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djjdfarmhound: best not to take clue help *too* literally- cept this one: mac is in funky town. Example: 'suits you' not like kind warn by Wayne Newton. (2:09 PM)
djjdfarmhound: THOUGH I GOT NOTHIN AGAINST MR. WAYNE NEWTWON OR ANY OF HIS UNDERWORLD CONNECTIONS. (2:10 PM)
djjdfarmhound: Now you are kicking ass #6 group! Not 100% accurate, but in the right ballpark. (2:16 PM)
djjdfarmhound: or better phrased: close enough for rock and roll. Now, back to work on 10 for adhn. (2:23 PM)
djjdfarmhound: best not to take clue help *too* literally- cept this one: mac is in funky town. Example: 'suits you' not like kind warn by Wayne Newton. (2:09 PM)
djjdfarmhound: THOUGH I GOT NOTHIN AGAINST MR. WAYNE NEWTWON OR ANY OF HIS UNDERWORLD CONNECTIONS. (2:10 PM)
djjdfarmhound: Now you are kicking ass #6 group! Not 100% accurate, but in the right ballpark. (2:16 PM)
djjdfarmhound: or better phrased: close enough for rock and roll. Now, back to work on 10 for adhn. (2:23 PM)
I'm assuming that the first two are referring to Las Vegas (Wayne Newton, his underworld connections, mentioning suits (cards). What places in Las Vegas are abbreviated as "mac"?
I was at lunch when I got the third and I was assuming that I was going to come back to find #6 solved but it doesn't appear that there has been any resolution yet.
The only takeaway I have from the last one is that it is likely to be jumbled in order. (adhn = hand, aka Farmhand) I know that there's something to be gained from "close enough for rock and roll" but I've got nothing.
Post by nodepression on Jan 24, 2009 17:19:08 GMT -5
Well a google search turned up mac cosmetics in Las Vegas. So far the killers haven't been ruled out for clue six, could it maybe be them? The only tie I have is them to las vegas though.
Well a google search turned up mac cosmetics in Las Vegas. So far the killers haven't been ruled out for clue six, could it maybe be them? The only tie I have is them to las vegas though.
Well a google search turned up mac cosmetics in Las Vegas. So far the killers haven't been ruled out for clue six, could it maybe be them? The only tie I have is them to las vegas though.
They both wear a mask of sorts (him and strongbad) though we aren't meant to take strongbad literally. If you drop "more than half" of strongbad you get simply bad. Put that togethre with help and you get bad help. Bad Help, BucketHead. I'm sure I've suggested wilder guesses.
Post by plasticpepper on Jan 25, 2009 15:07:11 GMT -5
Hmm, he referenced cheese and onions last year too....iirc I think it was just his way of saying "do I have to spell it out?" (like in the song) rather than the clue actually having anything to do with the Rutles. Although the other tweet would seem to say maybe it DOES have something to do with the Rutles since we're using another song too.
But I'm thinking cheese and onions is just trying to tell us that something about that is fairly obvious...I dunno.
Post by notdarkyet on Jan 25, 2009 15:26:56 GMT -5
evolutionary ******* = evolutionary biology? same number of letters as stars and is widely debated whether it is a proper theory or rather scientific law (hence: definitely, arguably)
Post by designdiva96 on Jan 25, 2009 15:29:41 GMT -5
I don't know if these guys would qualify as a beatles tribute group, lol, but they are from South Africa and Jambase is all about them in their January newsletter....
You will soon be hearing much more from BLK JKS . Rising from the streets of Johannesburg, South Africa, they’ve been called “dub-metal,” “Afro-punk,” “post-Afrobeat” and you might be able to consider them some sort of slammed together amalgamation of TV on the Radio, Yeasayer, Liquid Liquid and Fela. But those are just boxes for writers and publicists to wrap up ideas beyond our normal lexicon. Like anything genuinely new and groundbreaking, there are no easy words to describe BLK JKS. You’d be far better served to just light one up and let the shifting silver beats, huge guitars, minor chord drones, and psychedelic bombast wash across your dome.
Post by plasticpepper on Jan 25, 2009 15:33:49 GMT -5
I don't know of any from South Africa (or anywhere in Africa, for that matter) - I know one from Japan, and another one that I think might be from Sweden, but that's about it for unusual countries.
I don't think that's really the way to go with this clue anyway. Still think cheese and onions just means "do I have to spell it out?"