Monkeys write New York Times
A shoplifter has to pilfer.
Circumstantial evidence can ruin a selected victim.
ID:194283
 Jun 14 2001, 4:57 pm (Edited on Jun 14 2001, 7:01 pm)
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*raises hand* Oooooo! I know! I know! They were all posted in Babble by Lexy!
Can I get a gold star? :) I don't know... what is it? All are 3rd person infinitive tense? | |
On 6/14/01 11:01 pm LexyBitch wrote:
On 6/14/01 8:57 pm LexyBitch wrote: Well, I wasn't sure if that last example included the all-caps text, or if it was just Willy's words. I'll assume the former, and then guess that this all has to do with news or news writing somehow. Is this a slam on the NY Times? I must be missing something obvious here. | |
On 6/14/01 11:01 pm LexyBitch wrote:
On 6/14/01 8:57 pm LexyBitch wrote: Okay, here's the same three things, but with an additional clue thrown in: Monkeys write New York Times A shoplifter has to pilfer. Circumstantial evidence can ruin a selected victim. There is nothing significant about the order the three are posted in. | |
You are looking in the right direction, Guy... very close, indeed... but it's actually simpler than that.
On 6/15/01 7:25 am Gughunter wrote: Ah! Every letter in the sentence appears an even number of times. | |
On 6/15/01 7:52 am LexyBitch wrote:
You are looking in the right direction, Guy... very close, indeed... but it's actually simpler than that. The second half has the same letters as the first half in a different order? | |
The second half has the same letters as the first half in a different order? That's right... the second half of each phrase is an anagram for the first. | |
On 6/15/01 7:59 am LexyBitch wrote:
The second half has the same letters as the first half in a different order? YAY!! Anagram! That's the word I was looking for! Do I get a gold star now? :) I'll split it with Guy! | |
YAY!! Anagram! That's the word I was looking for! Do I get a gold star now? :) I'll split it with Guy! I'm all out of gold stars. How about a dwarf star? | |
Umm, isn't an anogram when a phrase spells itself backwards
eg/ A man, a plan, a canal, panama. Not just when it has the same letters oh either side. Could be wrong, but not sure. :/ | |
Nope, that's a palindrome
On 6/15/01 8:07 am Botman wrote: Umm, isn't an anogram when a phrase spells itself backwards | |
On 6/15/01 8:04 am LexyBitch wrote:
YAY!! Anagram! That's the word I was looking for! Do I get a gold star now? :) I'll split it with Guy! Hmmm... What kind? I don't want to get stuck with a white dwarf that will die in a few billion years. Talk about bad real estate. | |
Doh - Lexybitch!! Because a game so fun
outfoxed us manageably. She be chic! (do I get a prize?) /mob/skysaw On 6/14/01 8:57 pm LexyBitch wrote: Monkeys write New York Times | |
Okay, since nobody's gotten it yet... here's another one that follows the same pattern:
IN ONE OF THE BARD'S BEST THOUGHT-OF TRAGEDIES, OUR INSISTENT HERO, HAMLET, QUERIES ON TWO FRONTS ABOUT HOW LIFE TURNS ROTTEN:
"To be, or not to be: that is the question, whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune..."