Again, it's being obtuse because I didn't say all of that at the very beginning? Do I need to start every post with "I am sorry, Fishercat, but I am stunned nobody got this"? I need to go through a list of every [*] in the world before I say that the one pictured is obvious? I know that I am not the smartest person here on JBoard, but I just cannot figure out how I have been either obtuse or coy.Fishercat wrote:If you said at the beginning what you said right now, I wouldn't have said a thing. It's when go snide in response to my post (I'm sorry...), express disbelief no one knew it, and then claim that Sicily might be the most distinctive island in the world (when I can show that, based on the island itself, that doesn't hunt), and then go coy on what you actually mean is when you're being obtuse.bpmod wrote:So, it's obtuse to say off the top of my head that I cannot think of a more distinctive island? It's obtuse not to first say to myself (while I am truly astounded that nobody on the show recognized Sicily) "wait, let's first think of every island in the world that might be recognizable from its postion against another body of land."
Sorry (that is, my personal apologies to you, Fishercat; nobody else seems to have taken offence) if I was in such a rush to express my disbelief.
They must have changed to definiton of 'obtuse' while I wasn't looking.
Brian
You said that I was talking about the shape of the island. I never mentioned the shape of the island. You then said I was talking about the colouring of the isalnd. Again, I said no such thing. Go back and look at my first post on the topic. I said that, as I saw the clue, it was:
I am not the only one here, nor was I even the first, to express disbelief that this was a TS. In fact, I haven't even been particularly harsh on the contestants (you said I mocked them; I did no such thing), relative to some of the words posted here, so I don't know why you need to go off on me like I have insulted you, the contestants and everybody else.bpmod wrote: "Look at this island off the tip of Italy's toe. Name it."
Brian