Cryptopix

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Cryptopix puzzles are solved by putting the pictures together to form a word or phrase! For a better idea on how to solve this puzzle see an example

Cryptopix

Donimo

wants to try to stump you with this puzzle that was published on Thu Aug 07, 2008 07:00 PM

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jami1kenob

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 07:06 PM |

I don't get how this was salty since I haven't gotten the answer yet, but if you say so [3] and [4] then I'll remove. Sorry.

Ah...nevermind...I guess that was REALLY salty. My apologies!!

slog

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 07:02 PM |

[1] So it seems.

Donimo

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 07:04 PM |

[1] Gee. That's fairly salty.

Murdoctor

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 07:04 PM |

[1] You might want to edit that... a bit too salty.

jfro

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 07:06 PM |

i dont think [1] got the significance... If you aren't from a certain area I think this is non sensical

dragon66

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 07:08 PM |

No punctuation

monocle

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 07:07 PM |

never heard of it.. but thank you [1] for giving me more solid words to google.

CWarrior

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 07:09 PM |

Will the "I hate all things sports" crowd rail out against this one?

jgf

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:11 PM |

Edit: probably too salty.

[8] Perhaps. I'd say picture #2 is the hardest to call.

GordonKane

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 07:10 PM |

Ain't no puzzle for a landlubber

jami1kenob

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 07:10 PM |

[5] Yep - I had no idea. Of course, I'm in the midwest so it is meaningless to me.

Donimo

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 07:15 PM |

[5] I first heard it as a kid in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". (Not intended as salt as it's probably too weak to help.)

lnrr

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 07:14 PM |

bacronym strikes again

ejcarter9

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 07:15 PM |

[8] I don't consider myself a crowd... but I don't think it's the sports part that has me stumped this time.

soccer_ref

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 07:23 PM |

I've never heard the "phrase" (if you can call it that). To me it's just a bunch of words together that have no meaning. This should never have been a featured puzzle!

lnrr

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 07:25 PM |

[12] Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is where it originated. I guess Ian Fleming is indirectly to blame.

samson

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 07:27 PM |

This is a very well known phrase supposedly used to book cabins on the Suez canal boats.

sorter

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 07:32 PM |

sorry no one has heard the expression - obviously [9] has heard it before.

hwango

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 07:34 PM |

Never heard the expression either - I was surprised when the answer actually took.

lnrr

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 07:35 PM |

[17]no, the phrase was made up for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

barbed_oracle

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 07:56 PM |

What? Well it isn't "port out starboard safe."

jgf

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 08:01 PM |

[18] Seems only fair when puzzlemakers expect me to identify celebrities. :p

The OED agrees with [6] [13] [16] and [20] that the phrase was probably made up. However, it's still a phrase known to some, so there it is in a Crytopix. And now others have heard of it.

In addition to the salt in [9], picture #4 is from the same sport as picture #2.

jgf

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 08:02 PM |

[21] That's really, really, really salty. Really.

Cycospaz2

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 08:05 PM |

[9] led me right to it! Thanks

Sephiroth2906

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 08:28 PM |

[21] really needs to be edited

davey

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 08:47 PM |

I guess that made sense to someone ... it sure wasn't me.

uriel_343

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 09:14 PM |

[21] You jogged it for me.

I've never seen CCBB but I've heard the phrase before so I don't think that's the source.

travelocity

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 09:30 PM |

I don't know if this is the origin, but it refers to the location of the red channel markers at a port.

[27] I've never seen Dirty Harry, but I know "go ahead, make my day."

must67

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:25 PM |

[20] The phrase was used long before CCBB and [17] is right it supposedly came from the boats traveling between UK and India and its use is defined from at least the 19th century to refer to a lavish lifestyle

lynnyj

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:08 PM |

Finally got it! Thanks [9]

JohnQ118

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:21 PM |

[9]that's an OUT? Looks Safe by a mile.

bcgrote

Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:26 PM |

What a POSH puzzle!

rikkif

Posted on Fri Aug 08, 2008 04:15 AM |

I guess my boat wasn't big enough to ever have heard this one!

lnrr

Posted on Fri Aug 08, 2008 05:29 AM |

[29] You're confusing the word associated with the phrase and the phrase itself. The word associated with the lavish lifestyle is from at least as far back as the 19th century, possibly originating as a slang term for money. The story that the phrase in the puzzle is the origin of the word is just a fabrication. Some dictionaries even state that the phrase's association with the word is a fabrication.

I bet it's just a matter of time before we get a puzzle based on the hoax that the word golf comes from "gentlemen only, ladies forbidden".

user2015

Posted on Fri Aug 08, 2008 05:57 AM |

oh, pic #3 is on a hunk of wood