what am I?

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 19 Apr 2009, 23:17

Next riddle:

1) I'm a combination of a sword and a Gaulish god

No further clues; that should keep you busy for some time

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 20 Apr 2009, 00:00

?

gladius =sword
glanis = a god
macha = a goddess.

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 20 Apr 2009, 07:08

Marc van Arc wrote:No further clues; that should keep you busy for some time

See: 43 minutes....

Well done

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 20 Apr 2009, 08:29

Marc van Arc wrote:
Marc van Arc wrote:No further clues; that should keep you busy for some time
See: 43 minutes....

I think the Glanis angle has been used before.. that was what gave it away.

Previously Listed Catfish

New fish

i) I am a an even toed ungulate and a famous cowboy film with Claudia Cardinale..

who am I?

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 20 Apr 2009, 08:53

? (C'era una volta il West)

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 20 Apr 2009, 10:54

Marc van Arc wrote:
Synodontis voltae
? (C'era una volta il West)

wrong fish, but..

ii) Right film, wrong language
iii) Right continent

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 20 Apr 2009, 18:34

Once upon a time in the west might indicate Senegal and then , the giraffe catfish, comes to mind.

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 20 Apr 2009, 19:47

Marc van Arc wrote:Once upon a time in the west might indicate Senegal and then
Auchenoglanis occidentalis
, the giraffe catfish, comes to mind.

That's the one!

A giraffe is an "even-toed ungulate mammal" (I learned this morning

)
Occidentalis (of) the West.

Your turn!
M.

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 20 Apr 2009, 20:29

1) I was looking at Vermeer's work showing some cowboys and indians on horseback and noticed a significant difference.....

Half an hour?

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 20 Apr 2009, 22:47

Marc van Arc wrote:Half an hour?

Might take longer than that.. (unless someone else gets in first of course).. Monday night is "bath night" for the fish.

Hmm.. Vermeer.... sounds more like L-Num's department than mine...

M.

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 20 Apr 2009, 23:31

?

Can't see any Vermeer connection though..

L number Banana · Post by **L number Banana** » 20 Apr 2009, 23:39

Hmm.. Vermeer.... sounds more like L-Num's department than mine...

I'm still having heart palpitations from having read "Vermeer" and "cowboys and indians" in the same sentence...

There's a few paintings that might relate in a creative way, but I can't find the fish connection...

edit: here's a saddled painter: ?

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 20 Apr 2009, 23:43

Aha! (maybe)
Saddle Catfish
pictus = painted. -> Vermeer
Indians don't use saddles.

L number Banana · Post by **L number Banana** » 20 Apr 2009, 23:56

hey, we found that at the same time

Indians don't use saddles.

maybe that's the difference?

or P.pictus - painted but there's a difference between the two colour forms?

L number Banana · Post by **L number Banana** » 20 Apr 2009, 23:58

Last edited by L number Banana on Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:52 pm, edited 1 time in total.

if that's the fish, you clearly got it first 'cos I put mine in an edit

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 21 Apr 2009, 00:05

L number Banana wrote:
Last edited by L number Banana on Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:52 pm, edited 1 time in total.
if that's the fish, you clearly got it first 'cos I put mine in an edit

It's way later than 6.52 pm where I am though,

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 21 Apr 2009, 06:21

torbanite wrote:Aha! (maybe)
Saddle Catfish
Leiarius pictus

pictus = painted. -> Vermeer
Indians don't use saddles.

I quoted this for both fish and explanation are

, yet you may sort out between yourselves who has won

Anyway, to both, very good (again).

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 21 Apr 2009, 08:41

I think, comparing the times of the posts/edits that I sneaked it, but it was a photo finish.
Mrs Iron Madtom can always disqualify me if I'm wrong

And now for something completely different..

ii) I would like to buy.. a fish licence!

L number Banana · Post by **L number Banana** » 21 Apr 2009, 12:19

Iron Madtom doesn't mess with time itself, too dangerous!

?

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 21 Apr 2009, 19:00

L number Banana wrote:
Trachelyopterus fisheri
?

It's not an angler's licence, more a licence to keep fish.. if that sounds like it came from the Ministry of Silly Ideas, well that might be a clue..

iii) My name refers to a military obstacle which goes by various names. To the French it is the Cheval de Frise, to the germans Spanischer Reiter.

iv) I'm from the biig family.

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 21 Apr 2009, 20:02

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 21 Apr 2009, 21:05

Marc van Arc wrote:
Acanthicus hystrix

Ooo close .. however, hystrix (Porcupine) is not the animal you need.

v) Clue # ii gives you more than half my name..

vi) You'll know when you've found the right fish because the etymology section of its entry sets about explaining the name of a completely different genus from a completely different family.. (Once this is done I'll maybe file a "bug" report).

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 21 Apr 2009, 22:32

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 21 Apr 2009, 22:46

torbanite wrote:[Once this is done I'll maybe file a "bug" report.

Yes, do so. Jools or MatsP can probably change them all at the same time; I have to do them one by one.

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 22 Apr 2009, 00:06

Marc van Arc wrote:
Hypostomus ericius

Yay!

- Now for something completely different/ "I want to buy a fish licence" = Monty Python.
The name of the fish is .. "Eric"

- Ericius = Hedgehog. Also Cheval de Frise, an anti-cavalry/armour device & the hedgehog infantry formation.

Whilst googling around for hedgehogs, I found a 1500 year old riddle the answer to which is .. hedgehog.

Plena domus spinis, parvi sed corporis hospes;
incolumi dorso telis confixus acutis
sustinet armatas segetes habitator inermis.

"Symphosii Scholastici Aenigmata" (XXIX. Ericius)
and a translation of it here

Next!

M.

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 22 Apr 2009, 00:10

Marc van Arc wrote:
torbanite wrote:[Once this is done I'll maybe file a "bug" report.
Yes, do so. Jools or MatsP can probably change them all at the same time; I have to do them one by one.

them.. ?
Oops.. they're all wrong

L number Banana · Post by **L number Banana** » 22 Apr 2009, 15:36

Iron Madtom here:
List is updated but may miss a few in the next while - Mr.Sluggo the computer is behaving like a commodore 64, searching for fish is out of the question as page flips are taking 1/2 cup coffee each.

Hold the fort, may take a few days...

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 22 Apr 2009, 22:30

torbanite wrote:[them.. ? Oops.. they're all wrong

You certainly didn't think I was able to pick that one out instantly, did you? I had to check them all - well almost

Btw: due to very long days at school (8.30 AM to 10.30 PM) today and tomorrow I'm unable to come up with a new riddle atm. I'm too tired to think of one right now. So either we wait or someone has to volunteer.

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 22 Apr 2009, 22:59

OK, here's a new riddle from me. I am going to collect three of these fish tomorrow, yet each and only one of them is a concatenation of the base 10 representations of the first three primes, and thus a Smarandache-Wellin number!

Jools

Dave Rinaldo · Post by **Dave Rinaldo** » 22 Apr 2009, 23:26

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