Comments on: Guardian 25,745 / Orlando http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/09/19/guardian-25745-orlando/ Never knowingly undersolved. Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:12:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/09/19/guardian-25745-orlando/#comment-205772 Eileen Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:02:22 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49164#comment-205772 Hi yvains

Apologies for the delay – I’ve been out since lunchtime. I’ve replied on the Crucible blog. ;-)

]]> By: yvains http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/09/19/guardian-25745-orlando/#comment-205759 yvains Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:02:34 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49164#comment-205759 @Eileen: It looks as if you must be singling out my (the first) comment on the first edition of scchua’s blog this morning. I must have inadvertently broken a rule, and if so, I am genuinely sorry (and will also apologise to scchua).

That said, I honestly don’t understand what the rule is, or why my posting on scchua’s blog was wrong, while subsequent comments apparently weren’t. Please believe me when I say that I’m not being sarcastic, but genuinely mystified (as by “And that’s not all I was referring to in my comment 13.”) The last thing I want to do is offend anyone, and offending someone accidentally is almost worse than doing it on purpose.

]]> By: rowland http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/09/19/guardian-25745-orlando/#comment-205745 rowland Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:05:38 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49164#comment-205745 Good! I think you have really worn this one out, done it to death &c, and I agree totally with Eileen.

]]> By: rhotician http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/09/19/guardian-25745-orlando/#comment-205721 rhotician Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:47:35 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49164#comment-205721 I have pursued the topic because I think errors in Chambers are an important matter, more so than our taste for Tramp’s clueing style. However I have said all I want to now.

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/09/19/guardian-25745-orlando/#comment-205719 Eileen Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:12:01 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49164#comment-205719 I don’t know why this topic is still being pursued – particularly on this blog: it was done to death on Tuesday. [And that's not all I was referring to in my comment 13.]

If Gaufrid, our moderator, were not in hospital, he would have ended it before now – as he would have deleted the first spoiler comment on scchua’s Placeholder post for today’s puzzle.

]]> By: rhotician http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/09/19/guardian-25745-orlando/#comment-205717 rhotician Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:07:54 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49164#comment-205717 See also ‘play with’ in the entry for ‘play’ where the definition is unambigous and accurate.

]]> By: rhotician http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/09/19/guardian-25745-orlando/#comment-205713 rhotician Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:45:12 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49164#comment-205713 @29 – The definition is a double entendre. Several posters read it as meaning ‘masturbate’. Tramp intended this, as a misdirection which, it has to be said, works very well with “blue movie”. Someone at Chambers clearly had the same intention because the entry for ‘flirt’ has no such ambiguity. In the entry for ‘toy’ “to flirt (with)” is enough. “amuse oneself amorously” is ambiguous, superfluous and erroneous. “toy with” can mean “flirt with”, it cannot mean “masturbate with”.

]]> By: Paul http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/09/19/guardian-25745-orlando/#comment-205701 Paul Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:49:19 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49164#comment-205701 Brilliant Orlando – more Orlando please!

]]> By: yvains http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/09/19/guardian-25745-orlando/#comment-205698 yvains Thu, 20 Sep 2012 05:54:44 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49164#comment-205698 @27 – “She’s only toying with him” “He was toying with her affections” – nothing indecent or erroneous about the definition, that I can see.

]]> By: muck http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/09/19/guardian-25745-orlando/#comment-205685 muck Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:51:12 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49164#comment-205685 Thanks Eileen and Orlando

Quite challenging.
No problem with imp-lore.
I did need the explanation for NI in NICOLA ADAMS

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