148. Greps of Wrath — What they did to Harry's wand, e.g. 149. Cosmic Containment Unix — Marvellous Magus launches C war 150. 5000 Heads of Dr. T-Bone — He and She goes on beyond Seuss 151. Zero's Therapy — Multiplication improved his self-esteem 152. Tetujin and Tonic — Melenam specialties 153. Tri-Consonantal Rout — Distinctly Semitic victory 154. Trottoisie — Sidewalk class 155. Bloodpoolrad — Master, we will build Phlan as you command 156. Reflexive and Heady Evasion — Alcoholism 157. Brutus Bootless Kneel — Conspirators' strongest plea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 All right, I tried hard to make this one more reasonable. I think it is. Please try to say something about the connection you make, so that other people can read it and follow what has gone on! Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 153 - Distinctly Semitic victory; Hebrew words (at least the roots) usually use three consonants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 125. Crucible of Words -- You may play puns from your graveyard (Yet Another Magic Pun) 145. Nom Prochain et Enchaîné -- A parade of PDNs like prisoners (Basic knowledge of French to the rescue!) 126. Dark and Starstormy -- A beginning for Poo (Bulwer-Lytton meets EarthBound; fun fact, only exposed to this game due to the Video Game Characters Death Match) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 138: First member: Bejamin Franklin. Ben was known to go swimming naked in the river in broad daylight. 129: Wizard on a Bridge: I'm presuming this refers tot he scene in LOTR where Gandalf is on the bridge in Moria. I may be underthinking this one. 119: Bean counter habitat: L'Enfer translates as Hell, and Formes as, obviously, Forms. A hell of forms is no doubt where a minor bureaucrat works. I'll post some more later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 122. Mirror Ball-and-Chain -- Weapon for Donna Summer, perhaps (Hot Stuff counts as disco, right?) EDIT: I feel like I should be getting all the Unix jokes, but none of them are coming to me... EDIT2: Slarty, I wanted to get work done tonight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 121 - Government origami? A common origami creation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 147 - What they did to Harry's wand, e.g. Clue and name both involve Harry Potter references. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 157 is obviously Conspirators' strongest plea, it's a reference to the BEST SHAKESPEARE PLAY EVER, Julius Caesar, when one of the conspirators inquires whether or not Brutus is Caesar's vassal. Obviously, as he winds up killing Caesar, he isn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 135. Stop the Room, Please - Dizzy plea (Duh) 121. Paperwork Crane - Government origami? (Governments tend to be bureaucratic.) Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 118 - You may play puns from your graveyard. This sounds like another of your MTG references. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 134 is Marked a beta of the Board History, I'm presuming that Crise de Signification refers to the time Drakey refused to bestow upon Alorael a custom title to "signify" his.. whatever it is titles signify, and thus the resulting crisis resulted in Alo's quirk or renaming himself daily in protest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 130 is Marvelous Magus Launches C war- C, and its derivatives C++ and C# are all programming languages, and Kernel Plotter is a computer graphing utility that, as a guess, is programmed in C. EDIT: 143 is Search and Destroy Disorder, it's a play on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and -plosive from explosive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 TRIUMPH 153 - YES (Not just Hebrew, but most Semitic languages) DINTI 125 - YES 145 - YES 126 - YES (I hope you played it. Man, one of the best games ever made.) DANTIUS 138 - NO 129 - YES ("...but still Gandalf could be seen, glimmering in the gloom; he seemed small, and altogether alone: grey and bent, like a wizened tree before the onset of a storm.") 119 - NO DINTI 122 - YES TRIUMPH 121 - YES 147 - NO DANTIUS 157 - YES! (But actually, it's Caesar's response to Decius when he tries to plead his case after Brutus has done so. "Doth not Brutus bootless kneel?" If Brutus didn't make it happen, good luck, chump! But I agree, it's one of his best plays.) DIKI 135 - YES 121 - YES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 TRIUMPH 118 - CORRECTION: NO DANTIUS 134 - NO 130 - NO 143 - YES (and don't edit in answers, I will miss them) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 151 - This is the worst couch I've ever been on. Reference to stereotyped psychological therapy of reclining on a couch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 151- This is the worst couch I've been on. It's a play on Freudian psychotherapy, where the therapist sits on a chair behind a patient, who lies on the couch and speaks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Who already got 118? My page search isn't finding it...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 135. Stop the Room, Please - Alcoholism (Spinning: simple word play) 139. A Hyperlink to the Past - After a pleasant chat with the princesses (ZELLLLDA!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 TRIUMPH/DANTIUS 151 - NO NIKKI 135 - NO 139 - NO I see that the multiple references to similar subject matters (psychology, fantasy, escapism, etc) in this round are colliding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 123 is Hysteria, a reference to the Calvin and Hobbes comic where he pledges allegiance to his teacher (Mrs. Fragg)'s "mighty state of hysteria" I did know that off my head, too! I feel so proud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 140 - Sherman as protagonist. A reference to W.T. Shermans famous destructive expedition through Georgia and South Carolina? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Actually, this is going too fast, and 135 is wrong. I'll sit out until most of them are gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S TRIUMPH 151 - NO Oh, so 144 must be This is the worst couch I've been on, for the same reason (Freudian psychotherapy) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 DANTIUS 123 - YES TRIUMPH 140 - NO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 DANTIUS 144 - YES (That said, it would be Freudian psychoanalysis, not Freudian psychotherapy; and the reference is from the Beach Boys song, Sloop John B: "This is the worst trip I've ever been on.") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 Nikki and anyone else: my suggestion is to just ignore everyone else's posts for now and look at the list. As I've mentioned, I will give credit for reasonable overlap times, so you don't risk much by doing that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S Nikki and anyone else: my suggestion is to just ignore everyone else's posts for now and look at the list. As I've mentioned, I will give credit for reasonable overlap times, so you don't risk much by doing that. You haven't actually edited the list down any, so it's difficult to tell what has been used and what hasn't. You might want to do that, it's getting confusing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 I just did. I am not, however, editing it every 1 minute when there is an update, because I am not insane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Okay then: 139. A Hyperlink to the Past - Marked a beta of the Board History (PPP) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S I just did. I am not, however, editing it every 1 minute when there is an update, because I am not insane. Well, you are having random forum members match your inane former names to crossword-style clues, so the jury's still out on that one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 151 - Multiplication improved his self-esteem. Math joke of some kind, since multiplying by 0 = ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 152 is The first step is admitting you have a problem- it's a play on the name of the alcoholic drink "Gin and tonic" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 NIKKI 139 - YES TRIUMPH 151 - YES (This is a sketch from an old episode of Square One, in which the number 0 goes to therapy. "Do you know what it's like having to live your life next to the number 1?") DANTIUS 152 - NO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 133 is Sidewalk Class- A Peripatetic is a person who moves from place to place, so a peripathetic is a person who moves from place to place so badly they need classes- sidewalk classes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dantius Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S I just did. I am not, however, editing it every 1 minute when there is an update, because I am not insane. Well, you are having random forum members match your inane former names to crossword-style clues, so the jury's still out on that one Agreed. What does it say about you guys that you're actually doing it? Heh heh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 DANTIUS 133 - No, but I really goofed that one up, so it's gone now. Yes, you will get a pity point for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Is the list getting smaller because you are taking out the ones that have been answered correctly? If thats not the case then riddle me pikachu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 Yes! Also, welcome back Rowen -- I was hoping you'd join in the fun here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S Yes! Also, welcome back Rowen -- I was hoping you'd join in the fun here. Thanks, good to be back home at last before another semester starts. Spam Guesses incoming soon. I think I see a TF2 reference in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Sarachim Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 140. Burning Pleasures- first member, Benjamin Franklin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 SARACHIM 140 - YES ("It was a pleasure to burn." In Fahrenheit 451, Benjamin Franklin is listed as the first Fireman.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 120 is L'Enfer. A well-known Sartre saying is "L'Enfer, c'est les autres"- Hell is Other People. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk ĐªгŦĦ Єяŋϊε Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 ah hah. i thought that several of the guesses involved words no longer there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Sarachim Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 152. Tetujin and tonic- Melenam specialties. The Seventh Saga? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 128. Forest for the Sticklers - Bean counter habitat: bean counters are sticklers around money. 152. Tetujin and Tonic - Melenam specialties: Melenam is a place in The 7th Saga, and a tetujin is a robotic character type. Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 DANTIUS 120 - YES SARACHIM 152 - YES DIKIYOBA 152 - YES 128 - YES (The intended reference was to "missing the forest for the trees") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 119 is The world around us, to an immaterialist- The form of objects is irrelevant to an immaterialist, to them only the idea matters. I may be simplifying here, but eh, whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 DANTIUS 119 - YES Please list the PDN too, if you don't mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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