Done

easy :)

hi all

done!

Also done after couple guesses

done, greens make thinks a whole heap easier.

done, that was a good puzzle!!

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done

Can't get to first base on the 10/8 puzzle. Gotta be the toughest one in the archives.

10/8... i can take a look and give you a Super Duper Coded Hurshy Clue if you want

Hi Hurshey,

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I'll be your pal for life.

alright, pick out a square that you'd like to know what goes in it and tell me what row and column.

OK. give me a moment more...

Row 7, Column 4 ?

very well, in a few minutes you will have your very own custom designed clue

Rule out 6,8,9,5,1, and 4. Does that help, Hurshy?

lol, no, that is unnecessary

(waiting with baited breath...)

the number you seek is: the number of geese a-laying times the number of wise men minus the number of horsemen of the apocalypse divided by the number of people that played becky on roseanne

and, um, in case you are interested, you actually had bated breath.

what a creative clue. I'm overwhelmed.

hi

oh, that is the nature of all Super Duper Coded Hurshy Clues. it is fun and prevents people who don't want clues from accidentally seeing them.

hey chebuc

unfortuately I don't watch roseanne. My loss. Bated breath?

not, i suppose, that secrecy is as necessary on a 2 month old puzzle as on the current one

yes, bated breath. if you have got up to the roseanne part, well, you can probably guess what the answer is :)

I always thought it was baited, like a worm on a hook. Isn't bated short for abate?

if you ate a mint to try to get a girl to kiss you, that might be baited breath. if you are eagerly awaiting something, you have bated breath.

Gotcha. What if I'm waiting for both? Spearmint usually works. lol

but yes, it is related to abate. i guess the idea is that you are having trouble breathing cause you are so anxious?

baited bated breath, eh? that is amusing.

and if you're waiting for a kiss, that's a bated baited date.

did you figure your square? it has to be one of two things once you get to roseanne, and which number do you think there would be playing one character on a show?

I just remember the 3 wise men from Amahl and the Night Visitor.

Will look it up the others later, but thank you for the unique clue. (not eunoch) clue. lol

pretty much anything i put in a SDCHC is googleable, too.

i try to pick things that are relatively common knowledge and/or easy to find out on the internet.

you do it very well, I might add.

oh, thank you. i didn't think that one was my best work, but i'm glad you like it. :)

Are you in New England, by the way?

yes indeedy

small world! SE Mass. here

i love new england, have always lived in this corner of the world

You probably gathered that Bri413 and I work for the same company

mmm... no, who is Bri413

i had only just got here when you mentioned your 10/8 troubles.

Brianna - she's working her way up through the Regulars, close to 200 or so now.

ah, that is nice. it's nice when you can get your friends and coworkers addicted to the same things you are addicted to. :)

We work for a company called Cambridge Eye Doctors. Yep, I told her about the website. She's hooked, too.

i have always thought it would be nice to work with eye doctors. or dentists. i don't know why.

You'll be showered with respect and good colleagues, if not money.

lol

Dentists have their tooth fairy. We need an eye fairy.

so that when your eyeball pops out you leave it under your pillow in exchange for a quarter?

Right. Or if you've had lasik and the flap comes off, it can go under the pillow. lol

lasik is laser eye surgery, what is the flap?

The surgeon makes a flap on the cornea, lasers the corneal stroma, and replaces the flap so everything heals nicely.

sounds delightfully disgusting

that's an oxymoron!

Lasers are used sometimes to treat glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy.

not necessarily... oscar the grouch would enjoy beautiful trash

it all depends on your point of view

and your point of view depends on how well the surgeon has done your lasik, so the argument has come full circle

and his friend Kermit is still trying to get used to the color green. Maybe that's where these greenies come from??

from Kermit's bated or baited breath? lol

you're so naive - kermit's insecurity was just a pose - none of these big-time musicians MEAN what they sing - trust me, that frog was laughing all the way to the bank.

You mean money is the object to everything? (accent on the ob, not the ject).

well, for celebrities, it is clearly important, or they would not sacrifice their privacy for it.

would YOU want everyone to know YOU were in love with a narcissistic pig?

Their agents, too. Look at the new Red Sox pitcher, Daiske Matzos something.

hmm, i do not know anything about that. i find baseball unutterably boring, and therefore do not pay any attention to it.

You make a good point about the pig.

i always make good points about pigs.

Why, I've never known you to be a poor pigpointer.

*gravely* thank you. i do tend to win all the pig-related debates in my debate society.

And in doing so I expect you to bring home the bacon.

sadly, there is not a lot of money in debate, unless you go into politics, where the goal is not to make good points, but to be sufficiently vague that everyone vaguely likes you.

even then, there is only money if you engage in pork-barrel politics.

Yes, if you go into politics, you can't sty at home and be loinly.

lol

our last debate was about whether pigs have wings. the one before that was about sealing wax, which was preceded by one about shoes, and the one before that was something to do with ships.

there are some real ripsnorters coming up, on why the sea is boiling hot, cabbages, and kings.

I hope that the consensus was that pigs are wingless.

isn't a female pig called a sow?

it could not be settled due to the prevalence of references to "when pigs fly" - some felt that they must therefore have wings.

yes

yes, female pig is called a sow.

Can sows sew in snow?

Male pig is called what? (Careful)

i don't believe a sow can sew, nor sow, so...

a boar?

a male pig is called wilbur.

how boring... Wilbur?!

wilbur, boring?? no way - he's Some Pig!

/me rolls eyes

Besides, a boring pig can bore his way through the mud.

sorry moedog.

My education must be lacking if I never heard of Wilbur the Pig. Porky, yes, as well as Petunia.

wilbur... charlotte's web...

oh, ok. Never read Charlotte's website.

(just kidding)

she died afore the internet gave spiders a wider forum for their opinions.

the faaaaaair is a veeeeeritable smorgasbord orgasbord orgasbord.....

I see... By the way does an Arachnid have anything to do with Iraq? Is a spider in Baghdad called an Iraqi Arachnidi?

would they have a thoraxis of evil?

too funny....

funny? wait, i thought we were having a solemn discussion of important world affairs.

I do know that a mentally disturbed citizen of Iraq might be labelled a wacky Iraqi.

now now eyeman, that pun is tacky.

What's an important world affair these days?

whether susan will end up with mike or ian!

Don't watch that soap, but I think Ian. Just a hunch. Mike will find another girlfriend.

are you crazy???? ian may be easier to get along with, rich, charming, and have a sexy accent, but susan and mike... that's Destiny

I didn't know that. But Ian will attract someone more to his likiing, then. What's so special about Susan to Ian?

i mean so what if mike has killed some people and had some drug issues. he's clean now and he had good reasons for the killing bit.

what's special about susan... well, she's just one of those really adorable, clutzy, super-hot women that men have an instinct to protect.

what the heck are you guys talking about?

chebuc - i don't think eyeman actually knows :)

Must be a soap opera, Chebuc. I don't know whuch one.

see?

lol, it's Desperate Housewives.

aha :)

I see, said the eyeman.

but, you know, if ian's wife comes out of her coma... maybe he will feel differently.

how long is her comma? Ooops, coma.

3 years and counting

did he hit her on the head?

oh NO, of course not. ian wouldn't do such a thing!

orson, sure.

but not ian.

Did Susan and Ian's wife know each other?

nope

But since Ian's wife is unresponsive, Susan is the opposite, right?

susan and ian met because mike was in a coma too and they were both always at the hospital, ian visiting jane and susan visiting mike.

only now mike is out of his coma.

Will Mike ever meet Jane, even when she comes to?

highly unlikely.

So Susan and Ian need lots of attention.

not more so than anyone else...

everyone likes attention

while they're awake, anyway.

actually, i don't think that can be true, given the number of people who lurk but never chat on this site and on babble.

if they wanted attention, they would make nuisances of themselves, as i do.

yes, there are 37 of us online now watching us.

Good lurk to everyone.

oh is that all? on babble there are a lot more.

once in paris it suddenly began to pour. everyone rushed for the shelter of the awnings... so i danced in the streets and had paris to myself. lurkers miss all the fun. :)

I haven't figured babble out yet but should give it a try. But now I need to sign off and check e-mails. See you around the sudoku campus.

ttfn, eyeman - don't heed teddy roosevelt's advice, for i think a big stick would send the wrong message in your line of work.

I'm glad Paris had you alone for awhile!

I'm not worried - I examined FDR's grandson recently - Teddy's grand-nephew.

oooh, fancy

he had two eyes.

humph. i would expect more from a roosevelt.

OK, Ciao for now.

He was a svelte Roosevelt.

adios, au revoir, and the german one i can't spell!

:)

fathoms belo-ow, belo-ow, from whence wayward westerlies blow... where triton is king and his merpeople sing in mysterious fathoms below

ah, there now. that wasn't so hard, i was just plum distracted with all the chit-chat.

go

Difficulty 40. Not too bad with little green numbers. The most advance technique needed is region intersection analysis.

actually very easy once the little green men were added -- one pass through the grid revealed everything. I probably should have been able to get it without the greens, at that rate.