Conquer Club

btownmeggy wrote:Carne tremula; Live Flesh.

Now that it's out, can you please explain your "cryptic clue"?

Certainly. The clue was:

Taking elements of lithium have shortened muscle tissue


Lithium is a metallic element, the symbol for which is Li
"have" shortened in written form is ve. So there you have your first word live

Another name for "muscle tissue", flesh. Put it all together and you have...

Live Flesh

See easy when you know how!

lucifur wrote:

btownmeggy wrote:Carne tremula; Live Flesh.

Now that it's out, can you please explain your "cryptic clue"?

Certainly. The clue was:

Taking elements of lithium have shortened muscle tissue


Lithium is a metallic element, the symbol for which is Li
"have" shortened in written form is ve. So there you have your first word live

Another name for "muscle tissue", flesh. Put it all together and you have...

Live Flesh

See easy when you know how!

Good thing we didn't wait around for someone to figure that one out...

Skittles! wrote:

lucifur wrote:

heavycola wrote:On the waterfront

haha from obscure to easypeasy

I know but you gotta give the public what they want - even if they are too stupid to know what it is!

I still didn't know the other one you gave.
Don't call me stupid =(, just cause I haven't seen way too many movies.

I wasn't calling you or anyone else stupid for not knowing or having seen the movie. I was paraphrasing another quote I heard from somewhere about giving 'em what they want even though they don't know what it is they want yet - but for the life of me I can't remember where I originally heard it from!


Anyway as I said before that was the point of the cryptic clue - to give everyone, film buff or not, a fair chance to work it out.

One of my classic favorites:


Person A: I got a wife in Hoboken.
Person B: ...and San Pedro, and San Diego and Norfolk, Virginia.
Person A: That's right. You wouldn't want me to go up on a bigamy charge, would you?

btownmeggy wrote:

lucifur wrote:

btownmeggy wrote:Carne tremula; Live Flesh.

Now that it's out, can you please explain your "cryptic clue"?

Certainly. The clue was:

Taking elements of lithium have shortened muscle tissue


Lithium is a metallic element, the symbol for which is Li
"have" shortened in written form is ve. So there you have your first word live

Another name for "muscle tissue", flesh. Put it all together and you have...

Live Flesh

See easy when you know how!

Good thing we didn't wait around for someone to figure that one out...

Well I don't know what the cryptic crossword clues are like in American newspapers, but believe me compaired to the ones in the British broadsheet The Times, it was child's play!

Sackett58 wrote:One of my classic favorites:


Person A: I got a wife in Hoboken.
Person B: ...and San Pedro, and San Diego and Norfolk, Virginia.
Person A: That's right. You wouldn't want me to go up on a bigamy charge, would you?

Morman's gone wild?

Skittles! wrote:

Sackett58 wrote:One of my classic favorites:


Person A: I got a wife in Hoboken.
Person B: ...and San Pedro, and San Diego and Norfolk, Virginia.
Person A: That's right. You wouldn't want me to go up on a bigamy charge, would you?

Morman's gone wild?

nice one!

bumpissimo

Hint 2:


Person A: There's not much to tell. We got blown off our can... that's a destroyer, ended up here on the island. There was a big Jap base down there. So, we hid out back here in the hills... down in those caves. Tossed a few monkey wrenches into their machinery, threw 'em a few spitballs.

Person B: Hard to believe that war has ever been within a thousand miles of a place as peaceful as this.

Person A: Yeah, well, frangipani and flame-throwers don't seem to go together, but that's the way it was.

The rape at nanking?

Flags of our Fathers(random guess)?

The thin red line?

too late the hero?

3rd Hint:

Person A: The truth is, neither one of you remembers what started this annual birthday brawl.

Person B: Permission to speak.

Person A: Shoot.

PersonB: What started it was this knothead tried to pawn off a hootchie-cootchie girl on me in Panama.

Person A: What's so bad about that?

Person B: Nothing, except a marriage licence and wedding ring through the nose!

Well, I've been married to the man for 18+ years, so I will spare you all further grief and answer it.

DONOVAN'S REEF. (John Wayne movie) He watches it every time it's on!!!

Here is my quote.

Person A: Has anybody seen my new red hat?
Person B: Oh piss on your hat.
Person A: That was uncalled for.

the cat in the hat?

nope.

Wild Guess

Shaun of The Dead?

A league of their own?

YES, A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN! Well done.
your turn.

My super-easy quote: you'll either know it or you won't, not much guessing involved here:

The suicide was confirmed by a note, left in the breast pocket of Sydney Barringer. At the same time young Sydney stood on the ledge of this nine story building, an argument swelled three stories below. The neighbors heard the arguing of the tenants, and it was not uncommon for them to threaten each other with a shotgun. And when the shotgun accidentaly went off, Sydney just happened to pass on his way down. Added to this, the two tenants turned out to be: Fay and Arthur Barringer. Sydney's mother and Sydney's father. When confronted with the charge, Fay Barringer swore that she did not know that the gun was loaded. A young boy who lived in the building said that he had seen the loading of the shotgun. It seems that the arguing and the fighting and all of the violence was too much for Sydney Barringer and knowing his mother and father's tendency to fight, he decided to do something. Sydney Barringer jumps from the ninth floor rooftop. His parents argue three stories below. Her accidental shotgun blast hits Sydney in the stomach as he passes the arguing sixth floor window. He is killed instantly but continues to fall, only to find, three stories below, a safety net installed for a set of window washers that would have broken his fall and saved his life, if not for the whole in his stomach. So Fay Barringer was charged with the murder of her son and Sydney Barringer noted as an accomplice in his own death. This is not just "Something That Happened." This cannot be "One of those things..." This Was Not Just A Matter Of Chance.

sorry, its long, but its a great quote and the whole thing deserves to be up there.

Paper Chase?

Magnolia - One of my all time fav films

mass fiction