Only Connect (BBC4) [Part 2]

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Yo Omars Comin

07-01-2016

Originally Posted by Supratad:
“Yes, yes it would, because it IS the right answer.
People have often been accused of taking things too seriously in this thread, and here was a prime example.

I quoted the previous answer and topic of Steps. Their debut hit was called 5,6,7,8, it was a very simple, deliberately low-brow question about a fluffy, pop band.”

I thought the person who gave 9 as the answer was the person who asked the question. My apologies.

I have got no idea what's going on.

Supratad

07-01-2016

Originally Posted by Paul_DNAP:
“You do realise that with the current trend, there's a danger VCM will make you sing it !!

All together now "My boot scootin' baby is drivin' me crazy.....etc.”

I couldn't help singing it while typing. What was really scary was just how easily I knew all the words.

ClarkF1

07-01-2016

Originally Posted by The_Bonobo:
“How about 15? Convert the following number to text and count the amount of letters, then take it away from the earlier number (as a number). So 6 has 3 letters, take it away from 5, it makes "2". Then 5 letters in 7 from 6 is "1". So the last number is the first to have 7 letters so that it makes zero. That would be 15. You can't get it on the first clue but that is sometimes the case. Confused?

What is the next in this sequence...?

GR GL ZNBY
T MTH YD LTN
PR CBRS NN
???”

You left out RG RMR and strictly speaking SNCN NRY

The_Bonobo

07-01-2016

Originally Posted by Yo Omars Comin:
“I thought the person who gave 9 as the answer was the person who asked the question. My apologies.

I have got no idea what's going on.”

BIB Is that not the point of OC?

Originally Posted by ClarkF1:
“You left out RG RMR and strictly speaking SNCN NRY”

Oh man! I had Mre initially and thought I had missed Lznby so changed it. Now I realize it should have stayed Mre as I had got mixed up with the order.

I skipped Cnnry etc. so that the missing one was the current person.

JeffG1

07-01-2016

But Mre has a vowel!!

MJR FL.

The_Bonobo

07-01-2016

Originally Posted by JeffG1:
“But Mre has a vowel!!

MJR FL.”

Haha

To be fair it was RG RMR in the original version, I just wasn't paying attention in the post there. Oh well, one mistake after another. Hands up.

Sarahsaurus

08-01-2016

On the James Bond question that was posted on here, the first three were (I'll just type them normally to make it easier)

George Lazenby
Timothy Dalton
Pierce Brosnan.

Because Roger Moore was missing I took the question to mean the number of Bond films they had done.

Lazenby only did one, Dalton two and Brosnan four. So the next in the sequence is Daniel Craig,also with four.

I think I got the right answer for the wrong reason.

This might even be a Gettier counterexample...

Sarahsaurus

08-01-2016

Originally Posted by Paul_DNAP:
“You do realise that with the current trend, there's a danger VCM will make you sing it !!

All together now "My boot scootin' baby is drivin' me crazy.....etc.”

I much prefer going Eskimo and breathing underwater.

The_Bonobo

08-01-2016

Originally Posted by Sarahsaurus:
“On the James Bond question that was posted on here, the first three were (I'll just type them normally to make it easier)

George Lazenby
Timothy Dalton
Pierce Brosnan.

Because Roger Moore was missing I took the question to mean the number of Bond films they had done.

Lazenby only did one, Dalton two and Brosnan four. So the next in the sequence is Daniel Craig,also with four.

I think I got the right answer for the wrong reason.

This might even be a Gettier counterexample...”

Well done! You spotted the real connection, that I meant all the time. Honest. I know I was suggesting something different earlier but that was all a bluff. So actually I didn't mess it up at all. I also deliberately left a vowel in the earlier post as a test. All is well and I have not failed after all. Thanks Sarah for the get out, erm I mean spotting what I meant the whole time.

atg

09-01-2016

If two are level on 4 then it isn't a sequence, is it?

jonbwfc

09-01-2016

Originally Posted by atg:
“If two are level on 4 then it isn't a sequence, is it?”

I'd imagine the show was recorded before SPECTRE was released. At that point, Craig had only 'done' three Bond films - Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall.

So the sequence is Lazenby - Dalton - Craig - Brosnan

atg

09-01-2016

Originally Posted by jonbwfc:
“I'd imagine the show was recorded before SPECTRE was released. At that point, Craig had only 'done' three Bond films - Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall.

So the sequence is Lazenby - Dalton - Craig - Brosnan”

It wasn't one from a show.

ClarkF1

10-01-2016

Along the same theme:

SMMN DS
LWSGL BRT
GYHM LTN

Heston Veston

10-01-2016

Originally Posted by ClarkF1:
“Along the same theme:

SMMN DS
LWSGL BRT
GYHM LTN”

JH NGLN?

Yo Omars Comin

11-01-2016

Disappointed the Yorkers didn't win. I liked them.

"When is Snoop Dogg known as Snoopzilla?"
"When he's terrorising the streets of downtown Tokyo."

That deserved a round of applause, not that other guy's version of Ernie the Fastest Milkman.

madri_leno

11-01-2016

Photo finish was a good one for the tiebreaker ..very apt. Victoria looking beautiful tonight too

madri_leno

11-01-2016

Originally Posted by Yo Omars Comin:
“Disappointed the Yorkers didn't win. I liked them.

"When is Snoop Dogg know as Snoopzilla?"
"When he's terrorising the streetgs of downtown Tokyo."

That deserved a round of applause, not that other guy's version of Ernie the Tastes Milkman.”

Yeah was good

Foxy Rhino

11-01-2016

Originally Posted by madri_leno:
“Photo finish was a good one for the tiebreaker ..very apt. Victoria looking beautiful tonight too”

The tiebreakers tend to be loosely connected to the situation (last week's was fastest finger first IIRC)

madri_leno

11-01-2016

Originally Posted by Foxy Rhino:
“The tiebreakers tend to be loosely connected to the situation (last week's was fastest finger first IIRC)”

Ahh didn't see that..very good

Kapellmeister

11-01-2016

Originally Posted by Yo Omars Comin:
“Disappointed the Yorkers didn't win.”

I think we all are. The Wayfarers are unbearable

Jim_Ula

11-01-2016

Originally Posted by Kapellmeister:
“I think we all are. The Wayfarers are unbearable ”

Well one of them certainly is

JBO

11-01-2016

Victoria should have been corrected on that "Repeated 5,4,3 and 2 times" sequence.

It actually should have been "Repeated 4,3,2 and 1 time"

ClarkF1

12-01-2016

Originally Posted by Heston Veston:
“JH NGLN?”

Correct. Bond directors in increasing number of films they directed. He also edited three.

Rosebuddy

12-01-2016

Was that Desert Island Discs/ PM music connection even remotely capable of being guessed at ?

Thrasymachus

12-01-2016

Does the female member of the Wayfarers ever smile?

I've never seen such a miserable looking woman

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