| Author | Message | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 8312 Registered: 4-2010 |
He is more popular than his namesake. He = his = HAM Likely a quickie | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 3073 Registered: 1-2007 |
Is he alive? Is his namesake? Are they both famous? Is the namesake fictional? Do they share a christian name or surname? or both? For popular do you mean liked or just well known? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 8315 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is he alive? Yes Is his namesake? Yesish/Yope Are they both famous? The namesake, No. "He" is not famous per se, but certainly well-known among a certain group. Is the namesake fictional? No Do they share a christian name or surname? or both? Neither For popular do you mean liked or just well known? Well-known | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 1457 Registered: 9-2010 |
Certain group = LTPFers? | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 2359 Registered: 3-2006 |
Woodworm? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 8322 Registered: 4-2010 |
Certain group = LTPFers? Yes - that went fast! Woodworm? No, but oh so close. | ||
| Potato (Potato)
New member Username: Potato Post Number: 273 Registered: 7-2010 |
Does his name include "Wood"? Or "Worm"? Or any part of Woodworm's real name? | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 2361 Registered: 3-2006 |
The hairy woubit? | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 1476 Registered: 9-2010 |
I bet that's it...and I bet Tortie and I inspired this puzzle. *snicker* | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 8332 Registered: 4-2010 |
Does his name include "Wood"? Or "Worm"? Or any part of Woodworm's real name? No, but in the words of Woubit, help is at hand... The hairy woubit? Indeed it is, although I have no way of knowing if he, like the caterpillar, is hairy or not. Now how is our Woubit more popular than the hairy woubit? | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 1480 Registered: 9-2010 |
because mr. woubit is a very fine puzzler indeed, and everyone here has heard of him, while Tortie and I had no idea that unlike Tigger, he was not the only one? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 8337 Registered: 4-2010 |
because mr. woubit is a very fine puzzler indeed, and everyone here has heard of him, while Tortie and I had no idea that unlike Tigger, he was not the only one? No, although that is certainly true - the sense in which Woubit is more popular than the hairy woubit comes from outside the LTPF. | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 3074 Registered: 1-2007 |
Is that fact that woubit is fairly google proof relevant? e.g it does not appear in on-line dictionary . Or maybe when you google woubit the first hit is a puzzle from this forum rather than his hairy namesake? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 8361 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is that fact that woubit is fairly google proof relevant? e.g it does not appear in on-line dictionary . No, but... Or maybe when you google woubit the first hit is a puzzle from this forum rather than his hairy namesake? ...*jedi hand wipe* This IS the answer you are looking for. **********SPOILER********** Not much more to add - see Peter's correct guess above for the solution. Nice quick solve, everyone! | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 1493 Registered: 9-2010 |
Well, you managed to answer Tortie's question about 'what is a woubit' more elaborately than 'mr. woubit is' for me, so thank you. *grin* | ||
| Woubit (Woubit)
Moderator Username: Woubit Post Number: 1139 Registered: 5-2007 |
A woubit is the larva of the tiger moth. In the alternative form "oobit", it is used as a term of more or less affectionate contempt in the North of England - "tha great oobit". Though I was born several thousand miles south of Yorkshire in what is now Zimbabwe, and though I had no beard nor any other resemblance to a hairy caterpillar when I was at school in England, the nickname was bestowed upon me by my classmates for reasons that doubtless seemed sound to them at the time. No honorific is required - the appellation "mr. woubit" seems to me strange. I will answer to "Hi!" or to any loud cry such as "Fry me!" or "Fritter my wig!" Meanwhile I shall do my best to continue to be, for I would never wish it said that Kayleetonkslupin had told her sibling a lie. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 1527 Registered: 9-2010 |
hmm, kaylee is not at all familiar with tiger moths, but kaylee trusts that woubit is telling the truth, as woubit is a truthful woubit (and a very fine puzzler indeed, as kaylee has previously mentioned. Balin believes that Tortie's puzzle was somewhat woubit-y. Kaylee wonders whether woubit believes the puzzle was woubit-y? which means having the appearance or difficulty of a woubit puzzle. kaylee was granted the appellation "fuzzy" by friends in school, for reasons which doubtless seemed sound to them at the time. they believed kaylee was innocent and cuddly like a hamster, and hamsters are fuzzy by nature. kaylee does not pretend to understand the workings of said friends' minds. |
