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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2014 13:03:37 GMT -5
It's not a lime, actually, although Alice would also like limes.
One of the pictured entities has a less familiar, archaic name, by which Alice would like it were she less inclined to refer to it by the name she doesn't like. giraffe/camelopard?
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Feb 5, 2014 13:05:02 GMT -5
camelopard? For the giraffe?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2014 13:06:39 GMT -5
according to the interwebz! You think I knew that off the top of my head? remembering "camelopard" has "weak brain cell" written all over it!
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Post by Lizard King on Feb 5, 2014 13:12:07 GMT -5
You really are that kind of student, beerwench. Digging the plaid skirt, too.
Yours not so much, Virgil, but correctimundo anyway
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Feb 5, 2014 13:30:16 GMT -5
It shouldn't actually qualify (it has two adjacent consonants), unless my rule description is wrong.
Try this one:
Beer likes lions but not herons; she likes pears but not plums; she likes chimps but not ravens; she likes lemons but not apples.
Name one other food and animal that Beer likes.
Name one other food and animal that Beer doesn't like.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2014 13:34:16 GMT -5
Mr Morrison is across the pond. Maybe they spell it "camelopaerd"?
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Post by Lizard King on Feb 5, 2014 13:51:41 GMT -5
No, he's just a dummy
I could try to rewrite the proposed rule, but actually I was just being dumb.
As for Virgil's rather more thought-out iteration...
I suspect she likes snow leopards and papaya.
I doubt she likes camels or watermelons.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Feb 5, 2014 15:32:34 GMT -5
No, he's just a dummy
I could try to rewrite the proposed rule, but actually I was just being dumb.
As for Virgil's rather more thought-out iteration...
I suspect she likes snow leopards and papaya.
I doubt she likes camels or watermelons. She likes snow and papaya. Not leopards, camels, or watermelons. I'm curious about what rule you came up with.
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Post by Lizard King on Feb 5, 2014 15:35:37 GMT -5
Oh, there's supposed to be a rule?
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Feb 5, 2014 15:39:25 GMT -5
It shouldn't actually qualify (it has two adjacent consonants), unless my rule description is wrong. Try this one: Beer likes lions but not herons; she likes pears but not plums; she likes chimps but not ravens; she likes lemons but not apples. Name one other food and animal that Beer likes. Name one other food and animal that Beer doesn't like. I know that Beer likes Bananas and Cucumbers and probably horses too.
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Post by Lizard King on Feb 5, 2014 15:39:58 GMT -5
By the way, what's the odd one out among these:
Snow leopard, wolverine, Eurasian wren, magpie, common pipistrelle, Lammergeyer
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Post by Lizard King on Feb 5, 2014 15:40:23 GMT -5
It shouldn't actually qualify (it has two adjacent consonants), unless my rule description is wrong. Try this one: Beer likes lions but not herons; she likes pears but not plums; she likes chimps but not ravens; she likes lemons but not apples. Name one other food and animal that Beer likes. Name one other food and animal that Beer doesn't like. I know that Beer like Bananas and Cucumbers and probably horses too. No fair drawing on personal experience.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Feb 5, 2014 15:48:37 GMT -5
By the way, what's the odd one out among these:
Snow leopard, wolverine, Eurasian wren, magpie, common pipistrelle, Lammergeyer Snow leopard is the only one that's unfathomably evil. Other than that, I got nothin'. Can wolverines fly?
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Post by Lizard King on Feb 5, 2014 15:49:22 GMT -5
If you load them in a catapult.
Fairly briefly, it must be said.
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Post by Lizard King on Feb 5, 2014 15:50:19 GMT -5
You're also underestimating the Machiavellian wickedness of the common pipistrelle, but in any case there's not an ounce of truth in the assertion that snow leopards are the outlier among that group.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Feb 5, 2014 15:53:04 GMT -5
It shouldn't actually qualify (it has two adjacent consonants), unless my rule description is wrong. Try this one: Beer likes lions but not herons; she likes pears but not plums; she likes chimps but not ravens; she likes lemons but not apples. Name one other food and animal that Beer likes. Name one other food and animal that Beer doesn't like. I know that Beer likes Bananas and Cucumbers and probably horses too. Beer likes fruits and animals whose consonants appear in sorted lexicographic order. Hence she likes koalas ('k', 'l', 's' appear in order), but not kangaroos ('k', 'n', 'g', 'r', 's' are not in order). She likes a carrot ('c', 'r', 'r', 't' appear in order) and celery ('c', 'l', 'r', 'y' appear in order), but not peaches ('p', 'c', 'h', 's' are not in order).
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Feb 5, 2014 16:03:10 GMT -5
You're also underestimating the Machiavellian wickedness of the common pipistrelle, but in any case there's not an ounce of truth in the assertion that snow leopards are the outlier among that group. OK fine. They were all loyal to either the beasts or the birds in that one Aesop's fable, except for the pipistrelle who was an opportunistic double agent. When the birds and the beasts made peace, ol' pipi became a pariah. That makes him unique. Q.E.D.
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Post by Lizard King on Feb 5, 2014 16:05:41 GMT -5
Except that that was Savi's pipistrelle, a pipistrelle of a different color, so to speak.
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Post by Lizard King on Feb 5, 2014 16:07:30 GMT -5
If it helps, the long-legged bat would also not be an odd one out.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Feb 5, 2014 16:16:15 GMT -5
The vulture is the only carrion eater. Is he the odd one out? If not, I'll give up and let somebody else shoot in the dark. Something to do with the length of their legs? But I see nothing exceptional.
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Post by Lizard King on Feb 5, 2014 16:17:21 GMT -5
Snow leopards eat carrion. As does the Spotted Hyena, who would also not be out of place on this list.
Something to do with the length of their legs? The Klipspringer has very short little legs, as does the hamster - both would be included on this list.
The black-winged stilt is named for its unusually long legs, and would also be included.
You're actually right that the Bearded Vulture is the odd one out, but why?
The beard doesn't matter - the Bearded Manakin would make this list, for example, as would the Red-backed Bearded Saki (although the Brown-backed Bearded Saki, obviously, wouldn't).
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Feb 5, 2014 16:19:17 GMT -5
Snow leopards eat carrion. As does the Spotted Hyena, who would also not be out of place on this list. They can. So could all of the animals on the list. But they ordinarily hunt for food. The vulture is the only exclusive carrion feeder.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Feb 5, 2014 16:21:19 GMT -5
Are they all spotted except for one?
But wolverines don't have spots, and neither do wrens. Or the vulture.
I give up.
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Post by Lizard King on Feb 5, 2014 16:23:13 GMT -5
I could replace the Lammergeyer with a Bewick's Swan, or for that matter our old friend the giraffe, and it would still be the odd one out. Although the giraffe would be closer to inclusion than the other two.
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Post by Lizard King on Feb 5, 2014 16:25:19 GMT -5
Nil desperandum.
Dum vita est, spes est.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Feb 5, 2014 16:30:25 GMT -5
Snow leopards eat carrion. As does the Spotted Hyena, who would also not be out of place on this list.
Something to do with the length of their legs? The Klipspringer has very short little legs, as does the hamster - both would be included on this list.
The black-winged stilt is named for its unusually long legs, and would also be included.
You're actually right that the Bearded Vulture is the odd one out, but why?
The beard doesn't matter - the Bearded Manakin would make this list, for example, as would the Red-backed Bearded Saki (although the Brown-backed Bearded Saki, obviously, wouldn't).
So... it does have something to do with colour (black-winged stilt)... but it doesn't (Brown-backed Bearded Saki). It does have something to do with the length of legs... but it doesn't. None of the animals have a consistent colour. The vulture isn't brown, so it can't be the odd one out on that account. I'm sure as heck not going to look up species names, so if it has something to do with that, I'm out. I'm also not going to look up the names in other languages, so I'm out there too. Might have something to do with which ones are national birds/animals, which I'm not going to look up. It obviously doesn't have anything to do with the specific name, since you're using "bearded vulture" interchangeably with "Lammergeier". That's the trouble with these kinds of problems. I could come up with 1,000 characteristics unique to the vulture. Gimme a hint.
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Post by Lizard King on Feb 5, 2014 16:31:50 GMT -5
#837 is practically a road map.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Feb 5, 2014 16:33:25 GMT -5
Narrow it down. What am I looking for?
Some characteristic of the word?
Some feature the animal has?
Some feature it lacks?
How can something be "closer to" inclusion if it's a binary rule?
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Post by Lizard King on Feb 5, 2014 16:35:52 GMT -5
The jujube would be even closer than the giraffe, without earning inclusion by strict criteria.
ETA: Actually, that's out of date. Since 2011, it's been off the list altogether. Prior to that, it was so close.
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Post by chiver78 on Feb 5, 2014 16:37:50 GMT -5
There's a few more I can suggest:
6 E on the J in a P of C 9 P on a B T 76 T in the B P 57 V of H Varieties of Heinz ketchup
9 C in the F of the R 206 B in the H B Bones in the Human Body
8 M in the H P F 7 B in the C of N 35 out of 97 P and C K in the H D 99 R B Red Balloons
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