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Re: what am I?
Posted: 28 Sep 2009, 16:17
by torbanite
Richard B wrote:....c'mon this one is easy peasy lemon squeezy
I think the long silence means we need another clue. (Well
I do anyway
Re: what am I?
Posted: 28 Sep 2009, 17:14
by L number Banana
torbanite:
I think the long silence means we need another clue. (Well I do anyway
Me too but I think Richard B is still enjoying his weekend. I'm always stumped on TV clues unless it's sports or nerd shows.
Re: what am I?
Posted: 28 Sep 2009, 17:48
by Richard B
It's got nothing to do with the Aztecs.....
Re: what am I?
Posted: 29 Sep 2009, 18:06
by Richard B
Richard B wrote:
Pizarro's fish meets Ugly Betty!!!
It's got nothing to do with the Aztecs.....
BUMP: - no more guesses???
Re: what am I?
Posted: 30 Sep 2009, 04:43
by L number Banana
BUMP: - no more guesses???
Richard B, you've officially stumped everyone I think. But I've narrowed it down to 2999 possible fish.
Re: what am I?
Posted: 30 Sep 2009, 10:33
by Richard B
L number Banana wrote:
But I've narrowed it down to 2999 possible fish.
Well done, just need to dismiss 2998 & the other one is your fish!!!
Re: what am I?
Posted: 30 Sep 2009, 11:55
by torbanite
Re: what am I?
Posted: 30 Sep 2009, 13:19
by Richard B
Again no...
Re: what am I?
Posted: 30 Sep 2009, 19:39
by torbanite
Richard B wrote:Again no...
So ... the odds are now 2998:1
ARTURO ACERO PIZARRO, "Arius cookei, a new species of ariid catfish from the tropical American Pacific." . En: Colombia
Aqua - Journal Of Ichthyology & Aquatic Biology ISSN: 0945-9871 ed:
v.5 fasc.4 p.133 - 138 ,2002
Ugly Betty is ex Colombia?
Arius cookei =
Re: what am I?
Posted: 30 Sep 2009, 21:44
by Marc van Arc
The series is an adaptation of the Colombian telenovela Betty la fea
Re: what am I?
Posted: 01 Oct 2009, 14:06
by Richard B
Cor blimey , everyone is being so intense & clever i i thought this was easy
Ok then let me modify the clues so far ...
Ugly Betty's family meet with the fish belonging to Pizarro's conquered.
Re: what am I?
Posted: 01 Oct 2009, 14:11
by Carp37
Re: what am I?
Posted: 01 Oct 2009, 17:30
by Richard B
Winner!!!!!
Piazzaro was famous for his conquest of the
Inca people (not aztecs)
ichthys means fish &
Suarez is the family name for Ugly Betty! hence
Re: what am I?
Posted: 01 Oct 2009, 18:57
by Carp37
Previously Listed Catfish
OK so not very good at this setting clues thing...
stupid terminal adaptor gets randy
Re: what am I?
Posted: 04 Oct 2009, 19:51
by Marc van Arc
Carp37 wrote:stupid terminal adaptor gets randy
If this is the clue, I could do with another one.
Re: what am I?
Posted: 04 Oct 2009, 19:53
by L number Banana
Re: what am I?
Posted: 05 Oct 2009, 08:33
by Carp37
sorry, no
The genus has been used before in this game- the first part of the genus shares part of the title of an awful Queen single from the 1980s.
Re: what am I?
Posted: 05 Oct 2009, 20:54
by Marc van Arc
Re: what am I?
Posted: 06 Oct 2009, 08:23
by Carp37
Well done Marc, your turn
Re: what am I?
Posted: 07 Oct 2009, 19:32
by Marc van Arc
New fish:
James Ubriacco would have loved this fish, but the chances of ever finding one alive are almost zero
Re: what am I?
Posted: 09 Oct 2009, 08:30
by Carp37
Marc van Arc wrote:New fish:
James Ubriacco would have loved this fish, but the chances of ever finding one alive are almost zero
Platydoras hancockii???
I think I need another clue!
Re: what am I?
Posted: 09 Oct 2009, 15:01
by Marc van Arc
2) The same goes for Vincent Vega, Gabriel Shear and especially Danny Zuko
3) And Popeye's girlfriend
4) You're looking for a common name
Re: what am I?
Posted: 09 Oct 2009, 19:42
by Carp37
? (Greasefish- "reportedly extinct")
Re: what am I?
Posted: 09 Oct 2009, 19:46
by Marc van Arc
Correct
Your turn (again!)
Re: what am I?
Posted: 10 Oct 2009, 14:04
by Carp37
new fish:
I share one of my common names with an American cartoon character
Re: what am I?
Posted: 10 Oct 2009, 15:53
by Marc van Arc
I know this can't be it, but it could have been:
Re: what am I?
Posted: 10 Oct 2009, 16:07
by Marc van Arc
Re: what am I?
Posted: 10 Oct 2009, 17:40
by torbanite
Re: what am I?
Posted: 10 Oct 2009, 17:58
by Carp37
Well done torbanite- yogi pleco
Your turn
Re: what am I?
Posted: 10 Oct 2009, 18:01
by Carp37
Marc van Arc wrote:I know this can't be it, but it could have been:
That was a pretty good guess as well! I'm not too fond of taxonomists using this kind of flippant pop-culture naming to be honest (looking it up it i indeed named after batman)- I remember someone named a new mudskipper genus Zappa after Frank Zappa!