| Author | Message | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 6554 Registered: 8-2001 |
Botany is a perfectly respectable profession, but thew fact that Juliette's parents were botanists made her life difficult.How come? Allergies are irrel, as is travel or living in a peculiar location. | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 1114 Registered: 12-2010 |
Is Juliette H/A/F? Did the difficulties occur when she was a child? Teenager? Adult? Are her parents still alive? Would this work if only one of her parents had been a botanist? Were the difficulties related to social interaction? school? finding a job? finding a boyfriend? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 6555 Registered: 8-2001 |
Doriana (Doriana) New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 1114 Registered: 12-2010 Posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 - 6:59 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Is Juliette H/A/F? yes to allDid the difficulties occur when she was a child? yesTeenager? yesAdult? no Are her parents still alive? irrel Would this work if only one of her parents had been a botanist? possibly Were the difficulties related to social interaction? yes school? yesfinding a job? no finding a boyfriend? yes, when she was a teenager | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 1116 Registered: 12-2010 |
Is her name relevant? Her parents' name? Their ethnicity? religion? where they live? Did she tell people that her parents were botanists? Did people ask her what her parents did for a living? Did people consider her strange? Make fun of her? Relevant when this happened? | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1055 Registered: 9-2010 |
Did she have a greenhouse at her house? Or did they grow the plants at the house itself and design it like a greenhouse? Are greenhouses relevant at all? Plants? Growing plants? Could this have happened if her parents grew and farmed plants instead of studying them? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 6557 Registered: 8-2001 |
Doriana (Doriana) New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 1116 Registered: 12-2010 Posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 - 9:52 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Is her name relevant? yesHer parents' name? noTheir ethnicity? noreligion? nowhere they live? no Did she tell people that her parents were botanists? probablyDid people ask her what her parents did for a living? irrel Did people consider her strange? yope Make fun of her? yes Relevant when this happened? no Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn) New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1055 Registered: 9-2010 Posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 - 9:54 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Did she have a greenhouse at her house? irrel Or did they grow the plants at the house itself and design it like a greenhouse? ierrelAre greenhouses relevant at all? noPlants? yesGrowing plants?yesish Could this have happened if her parents grew and farmed plants instead of studying them? yes | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 1117 Registered: 12-2010 |
Is a specific plant relevant? Did people make up nicknames for her? It's her first name that is relevant, correct? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 6558 Registered: 8-2001 |
oriana (Doriana) New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 1117 Registered: 12-2010 Posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 - 10:55 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Is a specific plant relevant? yes Did people make up nicknames for her? yes It's her first name that is relevant, correct? yes | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 1118 Registered: 12-2010 |
Does the nickname involve (parts of) her first name? (Parts of) the plant's name? Does her first name rhyme with the plant's name? | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1060 Registered: 9-2010 |
Is this another "none-of-your-business" problem? Or did they grow some plant associated with Jews, Israel, or something like that and they called her JEW-Liette in an Anti-Semetic fashion? Which I'm hoping isn't the case because I'm Jewish and would be quite offended if that were the solution. Or did they study fertilizer and they called her Poo-liette? Did they call her names that rhymed with her first name? With part of her first name? Ju? Li? Ette? Juli? Liette? | ||
| Potato (Potato)
New member Username: Potato Post Number: 632 Registered: 7-2010 |
Do they live in a country where people speak English? Or a different language? French (because her name sounds French)? Is learning a foreign language in school relevant? Did other children start to make fun of her after learning one or more certain words in a different language? Is it only her first name that's relevant? Or do her first name and her family name make a funny combination? Are yew trees relevant? Is the scientific name of a plant relevant? Of an animal? Of a pest? She no longer has the problem as an adult... Is it because people outgrew making fun of others in general? Or did they realize that her name isn't really that funny? Or is it because she doesn't have to state what her parents do for a living? Or because of her reaction on other persons' reaction to her name? Did she change her name? Or does one need knowledge that is more present in schoolchildren than in the average person (such as a word in a foreign language or anything biology-related beyond basic level)? | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 476 Registered: 2-2011 |
is it a play on "Julie ate.."? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 6559 Registered: 8-2001 |
Doriana (Doriana) New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 1118 Registered: 12-2010 Posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 - 11:36 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Does the nickname involve (parts of) her first name? yes (Parts of) the plant's name? yesDoes her first name rhyme with the plant's name? yope Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn) New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1060 Registered: 9-2010 Posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 - 11:50 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Is this another "none-of-your-business" problem? no Or did they grow some plant associated with Jews, Israel, or something like that and they called her JEW-Liette in an Anti-Semetic fashion? Which I'm hoping isn't the case because I'm Jewish and would be quite offended if that were the solution. Nothing whatsoever about Jews is relevant. And, by the way, both of my parents are Jewish. Or did they study fertilizer and they called her Poo-liette? no Did they call her names that rhymed with her first name? no With part of her first name? Ju? Li? Ette? Juli? Liette? no to all Potato (Potato) New member Username: Potato Post Number: 632 Registered: 7-2010 Posted on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 1:09 am: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Do they live in a country where people speak English? yesOr a different language? no French (because her name sounds French)? no Is learning a foreign language in school relevant? noDid other children start to make fun of her after learning one or more certain words in a different language? no Is it only her first name that's relevant? yes Or do her first name and her family name make a funny combination? no Are yew trees relevant? no Is the scientific name of a plant relevant? yes Of an animal? no Of a pest? no She no longer has the problem as an adult... Is it because people outgrew making fun of others in general? noOr did they realize that her name isn't really that funny? noOr is it because she doesn't have to state what her parents do for a living? no Or because of her reaction on other persons' reaction to her name? see next answer Did she change her name? yesOr does one need knowledge that is more present in schoolchildren than in the average person (such as a word in a foreign language or anything biology-related beyond basic level)? no Shez (Shez) New member Username: Shez Post Number: 476 Registered: 2-2011 Posted on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 2:26 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) is it a play on "Julie ate.."? no | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 1119 Registered: 12-2010 |
Is the plant a tree? bush? flower? grass? moss? fern? Does it bear fruits? vegetables? Is it found in [LTPF list of continents]? Were her parents studying that specific plant? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13069 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is Juliette her new first name? Her old one? | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1069 Registered: 9-2010 |
Ooh, good question Balin. I didn't think of that | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 6562 Registered: 8-2001 |
Doriana (Doriana) New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 1119 Registered: 12-2010 Posted on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 10:50 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Is the plant a tree? bush? flower? grass? moss? fern? Does it bear fruits? vegetables?{it's a flower} Is it found in [LTPF list of continents]? see below Were her parents studying that specific plant? yes Balin (Balin) New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13069 Registered: 4-2010 Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 1:18 am: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Is Juliette her new first name? yes Her old one? no Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn) New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1069 Registered: 9-2010 Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 3:39 am: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Ooh, good question Balin. Yes, it sure is! I didn't think of that **** SPOILER ************** Unfortunately for Juliette, her botanist parents named her Nasturtium, which was not only dreadful in its own right but led to the nickname Nasty. So as soon as she reached legal adulthood, she changed her name to Juliette. The only thing relevant about her new name is that it's pretty rather than ridiculous.I'm AMAZED that someone thought that the puzzle might involve some slur on Jews because the first syllable of her name is a homophone with 'Jew.'This could lead to a new puzzle: Vivian (another name for Nimue) posted an innocuous puzzle about botanists, but someone thought she might be an anti-Semite. How come? But of course, I'd need a different forum, one where members weren't familiar with the original puzzle. Please see my new puzzle you know where. | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1105 Registered: 9-2010 |
I never thought you were an Anti-Semite. I thought the puzzle might involve Antisemitism. It's like the difference between me being a homophobe (I'm not) and me referencing the very homophobic "Tyson Homosexual" incident in one of my puzzles. (Which I did) | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 6565 Registered: 8-2001 |
But you said you'd be offended if the puzzle involved Jews, & I think offense would be appropriate only if the puzzle itself were anti-Semitic. I once did post a puzzle about an anti-Semite, & no one seemed offended, since the puzzle of course did not endorse anti-Semitism. | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1111 Registered: 9-2010 |
No, I said I'd be offended if they called her "JEW-Liette" in an Antisemitic fashion. I didn't mean the solution would offend me, I meant the idea (ie that "JEW-Liette" is a way of making fun of someone) would. Sorry if that confused you. | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 6571 Registered: 8-2001 |
Well, it IS a way of making fun of someone, but it's a disgusting, anti-Semtitc way of making fun of someone & no decent person would do it. | ||
| Vesica (Vesica)
New member Username: Vesica Post Number: 563 Registered: 8-2001 |
I would throw in no decent person would be make fun of someone else in a hurtful way...but that's just me. Nimue - Darn this one went fast! Very good though. Gregory - Glad you clarified because I understood your comment the same way Nimue did. I had the thought "Gee there's a lot of puzzles around here with Nazis...He must be pissed". | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1123 Registered: 9-2010 |
Yeah, I phrased that poorly too. I need to learn to phrase things better. I meant the idea that someone actually WOULD make fun of someone by calling them JEW-liette offended me, not the fact that they theoretically COULD. I mean if I were named Juliette (which would be creepy because I'm a guy) and someone called me JEW-liette, I'd be mad. | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 6577 Registered: 8-2001 |
Vesica (Vesica) New member Username: Vesica Post Number: 563 Registered: 8-2001 Posted on Friday, April 15, 2011 - 4:18 am: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) I would throw in no decent person would be make fun of someone else in a hurtful way...but that's just me. I certainly would expect a decent person to make fun of a Nazi in a hurtful way! | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1179 Registered: 9-2010 |
You wouldn't "make fun" of the Nazi, you'd just not like him. You wouldn't say "Hahahaha Nazi, your swastikas look like one of those creepy characters from some creepy horrible movie who I am to tired to remember the name of". You would say "Nazis are bad". | ||
| Vesica (Vesica)
New member Username: Vesica Post Number: 601 Registered: 8-2001 |
*snort* Yeah, I can't see me doing that. Or, you know, being all "Your goose-step makes your butt look big". Mostly I wouldn't do that as I think, historically, Nazis did not have the best sense of humor. Also, I'm not Aryan or even fully white, so I'm thinking they wouldn't find my jokes funny. :D | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 6604 Registered: 8-2001 |
I've heard funny songs that make fun of Nazis (one had a chorus that ended with, "Ve is ze master race, and we heil, heil, right in the fuhrer's face"). |
