We have a winner
 

Kettle of Fish it is.

:rolleyes:

So bloody obvious when you see it...

I think you two just made up that user. I've never heard of such a name. :p

GAH! Exactly Eomer...so bloody obvious...

And the reason neither of us have heard of Kettle of Fish is that he hasn't been here since before the Barrow-Downs used a vBulletin Board.

Only old fogeys like Squatter have ever heard of him... ;)

EDIT: Oh wait, you're an old fogey too... :D :p

Imaginary people
 

No we didn't.

The thread's gone now, but Underhill once told Belin that every member apart from the two of them was invented by him. You know who to blame now.

Old fogeyness
 

And neither of those two names are particularly active, hmm?

That was a good riddle, I enjoyed it!

Last activity 1970? A signature which I cannot fathom without a dictionary (Squatter hallmark)? I sense trickery! ;)

Seriously though, that was one of the more enjoyable questions on this thread. Most of the time someone gets the answer within a few hours.

Now, is that "him" Underhill or Kettle It likely explains Kettle's role in Belin's game, now, doesn't it? Explains the game, too. ;)

A bit of Kettle memberabilia:

Clearly a case of the kettle calling the Rider black.


It would appear that it is also highly unlikely that any remember it. :p

This is a hard act to follow and is bound to be a disappointment.... heigh ho....

Lissom serpent initially after ash

I don't suppose you'd believe I had the old and fishy answer scribbed at my desk at home over the weekend, and promptly forget ere Monday rolled in? Thought not....

Ah well, on to more adventures with the member's list! Serpent...Hmmm.

bah... i want to say Sharku and Mithadan, cause i remember one of them had a "Smiling is for hipocrites" Avvie with a snake in it...

Well I could if that would make you happy.... but it would be a big, fat lie....

Gil this has nothing to do with Avvies it is just a (I hope) fairly straight forward cryptic clue which will let you construct the Downers name.

Time for a clue? If you work out what "ash" is the rest should be easy. Americans may be at a disadvantage and anyone who knows why menzies is pronounced mingies may have an advantage......

I don't feel like I have an advantage, but with ash you might be talking about the Anglo-Saxon rune then? I think it's the ae, but I'm not sure.

Knows why? Well, that's something to do with the archaic Scots letter yogh, but how that links to anything I have nary a clue...

Oh Anguirel... some of us are rather fond of Archaic letters.......

I like digamma myself.

Maths? :confused:

I think I have told you enough to get you started.... :D

Nah, not Maths, Greek...

Digamma is the reason lots of really really ancient Minoan Greek words end in inthos. I forget exactly how or why. It's pronounced something like a w.

Now I'm crawling back into the linguistic waste whence I came. But I hope my yogh contribution is of some help to a sharper aftercomer...

aelithes

so ae-

then serpent slithers....sooooo.............

aelithes

i know im wrong but its a try

A winner
 

You are right though the rest of the clue was intended differently.

æ is indeed called ash and is just the most beautiful letter to my mind..like a little flower.

So we have ae

Lissom means much the same as lithe

and the initial letter of serpent is s

aelithes indeed.

Your go Morsul.

Oh Cailin - I am so sorry - I was on a library computer yesterday and somehow I didn't see your response else I would have acknowledged it ....... So while I guess Morsul has the turn you get a lot of Kudos

Is this cryptic?

Mysterious date . . . last visit 1969?

anduin angel 44?

correctus

Thanks!
 

Jenny_Hallu, my pet werewolf, with reference to her signature...

Through the dot.
 

As Gandalf, greatest of Istar, wisest of the Maiar, once said, 'Yes.'

Take the thread, Anguirel.

Agh!
 

IN FRENCH???

Ang...Ang...that's just...in French, Ang?

Evisse the Blue?

Dratted Cross posting...
 

But wait...it's simple French...

Evisse the Blue?

Thank goodness for taking Latin in high school...

Kath got it, just...

Take it from the top, turtle-farmeress!

Mm, seconds count on here! Course, getting them is one thing, making them up is another :rolleyes:

Penguin lover, not high.

Easy. Thinlomien!

But of course!

I'm going to guess at Spawn.

No...a member with a lower profile...

Nerindel - spirited weaver of fates?

Aye, who says she "sails upon a sea of ideas".

The crown is yours, Mith...