# Follow Me **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 14, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091 "2008-12-14T04:43:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/41 "2008-12-17T03:23:22Z")
> [@TheVioletCreep](#): > > Got it, I think, so simply put, non-consonant out and all consonant in, most common diminish, all four, but not two. Eee, by gum 'e’s got it! Thinking about the others. ---
**Author:** ![TheVioletCreep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@TheVioletCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVioletCreep)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/42 "2008-12-17T03:35:39Z")
Most Excellent! Twenty-two is not hard to come by any more, nor twenty-three, one is enjoyed by all, in many forms (some non-conventional). Make sure of fourteen, it is important, especially here. [I could go on, but meh, that won’t leave much for anyone else. :P] ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/43 "2008-12-17T04:06:21Z")
Here is a clue- it will make it simple - see the others I left to make sense of it pill given fit at god know. Lone featured his oft noted sin then sway him stalking there. hit mighty bed shard top picky cup won, son where his as clued. call them swords dare blinked pin as sway - reach scan bed faltered yon hits town. his bit every shard tow seek? wits note tool plate. bone rulew will play con your - not musing then simpler sway pout- then changed scant bet top maker smore thank cone. ---
**Author:** ![TheVioletCreep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@TheVioletCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVioletCreep)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/44 "2008-12-17T04:10:44Z")
> [@TheVioletCreep](#): > > Most Excellent! > > Twenty-two is not hard to come by any more, nor twenty-three, one is enjoyed by all, in many forms (some non-conventional). Make sure of fourteen, it is important, especially here. > > [I could go on, but meh, that won’t leave much for anyone else. :P] This is a new one, just to clarify. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/45 "2008-12-17T04:22:33Z")
More analogies! Apples are to Uranium as Chives are to ? Window panes are to Vermont as wind chimes are to ? Horseback riding is to a gated community as pelicans are to ? ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/46 "2008-12-17T04:23:40Z")
> [@TheVioletCreep](#): > > This is a new one, just to clarify. is it important that the numbers are spelled out? ---
**Author:** ![TheVioletCreep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@TheVioletCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVioletCreep)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/47 "2008-12-17T04:27:21Z")
The first, something to do with cores…can’t quite piece it though, not yet… The last…countryside? ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/48 "2008-12-17T04:39:30Z")
> [@TheVioletCreep](#): > > The first, something to do with cores…can’t quite piece it though, not yet… > > The last…countryside? Here’s a hint: If you can justify it, it’s correct. ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/49 "2008-12-17T04:43:25Z")
Apples are to Uranium as Chives are to fetus. apple-\>core-\>core meltdown-\>radioactive-\>Uranium Chives-\>stem-\>stem cell-\>fetal-\>fetus ---
**Author:** ![AllWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@AllWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllWalker)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/50 "2008-12-17T05:29:05Z")
> [@pedescribe](#): > > Here’s a hint: If you can justify it, it’s correct. Well in that case, Horseback riding is to a gated community as pelicans are to small change. Horseback riding -\> open countryside -\> open community -\> gated community Pelican -\> big billed -\> large bill -\> small change ---
**Author:** ![TheVioletCreep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@TheVioletCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVioletCreep)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/51 "2008-12-17T06:25:10Z")
Bottle is to prison as autograph is to… [sort of clunky, but alright for a first stab at this. I can do them usually, creating…not so much.] (please don’t eat me. \>.\<) ---
**Author:** ![TheVioletCreep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@TheVioletCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVioletCreep)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/52 "2008-12-17T06:26:13Z")
> [@TheVioletCreep](#): > > Most Excellent! > > Twenty-two is not hard to come by any more, nor twenty-three, one is enjoyed by all, in many forms (some non-conventional). Make sure of fourteen, it is important, especially here. > > [I could go on, but meh, that won’t leave much for anyone else. :P] Bump. Nothing on this one yet? :dubious::eek: ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/53 "2008-12-17T07:14:30Z")
I have given up puzzles in favour of Gin. Last day of work tomorrow, I’m getting a (mild) head start on the holiday season. That’s not a puzzle, that’s my excuse for bowing out of the thread with thanks for the entertainment. ---
**Author:** ![TheVioletCreep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@TheVioletCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVioletCreep)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/54 "2008-12-17T20:41:58Z")
No problem! ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/55 "2008-12-17T22:11:01Z")
> [@TheVioletCreep](#): > > Bottle is to prison as autograph is to… > > [sort of clunky, but alright for a first stab at this. I can do them usually, creating…not so much.] > > (please don’t eat me. \>.\<) Bottle, Desert Island, Just Desserts, Prison Autograph, Rock Concert, Concerted Effort, Intensity. ---
**Author:** ![TheVioletCreep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@TheVioletCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVioletCreep)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/56 "2008-12-17T22:29:08Z")
Correct! ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/57 "2008-12-18T13:06:08Z")
And **all this time** , I’ve been thinking \*\*I \*\*was weird. Now I see that they must be teaching it in **college**. I am a mere amateur. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091.md?page=2)