what am I?

Richard B · Post by **Richard B** » 10 Jan 2010, 18:48

(not meaning to gazump Mats

)

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 10 Jan 2010, 18:56

Richard B wrote:
Astroblepus sabalo
(not meaning to gazump Mats )

That's no problem.

--
Mats

Richard B · Post by **Richard B** » 10 Jan 2010, 19:16

MatsP wrote:
Richard B wrote:
Astroblepus sabalo
(not meaning to gazump Mats )
That's no problem.
--
Mats

Not to say it's right but i think so...

L number Banana · Post by **L number Banana** » 11 Jan 2010, 05:38

Gazumping is allowed.

Richard B:

Astroblepus = sky+ Looker, stargazer, one who uses gigantic mirror telescopes.
sabalo = One letter off sabata/sabato (shoe) or Ernesto Sabato. Don't really know why it was named sabalo? Someone famous I should know about?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto%20Sabato Born in Rojas, Argentina.

All yours Richard B!
Previously Listed Catfish

Richard B · Post by **Richard B** » 11 Jan 2010, 12:56

I'm little with a relatively big tail.
7 people keep me, one of whom has a surname that almost makes that person an extremely expensive footballer.
My name is only a 'tiny bit' away from a fish that's already been & gone...

What am I?

L number Banana · Post by **L number Banana** » 11 Jan 2010, 18:41

?

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 11 Jan 2010, 20:19

L number Banana wrote:sabalo = One letter off sabata/sabato (shoe) or Ernesto Sabato.

Hi Tana,
Just minor, but isn't the Spanish word for "shoe" zapato?
I got not hits wrt sabata, yet sabato is Italian for Saturday (Sabbath).

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 11 Jan 2010, 21:15

I think the Catalan for shoes is sabates. A shoe is una sabata. (I think).

Richard B · Post by **Richard B** » 11 Jan 2010, 22:18

L number Banana wrote:
Noturus gyrinus
?

This might be a great guess but thalan is down twice so that would be 8 keepers - sorry, close but no cigar

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 11 Jan 2010, 23:35

I think L-num is onto something with the rinaldo thang..
so must be a good bet, given your tastes in catfish?

L number Banana · Post by **L number Banana** » 12 Jan 2010, 02:18

Marc:

Hi Tana,
Just minor, but isn't the Spanish word for "shoe" zapato?
I got not hits wrt sabata, yet sabato is Italian for Saturday (Sabbath).

A little knowledge is never minor.
I only know sabata as one and sabato as many shoes. What do people speak in Guatamala, Spanish as well? Maybe it was slang or a dialect? That's were I got it from but yes google does have a different one. I also know that my clogs were sabots in France. Slippers in Northern Italian are also called savatis. Shoe is scarpa - a single shoe, scarpe for a pair of shoes. Saturday in our dialect (Friulano)is Sabo.

I'll use the google version in future so we're all looking at the same book.

Never thought to look it up!
Just did and here's an interesting one that references Inca and a shoe market in spain???

The Art of Shoemaking « Mallorca Daily Photo Blog
10 Jun 2009 ... like every year in June, Lloseta at the foot of the Tramuntana mountains not far from Inca celebrated a Fira de Sa Sabata (shoe market). ...
mallorcaphotoblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/.../the-art-of-shoemaking/ -

I've just added to the confusion...

Richard B · Post by **Richard B** » 12 Jan 2010, 04:33

torbanite wrote:I think L-num is onto something with the rinaldo thang..
so
Microsynodontis polli
must be a good bet, given your tastes in catfish?

Ha ha - i knew i shoulda gone for the other one! Winner!!!

I'm little with a relatively big tail. - look at pic 1 on the cat-e-log page 7 people keep me, one of whom has a surname that almost makes that person an extremely expensive footballer.Rinaldo is almost Ronaldo
My name is only a 'tiny bit' away from a fish that's already been & gone...tiny bit is micro & syno polli has already gone

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 12 Jan 2010, 10:10

i) I'm the species most (and least) likely to say: "There can be only one!"

Who am I?

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 12 Jan 2010, 16:50

Highlander..... not my cup of tea I'm afraid.

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 12 Jan 2010, 23:57

ii) I was described in the same year the film was released.
iii) My species sounds like the surname of an actor.
iv) Someone with the same name as the person I'm actually named after played for FC Eindhoven in the early 1950s. (It might be the very person, I don't know).

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 31 Jan 2010, 11:36

Although I have tried not to reply - as no-one else seems to do anymore - the Eindhoven clue kept nagging. Problem is that Eindhoven has two teams and the FC is not my favourite; that's PSV.
The only thing I can come up with is the above, but I know it's wrong for the fish is not described in 1986.
Other early 50's names of FC players are Louwers, van Melis, van Tuyl and Tebak.... It beats me.

On a side note: seeing that this riddle has been untouched since Jan 12, is it now time to end the thread?
Tana, what do you reckon?

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 31 Jan 2010, 11:48

I wouldn't formally end it, just leave it there. You never know when someone else might pick it up.

Jools

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 31 Jan 2010, 20:40

Marc van Arc wrote:
Glyptothorax schmidti

Other early 50's names of FC players are Louwers, van Melis, van Tuyl and Tebak.... It beats me.

I'd almost forgotten about this..

Not the correct answer

I'm fairly sure there was no actor called Schmidt in the film Highlander.

v) The player I was thinking of in clue iv) is in the list Marc quoted. (The first name of the player, the surname of the actor and the species name of the fish are the same).
vi) The fish is a small South American with black spots on its body and a black splodge on its dorsal fin.
vii) Three registered keepers.

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 31 Jan 2010, 20:51

torbanite · Post by **torbanite** » 31 Jan 2010, 21:39

Marc van Arc wrote:
Corydoras lamberti

Actor = Christopher Lambert.
"Named to honour Mr. Lambertus van Tuijl".
A Lambert van Tuijl played for FC Eindhoven in the 50s.
Corydoras are sociable wee fish so unlikely to say "There can be only one!"

L number Banana · Post by **L number Banana** » 01 Feb 2010, 06:07

Marc:

Tana, what do you reckon?

I was keeping an eye on it and kept promising myself to start searching, then Richard in zebra pants ruined my concentration

...

I agree with Jools, I think it can just appear and reappear as people get time. I'll keep the update going and we'll just go with the flow.

However, if someone wants to tweak it into new life in cool way or a different direction, no problem

Previously Listed Catfish

grokefish · Post by **grokefish** » 21 Feb 2010, 23:08

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 22 Feb 2010, 07:49

If we're waiting for someone to go with a new species. Then here's a Bagginsian one:

What is next months CotM?

OK, here's a little guidance. Firstly, Richard B isn't allowed to respond as he wrote it and, secondly, is a conceited fish not something that belongs to a family that initially sounds a bit like the coffee I am drinking.

Jools

Richard B · Post by **Richard B** » 22 Feb 2010, 08:22

Jools wrote:If we're waiting for someone to go with a new species. Then here's a Bagginsian one:

What is next months CotM?

OK, here's a little guidance. Firstly, Richard B isn't allowed to respond as he wrote it and, secondly, is a conceited fish not something that belongs to a family that initially sounds a bit like the coffee I am drinking.

Jools

Blimey - i can't get it from those clues!!!

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 22 Feb 2010, 08:28

Well, let's see how the others do around a fish you might chose to write about...

Jools

Carp37 · Post by **Carp37** » 22 Feb 2010, 08:57

???

I'm struggling to have any idea of a non-mochokid that Richard would write about...

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 22 Feb 2010, 08:59

Carp37 wrote:
Imparfinis pseudonemacheir
???

I'm struggling to have any idea of a non-mochokid that Richard would write about...

Why would Richard write about that species, wrong continent!

Jools

Carp37 · Post by **Carp37** » 22 Feb 2010, 09:05

"Pseudonem" sounds a bit like a pseudonym, which, stretching it a bit, could be conceited. It's a fish Richard's got in his "My Cats" page, and the clue didn't specify a continent as far as I can see.

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 22 Feb 2010, 09:06

Carp37 wrote:"Pseudonem" sounds a bit like a pseudonym, which, stretching it a bit, could be conceited. It's a fish Richard's got in his "My Cats" page, and the clue didn't specify a continent as far as I can see.

That is stretching it a bit, you are right to focus your mind on the meaning of conceited though.

Jools

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