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Aug 13th, 2018, 4:08 am
Is your name only one word?
Aug 13th, 2018, 4:08 am
Aug 13th, 2018, 5:06 am
are you a q-clamp
Aug 13th, 2018, 5:06 am

Peace out!
Aug 14th, 2018, 4:51 am
Are the things you're used to produce still in general use in the US?
Aug 14th, 2018, 4:51 am
Aug 15th, 2018, 12:42 am
Are you a quoin
Aug 15th, 2018, 12:42 am
Aug 15th, 2018, 2:08 am
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QUOIN


"A quoin is a device used to lock printing type in a chase. Quoins are pairs of wedges, facing opposite directions. A wrench or quoin key forces them together."

My father was a printer and a linotype operator and used quoins for nearly 40 years. When I was young, I was sometimes allowed to visit the newspaper building and could watch him setting type and then locking the type into a chase with quoins. The chase was then placed into the huge printing press, in order to print the newspaper.

In 1970, my best friend and I had summer jobs in Boston. Mine was at the Boston Globe as a 'cub reporter' and his was at the (then) only remaining factory that still made quoins.

So I have a significant personal history with this very odd and little-known device, without which newspapers could not have been printed back in the day.

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Final photo shows quoins locking type into a chase.
Aug 15th, 2018, 2:08 am

But this rose is an extra. - A. Conan Doyle
Aug 15th, 2018, 2:12 am
Congratulations to hessack!

One guess only . . . and the right one!

(Do you perhaps come from a newspaper and printing background, like I do?)
Aug 15th, 2018, 2:12 am

But this rose is an extra. - A. Conan Doyle
Aug 15th, 2018, 2:27 am
congrats hessack!

love this one :)
Aug 15th, 2018, 2:27 am
Aug 15th, 2018, 5:03 am
Congratulations hessack!
You swept right in and nailed it!
Aug 15th, 2018, 5:03 am
Aug 15th, 2018, 1:42 pm
Thanks! Nope, no printing background, just a skim through the dictionary. Just guessed lucky!
Aug 15th, 2018, 1:42 pm
Aug 15th, 2018, 2:21 pm
Congrats hessack! That was a tough one, pj!
Aug 15th, 2018, 2:21 pm

Message me for re-uploads and other concerns. A click for thanks can go a long way! -Philly
Aug 16th, 2018, 4:58 pm
congrats hessack
Aug 16th, 2018, 4:58 pm

Peace out!
Aug 17th, 2018, 7:41 pm
I was so lost!
Nice one, pjmpjm :clap:

Congrats, hessack.
Aug 17th, 2018, 7:41 pm
Aug 20th, 2018, 7:45 am
Last round,
pjmpjm discovered in 12 questions that we were looking for a PEZ dispenser and receives 60 wrz$.
Amill tortured you for 79 questions and receives 395 wrz$
Well done!

This round, HiShaq discovered in 1 question that we were looking for a quoin and receives 5 wrz$.
pjmpjm tortured you for 109 questions and receives 545 wrz$
Congrats, you two!


Now HiShaq is invited to start the next round after sending me a pm for the approval of the subject matter. It should be an object, NOT a person
Aug 20th, 2018, 7:45 am
Aug 21st, 2018, 11:23 pm
Round 104

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Let's Get Started!

Q & A

1. (Lorcality) Does your name start with a letter A-F? NO
2. (galoche) Are you edible? NO
3. (Eggpants) Are you made of wood? NO
4. (slynch9994) are you something used in one specific profession? NO
5. (philwallflower) Are you produced in great number in factories? NO
6. (powerpoint) Does your name start with a letter G-K? YES
7. (pjmpjm) Are you a manufactured item? NO
8. (avoran) Are you specific ("that car"), as opposed to generic ("a car")? A simple Yes/No answer is not possible (I think)
9. (ElleKing) Are you a fictional object (existing only in a work of fiction)? YES
10. (Eggpants) Are you magical? NO
11. (philwallflower) Are you in a book? NO
12. (pjmpjm) Are you a living thing (plant, animal or whatever)? NO
13. (ElleKing) Are you from a tv series? YES
14. ( avoran) Do comparable things exist in reality (outside the tv show)? YES
15. ( Amill) Are you also from a movie? NO
16. ( pjmpjm) Are you larger than a breadbox? A simple Yes/No answer is not possible
17. (Eggpants) Are you illegal? NO
18. ( ElleKing) Is the tv series currently in production ? NO
19. (philwallflower) Is this tv show made in the US? YES
20. ( pjmpjm) Are you larger than a golf ball? A simple Yes/No answer is not possible
21. ( avoran) Are you tangible? NO
22. ( galoche) Does your name begin with the letters G or H? NO
23. ( philwallflower) Was this tv series aired after or during the year 2000? NO
24. ( ElleKing) Do you change size and/or exist in different sizes? NO
25. ( pjmpjm) Are you a tangible, physical object (in the television context)? NO
26. ( Eggpants) Do you move around? NO
27. ( avoran) Are you associated with one particular character? YES (MAINLY)
28. ( ElleKing) Are you worn (like clothes, uniform, protective gear, jewellery, ...)? NO
29. ( galoche) Considering the 3 states of matter (solid, liquid, gas), do you exist (as a fictional object) in liquid form? NO
30. (philwallflower) Was this tv sesries aired after or during the year 1990? YES, mainly
31. (pjmpjm) Does the name of the object start with the letter K? NO
32. (slynch9994) are you kitt (knight riders car) NO
33. (avoran) Are you composed of words (a text, a song)? A simple Yes/No answer is not possible
21. ( avoran) Are you tangible? NO
34. ( ElleKing) Was the tv show a police/thriller one? NO
35. ( philwallflower) Is the character associated with this object male? YES
36. ( pjmpjm) If not magical, are you an imaginary object? NO
37. ( dante11) is the tv show considered 'science fiction' in genre? NO
38. ( Eggpants) Are you blue? NO
39. ( grampabroon) Tardis? NO
40. ( ElleKing) Are you the Intersect from the tv series Chuck? NO
41. ( oliverwashere) Are you a projected image? A simple Yes/No answer is not possible
42. ( pjmpjm) Does the name of your object start with the letter J? YES
43. ( avoran) Was the tv show a comedy? YES
44. ( slynch9994) does you name begin with the letter j? YES
45. ( RobinRosebury) your name begins with the letter m? NO
46. ( pjmpjm) Is the object a jukebox? NO
47. ( Eggpants) Are you involved with religion? NO
48. ( philwallflower) Was the tv series made by a tv network that is still on air? YES
49. ( ElleKing) Are you a physical ability? NO
50. (oliverwashere) Is the name of the object a compound word? NO
51. (pjmpjm) Is the second letter of your name, after J . . . U? NO
52. (avoran) Did you appear regularly throughout the tv series? NO
53. (ElleKing) Are you Jerry, the tv sitcom show within the show from Seinfeld, launched in the season four finale? BINGO!

Congrats, Elleking :thumbup:
Aug 21st, 2018, 11:23 pm
Aug 21st, 2018, 11:27 pm
Does your name start with a letter A-F?
Aug 21st, 2018, 11:27 pm

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