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SmarterBrother (Mycroft)
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 6:34 pm: |       |
Are Jones and Plum relatives of each other? Brothers? father and son? |
dryman (Dryman)
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 9:13 pm: | |
Does Prof. Plum teach at SJLC? yes, but he rarely shows up Is Professor his job title? yes
Are Jones and Plum relatives of each other? Brothers? no father and son? no |
dryman (Dryman)
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 9:15 pm: | |
Are Jones and Plum relatives of each other? no |
Jennifer Warde (Tigger32382)
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 9:19 pm: | |
does the something else use his mind? is it a physical skill? can you see him do it? hear him do it? is that something else what jones bases his opinions on? |
dryman (Dryman)
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 9:23 pm: | |
does the something else use his mind? not much is it a physical skill? not really a skill can you see him do it? yes hear him do it? no is that something else what jones bases his opinions on? yope |
Jennifer Warde (Tigger32382)
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 9:28 pm: | |
does he do the something else legitimately? or does he fake it? is it related to the subject he is a professor of? would it help to know what subject he teaches? |
dryman (Dryman)
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 9:30 pm: | |
does he do the something else legitimately? yes or does he fake it? no is it related to the subject he is a professor of? not at all would it help to know what subject he teaches? not relevant |
Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
| | Posted on Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 6:51 pm: | |
Relevant to whom Dr. Jones makes the report?
Have Jones and Plum ever met in person? Have they interacted in some way? |
dryman (Dryman)
| | Posted on Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 11:09 pm: | |
Relevant to whom Dr. Jones makes the report? no (maybe I should've just said "believes" instead of "reports")
Have Jones and Plum ever met in person? noHave they interacted in some way? no good questions! |
Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
| | Posted on Friday, September 16, 2005 - 2:43 pm: | |
Has Jones ever seen Plum? Live? Recorded? Heard him? Read something of his? |
Jennifer Warde (Tigger32382)
| | Posted on Friday, September 16, 2005 - 2:51 pm: | |
Does Jones know Plum works at Lateral? Does he know anything about Plum's behavior there? |
dryman (Dryman)
| | Posted on Friday, September 16, 2005 - 10:18 pm: | |
Has Jones ever seen Plum? no Live? no Recorded? no Heard him? no Read something of his? no
Does Jones know Plum works at Lateral? yes Does he know anything about Plum's behavior there? yope |
Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
| | Posted on Monday, September 19, 2005 - 4:34 pm: | |
Is Dr. Jones' (stated) opinion based on something he has read? Heard? |
dryman (Dryman)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 3:43 am: | |
Is Dr. Jones' (stated) opinion based on something he has read? no Heard? yes |
Lewis Zeiters (Lzeiters)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 10:35 am: | |
Did Dr. Jones simply restate the one opinion he had heard so as not to appear ignorant regarding the conversation? |
dryman (Dryman)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 12:28 pm: | |
Did Dr. Jones simply restate the one opinion he had heard so as not to appear ignorant regarding the conversation? not exactly |
Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 2:44 pm: | |
Is silver relevant? |
Jennifer Warde (Tigger32382)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 2:46 pm: | |
did plum discover anything? is jones' opinion based on something plum does every day? or on something plum did once? |
dryman (Dryman)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 3:40 pm: | |
Is silver relevant? no ok I'm curious. why silver?
did plum discover anything? no
is jones' opinion based on something plum does every day? yes or on something plum did once? no |
Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 3:52 pm: | |
Looking for double meanings, is all, after re-reading the puzzle statement...
Does/did Jones misinterpret something he overheard? Misunderstand something? Miss part of something (e. g. he heard "...industrious, sholarly--everything you expect in a professor" but missed the preceding "not")? |
dryman (Dryman)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 7:04 pm: | |
Looking for double meanings, is all, after re-reading the puzzle statement...
I wouldn't want to tarnish his reputation!  but metals aren't relevant here
Does/did Jones misinterpret something he overheard? yes Misunderstand something? yes Miss part of something (e. g. he heard "...industrious, sholarly--everything you expect in a professor" but missed the preceding "not")? no |
Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 3:23 pm: | |
Did he overhear a converstation (about Plum, I mean)? If so, could he hear both (or all) sides of the conversation?
Was the conversation about Plum's work at Lateral U.? |
dryman (Dryman)
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 4:01 pm: | |
Did he overhear a converstation (about Plum, I mean)? yes If so, could he hear both (or all) sides of the conversation? yes
Was the conversation about Plum's work at Lateral U.? yesish |
Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 4:13 pm: | |
Was there any sarcasm involved in the conversation? Did the conversors (conversationators?) intentionally mislead Jones? Did they know he was listening?
Would someone reading a text transcription of the conversation reach the same conclusion as Dr. Jones? |
dryman (Dryman)
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 4:47 pm: | |
Was there any sarcasm involved in the conversation? no Did the conversors (conversationators?) intentionally mislead Jones? no Did they know he was listening? maybe, irrel
Would someone reading a text transcription of the conversation reach the same conclusion as Dr. Jones? NO |
Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 5:07 pm: | |
Forsooth! The game's afoot...
Homonyms relevant? Anything like my silly statement in Sciguy47's puzzle (Ctrl+Alt+Del)? |
dryman (Dryman)
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 10:39 pm: | |
Anything like my silly statement in Sciguy47's puzzle (Ctrl+Alt+Del)?
[viz. He was out standing in his field? Sorry, couldn't resist.]
Good God, Holmes, you've got it! By some weird stroke of fate that statement happens to be the exact one Dr. Jones overheard. Care to work out the few final details?
I hadn't even noticed you had posted that in the other puzzle - and just shortly after this one had started. I think you must have somehow subconsciously solved this one and temporarily repressed the solution!  |
Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 11:54 pm: | |
That is a bit spooky, isn't it. 
Something like two people discussing Prof. Plum and one says "So what's he like at work?" And the other says "Oh, when it comes to work, he's always out standing in his field."? |
dryman (Dryman)
| | Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 4:22 am: | |
***** SPOILER *****
That's pretty much it! Prof Plum spends much of his time pottering about his small "hobby farm", where he works even less energetically than he does at the university. During Dr. Jones' visit, he heard it confirmed by several sources that Plum was consistently out standing in his field |
Barbara Johannessen Bailey (Rabrab)
| | Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 5:52 pm: | |
AAAARRRGGGGHHHHHHH!
Good puzzle, Dryman. |
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