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matthyaouw said:
This is the money pit on Oak Island. they'd given up digging, and started boring by this point.
I give up everyone knows about everything these days :smile:
 
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brewnog said:
Someone posted it in S&D the other day...

I just looked it up, soon the internet will know everything, who needs
MI5 or the FBI, when we have google :biggrin:
 
wolram said:
I just looked it up, soon the internet will know everything, who needs
MI5 or the FBI, when we have google :biggrin:

Yeah, and google usually just brings you straight back here.
 
brewnog said:
Someone posted it in S&D the other day...

That would be me, hence the speedy response :biggrin:
I'll post one in a moment. Gotta sort out some clues first
 
With arms almost the size of the Eifel tower, this floating device plugged the final hole in the country's defences
 
storm surge barrier at the tip of the Netherlands.
 
Curses. I thought I had a tricky one there.
Your go.
 
matthyaouw said:
Curses. I thought I had a tricky one there.
Your go.
Gordon bennit you mean i was right
 
Aye. Its the barrier that protects Rotterdam. I don't suppose you were watching the documentary about it on wenesday night were you?
 
matthyaouw said:
Aye. Its the barrier that protects Rotterdam. I don't suppose you were watching the documentary about it on wenesday night were you?
I saw a discovery program about it some time ago
 
Combine another word for ditch and er with another word for meadow
to find this colossus
 
wolram said:
Combine another word for ditch and er with another word for meadow
to find this colossus
What is 'er'? Is that 'err' or 'ER', as in emergency room?
 
wolram said:
Combine another word for ditch and er with another word for meadow
to find this colossus
Would you mean the Trencherfield Mill Steam Engine?
 
Ivan Seeking said:
Well, I for one am willing to assume that's not just a coincidence. :biggrin:
On another site, in a galaxy far, far away, we were playing a guessing game, and the clue was "Damn Dog! That's me!" So I guessed Cerberus, the three headed dog who guards the entrance to the under world. Turns out he meant it to refer to himself, in his real life capacity as a writer of crossword puzzles. "Damn" was supposed to translate as "cross word" (angry utterance), and "dog" as "fellow" or "chap" as in "You lucky dog!" Everyone knew the guy was British, and that he wrote crossword puzzles for a living, but I thought it was the most impenetrable clue I'd ever heard. "Cerberus" was such a better answer.
 
zoobyshoe said:
Would you mean the Trencherfield Mill Steam Engine?
That is uncanny but correct. next time i will just think the clue, then we
will know what's going on. :biggrin:
 
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wolram said:
That is uncanny but correct. next time i will just think the clue, then we
will know what's going on. :biggrin:
Actually, it was an extremely well constructed clue. The trickiest part was figuring out what the "er" meant. Ditch and meadow have only one satisfying synonym each, and these turned out to be what you wanted. Just googling "trencherfield" got me right to the mill, and the only thing there that qualified as a "colossus" was the big steam engine.

Anyone who wants may put up the next clue.
 
This chelating agent, of which there are three major types and three major grades, killed over twenty people in the worst disaster of its kind. Buildings were knocked off their foundations, there was chaos, terror, victims to be dug out and trapped survivors, rescue workers among the victims, and anguished families rushing to relief centers to find their relatives.
 
Trans-1,2-Diaminocyclohexane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid, monohydrate?
 
Did you find the disaster? I haven't found anything- oxalic acid was just the only one I found that was explosive.
I figure it was either an explosion or failure (like a dam or something). But I can't imagine how a chelating agent would cause a failure? Of course, I didn't know what a chelating agent was until this question. :rolleyes:
 
The film Blade, wherein several vampires are injected with an anticoagulant chemical, EDTA, and explode violently.
 
Where is that Ivan sea king?
 
Yes, where is old Posie? He's the one who suggested we keep two questions going for this very reason. :frown:
 
wow..you guys are struggling to keep this thread alive, especially after the "where is it" thread came alon :biggrin:
 
yomamma said:
wow..you guys are struggling to keep this thread alive, especially after the "where is it" thread came alon :biggrin:

What are you talking about sir, " where is it", well its at the bottom of my
garden, we call it the privy, apart from that i can not find my car keys, where
the eky thump are they.
 

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