AlfGit wrote:LDS wrote:AlfGit wrote:LDS wrote:What in all that's holy was the non-PC clue supposed to be?
You can write it using other formats if the screen auto-changes it, you know, like B1G A$$. or b-i-g a-s-s
Iranu got it. Siamese Twins is now considered an offensive term. I stressed that I did not know it was offensive at first and that I probably wasn't the only one. That would not have been the case with profanities.
I had no idea. When and how did you discover this? As you can clearly write it out.
So your original clue was Cowboy Siamese?
The clue was originally going to be Siamese Twins. I was just about to post it a few days ago and my wife said we're not supposed to say that any more. I Googled it, and she was right. Cowboy and Siamese were both intended to lead to Thai.
I just googled it & only found 2 entries, and in order to even find those I had to type in four specific words into the google box rather than just Siamese Twins.
1 link was from a science journal, merely being pedantic that it's not the correct medical term.
The 2nd link was to a Yahoo Answers page, where two people thought that they thought that some other people thought it was offensive while two other people basically said "Stop being absurd, no it's not offensive".
So, yeah.
The whole twins thing was a laugh anyway, as it turned out. An obscure snooker event that happened twice to a player. I mean. Well. OK. Whatever. But, no, no-one's going to piece that together LMAO. But, yeah, the word Siamese might have at least narrowed the deluge of guesses to at least Thai players and been a bit quicker.
The thing about Cowboy Tie is that no-one's going to isolate the tie as the crucial piece of information. A tie by itself is non-specific to it being related to cowboy, the impulse, even if they had focused on the tie, would be to look for it's 'technical' name, one of which is bolo & so skipping out tie altogether.
If the clue was Cowboy and the answer was Lloyd (if there was a player called Lloyd) it would be equally as absurd, because the answer would be Cowboy > Boots > Other Pharmacists > Lloyd's Pharmacists, which no-one would do. No-one would get from Cowboy to Lloyd that way. Just as no-one would go Cowboy > Tie > Thailand > Thepchaiya
Anyway, off to watch I Claudius again for an hour or so (with other people), I'll think of a quickie to get us all back on track when I get back.