FAO mamyalynne

[quinie]

I received the new Rainbow Quiz "Exercise the Extremities" yesterday.It's a wonderful,challenging one and in a very good cause. I noticed you recommended it in Chatterbank but I was surprised to see it's not in the Quiz List on this site.I just wondered if there was any reason perhaps for this.

[Flyhalf]

Ah, Goofy. I now see you didn't have 84. Did the name clue help, if you hadn't found it in the meantime?

[Goofy]

no and no!

[Flyhalf]

O ring (nothing to do with plumbing)

[Goofy]

Umm - not sure I really like that. There's also a Greta ring, but I don't like that either.
However, that's what I'll put (the O) until I can come up with something better.

[Gandolf34]

Down to the last 3 (I think) - any clues on 79, 88 or 96? Saw the potential headset reference on the last, but hasn't got me there!

[Flyhalf]

I still have 17 to go!
79 will put you on the back foot (with something you might put an O ring in).
Struggling with 88, my 96 works if the chaplain is a rector.

Goofy, subtract O form Garbo and find a synonym.

[dougglos]

BIGJACK - "Just before fifty" is forty-nine. Use alternative word for one of the people mentioned in 49. Same word means "comfortable", or indeed "warm and snug"!! Hope this helps. (And thanks for your guidance re 84 - now finished and posted!!) Regards.

[p-potter]

Gandolf-34 A short abbreviation of chaplain should start you off. Can anyone give me a hint for 40. I've racked my brains but am getting nowhere.

[p-potter]

Gandolf-34 I meant to say for 96.I don't think 'rector' comes into it.

[Lie-in King]

Closing date 30th November...

[maurice]

Well said, Lie-In King! I thought we had an agreement on both forums not to start revealing so much so long before the closing date? Seems people are ignoring that completely here & elsewhere, much to the detriment,I suspect, of the charity involved. Or are there other opinions? I've learned to restrain myself!btw I realize we've been through all this before more than once. Just a wee reminder!

[martysgirl]

P potter look up a not very well known poem by a famous english poet with an equally famous wife. you'll find the answer in there.

[martysgirl]

Maurice I think you were one of the first to ask for clues to 40

[Flyhalf]

Sorrreeeeee.
Got carried away, at relieving frustration, and then trying to repay a good turn.

[p-potter]

Thank you Martysgirl. I don't think I'd ever have got there without help. I love working out the answers myself but there's a limit to how long you can try without feeling really frustrated.

[maurice]

@ Martysgirl: that's exactly why I have come to realize it's not wise in the long run: if you remember, the answer was soon found, but not in front of thousands of possible other competitors; and at that point I couldn't imagine a veritable flood of requests plus answers would follow so quickly. We really might as well publish the whole damn thing now, what with the other answers already given -- and still being given -- on the other forum,too! Don't you think that in this case at least things have gone much too far? It's not a sign of weakness, afterf all, to modify your opinion!

[Flyhalf]

Actually, between us we have only discussed 8 questions (coincidentally the number I still have to work out).
Admirable restraint, I'd say.

[maurice]

Then there must be something wrong with one of our counting systems! I was referring to both forums together; maybe that's half the answer. The only statistical mistake I can discover is the figure of 91 days I mentioned on the other channel, I think: should read 71 (to go) of course. But that was a genuine "tippo".
Anyway glad to hear of the new spirit of RESTRAINT! Don't want this disagreement to go on for ever: the arguments are naturally innumerable.And anyone who can't bear the suffering any longer can now consult a RELATIVELY long list of answers at that OTHER PLACE. OK ???

[martysgirl]

maurice and all others involved in this discussion/argument. I agree that it is ridiculous what has happened on the other site, someone has published the whole quiz with every answer he has got. That is a real shame although I don't think it affects the amount of money raised - surely people will still send at least £5 when they post if off? If not I'm losing my faith in human nature. I have asked for a couple of hints, and still have seventeen to solve; they are probably some of the most obvious to other people but not to me! It is such a great quiz, even though it keeps me awake at night and I then curse it. I worry that the compilers will give up on it but don't think they will as long as the money keeps pouring in for all the wonderfully deserving charities they select.

[Flyhalf]

What other place are we talking about here?