Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 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. This covers about 2 months between the previous set of PDNs, and my departure for the summer, in 2009. Your task is to correctly identify which PDN is described by each clue. You will receive 1 OR MORE points 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. When I see ACTIVITY, I feel my anger rising. This was not a friendly ACTIVITY. This was not a forum ACTIVITY. It was ACTIVITY *on the web*. This is all I am permitted to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 158. Boughs and Accords — Mystic covenants 159. Philosopher's Pwn — Holy grail of put-downs? 160. Frown and Wrinkled Lip — PBS detail 161. Monograph Mask — Needed for a 32x32 set of words 162. Iconoplasm — Deliberate molding of symbols 163. TruthMaker — Storm Impact RPG with Glinda's pearl as title character? 164. Ambignomoi — Petty-dwarves and good dwarrow 165. Quite the Yahoo — Just a human being after all 166. Checkmatte — A fatal pile-on 167. Opaque Obake — Visible invisible 168. Solimpsest — Flimsy backformation of a reused document 169. Divine Quantifier — DINGIR, to the Akkadians 170. Killjoy to the World — Stormcrow symphony? 171. Compensation Junction, … — What's your dysfunction? 172. Key Will Let You Out — Eno: A change of _____ 173. Ultramodern Spittoon — Look Edina wants 174. Mon Oh Ir Ra — Let there be LIGHT! 175. Aaah the strict Slarty — PDN later copied by the originator of the phrase 176. Locution of Cyborg — The Best of Both Speech Acts? 177. Closer to Spice — If you wanna / I want to 178. Endonopticon — Central room with mirrors instead of windows 179. The secret/moment/answer/reason — Contact 180. Pillar of Sauce, Apparently — Don't cook behind you! 181. Silicone and Gematria — Artifical inflation of word values 182. Squee and Beautiful Dumb Smile — Much like the Goblin Nabob card 183. Paraprofessional Paramour — Leporello, e.g. 184. Envie de Copier — Excessive admiration 185. Parastygia — Fetishes that produce sorrow rather than pleasure 186. Starry-Eyed Lover — Shakespeare title character, before the cross 187. If to the moment I should say — Faustian compact 188. What do you get when you fall in — Freedom from BDSM? 189. Lend me a whole new world — Goldfrapp provided the theme to my romance 190. S Toi? C Moi! M Moi? T Toi! — Txtparle 191. Upstar Firmament — Celestial sphere 192. Rainblow — Divine road collapses into droplets 193. Invisible Cait Sith — Giant remote controlled lolmeme 194. Of Love — Completes another PDN 195. Happiness of Two Worlds — Dream of the unification of compartments 196. Unhappy Origin of Asteroids — Unhappy follow-up to the previous PDN 197. The Impossible and I — Sober departing meditation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 176. Locution of Cyborg - The Best of Both Speech Acts? A Patrick Stewart speech! 193. Invisible Cait Sith - Giant remote controlled lolmeme. CS was a remote controlled doohickey from FF7. Also, lolcats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 171. Compensation Junction, …What's your dysfunction? - Schoolhouse rock...parody, I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 TRIUMPH 176 - YES (+1) - the other reference was to linguistic speech acts (perlocutionary, illocutionary, etc) 193 - YES (+1) - and more specifically, the "invisible cat" meme, with some extra irony from the fact that "cait sith" is actually a bad transliteration of "cat sidhe," which will mean something if you played Nethergate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 TRIUMPH 171 - YES (+1) - also referencing the psychological concept of compensation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 158. Boughs and Accords - Mystic covenants. Accords could be covenants. 191. Upstar Firmament - Let there be LIGHT! Light something something. 170. Killjoy to the World - Stormcrow symphony? Lathspell, bringer of ill news? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 178. Endonopticon - Central room with mirrors instead of windows. Reference to a panopticon. 192. Rainblow - Divine road collapses into droplets. Some kind of reference to the Norse gods' rainbow bridges? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 TRUMPH 158 - YES (+1) - also referencing the Golden Bough, and the Bow in the Clouds (again) 191 - NO 170 - YES (+2) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 190 ( S Toi? C Moi! M Moi? T Toi!) is Txtparle. It's french texting slang ala LOL, by the looks of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 TRIUMPH 178 - YES (+2) - reflecting light within (endo) rather allowing it entrance from all over 192 - YES (+1) Now I think I should ask you to stop until other people get a chance at these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 DANTIUS 190 - YES (+1) - "Est-ce toi? C'est moi! Aimes-moi? Tais-toi!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Okey-day! Those were fun! I'll be back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Yes Triumph, tais-toi and let me steal all your points, though I really should be working right now. 171. Compensation Junction, … is What's your Dysfunction. It's play on the Schoolhouse Rock song "Conjuction Junction". 186. Starry-Eyed Lover is Shakespeare Lover, before the cross- a reference to Romeo and Juliet, the worst Shakespeare play ever? 179. The secret/moment/answer/reason is Faustian compact, referencing Goethe's Faust, in which whenever Faustus experiences a moment he wishes to last forever, he loses his soul. 183. Paraprofessional Paramour is Leporello, e.g., in reference to the character Leporello, who's the titular character's wingman in Mozart's Don Giovanni. Let it never be said that a season pass to the Lyric doesn't come in handy. 174. Mon Oh Ir Ra is Let there be LIGHT, based off the mnemonic for "Strong Light" in Dungeon Master II (I used Google for this one because the clue was so bizarre) 160. Frown and Wrinkled Lip is Sober departing meditation, in reference to the meditation of the speaker on the fallen statue's visage in the poem Ozymandias by (IIRC) Shelly, which is also an awesome poem. I think that's it for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 DANTIUS 171 - TOO LATE 186 - YES (+1) - and it's not the worst one, but it certainly has the worst adaptations 179 - NO 183 - YES (+2) 174 - YES (+1) - it's not a mnemonic, it's the spell formula, and specifically, it's the strongest version of the strongest light spell 160 - NO - although that is clearly the poem being quoted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 159. Philosopher's Pwn - Holy grail of put-downs?: Both mythical artifacts. 162. Iconoplasm - Deliberate molding of symbols 175. Aaah the strict Slarty - PDN later copied by the originator of the phrase: ...Abhi Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 DIKIYOBA 159 - YES (+1) - the philosopher's stone was pictured as the "holy grail", i.e., the best and most sought after item, for various processes, and a pwn is a put-down to say the least 162 - YES (+1) 175 - YES (+2) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 169. Divine Quantifier is paired with DINGIR, to the Akkadians, because DINGIR was the cuneiform (symbol? letter?) for deity. 181. Silicone and Gematria is Needed for a 32x32 set of words? Gematria is just the numerology practice of assigning numbers to letter/words, silicone is used in erasers and aren't crosswords 32x32? 196. Unhappy Origin of Asteroids is PBS detail? Maybe there was a NOVA episode on asteroids? 173. Ultramodern Spittoon is Look Edina wants, since a spittoon is the only physical object on the list? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 You're turning to google awfully early, Dantius. I'm disappointed and will need to think about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S You're turning to google awfully early, Dantius. I'm disappointed and will need to think about this. We're not allowed to use Google? You've said we could in prior threads- is there some specific cutoff, like no Google while x clues remain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dantius Wait, we can Google on these? Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S I'd prefer that you didn't google all of them the minute they are put up, so that other people get a chance to use their memories first. But at this point when no one seems to know them immediately, I don't see why not. Anyway, it's not like I can stop you. Like I said, I can't stop you, but a bit of discretion would be nice, especially when most of the people playing haven't even seen the thread yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 DANTIUS 160 - YES (+1) 181 - NO 196 - NO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S Originally Posted By: Dantius Wait, we can Google on these? Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S I'd prefer that you didn't google all of them the minute they are put up, so that other people get a chance to use their memories first. But at this point when no one seems to know them immediately, I don't see why not. Anyway, it's not like I can stop you. Like I said, I can't stop you, but a bit of discretion would be nice, especially when most of the people playing haven't even seen the thread yet. My apologies. I used Google on 174, 169, 173, and for the definition of Gematria on 181, though I knew he silicon bit, so it you'd like to remove those point, that's OK with me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 Like I said, I can't stop you, and I'm certainly not going to take away points in response to your being honest about your use of it. Points will stand as I have stated. You may notice I didn't rule on 173. That's because googling is one thing, but googling it and then posting an explanation that (1) tries to make it look like you didn't google it, and (2) doesn't make any sense whatsoever -- that's something else entirely. Somebody else can explain 173 and get points for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 185. Parastygia - Fetishes that produce sorrow rather than pleasure - Paraphilia (fetish) + stygian (gloomy) 196. Unhappy Origin of Asteroids - Unhappy follow-up to the previous PDN: Going for the obvious connection between 195 and 196 here. Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 DIKIYOBA 185 - YES (+2) 196 - YES (+2) - when worlds collide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 175. Aaah the strict Slarty - Goldfrapp provided the theme to my romance Thanks for the excuse to break out my huge collection of Goldfrapp songs. Play on the words from the song Strict Machine. Just a thought that I have is that I never viewed Goldfrapp as a romantic song writer, rather lustful song writer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 ROWEN 175 - Nope, not that one. As a matter of fact, I don't even have that album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 195. Happiness of Two Worlds - Goldfrapp provided the theme to my romance Try #2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk ĐªгŦĦ Єяŋϊε Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 181 silicone and gematria is artifical inflation of word values based on gematria being numerical values for bilbical words and silicone being used for implants 167. Opaque Obake is visible invisible being that opaque is see through i guess obake is not see through Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 ROWEN 195 - No, although I suppose that would make a good theme for saccharine infatuation. DARTH ERNIE 181 - YES! (+2) 167 - YES (+1) - an obake is a japanese spirit of sorts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 I will get this. My frappiness demands it. 189. Lend me a whole new world - Goldfrapp provided the theme to my romance. From the song Time Out From The World. Cause everyone could a freash breath of air love. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 ROWEN 189 - YES (+1) - however, you got the wrong song. The question is, when is there any sense to love this world at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Skwish-E Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 188 Goldfrapp provided the theme to my romance. ... If I remember the song correctly. 180 Don't cook behind you ... Think Lot's Wife in a Pizza kitchen 167 Visible Invisible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 SKWISH-E 188 - NO - you remember the song correctly, but that's Bacharach 180 - YES (+2) 167 - OK (+1) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 172. Key Will Let You Out - Dream of the unification of compartments 168. Solimpsest - Flimsy backformation of a reused document: A palimpsest is a paper (or something else) that has been overwritten. A flimsy palimpsest is a so limp sest. Dikiyoba will call that good for now and let others guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 DIKIYOBA 172 - No, but good guess 168 - YES (+2) - and backformation is when you make a new word through what you think is etymology but what is really not, as in this case Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 184. Envie de Copier - Flimsy backformation of a reused document. Copy and reused go together and when you copy something it makes a rather poor original. 166. Checkmatte - A fatal pile-on. Check is a killing move in chess and matte is kind of finish, most widely used (I think) in still pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Skwish-E Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 168 Flimsy backformation of a reused document 195 If you wanna / I wanna (but this one seems to easy) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 191. Upstar Firmament - Celestial sphere. The firmament is where the stars hang out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 ROWEN 184 - NO 166 - YES (+2) SKWISH-E 168 - OK (+1) 195 - NO TRIUMPH 191 - YES (+1) - it really was that simple, for once Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 194. Of Love - If you wanna / I want to? Lyrics that use words derived from love? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 194 - NO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Skwish-E Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 194 The look Edina wants... I don't remeber all of the lyrics, but suddenly it clicks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 160. Frown and Wrinkled Lip - Petty-dwarves and good dwarrow? Because the petty-dwarves could be irritable? This clue is really bugging me, because it's a Tolkien reference, and no PDN is jumping out at relates to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 SKWISH-E 194 - NO - although good thought: there is another Bacharach song called "The Look of Love" and that may have been one of the inspirations behind that PDN, it was not the primary one and that is not the correct pairing TRIUMPH 160 - NO - and you should read Dantius's comments on that one as he was closer than you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 160. Frown and Wrinkled Lip - Just a human being after all. Since you confirmed the PDN is an allusion to Ozymandias...it shows that the self-important Ozy who thought he was so awesome was (clue). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 TRIUMPH 160 - NO - but another interesting association. once you figure out the correct clue, you'll facepalm over how clear it is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 197. The Impossible and I - Contact. This might be a facepalm-worthy absurd idea...but Contact is a movie, and The King and I was a movie. Did they share a star actor or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Oh, hey, new thread. 172. Key Will Let You Out -- Freedom from BDSM? (That or a safeword.) 182. Squee and Beautiful Dumb Smile -- Much like the Goblin Nabob card (Must be the Tenth Edition printing.) EDIT: After seeing the connection with Ozzy: 160. Frown and Wrinkled Lip -- Completes another PDN (Look upon my works, ye Vogel, and despair!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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