Can You Decode the Usernames from These Cryptic Clues?

[Gokul43201]

17. Whip It band loses half a grand

18. Terrible John Hunting

19. He's still alive - but then, he's not feline

20. short mountain of tomatoes missing, there exists some backwards mixture

21. in short, you are short of a racing state held in back of left hand

22. screwing around in a lord

 

[Lisa!]

22. screwing around in a lord

arildno?

 

[Gokul43201]

arildno?

Correct! Explanation?

 

[Kurdt]

19. Schrodinger's dog

 

[Gokul43201]

19. Schrodinger's dog

Correct, kurdt!

 

[Lisa!]

Correct! Explanation?

Ah don't ask me to do hard things! It's "in a lord' messed up!

 

[Gokul43201]

Ah don't ask me to do hard things! It's "in a lord' messed up!

That's right.

 

[George Jones]

Since I'm enacting this rule now, George and Neutrino (anyone else?) may not answer 17 through 19. From 20, you may consider you slates clean again.

Isn't question 17 really question 20?

 

[Astronuc]

17. Whip It band loses half a grand

Devo - D = Evo, D = 500

 

[Gokul43201]

Isn't question 17 really question 20?

I know it hurts, George, but you've got to put on your stoic face and move on.

But hey, I made sure you folks didn't have to wait too long to have stuff to work on.

 

[neutrino]

17. Whip It band loses half a grand

Devo - D = Evo, D = 500

How does Devo come in?

 

[Gokul43201]

17. Whip It band loses half a grand

Devo - D = Evo, D = 500

Correct Astro!

Whip It is a popular (albeit weird and possibly disturbing) single by the band Devo.

[MEDIA=youtube]gNnpXwoZCAI[/MEDIA]&search=whip%20it[/URL]

 

[George Jones]

How does Devo come in?

Ancient History. Just over a quarter of a century ago, the band Devo (I believe this is short for devolution or de-evolution) recorded the song Whip It.

 

[neutrino]

Whip It is popular single by the band Devo.

Ah, okay. (This "10 characters" rule really bugs me! )

 

[Astronuc]

18. Terrible John Hunting = Ivan Seeking

Ivan = Russian or Slavic equivalent of John, or Johann - and Ivan the Terrible

Seeking = Hunting

 

[Gokul43201]

18. Terrible John Hunting = Ivan Seeking

Ivan = Russian or Slavic equivalent of John, or Johann - and Ivan the Terrible

Seeking = Hunting

Right ho, 'Nuc! That's two for you.

 

[Gokul43201]

20 and 21 are tough ones!

 

[Astronuc]

20. short mountain of tomatoes missing, there exists some backwards mixture

All I can think of is Tom Mattson. Tom having to do with tomatoes with something missing, Mt = mountain, and backwards mixture (?).

 

[Lisa!]

[20. short mountain of tomatoes missing, there exists some backwards mixture

Tom Mattson?
Damn! I was late!

 

[Gokul43201]

20. short mountain of tomatoes missing, there exists some backwards mixture

All I can think of is Tom Mattson. Tom having to do with tomatoes with something missing, Mt = mountain, and backwards mixture (?).

That's the correct answer Astronuc, mais le dechiffrement est somewhat lacking, as you've indicated.

Anyone want to try and complete that (you will not be "awarded" a point for doing so)?

With that, Astro, you are out till 24 comes along.

 

[Gokul43201]

Tom Mattson?

Answers without explanations will not be accepted - no escaping from that. I think Astronuc may have beat you to it - but you could still complete the solution.

 

[Lisa!]

Answers without explanations will not be accepted - no escaping from that. I think Astronuc may have beat you to it - but you could still complete the solution.

That was a blind guess!

 

[Kurdt]

I can't remember any names so that makes it more difficult.

 

[Gokul43201]

23. a bowl is a container

24. initially, three of the bases of the basis

25. short engineer: 506 far off?

26. Eerie garden of peril

27. Argus' captain is right by the beast

This next one is easier to solve if you know something about the person, but that's not at all a pre-requisite.

28. No longer man enough, we hear

 

[Lisa!]

26. Eerie garden of peril

Danger! Garden is messed up Danger and thatalso means peril!

 

[Astronuc]

That's the correct answer Astronuc, mais le dechiffrement est somewhat lacking, as you've indicated.

Anyone want to try and complete that (you will not be "awarded" a point for doing so)?

With that, Astro, you are out till 24 comes along.

Well, I thought about it on the way to buy stamps.

Tom Mattson = take 'ato' from Mattson, and that leavs Mtsn, so Tomato is mixed into the mountain (Mt).

 

[Astronuc]

Danger! Garden is messed up Danger and thatalso means peril!

By George, I think she's got it!

 

[Moonbear]

2. disenfranchize, without Che inside

You clever A-hole.

Inside - disen******i**

che

disenfranchize- disen******i**-che = franz

Seeing the explanation isn't even helping. What did you do? What are all the stars for? How do you eliminate "disen" based on that clue?

 

[Lisa!]

28. could be Echo 6 Sierra?
Echo: we hear.
6 sierra: nolonger man

 

[Gokul43201]

Danger! Garden is messed up Danger and thatalso means peril!

Right Lisa!

29. Mrs. Derek has her units of memory messed up

30. he had a vector hidden

 

[Gokul43201]

Well, I thought about it on the way to buy stamps.

Tom Mattson = take 'ato' from Mattson, and that leavs Mtsn, so Tomato is mixed into the mountain (Mt).

Still not there, Astro - it is a tough one, and a wee bit esoteric, I might add.

Moonbear: remove all the letters from "cheinside" out of "disenfranchize"

Lisa! : 28 is not Echo6Sierra

 

[mattmns]

Seeing the explanation isn't even helping. What did you do? What are all the stars for? How do you eliminate "disen" based on that clue?

if you rearrange the word "inside" you get "disen" and an extra "i." And if you remove those letters, plus the letters from "che" from the original word you get "franz"

 

[Astronuc]

How about a hint on -

21. old oil town and racing state held in back of left hand

What kind of racing?

and what kind of clue is "in back of left hand" anyway?

 

[Kurdt]

I was thinking Indy 500 and indianapolis for that astro but I can't think of a name to give me a further clue.

 

[siddharth]

24. initially, three of the bases of the basis

Mostly wrong, but is it Rach3 by any chance?(Ribose, Adenine, Cytosine in RNA)