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#281
September 18th, 2016, 18:02
David Corperial Offline
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Ampère 2
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#282
September 18th, 2016, 18:08
Bobchillingworth
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Is that even English?

Never seen that word before. Perhaps it's a Czech ballet or something with a Conductor, or a sports performer who you'd see in a Stadium... beats me.
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#283
September 18th, 2016, 18:17
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Ha! It looks like our spymaster knows exactly what he's doing. The slow-and-steady approach is pretty typical for the team that goes first, but I wondered why you would clue ANGEL if the other team wants to guess it. Turns out BED was red, too!

To our clue:
Ampere is a unit of measurement for some aspect of electric current, yes? Presumably named after Ampere, a famous physicist? (Someone with a technical background, help me out here.) So that suggests GENIUS and CONDUCTOR. But if those were the words you wanted to clue, why not Mozart? Beethoven? Yes, they're composers, not conductors; but that's close enough. Is there any chance Ampere was CZECH? The name sounds French, but maybe it was customary to Latin-ize your name? I don't see anything else.
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#284
September 18th, 2016, 18:17
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(September 18th, 2016, 17:56)DaveV Wrote: BED is red

Red team is up!

... smoke Big sorry.
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#285
September 18th, 2016, 18:30
Bobchillingworth
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Oh, Amps, okay. The acute e was confusing me. Conductor and... something then.
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#286
September 18th, 2016, 18:44
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(September 18th, 2016, 18:30)Bobchillingworth Wrote: Oh, Amps, okay. The acute e was confusing me. Conductor and... something then.

I think the acute e is supposed to point us to the person, not the unit of measurement. His name would still be spelled with it, whereas it would be dropped when it became an English word. I don't know for a fact that there was such a person, mind you. It's just that all those units - Watt, Volt, Ohm, etc. - were named after scientists.
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#287
September 18th, 2016, 18:59
Bobchillingworth
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Sure, that makes sense. Well, the name sounds vaguely French, although I suppose Ampère, if he existed, could have been Czech. I lean more toward Genius though. I think of someone like Mozart as being a prodigy, for sure, but I'm not sure "genius" would have naturally followed Conductor. Probably would have recommended "Note" instead.
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#288
September 18th, 2016, 20:12
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(September 18th, 2016, 15:51)El Grillo Wrote: Yeah, I much prefer BED to DATE. Neither are likely to be red, so let's keep this moving:

Famous last words. lol


Ampere I really don't know enough to weigh in significantly here.
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#289
September 18th, 2016, 23:37
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I'm in on CONDUCTOR too. GENIUS also looked good to me, but I'm also on no sleep right now, so it could be crazy wrong.
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#290
September 19th, 2016, 00:01
Bobchillingworth
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Point to Conductor.
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