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Jerry Friedman

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Sep 3, 2012, 12:24:12 AM9/3/12
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What phrase is represented by http://alt-usage-english.org/sdc2011/summat.png
?

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Jerry Friedman, T. O. Panelist

Harrison Hill

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Sep 3, 2012, 3:42:51 AM9/3/12
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On Sep 3, 5:24 am, Jerry Friedman <je...@totally-official.com> wrote:
> What phrase is represented byhttp://alt-usage-english.org/sdc2011/summat.png
> ?
>
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> Jerry Friedman, T. O. Panelist

If you set a program to morph concentric circles into concentric
squares, at mid-morph you might have this shape; so:

"Square the circle".

CDB

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Sep 3, 2012, 6:51:53 AM9/3/12
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On 03/09/2012 12:24 AM, Jerry Friedman wrote:

> What phrase is represented by http://alt-usage-english.org/sdc2011/summat.png
> ?

Looks like the eye of the hurricane.

R H Draney

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Sep 3, 2012, 7:24:35 PM9/3/12
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Jerry Friedman filted:
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>What phrase is represented by http://alt-usage-english.org/sdc2011/summat.png
>?

"It burns!"...r


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Me? Sarcastic?
Yeah, right.

Iain Archer

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Sep 4, 2012, 1:55:47 PM9/4/12
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Jerry Friedman wrote on Sun, 2 Sep 2012
>What phrase is represented by http://alt-usage-english.org/sdc2011/summat.png
>?

"Too simple," says TinEye.
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Vinny Burgoo

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Sep 4, 2012, 2:56:13 PM9/4/12
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In alt.usage.english, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>What phrase is represented by http://alt-usage-english.org/sdc2011/summat.png
>?

Frog in a blender.

The colours are teal and scarlet. Relevant?

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VB

Liz

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Sep 4, 2012, 3:02:14 PM9/4/12
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It's Firefox on drugs.



Skitt

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Sep 4, 2012, 3:22:27 PM9/4/12
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Vinny Burgoo wrote:
> Jerry Friedman wrote:

>> What phrase is represented by
>> http://alt-usage-english.org/sdc2011/summat.png
>> ?
>
> Frog in a blender.

Oo, oo, I have that file.

> The colours are teal and scarlet. Relevant?

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Skitt (SF Bay Area)
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Oliver Cromm

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Sep 5, 2012, 4:31:26 PM9/5/12
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* Jerry Friedman:

> What phrase is represented by http://alt-usage-english.org/sdc2011/summat.png
> ?

Tempest in a teapot

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There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is
to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies.
And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no
obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
-- C.�A.�R. Hoare

Iain Archer

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Sep 5, 2012, 5:48:21 PM9/5/12
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Oliver Cromm wrote on Wed, 5 Sep 2012
>* Jerry Friedman:
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>> What phrase is represented by http://alt-usage-english.org/sdc2011/summat.png
>> ?
>
>Tempest in a teapot
>
I thought it might have been from the tunic of a superhero or
intergalactic adventurer, but have drawn a blank there.

Is it the insignia of the aue Committee?
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Iain Archer

Katy Jennison

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Sep 5, 2012, 6:00:45 PM9/5/12
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If the Committee doesn't exist, surely its insignia must be invisible.

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Robin Bignall

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Sep 5, 2012, 7:40:42 PM9/5/12
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On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 21:24:12 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Friedman
<je...@totally-official.com> wrote:

>What phrase is represented by http://alt-usage-english.org/sdc2011/summat.png
>?
The problem with this is that I not only understand the question for
once, but I am fairly sure I have seen that design or logo or whatever
it is relatively recently (it must have been in a newspaper) and can't
for the life of me remember where or when.
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Robin Bignall
(BrE)
Herts, England

R H Draney

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Sep 5, 2012, 11:40:44 PM9/5/12
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Robin Bignall filted:
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>On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 21:24:12 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Friedman
><je...@totally-official.com> wrote:
>
>>What phrase is represented by =
>http://alt-usage-english.org/sdc2011/summat.png
>>?
>The problem with this is that I not only understand the question for
>once, but I am fairly sure I have seen that design or logo or whatever
>it is relatively recently (it must have been in a newspaper) and can't
>for the life of me remember where or when.

If that were true, there should be a record of it on Google Images, and I find
nothing but various mottled surfaces when I drag the picture into the search
bar....r

Robin Bignall

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Sep 6, 2012, 3:28:21 PM9/6/12
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I know, I've searched myself. But it seems familiar and there are
relatively few places I could have seen it.

Jerry Friedman

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Sep 6, 2012, 4:57:51 PM9/6/12
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On Sep 6, 1:28 pm, Robin Bignall <docro...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
It's related to one of the harder pictures in the "Alphabet" question.

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msh210

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Sep 6, 2012, 5:04:45 PM9/6/12
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On Sep 5th, R H Draney abed:
> > > What phrase is represented by
> > > http://alt-usage-english.org/sdc2011/summat.png ?
> >
> > The problem with this is that I not only understand the question for
> > once, but I am fairly sure I have seen that design or logo or whatever
> > it is relatively recently (it must have been in a newspaper) and can't
> > for the life of me remember where or when.
>
> If that were true, there should be a record of it on Google Images, and I find
> nothing but various mottled surfaces when I drag the picture into the search
> bar.

I think the implication, then, is that the image was created for the
competition. How?

Michael Hamm
TO Hinter

Vinny Burgoo

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Sep 8, 2012, 6:48:13 AM9/8/12
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Give it a whirl?

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VB

Jerry Friedman

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Sep 8, 2012, 10:08:19 AM9/8/12
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Maybe we should say that it's a flag.

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Jerry Friedman, T. O. Hinter

Harrison Hill

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Sep 8, 2012, 2:13:38 PM9/8/12
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These are "S" and "P" one inside the other so "SPIN".

Mike L

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Sep 8, 2012, 2:34:01 PM9/8/12
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The phrase may, then, be "Britannia waives the rules", as it's not
impossible to see the pattern as a Union Jack with its straight lines
stirred up.

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Mike.

Snidely

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Sep 8, 2012, 2:37:33 PM9/8/12
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on 9/8/2012, Jerry Friedman supposed :
I find it disturbing that these images are under sdc2011 ... was I
fooled by them last summer, so much that I don't recognize them this
year?

/dps "may not be that hard to do"

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Who, me? And what lacuna?


Jerry Friedman

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Sep 8, 2012, 2:40:48 PM9/8/12
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On Sep 8, 12:37 pm, Snidely <snidely....@gmail.com> wrote:
...

> I find it disturbing that these images are under sdc2011 ... was I
> fooled by them last summer, so much that I don't recognize them this
> year?
>
> /dps "may not be that hard to do"

A certain Panelist was a bit late in arranging with the webmaster for
convenient transfer to the sdc2012 directory.

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Jerry Friedman

Vinny Burgoo

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Sep 8, 2012, 2:52:06 PM9/8/12
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In alt.usage.english, Jerry Friedman wrote:
Flag-twirling? The pic was created by applying something like
Photoshop's Twirl filter to a rectangle made of alternating concentric
bands of red and teal.

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VB

Jerry Friedman

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Sep 12, 2012, 1:31:05 PM9/12/12
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On Sep 2, 10:24 pm, Jerry Friedman <je...@totally-official.com> wrote:
> What phrase is represented byhttp://alt-usage-english.org/sdc2011/summat.png
> ?

Whirling Dervish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dervish_state flag.

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Harrison Hill

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Sep 14, 2012, 4:43:04 AM9/14/12
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On 12 Sep, 18:31, Jerry Friedman <je...@totally-official.com> wrote:
> On Sep 2, 10:24 pm, Jerry Friedman <je...@totally-official.com> wrote:
>
> > What phrase is represented byhttp://alt-usage-english.org/sdc2011/summat.png
> > ?
>
> Whirling Dervish.

I spent ages on this and regard it as a perfect quiz question. I knew
the shape we were looking for, and if I'd known there was a Dervish
state, would probably have looked for its flag - whoever heard of such
a lopsided design!

Thanks Jerry and the rest of you for a very entertaining and
educational and *difficult* SDC. With Google at our disposal we should
have got this!

Robin Bignall

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Sep 14, 2012, 11:46:01 AM9/14/12
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Hear hear. The erudition of the question posers is truly remarkable.

>With Google at our disposal we should
>have got this!

Speak for yourself. Oh, you did...
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