| Author | Message | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 12103 Registered: 4-2010 |
While everyone else was laughing, all I could think was "I know where that is!" What was going on? | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 3759 Registered: 9-2009 |
Did you know where that was? That: an object? A place? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 12105 Registered: 4-2010 |
Did you know where that was? Yes That: an object? A place? This | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 3762 Registered: 9-2009 |
A place on earth? A: continent? Country? State? City? Street? Building? Other manmade structure? Geological feature? Was it said as a joke? Was the name of a real place used in the context of being made up? For laughs? Was the name of the place funny in and of itself? | ||
| Pikachizzle (Pikachizzle)
New member Username: Pikachizzle Post Number: 569 Registered: 5-2009 |
Lake Titicaca relevant? | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 3763 Registered: 9-2009 |
Beavis and Butt-head relevant? | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 12 Registered: 2-2011 |
were you in a theatre? cinema? other public place? at home? school? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 12106 Registered: 4-2010 |
A place on earth? Yes A: continent? Country? State? City? Street? Building? This Other manmade structure? Geological feature? Was it said as a joke? Yope Was the name of a real place used in the context of being made up? Please clarify For laughs? Yes to Yesish Was the name of the place funny in and of itself? No Lake Titicaca relevant? No Beavis and Butt-head relevant? No were you in a theatre? Here cinema? other public place? at home? school? And it happened to be here - a theater on the Elon campus. | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 14 Registered: 2-2011 |
did the person refer directly to the name of the place you recognised? or did you recognise it from the description? is the building famous? is it a school? a church? a public building? a house? a monument? a construction (such as a bridge)? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 577 Registered: 12-2010 |
Did you know where it is because you had already been there? Is it in your hometown? Did you know it because it has to do with one of your hobbies/interests? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 12111 Registered: 4-2010 |
did the person refer directly to the name of the place you recognised? Yes or did you recognise it from the description? is the building famous? It's fairly well-known, I think. is it a school? It is, No to rest a church? a public building? a house? a monument? a construction (such as a bridge)? Did you know where it is because you had already been there? Sort of - I'd driven past it more than a few times. Is it in your hometown? No, but... Did you know it because it has to do with one of your hobbies/interests? No | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 3771 Registered: 9-2009 |
Was the person telling a joke? Did you miss the point? Did the point hinge on not knowing where the building was? Did the person speaking know where it was? Relevant? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 12122 Registered: 4-2010 |
Was the person telling a joke? Yope, and minor FA Did you miss the point? No Did the point hinge on not knowing where the building was? No Did the person speaking know where it was? Yes and No Relevant? Yes | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 21 Registered: 2-2011 |
was it a school the speaker had attended? did you get the joke? was it in fact a joke? an anecdote? was it odd that you should know where it was? is the school far from the Elon campus? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 12123 Registered: 4-2010 |
was it a school the speaker had attended? Yes, but... did you get the joke? Yes was it in fact a joke? Yope an anecdote? Yope was it odd that you should know where it was? Not really is the school far from the Elon campus? Very Remember where I was at the time - that will help clear up a lot of the confusion. | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 31 Registered: 2-2011 |
would the rest of the audience have recognised the name of the school? was it in another country? is there more than one school with this name? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 12140 Registered: 4-2010 |
would the rest of the audience have recognised the name of the school? Some of them probably did was it in another country? No is there more than one school with this name? I don't think so | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1944 Registered: 11-2003 |
Was it the name itself that caused the humour? Does it sound like it is made up? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 12147 Registered: 4-2010 |
Was it the name itself that caused the humour? Does it sound like it is made up? No to both | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 49 Registered: 2-2011 |
"Did the person speaking know where it was? Yes and No" and "was it a school the speaker had attended? Yes, but..." had the speaker only visited the school? without knowing where it was? had the speaker been kidnapped and taken there? had the speaker been there physically in person? had the speaker been there as a very small child? or unconscious? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 12151 Registered: 4-2010 |
"Did the person speaking know where it was? Yes and No" and "was it a school the speaker had attended? Yes, but..." had the speaker only visited the school? without knowing where it was? had the speaker been kidnapped and taken there? No to these had the speaker been there physically in person? Again, Yes and No had the speaker been there as a very small child? or unconscious? No to both HINT: Remember what building I was in - that should help tell you who the speaker was. | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 589 Registered: 12-2010 |
Did you see a play? Did one of the actors say it? Did the character go to the school, but the actor didn't? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 12154 Registered: 4-2010 |
Did you see a play? Did one of the actors say it? Did the character go to the school, but the actor didn't? Yes to all! | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 590 Registered: 12-2010 |
Did he say something like "I went to XY school"? Did another actor say something relevant afterwards? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 12155 Registered: 4-2010 |
Did he say something like "I went to XY school"? Yes, FA Did another actor say something relevant afterwards? Just the rest of the "joke" | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 61 Registered: 2-2011 |
did the character he was playing only visit the school? or attend as a pupil? school = high school? college? university? grammar? was the character a woman? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 12159 Registered: 4-2010 |
did the character he was playing only visit the school? or attend as a pupil? This, FA school = high school? college? university? grammar? According to its Wikipedia page, it's a college prep school. was the character a woman? Yes - FA cleared! | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 620 Registered: 12-2010 |
Did the other actor say something like: "Where the heck is that?" "Isn't that in YZ?" "Does that even exist?" | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 711 Registered: 9-2010 |
Did you go to the school? Is it in your hometown? Was the play in your hometown? (I know certain movie lines involving Poughkeepsie draw singificantly more laughter in Poughkeepsie than they would elsewhere. For instance, my mom went to see Sex in the City which contains a part where a character gets several hundred pudding packets made in Poughkeepsie, then eats them all and "Poughkeepsies in her pants". She says when she saw it, the entire theater broke out into hysterics, although it likely would have only drawn a few chuckles elsewhere. Is it something along these lines? | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 712 Registered: 9-2010 |
By "was the play in your hometown" I mean was the theater where you watched it in your hometown. Although now I also should probably ask if it's in the same town as the school. And also if the play takes place in the same town as the school/your hometown. So I will. | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 78 Registered: 2-2011 |
is it co-ed? all boys? all girls? did the joke hinge around the fact that she couldn't or shouldn't have gone there? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 12195 Registered: 4-2010 |
Did the other actor say something like: "Where the heck is that?" "Isn't that in YZ?" "Does that even exist?" No - for the purposes of the puzzle, it's irrelevant what the other actor said. Did you go to the school? No Is it in your hometown? No, but it's in my home state. Was the play in your hometown? No, it was put on at Elon. (I know certain movie lines involving Poughkeepsie draw singificantly more laughter in Poughkeepsie than they would elsewhere. For instance, my mom went to see Sex in the City which contains a part where a character gets several hundred pudding packets made in Poughkeepsie, then eats them all and "Poughkeepsies in her pants". She says when she saw it, the entire theater broke out into hysterics, although it likely would have only drawn a few chuckles elsewhere. Is it something along these lines? No By "was the play in your hometown" I mean was the theater where you watched it in your hometown. Although now I also should probably ask if it's in the same town as the school. And also if the play takes place in the same town as the school/your hometown. So I will. No to all is it co-ed? all boys? all girls? This, and No did the joke hinge around the fact that she couldn't or shouldn't have gone there? No For the sake of the puzzle, you just need to figure out the school. If you can name the play, that's a bonus. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 12196 Registered: 4-2010 |
BLOOPER: I don't know why I wrote "This, and No" in the last line of responses. The relevant school is an all-girls school. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 12252 Registered: 4-2010 |
Eh, you've got enough information for the **********SPOILER********** On Feb. 13, I went to see the musical Rent at a theater on campus. During the song "Tango: Maureen," one of the characters (Mark) has the following banter with another character (Joanne): MARK: Where'd you learn to tango? JOANNE: With the French Ambassador's daughter in her dorm room at Miss Porter's. And you? MARK: With Nanette Himmelfarb. The Rabbi's daughter at the Scarsdale Jewish Community Center. While everyone else was laughing over the joke, I was too busy being excited over knowing where Miss Porter's is - it's a private girls' school in Connecticut, and I've driven past it a few times. My high school played sports against them as well (only the girls' teams, obviously). Nice work Doriana, Gregoryuconn, Shez, et al. | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 86 Registered: 2-2011 |
Thanks Balin - that was a hard one. | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 667 Registered: 12-2010 |
Nice puzzle (: I started going through the list of private schools in Connecticut on wikipedia but got bored quite fast and gave up, lol. |
