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Obfuscation Challenge 4

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ESquared

ESquared

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In this thread, you must NOT eschew obfuscation. In fact, you must embrace it.

Take common sayings or objects and convert them to archaic, outlandish, and overblown--but recognizable--speech.

For example, if I say:

Inhabitants of supercooled liquid silicate domiciles ought refrain from casting lithic projectiles.
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You know that I am referring to the saying, "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."

And if I refer to a

canvas tension structure

you could not possibly miss that I mean a tent. (Ooh, triple the number of words!)

Let's keep it clean, and clever, so the thread does not transport to a flaming netherworld in a small handle-bearing container constructed of dried woven reeds!
 
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Well, as long as you remember to duck when the biomass hits the roto-impeller.

;)



Just my 2¢

"In order to start solving a problem, one must first identify its owner." --Me
--Greg
 
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Here's a sentence that I first saw on Tek-Tips. I can't find the original thread right now. Stella?

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
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That is a complete, grammatically correct sentence.

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[tab][red]The plural of anecdote is not data[/red]

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It is futile to express deep sorrow by secreting profuse drops of clear saline fluid from your lacrimal glands to the point that they overflow your eyelids and dampen your face in connection with your concern for the inadvertent release, beyond the usual bounds, of a fluid secreted by the mammary glands of cows for the nourishment of their young, collected (and often heated to a specific temperature for a specified length of time in order to render innate any contained pathogens) by humans for consumption.

...and...

Upon bath defenestration exclude your offspring.
 
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These remind me of Ernest Bramah's Kai Lung stories.
 
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Gooser:

Don't cry over spilled milk, and Don't throw away the baby with the bathwater?

(I don't know how to do the invisible code thing... lol)



Just my 2¢

"In order to start solving a problem, one must first identify its owner." --Me
--Greg
 
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Greg,

Click on Process TGML under the text box where you type your comments, a cheat-sheet will pop up.

If you do a quote and make the text color white, it'll be white on white.

--Gooser
 
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->(I don't know how to do the invisible code thing... lol)

To hide text, you can use one of the following:
1) [ignore]
Code: 
[white]Hidden Text[/white]
[/ignore]
[tab]which produces
Code: 
[white]Hidden Text[/white]
2) [ignore][COLOR=white white]Hidden Text[/color][/ignore]
[tab]which produces
[COLOR=white white]Hidden Text[/color]

To read the text in the boxes, either select the text (click and drag over it) or use [Ctrl]+[A] to select everything.

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rjoubert,
How about a little help with:

"crimson-tinted manually engaged document collating device".

I'm not getting that one.

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[COLOR=white white]red stapler ?[/color]

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As a circle of light increases so does the circumference of darkness around it. - Albert Einstein
 
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Apply your scalar dimension-demarcation device n times, where:

n is an integer

and

n > 1

and

n < 3

Subsequent to the aforementioned actions, apply your shearing device m times, where:

m is an integer

and

m > 0

and

m < 2

[white]Measure twice, cut once[/white]
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I used to rock and roll every night and party every day. Then it was every other day. Now I'm lucky if I can find 30 minutes a week in which to get funky. - Homer Simpson

Arrrr, mateys! Ye needs ta be preparin' yerselves fer Talk Like a Pirate Day! Ye has a choice: talk like a pira
 
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This author's enamorment with this particular deliberlately obfuscatory passtime is quite sizable.

[white]I think this game is really fun![/white]
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I used to rock and roll every night and party every day. Then it was every other day. Now I'm lucky if I can find 30 minutes a week in which to get funky. - Homer Simpson

Arrrr, mateys! Ye needs ta be preparin' yerselves fer Talk Like a Pirate Day! Ye has a choice: talk like a pira
 
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Please refrain from your present activities forthwith foresaking other inclinations and favor us by exerting herculian efforts in transporting your entirety yonder where rhythmec contractions in the prone individual are displaying all the indications of having ceased.


[COLOR=white white]code blue![/color]


DonBott

President
Omnipotence,Ltd.
 
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The party of the first part expresses to the party of the second part desires for excessive enjoyment to commemorate the anniversary of the physical separation of the party of the second part from said person's maternal progenitor.

Code: 
[white]
Happy birthday to you!
[/white]
 
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I finally got back to a computer to check this thread. It's made me laugh several times so far. Thanks for joining the fun.

Q: Quantify the required mental disorder practitioners to effect renewal of a luminescent glass spheroid.

A: Approximately ninety-nine hundredths, however, the luminescent glass spheroid must earnestly desire transformation.

[white]Q: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?

A: One, but the light bulb really has to want to change.[/white]
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PS KornGeek, I love it! You know, I'm such a dork that on the phone I actually have called my parents (to their faces) "father unit" and "mother unit?" They're used to my shenanigans. I'll have to try "maternal/paternal progenitor" soon.
 
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You can direct an equine mammal to what well-known standard of specific gravity, but cannot compel him to imbibe thereof.
[white]You can lead a horse to water, but cannot make him drink[/white]
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.

Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard. [dragon]
 
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Code: 
Indicate the way to my habitual abode
I'm fatigued and I wish to retire
I had some light refresment 60 minutes ago
And its gone right to my cerebellum cavity.
Wherever I may perambulate
By land or sea or aqua under-pressure
You will always hear me articulate this melody
Indicate the way to my habitual abode

[white]
Show me the way to go home
I'm tired and I wanna go to bed
I had a little drink about an hour ago
And its gone right to my head
Wherever I may roam
By land or sea or foam
You will always hear me singin this song
Show me the way to go home
[/white]

"If it could have gone wrong earlier and it didn't, it ultimately would have been beneficial for it to have." : Murphy's Ultimate Corollary
 
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higgins...you are obviously not a fan of the movie, "Office Space".

"crimson-tinted manually engaged document collating device"...I'm looking for my "red stapler".
 
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An equal amount, equalling 1/24th of a gross, compared to the same equal number of a similar, but different object.

Code: 
[white]
Six of one, half-dozen of the other
[/white]

It is preferrable to cease verbal articulation, giving others the inclination about your lack of mental facility, than to engage your vocal facilities, and eliminate the uncertainty to your aural audiance.

Code: 
[white]It is better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.[/white]

I just made those two up. [glasses]


Just my 2¢

"In order to start solving a problem, one must first identify its owner." --Me
--Greg
 
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snuv,

Reminds me of my favorite scene from "Jaws."

Thanks,
Tim



[blue]_______________________________________________
"Punchewation is peerioddically measured in Gigglebites."[/blue]
 
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And, a variation on gbaughma's old saw, heard from my drill sergeant:

"Remember to duck when the feces impacts the rotating oscillator."

This is a situation up with which I will not put.

Phil Hegedusich
Senior Programmer/Analyst
IIMAK
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I'll have the roast duck with the mango salsa.
 
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