btw....I always had trouble with those logic questions (MSAT) because I refused to make the required assumptions...always concluded that none of the above was a viable option....jeeeeeesshhh...
Where's Catscan?
But she said 2 people guessed...so who else guessed her so I can conclude that I was right on the bangs theory?
Or at least settle...
You have missed the supremely logical and deceptive Moxon...
Hey there, porkpal!
Lady in white is too young? That leaves two guesses for the one in red or the necklaceless one in black. And just where does the logic stuff fit in? Hidden by the Mandelbrot obfuscation?
The lady in white only LOOKS too young!
There was 1 1/2 correct guesses.. One was a second guess... well, actually they were both second guesses!
Well...her use of 'couldn't possibly' and 'OTHER side' sounded highly suspicious, but while both sound like obfuscation of a point I am missing entirely...neither constitutes a guess. And going back to Claire's two guesses doesn't connect with my first guess that I can see...
Siigh...think I'm back to failure for want of sufficient assumptions...
Warrrrmmmer Porkpal
They were both second guesses grow
Huh? All these second guessings leave me as befogged as before. And besides, I count four girls in black so...We need more Moxon logic perhaps.
Porkpal--I am sure you could give Claire a run for her geeky crown and grownut just lacks the conviction necessary for true overweening geekiness.
One of grownut's original guesses was correct.
It was not the one with a necklace.
Claire is throwing in a lot of red herrings and attempting to throw you off...but she also names the correct person.
ZZ can be trusted.
I am relentlessly non-commital.
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It is vaguely possible that I may have scattered about some red herrings....or even black ones....to obfuscate the white, I mean right, ones.
Porkpal.. cooolder
Claire........ frozen LOL
I think it is only fair to say that porkpal at one time had the right answer and for the right reasons. It is also fair to say that grownut has amazing intuitional intelligence. Greenhouse_gal also got the right answer on another thread--but without revealing her methods.
Now to just fade back into the background.....
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Now, I may be entirely befuddled with all this purported logic. But my first two guesses were based on solid, if somewhat oblique info.
1) Catscan looks younger than she is, impressively so.
2) She has lived in England, taught English lit, and gone into tomato genetics
3) She has an estimable forebear named Upstanding Morality or something equally worthy. From New England...(old school northerner! they always have dark hair and fair skin and the old families are narrow featured)
4) She always has a laugh lurking somewhere and she knits.
From these I deduced: traditional attire, inconspicuous and classic. Classic hairstyle, straight-ish and unadorned. From (3) ...that she should have darker hair, narrow finer features -more vertical than round or square of face. So -the black with necklace, the plum with glasses (not great but possible), the red v-neck (she might wear a v-neck, wild California air...but...), and the white shirt in back. Thought it would suit her sense of humor to ask us where she was when she
was right smack in the middle of the front for once so...1) black 2) white 3) red 4) rejected with the no glasses clue and really never liked that one much...
Call it oblique, but it is logic...
Are you referring to poor Lowly Foote or the estimable Submit Peacock? Not to mention the whole Coffin branch.....
I am unclear on which black you are referencing...the blonde or one of the others?
I am fair but sallow--so I rarely wear black....and you are right that I would resist any attire that could be called "cheerful". Also on the thin face, straight hair and general air of repressive puritanism....but I hear they were actually a lot of fun.....
Definite obfuscation, Catsy.
1) "The mild lady in black is actually a stunning, naturally beautiful, incredibly intelligent genetic analyst. It is a horrible picture of her.
Could it be me?
Let me say only that I am reasonably vain."
What does the mild lady in black, whichever of the two she may be, have to do with ANYthing but obfuscation....
2) "Two people have gotten it and I am not wearing a necklace...that is all you need to know to find me."
Two people on two different threads, one not referenced until MUCH later...
Well...the fun is definitely there lurking...and...living in California can warp the best of us. Suntan was possible although not entirely in keeping with the estimable forebears...
Heh. really...the "two people have guessed it" thing really threw me. Hadn't checked g_g's post on that other thread....sigh.
reeeelly reeeally...;p!
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General air of repressive puritanism????!!! I don't think so....not with the mischievous glint!
No! No! The were good clues!
Both you and Moxie named her--but Moxie did it in such a way that it was deceptive....and I was non-commital about it. Hence woman in white.
I am reasonably vain--and no vain person of any stripe would post a horrible picture of themselves. So it was not Katie the Geneticist...who really is incredibly beautiful in person.
GG appears to have pulled it from thin air....at least she won't admit how.
Hey didn't we once have a discussion about banana slugs. I just found a pattern for a knitted banana slug. Why am I remembering a discussion regarding banana slugs? And why am I asking about it on this thread?
She's one of them old northerners....knows what they look like...
Moxy said she couldn't be...not a guess in my book. You were very carefully non-committal, true.
Which one is Katie?
And yeah...there she goes again...who but Catsy said anything about repressive puritanism? I was speaking to physical type and style...
The banana slugs go back to talk about California and Oregon schools which goes back to a discussion of which University you might happily attend or be affiliated with which goes back to Berkeley which goes back to that discussion of estimable forebears by a hugely circuitous bit of blather...all connected.
OMG, I must have these!!! I need to handspin a ton of fun yarn and learn how to knit in the round. It is my new destiny. These are sooooo me! I am such a geek...
p.s. No really, I'm not spending Friday afternoon at work looking at knitting patterns, really!
p.p.s. Did you notice the look of knitting guru in her eyes in that picture?
Oh my, the banana slugs were less connected than I thought....I was thinking someone's chickens ate them.
I love banana slugs---when I was little we would go to the coastal hills and the highlight of my trip was finding banana slugs in the temperate rain forests.....
I found one in Berkeley once....they are more mottled green there than yellow...but my dog ran up to me and stepped on it sliding half-way down the trail...another reason to call them banana slugs....
The Puritans were really not so bad...they liked sex, allowed divorce, encouraged education, wore brightly coloured clothes and drank a lot of beer....
And I am sure they kept chickens.
Moxie--those are simple--if extensive--Fair Isle patterned stockings...you could do Fair Isle...yes you could.
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No knitting guru...you mock me, Moxy!
And all this puritans are bad stuff...sheesh...I just said likely to have old school traditional features and dark hair. Feel like I stepped on the banana slug....
Now there might be a demonstrable correlation between willingness to wear bangs and willingness to learn to knit socks. Both are classic and old school...requires a strong will and sense of self to accomplish either.
(ok, so I guess I was way out there about the foiling the corporate people taking pictures from cranes, huh?)
No really--I always hide behind things...notice where I am in the picture. I once wore my heavy winter coat through an entire school year--and that was in Texas.
Heehee!! Yer beautiful.............
That was dedicated hiding, that was. I wear tank tops all winter long because I get hot. If I'd worn a winter coat in Texas I'd have sweated into a small puddle on the floor.
Your faith in my ability to do Fair Isle is completely misplaced. I could never....
Yes, you can. I will help you--but only if you first learn to purl...not that you need to...but it would show a willingness to be helped.
The only tricky bit with Fair Isle--especially the really traditional kind--is to keep the
floats on the back at an even tension. But that just comes with experience...otherwise it is just knit, knit, knit.....
So who are the people (collectively) in the picture taken from a crane, and what was the occasion?
Those are my, ahem...colleagues.
I don't remember why they wanted that picture....it was on the company H drive...with everyone's name blazened across their chest. Moxon helped me remove them--actually she removed them for me...so she knew all along who was who. You really can't trust her--she's Canadian you know.....
These people are picture-taking-fools....I hate pictures, especially of myself. Is anyone else on the forum in the federal witness protection program.....?
I hate pictures with a passion...
That knittery pic, Claire, was absolutely divine, I grant you. But until I grow a more divine behind...I'm not attempting anything like wearing those...beautimous -yes, wear -no.
First learn to purl....mutter mutter....as if it's just the easiest thing in the world....mutter mutter.....yarn....mutter...
big ol' pokey needles...mutter mutter...stupid books with imperfect directions....mutter mutter mutter....
"floats on the back at an even tension"
(a frisson of fear traverses the spine)
"comes with experience"
(a slump of the shoulders)
Oh Catscan! You let the dog out of the bucket! Wait, that's not it. You let the slug out of the banana? No....the hamster out of the wheel? Ugh...think THINK Claire....Well anyway, you told them the secret! I was trying oh-so-hard to lead them astray too.
I hid in a bathroom at a wedding a few weeks ago to avoid having my picture taken.
Oh Grow, they won't be for wearing IN PUBLIC!!! No no no. They are for lounging, around the house, and feeling inspired to spin luscious yarns....you know....
I thought I might even make them into more of a palazzo wide leg pant style. Like the tie-dyed batik sort of ones that I am wearing right now...
But of course, that would require me to be an expert knitter of the ultimate sort.
Oh, and I'm a size 14/16 so believe me, I have nothing divine about my behind...
Now the wide leg palazzo-style sounds wunderbar, wunderschön!! I just have fears about my wunderbutt, lolol...
I refuse to play unless there is a sound track so I can hear the silvery, tinkling laughter.
You can almost hear it in the pic, but there are dark undertones of "stupid cameramuttermutter, cranemuttermutter" that kinda make it overall less tinkley...
Oh come now Dahlianut....you are not listening properly.... surely you must hear the tinkly laughter when I suggest knitting fair isle palazzo pants....that's why Catsy hasn't responded yet, she is tinkling too hard, I mean laughing too hard....don't want anyone having the wrong impression there....
Well that clairification certainly helped us avoid any wrongful impressions...
phew. Now tinkling fair isle palazzo pants...hmmm...5 bells around each (bell)bottom....