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Eorl: Right, but, uh, Arben, in the classic pincer, I don't think you're supposed to be the one IN the pincer... | Eorl: Right, but, uh, Arben, in the classic pincer, I don't think you're supposed to be the one IN the pincer... | ||
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| + | Arben: No no no, Eorl. This isn't the pincer, it's the pincher. We get Bashim in the Pincher by using the ol' Servant of Two Masters. We play both sides against the middle. It's a Hail Mary, but we play our cards right and we'll pick the pocket. | ||
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| + | Eorl: I see... the old, "let's you and him fight" technique! So we're gonna need two Squeaky Frommes, a Jim Croce, a Joe Namath, two Fritz Habers and the biggest Dick Nixon the world has ever seen! | ||
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| + | Arben: Now you're using the old grape. Got work smarter, not harder. | ||
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| + | Eorl: Man! I totally did not have it at all. Not even close! | ||
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| + | Hal: I was talking about this with Danble on the way home. Part of the beauty (from my standpoint) of having a world as large as the world is that there are so many possible solutions to any riddle. Your arguments for Thetis were plausible, and this was possible precisely because there are ''so many'' sea kings' daughters. | ||
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| + | The only real error you made was you should have known that the solution would involve puns and be obscene. | ||
Latest revision as of 00:05, 7 November 2007
Noah: I'm pretty sure I've got it, but let me try to find textual references in Hesiod.
Hal: Ah, Eorl always thinks he's got it.
Eorl: Yeah, but THIS time...
Arben: This time we try my plan, Eorl: the classic pincher.
Eorl: Right, but, uh, Arben, in the classic pincer, I don't think you're supposed to be the one IN the pincer...
Arben: No no no, Eorl. This isn't the pincer, it's the pincher. We get Bashim in the Pincher by using the ol' Servant of Two Masters. We play both sides against the middle. It's a Hail Mary, but we play our cards right and we'll pick the pocket.
Eorl: I see... the old, "let's you and him fight" technique! So we're gonna need two Squeaky Frommes, a Jim Croce, a Joe Namath, two Fritz Habers and the biggest Dick Nixon the world has ever seen!
Arben: Now you're using the old grape. Got work smarter, not harder.
Eorl: Man! I totally did not have it at all. Not even close!
Hal: I was talking about this with Danble on the way home. Part of the beauty (from my standpoint) of having a world as large as the world is that there are so many possible solutions to any riddle. Your arguments for Thetis were plausible, and this was possible precisely because there are so many sea kings' daughters.
The only real error you made was you should have known that the solution would involve puns and be obscene.
