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prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2009-09-02 01:39 pm
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Namechange

I hereby declare that the name of the puzzle-solving group that gathers together at my house sometimes, and is mostly-but-not-entirely made of members from the "Immoral, Illegal & Fattening" MIT mystery hunt team, to be Shabbas Llamas. This comes from an excellently incorrect clue answer we generated on Sunday, thanks to [livejournal.com profile] hahathor.

For lack of a better name, I two months ago described ourselves as "Immoral Illegal & Fattening (and friends)" for listing purposes in the issue's leaderboard, since we placed among the previous issue's first ten solvers. I regretted this as soon as I saw it in print; it struck me as an unauthorized use of a name that I don't own, and felt yuckier given that IIF's team captain is listed in the magazine's masthead.

I like this solution much better, and hope nobody thinks ill of me for the unintentional slight!

[identity profile] hahathor.livejournal.com 2009-09-02 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I am so delighted that the name got picked up. And I'm looking forward to being a yiddische llama during future solving sessions.