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AnotherUselessPwn
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 		With it only being the second day.....
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"D_"
isn't much to work with.

I'll keep working on it.
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thalamus
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AnotherUselessPwn wrote:
With it only being the second day..... "D_" isn't much to work with.

I'll keep working on it.


well, the knowledge (or assumption, anyway) that you're looking for another letter should help a fair bit with today's riddle...

(oh - and spoilering that answer might be nice...)

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AnotherUselessPwn
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 		Woo I think I got it now. I blame it on thinking too hard. San Francisco here I come! Razz
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BethThomlinson
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 		Got the second day, but what about the third?
Yesterday's was pretty easy. Here's a clue: We love homophones.

Now...how about today's puzzle? "giant star goat"??? Maybe
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the constellation Aries?


I'm thinking it's probably a pun, you know,
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X-ship, for ex-ship


Anyone have any ideas?

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AnotherUselessPwn
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 		I think it's from....

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Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy


I hope that helps. I just can't find the name of the ship.
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thalamus
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 		i agree with AnotherUselessPwn - and with a bit of googling you should be able to find the name of the ship...

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BethThomlinson
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 		Could it be
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Golgafrinchan's Ark Ship B


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Look at the BBC site for H2G2: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2163520

Here is a snippet from it: They took off in the Golgafrincham Ark Fleet, Ship B ('B' Ark). The Golgafrinchans had fed these poor unsuspecting people crazy lies as to why they all must leave the planet. "It's going to crash into the sun!" "The moon is going to crash into us!" "The entire planet is in imminent danger of being eaten by an enormous mutant star goat!" And of course, the middle-class Golgafrinchans believed them. So they set off, completely unaware that the rest of the population was not following them, and began their five-year journey.

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 		You're off by one Wink

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thalamus
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 		not quite, that ship was full of management consultant types, hairdressers, and telephone sanitation engineers ...

Smile

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BethThomlinson
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 		Thanks. Finally found a reference at

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http://www.sadgeezer.com/hhg/golgaf.htm


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 		8-4-06

"If l is for leather and x is for breakfast, what's before beauty?"

Any ideas? I'm stuck.
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 		Nevermind, some google-ing will get you the answer....I think I got it at least.
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 		first you need to work out the phrase and then you need to say all the phrases out loud

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L = 'hell' for leather
X = 'eggs' for breakfast
H = 'age' before beauty


rach =)

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cassandra
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 		The more important part of the post:

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The weekend starts early

After yesterday, the whole team was exhausted. Sente's made it clear that we're all OK to take a few days off if we need to, so attendance has been rather patchy. Personally, I'd rather be in the office than at home (much as I'm eager to work out how to cut off the Glittering Prince's blue fungus supply lines and defeat the mechanical centaurs), because I really enjoy spending time with my colleagues, strange as that might sound. Still, the office was strange and echoey today, just me, Aiko and Garnet in attendance. So, Garnet - as the most senior person in the team now - suggested we all go out for some Whipsmart and then take in one of the preliminary knockout games from the PCAG tournaments which just opened on Tuesday.

It was awesome! People like Tippy can be so sniffy about the early games ("I just don't want to see a match without a name in it, darling.") but we had the best fun, betting one or two lecks on complete unknowns and seeing some people soar and others completely crash and burn. My hot tip for the second round is a 17-year-old girl called Nicola Wann from Gladstone. She stormed through a fierce match against a guy with twice her experience today. Plus, she's really cute. I wonder if she's single....


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posted at 08/07/2006 05:49 AM PDT
I went to the Academy's paper airplane competition held in Polygon Park this weekend. They usually have it around this time of year, when the weather's good and the Academy's on summer break (all apart from us poor, overworked puzzle scribes). Last year I went to cheer on Kurt to his second-prize-winning performance but this year he hasn't entered. I suppose coming second must have been good enough for him. I entered a bi-plane inspired design with a long tail rudder. It did pretty well - I got through to the final, but didn't manage to place.

I sometimes wonder about the relationship between Earth trends and Perplex City ones. We have this annual paper airplane competition, but don't use actual airplanes extensively. It's like the way that you have puzzles, but they're not an important part of your culture, as they are here. I wonder what the point was in our histories where you all decided that flight was an important goal and we weren't so interested.

The big controversy yesterday was Victor Neues' new design. The rules allow for one paperclip to be used for weight to balance the plane. Neues had used the metal from a single paperclip, but had melted it into an elongated disc towards the tip of his plane. He won - his plane stayed aloft for 31 seconds - but there are calls for him to be stripped of his title now. It's astonishing how heated these things can get!



Kurt's paper-airplane post is here

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