Triple Slartifer, Part 7

[Dikiyoba]

318. TIMEBREL DANTS ON TH FLHORLTHULG - Hidden compensatory Japanese fem: Obviously, Tim is a florist with some issues, which he deals with by hiding in his valuable Osmunda japonica plant to attack and then humiliate through DDR any would-be thieves.

 

Oh, the clue doesn't say fern? Never mind.

 

Dikiyoba.

[Balladeer]

I guess then it takes me too long to do more than one at a time...

 

312. TUXEDO MASH EDGAR SLAAAASH - Name and verse befitting the death scene

 

Nice poetic verse here. Reminds me of how the Ogres speak in Xanth. But with mashing and slashing going on, death could be the result.

[Dantius]

Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S

Guys, keep in mind you can get more points for the explanations than the correct pairings.

True, but I'm thinking a little more tactically than "what can I do to maximize my points", and I'm sure at least two others in particular are, too.

[Slawbug]

DIKIYOBA

318 - no, but lol.

[Slawbug]

JEWELS

312 - no

[Triumph]

Wow, well, I totally missed out. What's the current list of PDNs/clues look like (I assume the one at the beginning of the topic is out of date)?

[Dantius]

326. I AM TH VORAX I SPEAK FO DRU-TAN is Plight of the Skullkeep Catacombs- both are Dungeon Master references, and the Dr. Seuss character The Lorax was fond of saying "I speak for the trees".

[xiaotuanzi]

Is it a game？

[Slawbug]

Not by much, Triumph. Read the topic.

 

DANTIUS

326 - YES (+2)

[Triumph]

287. Euconfusion - Sudden Tolkienian clarity. In his essay on faery stories, Tolkien described an eucatastrophe (sp?), the highest purpose of such stories. It's the wonder of good thing that comes of out of something bad that happens - hence a good catastrophe.

[Triumph]

332. HOUSE of S - Scarlet Man and Hawksilver. Marvel Comics had something called "House of M" which involved a character named Scarlet Witch going bonkers and depriving mutants of their powers and generally altering reality. This is a reference.

[Dantius]

297. Fall of the Misunderstood Empire could be Babel, maybe? Most people only know Babel because of the Biblical story, not because of historical fact, so Babel could be a misunderstood empire.

[Dikiyoba]

293. Emobarbus Girl, Emobarbus World - Musical number for one in the pits?: Emo (as in down or depressed) + Barbie Girl (song) + ? = PDN

297. Fall of the Misunderstood Empire - THIS IS WHAT I MEAN!!!: Typing in all caps to communicate never, ever works and people will start ignoring you.

332. HOUSE of S - Zombies Ate My Forums: The zombies got some of your PDN?

 

Dikiyoba.

[Dantius]

300. Vngrs Ssmbl Ll T F Rdr is Impossible speech sounds signify final commitment- it's impossible to pronounce a sentence of only consonants, and adding in vowels you get the phrase Avengers Assemble, the battle cry of the commitment of a group of Marvel heroes.

[Slawbug]

TRIUMPH

287 - YES (+5)

322 - no - but you're very, very close

 

DANTIUS

297 - YES (+4) - there was certainly misunderstanding (of languages) involved in Babel's fall

 

DIKIYOBA

293 - no - but you're two-thirds of the way there now!

297 - no

332 - no

[Slawbug]

DANTIUS

300 - no - but you're halfway there

[Balladeer]

291. Exersociatique - Lacking in tact

 

if you exorcise social etiquette you have no tact.

 

314. ZIPPERLITH ZEPPELINICLES - Stoned new-age buzzwords that plummet like frozen balloons

 

a zeppelin could be considered a large balloon, and Lead Zeppelin were certainly stoned.

 

312. TUXEDO MASH EDGAR SLAAAASH - My thoughts be bloody

 

mashing and slashing could end in a bloody mess.

 

300. Vngrs Ssmbl Ll T F Rdr - Breaking in the vernacular

 

This is Slarty's new language and he's trying it out on us.

 

325. IMPLANTS VERSUS TITANIC TODDLER - Scarlet Man and Hawksilver

 

So Scarlet Man was insecure and got some pec implants while Hawksilver is a really big dude that wears his underwear on the outside of his tights like many superheros do, thus giving him the appearance of wearing a diaper.

[Slawbug]

JEWELS

291 - no, but credible

314 - YES (+3) - the "new-age buzzwords" were a reference to the ZIPPER of Kelandon's infamous comment about how Synergy "unzipped his pants, pulled out some new-age buzzwords and started waving them around" in the Romeo and Juliet debate some 5 years ago. LITH is stone, icICLES are frozen and plummet as do problematic ZEPPELIN balloons.

312 - no

300 - no

325 - no - *blink blink blink* uhhhhh...

[Dantius]

Going off what Triumph said, 287. Euconfusion - Sudden Tolkienian clarity. If a eucatastrophe is a good thing according to Tolkien, then it's the opposite of a regular catastrophe. So then a moment of euconfusion must be the opposite of a moment of confusion- a sudden moment of clarity.

[Triumph]

312. TUXEDO MASH EDGAR SLAAAASH - Sailor brothers' love is a critical hit. I'm struggling with this one, but Edgar and Mash (usually translated Sabin, I believe) are brothers and character in Final Fantasy VI. Slashes could be associated with critical hits, and...sailors maybe sometimes wear tuxedos? Mostly I'm going off the coincidence of Mash, Edgar, and brothers.

[Randomizer]

Edit - missed that the PDN had been solved.

 

297

[Triumph]

295. Romanization Tic - Hidden compensatory Japanese fem. Romanization can happen as part of translating from Japanese (whatever the names are for their symbols), when Japanese is rendered in the Latin (Roman) alphabet. The clue sounds like some grammatical term.

[Slawbug]

DANTIUS

287 - Triumph already got this, as you note.

 

TRIUMPH

312 - YES (+3) - This is multipartite.

- Mash and Edgar are brothers in FF6 (yes, Mash is normally translated Sabin)

- SMAAAAAAASH was how critical hits were displayed in EarthBound

- Tuxedo Mask was apparently Sailor Earth, in the Sailor Moon franchise (hi, Lilith)

- Slashfiction is... well, look up what it is, but it involves love, and Edgar/Mash is a very common pairing in it. (And for good reason, if I do say so myself.)

[Randomizer]

299. Bidirectional Reflection Whale - One-dimensional package of troublemakers

 

In optics a biderectional reflection wave is a one-dimensional wave packet that bounces off mirrors in an optical cavity. Jonah was a troublemaker in a whale.

[Slawbug]

RANDOMIZER

297 - no

 

TRIUMPH

295 - no - but you are on the right track

[Slawbug]

RANDOMIZER

299 - no

[Dikiyoba]

293. Emobarbus Girl, Emobarbus World - Name and verse befitting the death scene: Enobarbus is a character (who dies) in Antony and Cleopatra.

 

Dikiyoba.

[Triumph]

320. THE DISMEMBERMENT PLANE - High flying Pitchfork victim. Planes fly high. A victim of pitchfork might end up dismembered. Eww. Although...it might be hard for the plane to fly at all, let alone high, after being dismembered by a pitchfork.

[Dantius]

Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S

DANTIUS
287 - Triumph already got this, as you note.

He didn't get any points and you didn't say he did, so I presumed it was still open. Was I wrong?


EDIT: Oh, I see my mistake. Never mind, I didn't associate 322 with 332.

[Triumph]

329. SLARTOphrenia - Two-Headed Giant of Analiys. Although schizophrenia pertains to separation from reality, it is associated with multiple personalities (actually a different disorder). That misconception might manifest, poetically, as two heads. Slarty, to whom the PDN refers, is known for analysis. And Analiys is missing an S (for Slarty, or schizophrenia?) and it would be analysis (well, that plus tranpose the y and the i).

[Balladeer]

333. *tbd* - WINNER!!

 

The prize for winning in this contest will be to star in Slarty's three hundred and thirty third PDN.

[Triumph]

321. SPACE RACISM (XE'S NO PARAPHOBE) - Black hole Howl?

 

Okay, black holes are things are in space. Racism, at least in the U.S.A., is most commonly associated with mistreatment of blacks (or African Americans, if you prefer). I know you reference anime stuff, and I know there's a movie about Howl and a castle...does Xeno's paradox fit in somehow?

[Dantius]

Not sure if it's been guessed, but is 296: Quantifier Bloat Fate of His and Heretics- by using an extra set of pronouns over genderless ones, you're increasing the number of quantifiers you use and causing bloat.

[Dikiyoba]

...can we get an updated list, since apparently people can no longer keep track of what's been guessed and what hasn't?

 

Dikiyoba.

[Triumph]

332. HOUSE of S - Continuity breaks like a mirror. Following off my previous guess for 332...did House of M comics break the Marvel continuity, just as House of S is having a massive impact on the continuity of PDNs and the progress of the Retrioactivity?

[Balladeer]

286. Oldbin.bin - 4-2 feature

 

oldbin.bin sounds like it could be a feature of some type of software program. the bin where you place the oldbin of old stuff you don't want.

 

315. APOCALISP SOW PLOSIVE VOW - THIS IS WHAT I MEAN!!!

 

The clue surely is explosive with the capitals and explanation points and if someone were to have a lisp they would be difficult to understand so they would likely have to repeat themselves or explain what they mean. I cannot help but notice the cow pun of SOW also.. Don't know if there's something else with that.

[Triumph]

...sows are pigs, not cows.

[Slawbug]

DIKIYOBA

293 - YES (+3) - Enobarbus is a character in Antony and Cleopatra. He's a Shakespearean clown, which isn't really a clown at all, and the most philosophical of them all if you ask me. He isn't particularly emo, except arguably in his death scene:

 

DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS

        Mine honesty and I begin to square.

	The loyalty well held to fools does make

	Our faith mere folly: yet he that can endure

	To follow with allegiance a fall'n lord

	Does conquer him that did his master conquer

	And earns a place i' the story.

 

("Emo Barbus girl, Emo Barbus worrrrld...")

 

TRIUMPH

320 - YES (+3) - The other reference is to

, a band at the center of one of the first Pitchfork scandals. Pitchfork Media rated one of their albums a 10.0, then rated the next one a 0.0; the band claimed that it was a publicity stunt and that it was responsible for destroying their positive word-of-mouth and ability to book shows.

 

329 - YES (+5) - The other reference in the clue is to the first edition MtG card, Two-Headed Giant of Foriys.

 

Jewels -- heh, not quite, but you are sort of close in interesting ways.

[Slawbug]

TRIUMPH

321 - no

332 - YES (+6) - Wanda Maximoff FTW

 

DANTIUS

296 - no

 

JEWELS

286 - no

315 - no

[Slawbug]

Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba

...can we get an updated list, since apparently people can no longer keep track of what's been guessed and what hasn't?

Dikiyoba.

Again, I update the list as much as I can, but that takes some time, plus multiple windows. Since I am doing other things and not just waiting around for answers, I can't update it constantly. I'll try to do that now, but if you would like to volunteer to do it instead (you can, as a mod), feel free.

[Triumph]

295. Romanization Tic - Transhiccupation. Building off my previous guess about 295...the clue is translation, interrupted by a hiccup. This calls to mind the way verbal tics can be added to characters as their speech is translations from Japanese.

[Triumph]

Here is, I think, a current list.

 

PDNs

 

286. Oldbin.bin

288. So full of truth & yet so unwise

290. How all occasions do inform

291. Exersociatique

292. Suspended Anima

294. Leadendy

295. Romanization Tic

296. Quantifier Bloat

298. Intension

299. Bidirectional Reflection Whale

300. Vngrs Ssmbl Ll T F Rdr

301. The Secret of Eureka

304. Caudes Consultem

308. Tellement

310. SEED SPROUTETH MALATEXT

313. HOUSEHOOOOOOLD NYMENS

315. APOCALISP SOW PLOSIVE VOW

316. THE GILGAMESH IN THE GARR GARR

317. WHOWHAT THREW SPACEDRAIN WATCHE!

318. TIMEBREL DANTS ON TH FLHORLTHULG

321. SPACE RACISM (XE'S NO PARAPHOBE)

323. ALT DOT STUPID ENSIGN

324. MIRROR MIRRANDA CHIBIORUS

325. IMPLANTS VERSUS TITANIC TODDLER

328. SLARTY TASTY!!!1!!

330. slartEROPHONIAD

 

CLUES

 

4-2 feature

Black hole Howl?

Bonus points if you have any clue where this one came from

Breaking in the vernacular

Die die die

Existing too much and too universally

Future deviancy fears Renegade Soundwave

Hidden compensatory Japanese fem

Impossible speech sounds signify final commitment

King demon?

Lacking in tact

Musical number for one in the pits?

My Killer Story

My thoughts be bloody

Non sequitur

One explanation for Project Slartificus

One-dimensional package of troublemakers

Preaching to the tiny about New York transflections

Really not going anywhere

Scarlet Man and Hawksilver

Sealed area in Sylx Tower

So in Wallonia

THIS IS WHAT I MEAN!!!

Transhiccupation

With the approval of the blockheads

Zombies Ate My Forums

[Slawbug]

LIST IS UPDATED.

Sorry to be snarky about it, but it is more effort-intensive than you'd think.

 

TRIUMPH

295 - YES (+5) - the other wordplay here is on "transliteration"

[Triumph]

294. Leadendy - Non sequitur. The PDN calls to mind lead, and end, and even addendum. Ends and addendums go...at the end. Leads go at the beginning. Non sequitur does not follow. An end-thing that leads...doesn't follow.

[Slawbug]

TRIUMPH

294 - no - although I like your explanation

[Dantius]

290. How all occasions do inform is My Thoughts Be Bloody- Both are lines from one of Hamlet's soliloquy in Act 4. I doubt it's that simple, but still worth a guess.

[Triumph]

310. SEED SPROUTETH MALATEXT - Non sequitur. Malatext looks likes a reference to malapropisms, which can definitely be non sequitors. Seed sprouteth sounds archaic, while texting is a more modern phenomenon, so the two don't go together.

[Dintiradan]

(Huh, I never knew Enobarbus was classified as a clown. Learn something new every day, I suppose.)

 

These things are getting tougher. I got nothin'. I know that Gilgamesh was lacking in tact (to put it lightly), but I'm pretty sure that's not the pairing.

[Dantius]

330. slartEROPHONIAD could be My Killer Story in reference to the Bellerophoniad, the tale of Bellerophone after he kills the Chimera- so the Slarterophoniad could be the story of Slarty after he kills- whatever it is he kills.

[Triumph]

318. TIMEBREL DANTS ON TH FLHORLTHULG - Musical number for one in the pits? This is the only one that sounds like and "musical number." Timbrel dance has obviously be warped, along with whatever comes after it, by whoever lives in the pits.