Comments on Puzzle #1450: 20X20 W.o.B. #17: 25 years old this week
By Sylvain "WCPman" (qwerty)
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peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: difficulty: solvability: line logic only
Puzzle Description Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers
#1: m2 (mercymercy) on Sep 19, 2007 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#2: J.C. Anderson (jc.noserdna) on Sep 19, 2007
Wow, I actually did learn something new today. Now if I can only figure how to work it into a conversation now that it's Talk Like a Pirate Day......#3: Twillis (twillis) on Oct 27, 2007
Ya got me! Did not see that coming.#4: Gypso (Gypso) on Sep 21, 2007
Fascinating!#5: Marie-Louise Ambrey (marz) on Sep 22, 2007 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#6: Sylvain "WCPman" (qwerty) on Sep 22, 2007 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#7: Sarah Andrews (sarah) on Oct 12, 2007
Why is Sept 19 Talk like a Pirate Day?#8: Jan Wolter (jan) on Oct 12, 2007
If I recall correctly, it was the birthday of the ex-wife of one of the fellows who invented the holiday. He picked that date because he already had it memorized. Possibly he was not entirely sober at the time. Once the holiday started to catch on it occurred to him to check with his ex-wife to see if she minded her birthday being turned into "Talk Like A Pirate Day." It seems she did not. A woman of unusual tolerance, if you ask me.#9: Deana L (FFsWife) on Oct 26, 2007
Especially considering she was an EX wife!#10: Alaris Zaaqurin (Zephyr) on Dec 14, 2007
I thought it was a fish until I finished it.#11: Debra Greene (dlegreen) on Dec 28, 2007
I thought it was a fish even after I finished it! Then I read the description. Great puzzle! And now I've got Talk Like a Pirate Day marked on my calendar.#12: Jota (jota) on Feb 17, 2009
Who is this? I don't get it Sylvain.#13: Sylvain "WCPman" (qwerty) on Feb 17, 2009 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#14: Jota (jota) on Feb 17, 2009
OK But I thought it represented a BIG TIME#15: Jen (LightVader) on Feb 21, 2009
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No this is part of a different series by Sylvain, W.o.B = White on Black.#16: Jota (jota) on Feb 21, 2009
Thanks Jen.#17: Susan Nagy (susannagy54) on Jul 23, 2016
This may be the internet smiley, but even back in the fifties, or perhaps the forties, there were people who realized that certain punctuation symbols resembled parts of the human face -- especially if looked at sideways. These same people also realized - TA DA! - that the symbols could be combined to make different "pictures". I would suggest that this is the grandchild of those earlier pictures.#18: Greggo (Greggo) on Dec 2, 2017
LOL we did things like this on teletype computers back in the 70's.#19: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Jan 16, 2018
Here's Scott's explanation in 2002: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/sefSmiley.htm
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