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"Scorch port with injured back points to Old Frank."(11)
This is Very Hard, so you need your Thinking Caps turbocharged.
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Scorch CHAR
port L
with injured back EMAG ?
points NE
to Old Frank.
CHARLEMAGNE
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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It always amazes me the CCCs that DD thinks are Very Hardtm but are solved in nothing flat.
I knew I had no chance of an obtuse riposte to this one, as soon as someone had 'char l' the answer was obvious.
Sorry Dave, not hard at all 
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And yet one's I think are easy seem to cause the greatest trouble.
It is weird.
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I'm reading CCC with hope that one day I will understand the question - as plain English... 
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It is plain English, it's just that the words are not in the order, or context, that you expect them to be. The clue is (usually) in two parts. One part consists of little clues that make up parts of the answer, for example the word "scorch" also means "char", in this case. The other part is the definition of the answer: in this case "Old Frank", Charlemagne was King of the Franks.
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That's what I'm talking about - scorch!!! Never heard of. I have to open dictionary to understand the words. Than to make the groups out of it should take week (port -> L... I've no idea why). Mostly I can't see it even after someone solved it... 
Maybe DD should do some CCC in other languages...
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On board ships, they don't use "left" and "right": they use "port" and "starboard" instead because they are always the same relative to the direction the ship is pointing rather than the sailor. If the sailor turns round 180 degrees, his personal "left" and "right" swap over, but "port" and "starboard" don't. So "Hard starboard" means the same thing regardless of the direction any sailor is pointing. (And actually means for the ship to go left, not right, as it's an instruction as to which way to move the rudder!)
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Thanks. I hope DD will use it again before I forget...
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'Hard-a-starboard' means sharp left (push the tiller right) to some people and sharp right (push the ship to the right) to others. I think the modern standard is that it means what it says, i.e. turn the ship right; it changed when ships became large enough to be steered by wheels instead of tillers, where there isn't the natural reversal, and now applies to smaller boats with tillers as well.
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why the hell are the English using "port" for left? A port is something like a parking lot for ships and boats, or a place where you can connect a cable with a device. Something where you can dock, if you like... Why reuse the same word for like 20 different meanings? 
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Because English is assembled from just about every other language it has ever met...
Wikipedia[^] to the rescue!
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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I suck at these (I think I got 4 CCCs overall), but it took me 4 seconds to realize the answer was Charlemagne. And I got it off just Old Frank, didn't process (or couldn't have processed  ) the rest.
Or maybe I'm just intuitive at times....
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread
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Injured = GAME back = EMAG
Game[^]
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I couldn't find the word "injured" anywhere in that page.
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Try under adj: Debilitated on the upper tabs
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Ha, simples! What a dunderhead I am.
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They found cocaine.
And did those eggs come from Bieber's own ovaries?
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but they have stated that the drugs found were not linked to Bieber, despite being in his house, on his table in his presence! obviously the cops have a pretty low opinon of his ladyship
and how do you cause thousands of dollars worth of damage by egging someones house? they have been doing that on Nov 4th for the last 50 years and i doubt the damage caused adds up to that in total
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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I guess that depends on haw many eggs your used, how hard they were projected, and if they were hard boiled / frozen at the time!
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Eggs[^]
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I am not sitting here for 45 minutes watching a childrens program in order to see what you mean. 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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It starts at the EGGS bit and it is not a children's programme, it is made by the Drama Department, not the Children's Department.
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Just because it's a childrens programme doesn't mean adults can't enjoy it: Shrek was good, and so were the "Despicable Me" films.
It's made by the Drama dept for budget reasons, not because it's actually a drama!
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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