I dunno, I think I would play your new version of Sudoku. Maybe it’s the Hope.
Ian R. Beste said:
(On November 10th, 2008 at 7:26 am)
Steve C.
…for some of us, it would be the human corpses.
Trevel said:
(On November 10th, 2008 at 7:41 am)
… for some of us, it would be both.
CortJstr said:
(On November 10th, 2008 at 10:40 am)
“I don’t…what does that even mean?” made the video for me.
Rob J said:
(On November 10th, 2008 at 12:58 pm)
Excellent. The “hope” came as a genuine surprise… really well put together, the whole thing. And I’m loving the new Lore Brand Lore.
Lore said:
(On November 10th, 2008 at 1:01 pm)
I think the new Lore Brand Lore is just Lore. I think Lore Brand Lore is the bald one with the sunglasses. I kind of want to use Lore Brand Lore in an upcoming video, but it seems like it might be confusing. Maybe I should rename him.
macuga said:
(On November 11th, 2008 at 1:12 am)
This was great. The funniest part was a nonverbal one–that bit in “misunderstood word puzzles” where your smile changes into a scowl. I’ve seen this part 5 times now, and it still makes me laugh.
DaveMc said:
(On November 11th, 2008 at 6:43 am)
I’m with you on the foolish word puzzles like the “the alphabet” one. Grr.
Related peeve: “lateral thinking” puzzles. I saw one recently where the answer to why the two men passed out after drinking cold beer when they wouldn’t have if they’d drank warm ones was . . . they were in a cave, and they’d cooled the beer with dry ice, which naturally turned back into gaseous carbon dioxide and made them pass out. Well, obviously, that’s . . . wait, freakin’ WHAT? That’s beyond lateral, that’s “thinking” at right angles to all known dimensional axes.
Awesome. Love the nine things to put in Farmer Sudoku’s field. “Rutabaga” is just fun to say, and who doesn’t like a portable television?
I do think you missed an opportunity to make fun of Marilyn vos Savant, but have to confess that I’m not sure how that would have worked.
Lore said:
(On November 11th, 2008 at 7:59 am)
“While Marilyn vos Savant may test well, in practice she comes across as about 98% less astute than Click and Clack.”
ham said:
(On November 12th, 2008 at 1:15 am)
Instead of ‘Lore Brand Lore’: Classic Lore? Ancient Lore? Forgotten Lore?
Sorry, people made fun of my name in third grade too.
Meredith said:
(On November 12th, 2008 at 5:18 pm)
Cartoon Lore w/hair = “Lore Brand-style representative Lore” perhaps? Or, in the tradition of acronymizing everything, “LBSRL,” which really rolls off the tongue.
P.S. – Ham, I hope you someday own everyone who ever made fun of your name in third grade.
Pseudonym said:
(On November 12th, 2008 at 7:48 pm)
In case anyone was curious, the word arithmetic thingy has the following solutions:
Whenever someone asks me a difficult question, I respond “Um, the doctor was his mother, and Wednesday was the horse’s name”, to quote two well known logic puzzles.
I dunno, I think I would play your new version of Sudoku. Maybe it’s the Hope.
Steve C.
…for some of us, it would be the human corpses.
… for some of us, it would be both.
“I don’t…what does that even mean?” made the video for me.
Excellent. The “hope” came as a genuine surprise… really well put together, the whole thing. And I’m loving the new Lore Brand Lore.
I think the new Lore Brand Lore is just Lore. I think Lore Brand Lore is the bald one with the sunglasses. I kind of want to use Lore Brand Lore in an upcoming video, but it seems like it might be confusing. Maybe I should rename him.
This was great. The funniest part was a nonverbal one–that bit in “misunderstood word puzzles” where your smile changes into a scowl. I’ve seen this part 5 times now, and it still makes me laugh.
I’m with you on the foolish word puzzles like the “the alphabet” one. Grr.
Related peeve: “lateral thinking” puzzles. I saw one recently where the answer to why the two men passed out after drinking cold beer when they wouldn’t have if they’d drank warm ones was . . . they were in a cave, and they’d cooled the beer with dry ice, which naturally turned back into gaseous carbon dioxide and made them pass out. Well, obviously, that’s . . . wait, freakin’ WHAT? That’s beyond lateral, that’s “thinking” at right angles to all known dimensional axes.
Your comments on “misunderstood word puzzles” reminded me of this excellent XKCD strip.
Awesome. Love the nine things to put in Farmer Sudoku’s field. “Rutabaga” is just fun to say, and who doesn’t like a portable television?
I do think you missed an opportunity to make fun of Marilyn vos Savant, but have to confess that I’m not sure how that would have worked.
“While Marilyn vos Savant may test well, in practice she comes across as about 98% less astute than Click and Clack.”
Instead of ‘Lore Brand Lore’: Classic Lore? Ancient Lore? Forgotten Lore?
Sorry, people made fun of my name in third grade too.
Cartoon Lore w/hair = “Lore Brand-style representative Lore” perhaps? Or, in the tradition of acronymizing everything, “LBSRL,” which really rolls off the tongue.
P.S. – Ham, I hope you someday own everyone who ever made fun of your name in third grade.
In case anyone was curious, the word arithmetic thingy has the following solutions:
27396-1744
29607-3955
29640-3988
30674-5022
30718-5066
31752-6100
31807-6155
31829-6177
32896-7244
32918-7266
32940-7288
34107-8455
34129-8477
35174-9522
35218-9566
35240-9588
Whenever someone asks me a difficult question, I respond “Um, the doctor was his mother, and Wednesday was the horse’s name”, to quote two well known logic puzzles.
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