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N00B NAME CHALLENGE: clue #4

Mar 27, 2010 18:10

Clue 4: Within the last ten years, there has been a cyclone of this name in the South Pacific.

(Note: some people have had trouble posting their responses. If you run into trouble, you can always email me your guess -- through LJ if you don't have another email address for me -- and I'll post your guess for you.)

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qatar March 27 2010, 15:11:52 UTC

Previous clues:
1: It's a saint's name.
2: Her combined first and last names will anagram to a phrase meaning "pasta spears."
3: Her (first) name contains more vowels than consonants.

And here are the incorrect guesses:
Ada, Aisha, Anne-brepa, Ava, Barbara, Caedmon, Charlotte, Eileen, Elizabeth, Erfyl, Genevieve, Irene, Joan, Julia, Katherine, Lucy, Maria, Monegundis, Neoprene, Patrick, Rabi'a, Rosalie, Sexburga, Sofia, Teresa, Valentine, Winnifred, Xenobious and Ziti.

roseandsigil March 28 2010, 01:23:12 UTC

Zoe.

As soon as I saw that name in the list of 2002-03 cyclones, I knew that had to be it. But I, uh, thought your last name was Carleton, so it took me a bit to get the anagram right.

anonymous March 27 2010, 15:22:59 UTC

Elisa

_tove March 27 2010, 16:02:42 UTC

The only South Pacific cyclone name with more vowels than consonants that is a saint's name that I am seeing is Elisa, though I am having trouble anagramming that into pasta spears. To be fair, the internet anagram engine doesn't seem to have pasta names, so I'm running on the assumption that "spears" are "lances," which may be incorrect. So my guess for today: Elisa.

qatar March 27 2010, 18:55:28 UTC

(N.B. _tove got the correct answer an hour and a half later.)

_tove March 27 2010, 17:43:22 UTC

Ohh, apparently my cyclone source is a bunch of mislabeling jerks, and their "1989-1999" category secretly contains up to 2005. Got it now, and orzo is the tastiest pasta.

canyonwren March 27 2010, 18:51:27 UTC

Let's see, I'll guess Renee, even though the cyclone was Rene. I haven't spent long trying to anagram it, so I don't know how that works out.

y_pestis March 27 2010, 21:28:25 UTC

I dreamed that they named the baby Renee! Spooky. :-)

canyonwren March 27 2010, 22:31:46 UTC

Man, I suck at this game. But I've read more about pasta names, saint names and cyclone names than I ever have before! (And isn't it funny that there's a "Zita" in all three! If the pasta thing weren't an anagram, I'd be sure that was it.)

ETA: I have now seen a photograph of the mummified body of Saint Zita. If I have nightmares, I'm blaming you. :D