Can You Decode the Usernames from These Cryptic Clues?

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Yikes - these things are going faster than I can make them up. Help!

But it's weird that #10 is still unsolved - I thought that would be easy. Maybe it takes more passion, gusto or soul - you know; more spunk, spirit or resolve...or maybe not more, after all.
 
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Before googling, I had never heard of Shere Khan. :blushing:

To me, shere sounds more like the Hindi word for lion, and Hindi for tiger is something like cheeta?
 
George Jones said:
Before googling, I had never heard of Shere Khan. :blushing:

To me, shere sounds more like the Hindi word for lion, and Hindi for tiger is something like cheeta?
Generally, the Hindi word for Tiger is Baagh.
 
Okay, since it's open for all(Isn't it ?!)...here's a sitter

See you in Mars.
 
George Jones said:
Before googling, I had never heard of Shere Khan. :blushing:

To me, shere sounds more like the Hindi word for lion...
Not a fan of Kipling, I take it? The Hindi word for lion, is typically written sher (without the second 'e') when transliterated to English.

Okay, I think it's time to up the level a bit. For others that make clues, please number them - that makes keeping accounts easier.
 
To that end, this is numbered 16.

neutrino said:
16. See you in Mars.
 
16. See you in Mars.

Mar-cu-s

Marcus?
 
Number 10 makes me think of Zoobyshoe, and the reference to the Zooby brush shelter, IIRC.
 
3trQN said:
Mar-cu-s

Marcus?

That is correct.
 
Gokul43201 said:
The Hindi word for lion, is typically written sher (without the second 'e') when transliterated to English.

I have never seen it written, I've only heard it, so that was my attempt at transliteration.

neutrino said:
Generally, the Hindi word for Tiger is Baagh.

Thanks. My source for tiger is now vacillating. :rolleyes:
 
Dimitri Terryn said:
You've got a mind like a corkscrew Gokul. :smile:

What - you're saying that Gokul go into the wine before he set the questions?
 
George Jones said:
10. crazy as shelter -- heartless
Correct.

And I decree than anyone who's answered 3 questions correctly gets a 3 clue break from answering. You may, of course, post clues.

Since I'm enacting this rule now, George and Neutrino (anyone else?) may not answer 17 through 19. From 20, you may consider you slates clean again.
 
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Gokul43201 said:
Correct.

And I decree than anyone who's answered 3 questions correctly gets a 3 clue break from answering. You may, of course, post clues.

Since I'm enacting this rule now, George and Neutrino (anyone else?) may not answer 17 through 19.
No, no, not that rule. :eek: :cry:
 
17. Whip It band loses half a grand

18. Terrible John Hunting

19. He's still alive - but then, he's not feline

20. short mountain of tomatoes missing, there exists some backwards mixture

21. in short, you are short of a racing state held in back of left hand

22. screwing around in a lord
 
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Gokul43201 said:
22. screwing around in a lord
arildno?:rolleyes:
 
Lisa! said:
arildno?:rolleyes:
Correct! :biggrin: Explanation?
 
19. Schrödinger's dog
 
Kurdt said:
19. Schrödinger's dog
Correct, kurdt!
 
Gokul43201 said:
Correct! :biggrin: Explanation?
Ah don't ask me to do hard things! It's "in a lord' messed up!:rolleyes:
 
Lisa! said:
Ah don't ask me to do hard things! It's "in a lord' messed up!:rolleyes:
That's right.
 
Gokul43201 said:
Since I'm enacting this rule now, George and Neutrino (anyone else?) may not answer 17 through 19. From 20, you may consider you slates clean again.


Isn't question 17 really question 20? o:)
 
17. Whip It band loses half a grand

Devo - D = Evo, D = 500
 
George Jones said:
Isn't question 17 really question 20? o:)
I know it hurts, George, but you've got to put on your stoic face and move on.

But hey, I made sure you folks didn't have to wait too long to have stuff to work on.
 
Astronuc said:
17. Whip It band loses half a grand

Devo - D = Evo, D = 500
How does Devo come in?
 
Astronuc said:
17. Whip It band loses half a grand

Devo - D = Evo, D = 500
Correct Astro!

Whip It is a popular (albeit weird and possibly disturbing) single by the band Devo.

[MEDIA=youtube]gNnpXwoZCAI[/MEDIA]&search=whip%20it[/URL]
 
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neutrino said:
How does Devo come in?

Ancient History. Just over a quarter of a century ago, the band Devo (I believe this is short for devolution or de-evolution) recorded the song Whip It.
 
Whip It is popular single by the band Devo.

Ah, okay. (This "10 characters" rule really bugs me! )
 
18. Terrible John Hunting = Ivan Seeking

Ivan = Russian or Slavic equivalent of John, or Johann - and Ivan the Terrible

Seeking = Hunting
 

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