| Author | Message | ||
| Visconti (Visconti)
New member Username: Visconti Post Number: 320 Registered: 2-2005 |
A Spooky Halloween Quickie: Last night there was a knock on my door. After asking who it was, I began to cry. Super fast $poilers, please refrain for a little while. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7710 Registered: 4-2010 |
True story? FYOI? FSEI? "I" = you (Visconti)? If not, "I" = H? A? M? A ghost? Is an urban legend relevant? Knock on the door - did a person knock? Did something knock? The "knocker" - H? A? M? A trick-or-treater? | ||
| Visconti (Visconti)
New member Username: Visconti Post Number: 321 Registered: 2-2005 |
True story? No FYOI? FSEI? yes "I" = you (Visconti)? Yes If not, "I" = H? A? M? A ghost? Is an urban legend relevant? no Knock on the door - did a person knock? yes Did something knock? The "knocker" - H? A? M? A trick-or-treater? The knocker was my 4 year old daugther, not trick-or-treating. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7718 Registered: 4-2010 |
Did you cry because you were happy? Sad? Relevant where your daughter had been before she knocked? Was she lost? Did you think she was? | ||
| Visconti (Visconti)
New member Username: Visconti Post Number: 325 Registered: 2-2005 |
Did you cry because you were happy? mostly this Sad? not this Relevant where your daughter had been before she knocked? no Was she lost? no Did you think she was? no | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7728 Registered: 4-2010 |
Did you cry because of something you saw? Heard? Smelled? Said? Tasted? Felt? Because of something she said? | ||
| Visconti (Visconti)
New member Username: Visconti Post Number: 331 Registered: 2-2005 |
Did you cry because of something you saw? no Heard? yes Smelled? no Said? no Tasted? no Felt? no Because of something she said? yes | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7733 Registered: 4-2010 |
What she said - just one word? A phrase? A sentence? More than that? Did you say something to her? Did she say only one thing? Or more? Did you say only one thing? Or more? Or nothing at all? | ||
| Visconti (Visconti)
New member Username: Visconti Post Number: 333 Registered: 2-2005 |
What she said - just one word? A phrase? A sentence? More than that? a few phrases Did you say something to her? yes Did she say only one thing? Or more? a few things Did you say only one thing? Or more? a few things Or nothing at all? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7739 Registered: 4-2010 |
So this was a conversation? Was it about school? Is the time of day relevant when this occurred? The specific day? Is your family relevant? | ||
| Potato (Potato)
New member Username: Potato Post Number: 154 Registered: 7-2010 |
Did you cry with relief? Or pride? Or joy? Did you cry because of what your daughter said or was the reason something completely different? Like, were you being tickled? xD By the way, what do FYOI and FSEI mean? | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 1146 Registered: 9-2010 |
FYOI = From Your Own Imagination, FSEI = From Someone Else's Imagination (and to round it out, FMOI = From My Own Imagination). They're things you say when trying to determine (or for the one I threw in, explaining) whether something is a true story, or one of these. | ||
| Potato (Potato)
New member Username: Potato Post Number: 155 Registered: 7-2010 |
Ah, thanks! :-) | ||
| Visconti (Visconti)
New member Username: Visconti Post Number: 336 Registered: 2-2005 |
So this was a conversation? a few phrases back and forth, but i wouldn't call it a conversation Was it about school? no Is the time of day relevant when this occurred? no The specific day? not really, but it came up because it's close to Halloween. Is your family relevant? no | ||
| Visconti (Visconti)
New member Username: Visconti Post Number: 337 Registered: 2-2005 |
Did you cry with relief? no Or pride? no Or joy? this is the closest, but be careful of a FA Did you cry because of what your daughter said or was the reason something completely different? i reacted in response to what we both saying Like, were you being tickled? great question, but i will still say no xD 8o | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7777 Registered: 4-2010 |
Did you say the same thing at the same time? Was the conversation about trick-or-treating? Candy? Something Halloween-related? | ||
| Visconti (Visconti)
New member Username: Visconti Post Number: 339 Registered: 2-2005 |
Did you say the same thing at the same time? no Was the conversation about trick-or-treating? yope Candy? no Something Halloween-related? yope | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7791 Registered: 4-2010 |
Was the conversation about pumpkins? Carving them? | ||
| Visconti (Visconti)
New member Username: Visconti Post Number: 341 Registered: 2-2005 |
Was the conversation about pumpkins? no Carving them? no | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7806 Registered: 4-2010 |
Was the conversation about any type of food? | ||
| Potato (Potato)
New member Username: Potato Post Number: 181 Registered: 7-2010 |
Are horror stories/movies/books relevant? | ||
| Visconti (Visconti)
New member Username: Visconti Post Number: 342 Registered: 2-2005 |
Was the conversation about any type of food? No Are horror stories/movies/books relevant? No | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7812 Registered: 4-2010 |
Did the conversation involve something she did? Something you did? Something a group of people did? Something anyone did? | ||
| Visconti (Visconti)
New member Username: Visconti Post Number: 344 Registered: 2-2005 |
Did the conversation involve something she did? Something you did? Something a group of people did? Something anyone did? None of these. Was hoping this would be solved prior to Halloween. Let me give you a hint... it was quite a silly little 'conversation' we had. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7820 Registered: 4-2010 |
Did you laugh as well as cry? Is the Great Pumpkin relevant? | ||
| Visconti (Visconti)
New member Username: Visconti Post Number: 347 Registered: 2-2005 |
Did you laugh as well as cry? cried, then laughed. then she went over to mommy, and did the same thing with her Is the Great Pumpkin relevant? no | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7835 Registered: 4-2010 |
When you first cried, were you sad? Upset? Scared? Did she pull a trick on you? | ||
| Visconti (Visconti)
New member Username: Visconti Post Number: 348 Registered: 2-2005 |
When you first cried, were you sad? Upset? Scared? not really any of these, really kind of happy Did she pull a trick on you? yes, a verbal trick | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7841 Registered: 4-2010 |
Did she say something with a double meaning? Homophones relevant? | ||
| Visconti (Visconti)
New member Username: Visconti Post Number: 353 Registered: 2-2005 |
Did she say something with a double meaning? Yes Homophones relevant? yes | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7908 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is the homophone a common one? To/too/two? Hear/here? There/their/they're? | ||
| Visconti (Visconti)
New member Username: Visconti Post Number: 355 Registered: 2-2005 |
Is the homophone a common one? To/too/two? Hear/here? There/their/they're? none of these, not a common one | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7911 Registered: 4-2010 |
Did you cry before you realized the double meaning? After? Same questions for laughing? | ||
| Visconti (Visconti)
New member Username: Visconti Post Number: 356 Registered: 2-2005 |
Did you cry before you realized the double meaning? no After? yes Same questions for laughing? I laughed only a few seconds after I criend | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7914 Registered: 4-2010 |
Would it help to figure out the topic of the conversation? Did the trick seem like a natural part of the conversation? | ||
| Visconti (Visconti)
New member Username: Visconti Post Number: 357 Registered: 2-2005 |
Would it help to figure out the topic of the conversation? yea, kind of Did the trick seem like a natural part of the conversation? the trick was the conversation | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7925 Registered: 4-2010 |
Was she trying to get you to say something with a double meaning? One of those " what are you eating under there? / under where? " tricks? | ||
| Visconti (Visconti)
New member Username: Visconti Post Number: 362 Registered: 2-2005 |
Was she trying to get you to say something with a double meaning? One of those " what are you eating under there? / under where? " tricks? yes! but not this | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7933 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is it relevant that this started with her knocking on the door? Or could you have been sitting next to each other? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7934 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is it relevant that this started with her knocking on the door? Or could you have been sitting next to each other? | ||
| Visconti (Visconti)
New member Username: Visconti Post Number: 365 Registered: 2-2005 |
Is it relevant that this started with her knocking on the door? yes Or could you have been sitting next to each other? yes, i guess, maybe... Balin, you're going to kick yourself when this is over. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7946 Registered: 4-2010 |
You're probably right. Did the conversation have anything to do with the LTPF? | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 2003 Registered: 7-2009 |
was it a knock-knock joke? | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 2004 Registered: 7-2009 |
This just dawned on me... *groan*, is it the knock-knock joke that ends with "boo-hoo"? | ||
| Visconti (Visconti)
New member Username: Visconti Post Number: 368 Registered: 2-2005 |
Once again, Balin does the work, and it gets stolen at the end. Nice work. **** SPOILER ***** Rehearsing some Halloween jokes, my daugther said to me: Knock Knock (Who's there?) Boo! (Boo-Hoo?) You don't have to cry about it! Silly, I know, but... there ya go. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7956 Registered: 4-2010 |
's-OK, I'd totally forgotten about that joke. Nice puzzle, Visconti, and nice solve, Noel! | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 2007 Registered: 7-2009 |
Sorry to swoop in on it like that. I've been following this one but have been completely stumped (even to the point that I couldn't think of any questions to answer) until the answer suddenly popped into my head. |
