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    Default Computer Talk!

    All answers will sound like computer jargon. For example, the sentence “Don’t ever ____ I”ll wash your mouth out with soap!” can be completed with curse or which sounds like cursor.

    ***Please answer only 5 to allow others the chance to play.

    Puzzle complete!

    1. Were both father and _____ when they fell asleep at the play last night? {stkmw02 - mother bored aka motherboard}

    2. After the first inning, the Yankees were ahead one _____. {OchrisO - zip}

    3. Was Jack _____a perfect 20-20 when he starred in Dragnet? {Jean - Webb's sight aka website}

    4. Did the new fishing ____ as well as the old one? {mystima - net work aka network}

    5. A male ovine is more commonly called a _____? {OchrisO - ram}

    6. How often did Nikita speak to _____ the red phone? {mystima - Ike on aka icon}

    7. The soldiers who were supposed to protect the _____ away instead. {Jean - fort ran aka Fortran}

    8. Her favorite disaster movie was Krakatoa East of _____. {OchrisO - Java}

    9. The Ambassador will be _____ Aviv all of next week. {OchrisO - in Tel aka Intel}

    10. The Irish musician said, “Happiness is a _____ to eat and three or four groupies.” {BROWNINGS CHILDE - bite aka byte}

    11. Charles didn’t like to be called _____. {Jean - Chip}

    12. Rather than risk his next season being a _____ Wee Reese retired from baseball. {Jean - flop, Pee aka floppy}

    13. It’s a long _____ from New York to Miami. {stkmw02 - drive}

    14. Does the wooden _____ twice as much as the aluminum one? {Iwritecode - gate weight, Gateway}

    15. The city council decided to take _____ school funding issues at the next session. {mystima - up grade aka upgrade}

    16. There was a new challenge _____ Dillon during every episode of Gunsmoke. {OchrisO - for Matt aka format}

    17. He tried reading the latest bestseller, but he just couldn’t get _____. {Jean - into it aka Intuit}

    18. There were no cold cuts in the refrigerator, so he opened a can of _____. {stkmw02 - spam}

    19. The shirts are available in S, M, L, and _____. {stkmw02 - XL aka Excel}

    20. _____ a sorrowful thing to realize how few people appreciate Shakespearean English. {stkmw02 - Lo, tis aka Lotus}

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    1. mother bored
    13. drive
    18. Spam
    19. XL
    20. Tis

    I don't know anything about computers... I barely even know how to use them.

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    4 out of 5 isn't too shabby! I'll update the original post with the correct answers (20 is a partially correct answer - try again!)

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    4 Net work
    20. IT's=I.T. S


    Does whatever a spiderman does.

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    BZZZZZ. Sorry that is incorrect!


    ETA: Sorry mystima, I didn't even notice your #4. Just saw #20 and buzzed ya!! 4 is correct, 20 is not...
    Last edited by Maturins_Daughter; 06-19-2012 at 04:39 AM. Reason: My bad reading skills

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    I really can't think of anything #4 could be aside from net work.
    2. zip

    5. ram

    8. Java

    9. Intel/ In Tel

    16. Format/For Matt
    There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long.. people. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.

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    3. Webb = web
    10. Hash
    12. flop Pee = floppy
    14. log --- ???????
    17. Into it = Intuit

    Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
    When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)

    bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Good job, Chris! Jean, 12 & 17 are correct, 3 is halfway there, 10 & 14 no dice!


    Remaining: 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, 20

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    7. Fort + ran = Fortran

    Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
    When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)

    bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    3 is Webb/web
    The Awesomest fled across the desert and The Awesomer followed.

    If you rescue me
    I’ll be your friend forever


    I wish that I could write fiction, but that seems almost an impossibility. -howard phillips lovecraft (1915)



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    3. Webb's sight = web site

    took me some time to realize what 20/20 meant

    Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
    When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)

    bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Yes, Jean! That's the full answer for #3 (7's correct, too!)

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    14. bat chap = batch app?

    Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
    When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)

    bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Remaining: 6, 10, 11, 14, 15, 20

    bat chap is not correct


    ETA:
    Last edited by Maturins_Daughter; 06-19-2012 at 05:14 AM. Reason: Jean and MD in the same thread at the same time

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    is the second part of 14 wear/ware?

    Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
    When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)

    bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Trying for #20 again:
    Lo, 'tis for Lotus?

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    Yes, 20 is now solved!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jean View Post
    is the second part of 14 wear/ware?
    No It isnt!

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    #6 Fidel on Del???? (as in Delete)

    #14 bat cost Bat? OS? (is this clsoe at all?)

    #11 a pig Ap ??
    DT Spoiler - Enter at your own risk!

    Spoiler:
    I can’t remember if I cried
    When I read about Eddie’s widowed bride,
    And something touched me deep inside
    The day the bumbler died.”


    Click CAN' Ka No Rey for the entire poem, published in Lighthouse VI!

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    or $14 Bat chip for batch?
    DT Spoiler - Enter at your own risk!

    Spoiler:
    I can’t remember if I cried
    When I read about Eddie’s widowed bride,
    And something touched me deep inside
    The day the bumbler died.”


    Click CAN' Ka No Rey for the entire poem, published in Lighthouse VI!

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    I have a feeling there is no bat involved in number 14.... what else can be wooden or aluminum?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CRinVA View Post
    #6 Fidel on Del???? (as in Delete)

    #14 bat cost Bat? OS? (is this clsoe at all?)

    #11 a pig Ap ??
    Sorry, nothing correct here

    Quote Originally Posted by CRinVA View Post
    or $14 Bat chip for batch?
    Or here

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    #6. Gogol = Google.


    Does whatever a spiderman does.

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    Google is not the answer to number 6.

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    10. bite (byte)
    Sloth Love Chunk

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