CCC 01-08-2023
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Good little clue!:thumbsup:
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Easy one I'm trying to encourage more people to participate in the CCC
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Well, I thought of ABNORMAL but couldn't get the reason. Quite embarrassing really since my first few years of employment were working on a merchant ship.
Usual being a synonym of normal and the no inverting the answer I thought would give the game away, I often get the solution and post it before breaking it down to justify it
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Usual being a synonym of normal and the no inverting the answer I thought would give the game away, I often get the solution and post it before breaking it down to justify it
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
However abnormal is not exactly the same as not-normal...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
"It never ceases to amaze me that a spacecraft launched in 1977 can be fixed remotely from Earth." ― Brian Cox
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However abnormal is not exactly the same as not-normal...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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Agreed, but near enough for our purposes
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
Of course - I just noted that because lately me wife calls me abnormal, but in the past I was called not normal... :-D
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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Agreed, but near enough for our purposes
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
"Close enough for Government work." :-D
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Of course - I just noted that because lately me wife calls me abnormal, but in the past I was called not normal... :-D
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
Mine just calls me a ****. Removes any such confusion. :)
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Usual being a synonym of normal and the no inverting the answer I thought would give the game away, I often get the solution and post it before breaking it down to justify it
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
That's how I arrived at the solution. Usual = NORMAL, No = take the opposite => ABNORMAL. I wasn't sure about that result being a rating but went with it anyway. AB as a naval rating didn't occur to me, even though I have seen it before in the CCC.
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Rating AB
usual NORMALno ABNORMAL
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rating usual = Abnormal I get. But then the "definition" would need to be just "no", and I don't think of "no" as being "abnormal". In this case the clue word "usual" is used twice - once as a synonym for part of the answer, and again as the answer's definition. That seems at odds with the customary rules for CCC, no? Wouldn't a "cleaner" clue be rating usual, rare? or similar?
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rating usual = Abnormal I get. But then the "definition" would need to be just "no", and I don't think of "no" as being "abnormal". In this case the clue word "usual" is used twice - once as a synonym for part of the answer, and again as the answer's definition. That seems at odds with the customary rules for CCC, no? Wouldn't a "cleaner" clue be rating usual, rare? or similar?
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Easier, yes - but the clue as presented is clever - the "No", negates the previous word to provide the definition, while the other two provide the "basics" for the clue. I like it (and not just because I got it :laugh:)
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