Note patient friends and players of the quiz game, thanks for your patience, and if you wish to skip the odd nature of my last several days, simply jump down to yellow below, where Q'S 103-108 ARE ANSWERED.
OK troops. I have returned, and note with satisfation your thoughts were generous regarding my absence, speculating as to the possibility of Labour day weekend activities,etc. .
In fact, I've been sick, which would not normally stop my participation, but without excessive detail regarding other infirmities, my post-surgical optical acuity has been shot-to-he** until today.eg I could not see worth sh**.
But, as I was once again on the Isle of St. Kilda/Hirta, in the outer Hebrides, Scotland, where I got my snivles, and grew deathly ill while trying to relax and recover.Wrong climate for that. So I flew over to Skye Isle, and I tried to view the 280' tall Monument to Sir William Wallace "Braveheart", and the magnificent moument of Sir Robert The Bruce. Both are on the Isle of Skye, not far from Stirling University where our last 6 questions were verified, as the Isle of Skye is one of the last bastions, nay,
home to the ancient Gaelic Cultures and traditions, and Lightfoot himself has said he is part Scottish, so its no coincidence some of the etymology of the more unusual terms we've encounterd cite a Scottish origin, or Celtic.
Nevertheless, I asked an abbot of the only standing, inhabitable structure of what were once three Chapels, now ruins of Monasteries, except that of St. Brendan, on the Isle of St. Kilda/Hirta a pair of islands considered "one" of the 14 outer Hebrides. Once again, the evil Lord of Dunvegan, who robbed my famil of its "Dun" components, and then made the first aluminum sleeved Sterling engined Horsless Carriage at the turn of the 1900's, and added the distiunguished vehicle's meltable engine wonder to his name as proud as he was, thus becoming Lord DunVegan.
This Lord was responsible for having the last of the ancestral inhabitants "evacuaated" by helicopter in a storm in 1937, thus leaving the island and its mysterious ruins empty all, but St Brendans Monastery that is. It is in this Monastery that the Abbot was willing to research several terms while my eyes were in ruin. My/His findings were confirmed at the University of Sterling, in the Inner Hebrides Islands, for veracity.
Thus, we have confirmation of questions of Q's 103 - 108 !.
However, after Lord Dunwith Vegas, er... Dunvegan, ostensibly evacuuated the isleof St. Kilda in '37, leaving the land in his posession less the sacred Monastery, Church, and its medaevil era-strong Library, lo and behold but what should be built there, but when the Commonwealth of Scotland commandeered the better part of the Isle, recompensing the heir-apparent to its salvage-rights maester;Lord Duvegan ! He pocketed some healthy notes from the Minstry of Defence, of all public agents, and low and behold, the Defence Ministry dug, err,, rather deep, and built several missile silohs, and also a missile tracking station, there to this day. The silohs are not discussed.
But we know. They maintain they are simply marching the 12 ft. fence topped with coiled barbed wire angled outward because the value of the fence is such that they must maintain one man there in charge, known as the "Minister of Dae Faences" -and his simple troops of "snaepers" who wear the colours of Lord Dunvegan's military plaid. Men coming upand down into and out of the ground through an airsealed motized 6-ft diameter "haetch" are said to be "simply makin' uise of the common facilities any man takes leave of several times a dae". Well, be that as it may, back to Q's 103 - 108.
q'S 103-108 entries for the last several days, now we are back on track, lest I die and be sent back to me' ancestral home of dear Scotland....
Q103 clue was ....handle.... formerlyLavender propsed the song "Now and Then" - which is correct ! Congratulations
FornerlyLavender
Q104 Clue was ....tunnel so....and
Joveski offerred the correct song
"Ode to Big Blue" - congratulations
Joveski !
Q105 Clue was....lovely river.... and
jj offerred the correct answer of "
Boathouse" and regailed us with a few variations on lyrics, verse , and simular=ted ssong sounds with the state-of-the-art "dee-de-dee-de-de-dee-dee" we've all done in a pinch for sound effects for our amusement and favourable impression upon our
moderator,
the lovely and stylish Char !
Congrats
jj !
Q106 Clue was....hide...., and
Joveski " nails it with "
If You Need Me"
Q107 Clue was....behind....
RM nails it precisely, with fore-and-aft dots in mind in the clue, precluding CRT,
and leaving 'She's Not the Same" -
Congratulations RM,
well thought out.
lastly,
Q108 Clue was ....fire...., and J
oveski three-peats it with his iron-man fast-ball and brings in the Song
Don Quixote
A few comments and Q'S from the players emerged:Rm notes that dots preceeding the clue that otherside would have worked for CRT if the dots were only to the right of the clue...good call RM. "That left it She's Dot the Same"..screeech--*&66&%sorry folks that was "She's Not the Same" lol....
Conjecture in jest arose from the ranks as to: "those yellow dots may mean something different"., and also a reminder/question to me as to thinking I was going to change on ambiguous cases..my humour must have been poor , cause I made mention of running by ambiguities by a panel of wisemen, and in jest at that, cause if you thought these last 6 took a while, if we systematically ruled out ambiguity by peer-revue: 1. - They're be no-one left to play, and 2. It would take too long, and 3, I'd pass the deal LOL. No, -actually, the dots to the left and/or right, as RM reasoned, considerably cut down on the ambiguous cases, the other half is in the selection of clues,...but somewill still leak thru, hey its a game.... and I think its going fine with the dots now...really....
lol, but common -sense has prevailed, and for the record, as was the final interpretation, dot color doth not telleth a story...I've got thome hair on my tongue. And thank you's and apreciation go out to all the contestants who exhibited the patience, good taste, and sportmanship with such kind comments as deference to waiting for GEOman to make his rulings et al. Thank you. We'll knock Q's 109 - 114 out quick...
WELL DONE MY COLLEAGUES & ETYMOLOGICAL ACES !
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