Quotef

[jedusor]

A transcription of the quote board from Beginner's Luck HQ:

"A team just back-tasted the cheese puzzle."
"Is there an MIT gun shop? No, wait, of course there is."
"There needs to be some sort of blackmailish threat to get the cartographers to shut up."
"Somebody needs to smack him. I volunteer."
"I feel like such a bitch doing this to Papa Smurf."
"Bill and Ted's Iceland Adventure? Really?"
"This is nice... a team just called in to tell us something was working."
Caller: "I believe Tiger Woods has just become Lion Woods?"
"So I drank a 5-Hour Energy Shot, then laid down for two hours."
"Okay, I'm back to being able to pay attention."
"Are you brushing your teeth with spider eggs?"
"Can you spell that in normal letters?"
"We'd like to call in an answer for the puzzle 'Gondry'?"
"This is almost better than being drunk."
"I can't say I've ever gone around town vandalizing signs before."
"I solved this puzzle sitting on the toilet."
"Put the rabbit costume back on or you're not winning this Hunt."
"Say 'I have oatmeal in my nose'." "Uh... je ne parle français très bien."
"I want my engagement ring." "This is awfully sudden. Don't you think we should date first?"
"OH! Those are carrots... okay."
"Does he have OCD?" "No, he just has Tyler."
"God, that was a sketchy-ass shower I found."
Silly Hat Brigade's meta answer: "OTIS MADE ROBOT BOOBS"
"I need some recognition--I've got a disco ball on my bra."
"We'd like to answer THISPUZZLESUCKSCOCKS, please."

In retrospect, a disproportionate number of those were said by me.

Comments

[42itous.livejournal.com]

LOL! Thank you for sharing.

[canadianpuzzler.livejournal.com]

Whereas I, on the other hand, can remember speaker and circumstance for a disproportionate number of those (and was writer-downer of more than a few of them).

A goodly number of these still make me grin.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Our team is awesome. *high five*

[devjoe.livejournal.com]

Ha, I didn't realize the "normal letters" one made it on the board. When Plant was on the runaround, Tyler had stopped answering meta phones after doing so for most of Saturday evening, and I had taken over doing most of the meta phone answering after that.

During this time, Tahnan called in some meta answer. Probably in response to Tyler's earlier requests to spell things using the phonetic alphabet (alpha bravo...), Tahnan asks if it is OK if he spells the answer in the International Phonetic Alphabet, and he gets me. I say yes, and he starts spelling the entire meta answer in what are apparently the names of these symbols. The gibberish reminds me that he is a linguist and I realize what he said, and I cut him off with the aforementioned quote.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Since that meta was clued phonetically, it seemed reasonable (to IIF) to spell it out phonetically.

[dalryaug.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that was the situation quoted here, though. I'm almost positive that quote was said by Wes on the phone, but I don't have any idea what the circumstances were.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

It says something about Mystery Hunt that I would not be at all surprised if that same quote had been said twice separately.

[ertchin.livejournal.com]

I can confirm that the quote on the board is in reference to when /dev/joe said it, as I was the writer.

[rpipuzzleguy.livejournal.com]

I did that because I told Palindrome that ZANE was wrong because I'd thought they'd said VANE. I had a feeling I'd done something wrong and reached out to correct things. So it was only a five-minute mistake, but I still felt pretty damn stupid and there was no way I was letting it happen again.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Right at the beginning of the '08 Hunt, I did the same thing... only I forgot what team it was, so I had to ask Sofiya to go into the call archives and check who I'd been talking to. Sigh.