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Journeyman Geek

2:05 PM

you only get the chicken hat by failing a few times tho

Andrew T.

I still don't get the 57.1%... it should be 57.3% :/

Catija

2:24 PM

Oh! Turtles?!

SmokeDetector

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Shadow Wizard

2:35 PM

lol

@Catija there is a game by Konami

Journeyman Geek

the purple and grey is probably not a flag

Shadow Wizard

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (arcade game)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up released by Konami as a coin-operated video game in 1989. It is based on the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series which began airing in the winter of 1987. Home versions of the game were released for various platforms. == Gameplay == The player chooses from one of the four Ninja Turtles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael. Depending on the version of the game, the characters are either, chosen at the start of the game or assigned by control panel. After Shredder kidnaps the Turtles' friend April O'Neil and their...

Andrew T.

and why purple particularly...

tchrist

Because it's just not good enough for violet.

Let alone ultra-.

Journeyman Geek

I was thinking its another allusion to the banner

but nothing really matches

and that grey

Andrew T.

2:38 PM

It's certainly a poll with 57.1% purple and the rest, 42.9% gray

tchrist

cluck cluck Þoose

Hm, how do you make a bad gee?

Shadow Wizard

@Chicken Cowabunga!

tchrist

cpose?

Andrew T.

@ShadowWizard that's a cow, not a chicken

tchrist

@ShadowWizard No cow bung accepted, only dino drops.

Shadow Wizard

2:41 PM

@AndrewT. chicken is a lie

Journeyman Geek

the chicken is a turtle?

Shadow Wizard

FOUND IT!

tchrist

@ShadowWizard Of course it is, but it's also a lie with three-score and five million years of repetition.

Shadow Wizard

This is Elevation Burger

Andrew T.

not a pizza

tchrist

2:44 PM

What makes it so high?

Shadow Wizard

not drugs

Journeyman Geek

Shadow Wizard

all burgers got tons of fat, no secret there

Journeyman Geek

if you mirror it.... maaaaybe

tchrist

The rarefied airs of Olympus?

Shadow Wizard

2:45 PM

So the poor chicken is going to be a burger. Shame.

tchrist

Dinobunga!

Shadow Wizard

lol

tchrist

Chelonians are quite far removed from theropods.

imagines on what will happen to the the egg-and-dairy industry once all our beef ranches get converted to ostrich ranches

Journeyman Geek

really big omlettes?

tchrist

Pizza sized ones, in fact.

One ostrich egg is equivalent to about two dozen chicken eggs, or whatever that works out to in metric.

Journeyman Geek

2:53 PM

"where are there 10 eggs in my dozen?" "Metric moniseur. What are you, some kind of englishman?"

tchrist

drôle

drools

Journeyman Geek

(since the brits mix measures a lot)

miles, kilos, centimeters, stone...

tchrist

Naw, you never mix measures. When's the last time you bought a two-kilo, five-ounce durian?

Wait, that was the ostrich egg.

rene

We don't care about the brits. They are exit anyway ....

tchrist

exeunt omnes sine meta

Journeyman Geek

2:56 PM

@tchrist I don't think they weigh durians...

Well pre shucking anyway?

I donno

tchrist

What color is the outside of a durian?

It's just like a horse chestnut, right?

conkers, if you prefer

Andrew T.

putri malu (lit. shy daughter)

Journeyman Geek

@tchrist its cream coloured

actually looks kinda custardy

tchrist

Custard is nice.

Journeyman Geek

If you can get over the smell, so's durian

tchrist

3:11 PM

But are not taste and smell much the same thing?

Journeyman Geek

oddly no

the durian smells TERRIBLE

but it tastes really good

Chicken

I bought durian recently from a local asian market. I had to throw it away without being able to taste it, because the smell made me vomit :(

apparently you can't bring it on planes due to the smell

Andrew T.

you can't bring it on trains or buses either...

Journeyman Geek

nope

@Chicken not allowed in public transport, hotels....

Chicken

4:13 PM

@NickCraver would it be possible to release an RC2 of Exceptional, pretty please :)

rene

In 6 to 8 weeks ...

Chicken

I see you're wearing the "effeminate" hat @rene :D

user345817

4:29 PM

@Chicken why is everything you say pinned

Andrew T.

wrong chicken...

Chicken

yeah, I did a (failed) experiment

I wish everything I said was pinned

Feeds

While it may seem like trivia, it (causes huge headaches for software developers / is taken advantage of by high-speed traders / triggered the 2003 Northeast Blackout / has to be corrected for by GPS satellites / is now recognized as a major cause of World War I).

rene

@Chicken it is my Suske look ;)

Andrew T.

@Feeds Do you know that Toyota Truck Month drifts out of sync with the iPhone calendar because of libration of the moon? Apparently there's a proposal to fix it, but it might be unconstutional.

user315433

5:21 PM

> In Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Mason Dixon is the leader of a government task force dedicated to stopping the worldwide crisis when tomatoes go bad.

Chicken

is it bad enough to be funny, or just bad?

John Dvorak

Such a guy would be useful in our country, given the stuff you can find in a supermarket

Andrew T.

@CrazyIvan scp-wiki.net/scp-504

(oh, might be NSFW for violence/psychological)

Andrew T.

5:43 PM

@SmokeDetector why bumped?

user315433

@AndrewT. The answer is new.

user315433

There was another one, since deleted.

Andrew T.

okay, I blame Google Translate for saying "2 days ago"...

user315433

Heh, it's "29 minutes ago" right now (in Russian), but Google translates it as "3 hours ago".

gparyani

Ko-Na might not be Konami, I don't know where the "mi" came from; I think it's referring to Kona, Hawaii

One of the clues might be a red herring, or a false clue intended to mislead

John Dvorak

5:53 PM

Isn't that the same thing?

gparyani

@JohnDvorak Isn't what the same thing?

user315433

"A, or B" is sometimes used to explain A as B in case the audience is unfamiliar with the term A

John Dvorak

Or are you telling us what a red herring means?

gparyani

@CrazyIvan That's right

@JohnDvorak Yes. Not everyone speaks the same dialect of English.

rene

I'll have my herring raw

Jon Clements

6:10 PM

Is that purple the same purple as Donatello? Not that it explains the percentage or the grey.

rene

No it is not

Feeds

6:50 PM

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Catija

7:59 PM

@JourneymanGeek > 57.1% (four sevenths) of "Namibia" is "Nami", so Ko-Nami?

That makes more sense...

gparyani

Ah, thanks.

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user315433

9:42 PM

Grr, there is no hat for getting review-banned after clicking "Looks OK" on an answer that is a better answer than most of extant ones on the same question.

ffao

@Catija sorry to disappoint anyone looking for a cleverer answer. :P

hello from Puzzling

Catija

@ffao No, actually it's brilliant.

I was busy trying to figure out why it was purple.

Welcome! I have a feeling that the Chicken is getting annoyed at the sluggish pace we're taking in regards to solving this mystery.

ffao

9:59 PM

doesn't look like we have much; at the beginning we have a series of posts depicting a chicken growing, then disappearing

followed by a series of messages suggesting something to do with Winter Bash (the hat reference, the chicken inside the banner, and the emoji version of the banner)

unless some of those have some extra meaning, I don't see how we could find it from these hints alone

Catija

Chicken inside a banner?

Oh, the one with 9 stars?

ffao

I was talking about the blurry picture one

Catija

Ah, yes.