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"A happening at which an element leads a star man to accept a toppled point. There's no turning back from here." (5,7)
Good luck - I've tried to make it a bit harder than my last few.
Andy B
modified 16-Feb-17 5:03am.
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Event Horizon?
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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... is the correct answer, are you able to provide the full solution?
modified 16-Feb-17 5:17am.
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Well....
Happening : Event
Element: H
Star man to accept a toppled point : No idea
No turning back from here: Nothing can esscape the event horizon of a black hole.
So no, I don't know what the star man bit is about, or the toppled point. But event horizon just sprang out at me.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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So close, well done.
star man = Orion
Point = N toppled to give Z
Andy B
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So, is it me or @OriginalGriff tomorrow then?
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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Commisera Congratulations Mel! You're up tomorrow for the first correct answer.
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You beat me by three minutes - serves me right for taking time to finally get the reasoning. And unsuccessfully too. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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EVENT HORIZON?
A happening EVENT
at which an element leads H
a star man
to accept
a toppled
point. N
There's no turning back from here.
The rest I haven't fitted in at all...
[edit]
Dang! Too late...
[/edit]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I think Orion has something to contribute and a toppled point could be a N rotated 90 degrees
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Is Macedonia a real place?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Google Maps - Macedonia
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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It would look nicer with a wall around it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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But how are you going to make them pay for it?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Probably in turnips, or whatever it is they grow, there.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Fake Geography
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Just as I expected.
It's a conspiracy between wikipedia and google, to confuse people.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Certain "newspapers" have been doing this for a great many years. The Macedonians are, if anything, a little late to the party.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Agreed! Every news article is biased in some way these days (I even see news storied suppressed if they don't fit in with an agenda - BBC, I'm looking at you!).
Quote: Obi Wan Kenobi Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
The modern day world doesn't work like that though.. nobody is allowed to have opinions that differ from the mainstream. Sad (and dangerous) times..
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: The modern day world doesn't work like that though.. nobody is allowed to have opinions that differ from the mainstream.
And conversely, in many quarters, no-one's allowed to have opinions that are mainstream.
History is written by the winners and yesterday's alternative has a tendency to become tomorrow's tyranny.
It's a constant of all history, that all power groups will:
a) Exaggerate and/or invent their own achievements.
b) Vilify their rivals at every available opportunity.
c) Attempt to pervert language to their own ends.
d) Hide behind some nebulous concept (a supernatural entity, a flag or any sort of -ism that can be claimed to be self-evident).
e) Accuse anyone who doesn't accept that self-evident "truth" of apostasy.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: nobody is allowed to have opinions that differ from the mainstream.
Especially "libtards", apparently.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's very easy to throw any names around (we see it in the UK with our "elderly, racist, bigoted, little Englander, uneducated right-wing extremist" voters who chose to leave the EU)..
It's also very easy for the mainstream media to call any news they don't want people to hear or that doesn't fit in with their agendas "fake news" (or my personal favourite right now, "post-truth", as if - by some divine miracle - they are the source of "truth" and anyone who disagrees is a liar).
Unfortunately, this kind of divisiveness can only ultimately lead to violence.
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: It's very easy to throw any names around (we see it in the UK with our "elderly, racist, bigoted, little Englander, uneducated right-wing extremist" voters who chose to leave the EU)..
I agree and that applies equally to terms like "Bremoaner", "Libtard", "Liberal Elite" etc. hurled so creatively in the other direction. Don't mistake alt-PC for non-PC, they're two very, very different things. Alt-PC is just a right-wing implementation of PC whereas non-PC is a refusal to engage in it:
PC - You can't express a negative emotion towards him! He's physically impaired!
Alt-PC - I'll yell at all the goddamn cripples I want to!
Non-PC - Why should I treat him any differently to anyone else? I called him a twat because he was being one.
Personally, I'm very much in the non-PC camp yet I'm frequently accused (wrongly and offensively) by the Alt-PC mob of being in the PC brigade simply because I'm not in the Alt-PC mob (that's precisely the sort of crap that happens when people decide what other people think without bothering to ask them).
Brent Jenkins wrote: It's also very easy for the mainstream media to call any news they don't want people to hear or that doesn't fit in with their agendas "fake news" (or my personal favourite right now, "post-truth", as if - by some divine miracle - they are the source of "truth" and anyone who disagrees is a liar).
That's precisely what the "alternative" media does with great relish. In fact, that's it's very raison d'etre.
Brent Jenkins wrote: Unfortunately, this kind of divisiveness can only ultimately lead to violence.
Let us hope not. At the very least we should seek to disassociate from all of those who advocate it, regardless of whether or not we see them as being on "our" side of the fence.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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