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Apostrophes help you alot. I solved the following puzzle with no letters: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ' _ _ _ _ _ Category was "Thing". (Err, formatting isn't helpin

• zzzeek 16y ago
  fisherman's knot ?
  • shasta 16y ago
    Nope
    • tjr 16y ago
      I find it interesting that most of the guesses to this puzzle here are perfectly valid solutions; they do fit the pattern, but they just aren't he solution that you have in mind. And there's no reliable way to take the puzzle as given and arrive at your solution; it would have to be a matter of guessing the one of the multiple possible solutions that happens to be correct.
• Timothee 16y ago
  I thought I had "beginner's luck", but it wasn't since it wasn't ;)
• jcl 16y ago
  "Yesterday's news"?
  • shasta 16y ago
    That's a good guess, but no, that wasn't it. I guess I was just really lucky that the right thing popped into my head :) SPOILER: .--. .. -. --- -.-. -.-. .... .. --- ... -. --- ... .
    • eru 16y ago
      For the lazy: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!wolfram+.--.+..+-.+---+-.-.+-.-.+....+..+---+...+-.+---+...+ http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!wolfram+.--.+..+-.+---+-.-.+-.-.+.....
      • pbhjpbhj 16y ago
        I find your choice of link interesting. Presumably you didn't write it by hand as you'd use duckgo.com then I suspect. So, why not provide the terminal page URL instead of this forwarding page? http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=.--.%20..%20-.%20---%20-.-.%20-.-.%20....%20..%20---%20...%20-.%20---%20.. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=.--.%20..%20-.%20---%20.... It's particularly curious because the page you give is an automated redirect and you'd have to stop the page loading to copy the link. Just curious.
        • eru 16y ago
          I wanted to show off duckduckgo's bang syntax. I set it as my default search engine in Chrome, and it first I kept going to Google manually for specific searches where duckduckgo isn't good enough, yet. But after I learned that "!g <search>" would do that for me with less hassle, I grew much happier with duckduckgo. By the way, a prefix of !hn defers to searchyc.com. There's a list at http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html
          • pbhjpbhj 16y ago
            I was aware of the bang syntax - just if you manually wrote out the URL I expected you to use "dukgo.com/?q=!wa ..-.." or whatever rather than a long handed version. Personally I use "wa" as a search keyword and then enter "wa ..-.." into my address bar.
            • eru 16y ago
              I used copy-and-paste, and had to be quite nimble, to be faster than the re-direct.
• jcl 16y ago
  "Policeman's beat?"
  • shasta 16y ago
    No
• jimmyk 16y ago
  carpenter's tool?
  • shasta 16y ago
    No. I will say that the solution is more notable than of the guesses thus far, with the possible exception of "yesterday's news"
• pigbucket 16y ago
  It's either a telephone's ring Or Microsoft's bing or a fisherman's nets or the president's pets or a ballerina's toes or (something that grows when dishonesty flows) Pinocchio's nose?
  • shasta 16y ago
    > Pinocchio's nose Bing
    • bfung 16y ago
      In an attempt to solve, took bigrams from http://blog.afterthedeadline.com/2010/07/20/after-the-deadline-bigram-corpus-our-gift-to-you/ http://blog.afterthedeadline.com/2010/07/20/after-the-deadli... and ended up these top 10 entries: Schindler's List 33 president's plan 32 Microsoft's Xbox 26 yesterday's post 17 boatswain's mate 16 highlight's from 16 <-- need to include only nouns Elizabeth's time 16 Wednesday's show 13 Microsoft's IPTV 11 The answer didn't appear in the corpus, but there was 1 entry for Pinocchio nose <-- no apostrophe and 's' Looks like i need a bigger corpus and more data scrubbing, there must've been something else that tipped you off before or during the show...
      • shasta 16y ago
        > there must've been something else that tipped you off before or during the show... Not that I recall, but maybe so.
  • Timothee 16y ago
    You're Dr. Seuss's ghostwriter, right?