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I'm also thinking "spanish influence", so maybe south or central america, although doing a quick tour of those capitals/big cities yielded no matches for me.
'Moving through space and time' might refer to earthquake activity.
Currently: stumped.
What city/country plans its streets on a general grid, with apartment buildings on the outside of the block surrounding a green mini-park-like area in the middle?
It's a small city, so it might be tough to find. The residents are famous for their wit.
Reposting since on a new page.
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Edit->The area this city is in was once ruled by a despot, but in a good way.
The residents are famous for their wit
auckland
melbourne
montreal
rishon lezion (israel also has terain that suits - but much of israel is NOT googlemapped)
armagh
west kirby
...
and an undisclosed location in Boston known as Cheers...
some of those green patches are orchards - that is weirdQuote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
still stumped
B.
I'm gonna need to use a "life-line" and ask drone to eliminate half the choices of continents, just to narrow the search more:
Africa
Asia
Australia
Europe
North America
(Central and)South America
If you're willing, please strike-thru 3 of those choices.
I see red dirt ...
that should narrow it down to either Africa or South America.
My initial feel is Central America... The sun favours northern hemisphere.
I'll give you 4.Quote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
Clue rehash:
- When this city is found, I want a humorous post declaring success!
- North is up.
- This city has moved in both time and space.
- It's a small city, so it might be tough to find. The residents are famous for their wit.
- The area this city is in was once ruled by a despot, but in a good way.
- Europe or Asia
hmmm... not America then.
It is the strong grid layout that throwing me off here. Where in Asia or Europe do you find this?
So Europe, Asia... Eurasia (thanks for the assist :bow:).
So I thought Khazakhstan, home to Borat's fictional village, which was apparently actually filmed in a small town in Romania.
L00king, but no matches yet. Surprisingly, Romania has very few hi-res cities mapped by Google, yet Khazakhstan has several.
... cannot help you guys,
with so little to go on and bandwidth costing me so much i cannot even begin to look.
have fun
B. :-/
Two days and no one has guessed yet? What the hellas going on? This is madness!
OK, this one was harder than I thought. I ran out of ways to give clues without being too obvious. My bad. :stwshame:
grrrr... grumble grumble, I can't think of anything laconic to say about this so will leave to someone else....
maybe it's time for some obvious clues?Quote:
Originally Posted by drone
Ahh for christsakes....The clues are obvious enough...For the love of Hades he's telling you in the above qoute for all intents and purposes......:laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by drone
This is not madness...This is SPARTA!!!
Ya know what I like?
When you've put in some time on a project, and a solution just evades you? And a johnny-come-lately just wanders in and sneers the answer at you, like spitting?
Yup, it's my favorite thing.
"hellas" = good clue drone. It nagged me in the back of my mind all throughout the ball-game. "Gonna look at Greece, as soon as Manning wraps this up", I thought. LoL
Spartans are funny?
:bow:Quote:
When a Spartan complained to his mother that his sword was too short,
she replied, "It will be long enough when you take a step forward."
Laconic wit, from Lacedaemon/Laconia. Makanyane had it withQuote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
The city pictured is the new Sparta, created after the Greek Independence near the ruins of the old city. It serves as the capitol of the Laconia province. Back in Byzantine days, the title for the Peloponnese peninsula was called the Despotate of Morea, based at Mystras, a few kilos to the west.Quote:
Originally Posted by Makanyane
Like I said, it was tougher than I planned. The "city" has less than 18K population, and there just isn't much to it today. Since it was a planned city, the layout doesn't look Greek or even European, although I can't imagine the courtyards anywhere other than the Med. I soon realized that I couldn't find any meaningful clues without giving the whole thing away. I'll try to line up a bunch before posting next time.
@KukriKhan - Miserable game, wasn't it? Colts look on, Saints can be good, but they look like they could use another couple of weeks of practice.
:bow:Quote:
After an Athenian accused Spartans of being ignorant, a Spartan agreed:
"What you say is true. We have learned none of your evil ways."
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Originally Posted by drone
Good clue drone... I was unfortunately sleeping during the last phase of this. (you gave this clue at 01:03 in the morning and it was solved before I awoke)
I think that must be me then as no-one else laid claim to the last answer.
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that is probably much too easy, but I think an easy one is due...
Yay, an easy one for my Friday afternoon!! I see:
- lots of green
- a motte and bailey castle
- river
- railway
- a university campus
- a big stadium
Got to be the UK
Hint below if needed
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This Johnny-come-lately humbly begs your pardon and anyone else's for that matter. I did not mean for my post to be inferred by the readers as being sneering in any respect or much less was i spitting an answer at anyone. My post was only meant in jest or tongue in cheek if you will. In retrospect it was just probably bad form on my part to attempt a "tongue in cheek" post in a thread where i have never posted before; not to mention i was also enjoying the Colts/Saints game as well ( Thank the Gods it's Football Season!!) and perhaps my Heineken induced giddiness reflected as outright obnoxiousness in my post. For that......my apologies friend.Quote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
Lysander, I don't think Kukri's comment was directed at you. I believe he just expressed his frustration for having missed the obvious clue.
But anyway:
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Originally Posted by Lysander13
Spoken as a true gentleman :bow: Such friendly and nice patrons like you, who apologise because they think they might have offended somebody, make my job very easy.
You are very welcome in this thread and in the Gameroom my friend. Enjoy and have fun :2thumbsup:
Based on your clues, I'm going to go with Cardiff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yawning Angel
told you it would be too easy... :embarassed:
next please!
I have this silly (and often annoying) rule that I apply only to myself:
"Don't let the sun go down before you fix what you broke today."
It's 1925 hours, and the sun will be down soon.
Lysander13, I apologize for my rudeness. :bow: Andres, our estemmed Moderator here, has the right of it: I was grousing because I was too thick to pick up on drone's excellent clues. Heck, I'd reviewed 4 continents before it finally dawned on me: Greece.
In no way did I mean to impune your intentions or words. You're just the kind of bright, sensitive fella we like around here to play with. Please don't let my insensitivity run you off; I usually play well with others (Mrs. Murphey said so, in kindergarten).
To sum up: Sorry, man. I was just griping.
Oh, and: did anyone else think New Orleans forgot to show up in the 2nd quarter? Maybe they had some other gig to attend?
@ Andres
Thank you for the friendly welcome.
@ KukriKhan
No need for apologies friend. Hell, i figured i was the one who came across rather rude.
As for the Saints: Yea, they definately forgot to come back out for the 2nd half of that game. Maybe they forgot to come back out because they had to make sure they got good seats back in Baton Rouge for tomorrow night's LSU vs VTech game. :dizzy2:
So which is the pic everyone is working on now? Post 1227?
I hope so, I looked at the past posts to make sure I didn't screw up with the order again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lysander13
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