The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 4th July

[cozzo]

Sessegnon brothers

 

[freeeki]

“Well ain’t we a pair, raggedy man” is from Mad Max (Aarons)?

I don’t know what the “annoyed, he tossed it” bit means

 

[Spurrific]

The next bit of the quote is, "goodbye soldier" - must mean Eriksen's off, and is referring to his tough-tackling play style

“Well ain’t we a pair, raggedy man” is from Mad Max (Aarons)?

I don’t know what the “annoyed, he tossed it” bit means

It means to have an angry wank, thought you of all people would know that.

 

[razzmaster]

Dee has said: Diaz? That ex-city guy at Madrid?

No idea about the second part. I imagine it's saying we're looking at getting a couple from Real.

We were linked yesterday to Mariano Diaz from Real Madrid

 

[buttons]

I’m going with Dee Ligt. We’re back in the race, Toby going the other way

 

[freeeki]

It means to have an angry wank, thought you of all people would know that.

Because I’m the only one here with a penis which actually gets used occasionally?

Fair comment.

 

[BrooklynSpurs]

Dee = Daniel Levy
Raggedy Man = Real Madrid

Goes with the info from Herc about wanting a pair from RM

 

[stonebrow]

Is this a cryptic where we will get an answer if we guess correctly or one where you can’t disclose until it’s made public knowledge?

 

[dondo]

Sessegnon brothers

That’s what I thought

 

[worcestersauce]

a pair, two a's Mad Max Aa? That's me done for the rest though.

 

[RJR1949]

The Goat has finally bleated!

"Dee has said well, ain't we a pair, Raggedy Man. Annoyed, he tossed it."

Let the guessing games commence...

The Raggedy Man is a poem by James Whitcombe Riley (see below).

"An 'ist rared up an' squealed and run"

Eriksen's tossed his toys out of his pram and he's off to Real Madrid.

The Raggedy Man's so good an' kind
He'll be our "horsey," an' "haw" an' mind
Ever'thing 'at you make him do—
An' won't run off—'less you want him to!
I drived him wunst way down our lane
An' he got skeered, when it 'menced to rain,
An' ist rared up an' squealed and run
Purt' nigh away!—an' it's all in fun!
Nen he skeered ag'in at a' old tin can ...
Whoa! y' old runaway Raggedy Man!
Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!

 

[Luka Van der Bale]

Is this a cryptic where we will get an answer if we guess correctly or one where you can’t disclose until it’s made public knowledge?

A&C said he’d have preferred to come straight out with it, so hopefully not too much secrecy / too long a wait for the answer to this one!

 

[mightyspur]

The Goat has finally bleated!

"Dee has said well, ain't we a pair, Raggedy Man. Annoyed, he tossed it."

Let the guessing games commence...

Raggedy = Messy
Tossed it = dwarf = small person

Messi, we're signing Messi. You can all thank me later.

 

[Bump]

Any attempts to solve this that ignore the mad Max quote are unlikely to be correct. Dee is the person this info is coming from I think. Then we have the quote from Mad Max and then we have "annoyed, he tossed it", which again sounds like a quote from something. I wonder if it is something related to Aarons, but there are other people called Max and it might be in relation to actors or something.

 

[Gbspurs]

Dee = Daniel Levy
Raggedy Man = Real Madrid

Goes with the info from Herc about wanting a pair from RM

This does work. I also liked the "2 men enter, 1 man leaves" suggestion which you could add to yours with us looking to get 2 from RM and Eriksen looking to leave to RM.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

I’m awful at cryptic guessing but to me it looks like the Sessegnon twins.

Where is everyone getting ‘close’ from?

 

[irradiation]

Is this a cryptic where we will get an answer if we guess correctly or one where you can’t disclose until it’s made public knowledge?

Would be nice if the Goat played a Hot and Cold game with us in our PMs. Can’t imagine A&C would be too enthused with a prolonged guessing game (but really, I want it mostly because I can’t hazard a proper guess for the life of me because I’m dense and just want an answer)

But that does take the fun out of a cryptic so...

 

[Deleted member 27995]

I’m awful at cryptic guessing but to me it looks like the Sessegnon twins.

Where is everyone getting ‘close’ from?

The first letter of each sentence in the op.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

The first letter of each sentence in the op.

Thank you! I feel even more stupid than usual now

 

[Ossie'sAardvark]

As an American, I feel it’s my duty to tell you Brits to do one today.?????? But I’m still excited about NDombele and the prospects of a new bid for Lo Celso according to JJ so I won’t say anything about that.

Edit: And isn’t Lo Celso an Italian name? I’m going to Italy for my honeymoon next month so if I see him there I’ll see what I can do.

Didnt want it anyway!