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Bond Rebus: Guess the name, word, or phrase

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  • SimonSimon Keeping The British End Up...
    edited August 9 Posts: 154
    Thanks @RichardTheBruce !

    Not all that difficult ones from me (I don't have the imagination :D ), so 4 for you to have a go at. They came out a bit oversized, so click images for bigger versions of each:

    #1
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    #2
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    #3
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    #4
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  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    mattjoes wrote: »
    Nice work, that was a rather fiendish but clever rebus.

    I figured out the phrase early on (loved the Soon can U), but there several images whose meaning I couldn't decipher. I hadn't noticed the drop shadow hinting at 'over'. The TSWLM pic hinting at the word 'article', which would then lead to the letter 'a', is a rather complex deduction to make.
    Cheers @mattjoes - Intention was to be difficult, not diabolical! Having known what an 'article' is for many years, I naturally expected someone else to know as well.

    @Simon Well done on that last round. A clean sweep.

    #1 here is "I'll buy you a delicatessen! In stainless steel!"

    I'll - isle
    buy - bi
    you a - teapot or kettle synonym: urn? (you an/you ən?)
    deli - Delhi, a city in India
    cat - meow
    essen! - Essen, a city in Germany
    In - IN (Indiana) flag
    stain - literal
    less - 'less than' symbol (<)
    steel! - steal
  • SimonSimon Keeping The British End Up...
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    QBranch wrote: »

    #1 here is "I'll buy you a delicatessen! In stainless steel!"

    I'll - isle
    buy - bi
    you a - teapot or kettle synonym: urn? (you an/you ən?)
    deli - Delhi, a city in India
    cat - meow
    essen! - Essen, a city in Germany
    In - IN (Indiana) flag
    stain - literal
    less - 'less than' symbol (<)
    steel! - steal

    All correct, except for the third image. Not urn, or a play on words of urn.

  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    If I may help out with the remaining word, that thing is called a ewer. A word that I just now learned by googling for the image.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    If I may help out with the remaining word, that thing is called a ewer. A word that I just now learned by googling for the image.

    Google Lens has its uses. :)
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    edited August 10 Posts: 9,041
    Indispensable, I should say.

    Rebus No. 2 is Trigger Mortis. I had to google both images to know what they are. Never heard of either.

    Rebus No. 3 is Nambutu Embassy. Right half of Vietnam, Buu (never heard of that one either), half of a tutu, embers, sea.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Dragonpol wrote: »
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    If I may help out with the remaining word, that thing is called a ewer. A word that I just now learned by googling for the image.
    Google Lens has its uses. :)
    I won't use Google Lens for this game, It's a little too convenient!
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    QBranch wrote: »
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    If I may help out with the remaining word, that thing is called a ewer. A word that I just now learned by googling for the image.
    Google Lens has its uses. :)
    I won't use Google Lens for this game, It's a little too convenient!

    I didn't either but the rebuses have gotten much more difficult since I used to participate in the early days of the thread.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    With references to British TV series I've never seen and computer games I've never played, I just don't have the frame of reference to determine what a picture shows unless I research it. And I don't believe that any normal member here would find an "isle" (...of Man, in this case), rather than a non-descript "island", nor the German city of Essen (hell, even Germans do not know anything about Essen!) or the flag of Indiana without any research. I couldn't have identified Delhi either, thinking it looked liked an Indian city but not knowing which one. So what am I to do to confirm: a regular Google search, leaving out the images? Or visit the local library and check the remaining encyclopediae?
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Researching online to solve these puzzles is necessary. Essen in Germany and the Indiana flag I had no idea about, and discovered through typing different words to come to the answer. That is hard-earned research. Simply dragging an image into Google Lens and cropping that to find the answer is lazy and what I consider crossing the line into cheating. Specifically for these games, I mean. If it's regular research for ones own curiosity I don't have a problem with using Google Lens as a last resort, but for these games I should think it's unacceptable.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    Well, I guess it's best we agree to disagree, and leave it at that.
  • SimonSimon Keeping The British End Up...
    edited August 11 Posts: 154
    QBranch wrote: »
    Researching online to solve these puzzles is necessary. Essen in Germany and the Indiana flag I had no idea about, and discovered through typing different words to come to the answer. That is hard-earned research.

    Agreed - I had no idea of the name of the actor who played Hip until a couple of rebus (rebi? rebuses?) ago, and I didnt know Kim Sherwood was doing a trilogy of books. Part of the fun/frustration of these (for me...) is doing some digging, and using the bits you do know to drop hints for the ones where you are completely at a loss to build up a guess. I use image search, but Google Lens hopefully shouldn't be a requirement.

    I also kinda thought some would drop into place - stain, less, and steal was left pretty easy for #1, which hopefully made any Lens-less research that bit easier at that point, as I was guessing the full quote at that point would be known to most. My thinking for how it would have been worked out was:
    • Isle - I think was pretty fair on my part to be honest.
    • Bi - I had no idea what the Bi symbol was prior to this rebus, but given its close relation to the well known male/female symbols this one was easy enough to look up.
    • Ewer was probably the most abstract/annoying, but a Google search of "jug synonym" gives the answer on the search page before the first actual result. Its also mentioned as an alternate name on the Wikipedia Jug page in the first paragraph or two. I won't lie, I had the rebus pretty much done, and this was still a blank in the final image when I went for the Ewer option :)
    • The Indian city filling in for part of the word 'Delicatessen' where the 'cat' bit is also more than generous, I thought would make this one an easier guess.
    • Essen the city is spelled the same as the remaining part of the word delicatessen - Googling just 'essen' shows this is a city in Germany for those that didn't know of it; image search or viewing the Essen Wikipedia page shows the world heritage site coal mine used in the rebus to confirm its the answer.
    • The picture of a flag representing the word 'In' - Hopefully with the easier ones below, people would have known this represent the word 'In', and a Google image search 'in flag' gives up the answer as its third image. Standard Google search for what is on the flag 'torch stars flag' gives the answer first result. Using the same 3 words in any order for an image search gives the answer in the first handful of results.
    • Stain, less and steal were hopefully all easy enough, and the jumping off point for getting the rest.


    Can't say I agree completely with some of the criticism, but it's noted nonetheless for if I ever get another go at these.

    With regard to country-centric cultural images, thats fair play, but I think one that is largely a built in issue of the rebus - having images that all the people will always have reference to all the time is just not going to be a thing. Even within the 007 universe, using book, comic strip, or TV show clues could go over plenty of peoples heads. Sometimes theres just going to be some that rule people out by geography, culture, etc, not to mention those taking part in an English language community where English isn't their first language. I just skip those I am truly stuck on, or wait for another guesser to drop me a hint. On page 43 I had no idea who Joe Dirt was, but it was given by someone else. Still, far be it from me to say how people should enjoy these! I don't think Lens should be used, but if it keeps things marching onwards, so be it!


    Anyway, #1 has been solved by @QBranch , and #2 and #3 by @j_w_pepper - just #4 to go. If we get a draw, I had a truly awful #5 even I deemed too ridiculous that can be a tie-breaker :D




    Answers so far:

    #1
    Isle
    Bi
    Ewer
    Delhi-cat-Essen
    Indiana (IN)
    Stain-Less than
    Steal

    "I'll buy you a delicatessen in stainless steel"


    #2
    Trigger, TV character
    Multiple versions of the TV character Morty - Morty's

    Trigger Mortis, by Anthony Horowitz

    #3
    Latter half of Vietnam flag, for Nam
    Boo - Mario character
    Half a Tutu - Tu
    Glowing embers
    The Sea

    Nambutu Embassy, from Casino Royale.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    For good order's sake, I wasn't criticizing...unless of course you insist on a somewhat diffusely traditional way of research, as QBranch does.

    The only one in No. 3 I needed to use Google Lens for was that Mario character...I don't know any Mario characters, except Mario, and only by reading about it probably about 40 years ago. So that one actually largely worked the normal way, and you can say that something sounding like "bu" was obvious but I felt I should still know where that came from.

    However, never having encountered either "Trigger" or "Morty", I could never have guessed by pure chance that of all the possibilities in the Bond realm the particular solution would be "Trigger Mortis", and then sort of reverse-engineer the segments to find out the hard way what the images showed. That's not how a rebus works for me.

    Likewise, barring a Google Lens search I absolutely wouldn't know who the double character and the one after Wai Lin is, so wouldn't have anything to build on in No. 4. Full disclosure: Even after that search, I have no clue what the solution could be.
  • SimonSimon Keeping The British End Up...
    edited August 11 Posts: 154
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    For good order's sake, I wasn't criticizing...unless of course you insist on a somewhat diffusely traditional way of research, as QBranch does.

    I wasn't taking it as malicious or angry, or any other form of negative criticism, just a critical response. Which it was, and which is fine. :)
    The only one in No. 3 I needed to use Google Lens for was that Mario character...I don't know any Mario characters, except Mario, and only by reading about it probably about 40 years ago. So that one actually largely worked the normal way, and you can say that something sounding like "bu" was obvious but I felt I should still know where that came from.

    All images require prior knowledge. Plenty of people may not know the flag of Vietnam, but do recognise Boo, you just happened to be the reverse of that, and both could be Googled. If you end up using Lens for it, go for it. In the Double Or Nothing rebus previously, I didnt know the 'nothing symbol', but as I already had 'double-oar' I just Googled 'nothing symbol' and it confirmed my guess. I may be alone (or with Qbranch :) ) in thinking this is a perfectly ordinary way for these sorts of things to be worked out?
    However, never having encountered either "Trigger" or "Morty", I could never have guessed by pure chance that of all the possibilities in the Bond realm the particular solution would be "Trigger Mortis", and then sort of reverse-engineer the segments to find out the hard way what the images showed.

    Fair point.
    Likewise, barring a Google Lens search I absolutely wouldn't know who the double character and the one after Wai Lin is, so wouldn't have anything to build on in No. 4. Full disclosure: Even after that search, I have no clue what the solution could be.

    While we are back on track, the third image is not 'Wai Lin'. I mean, it is, its clearly her character, but the words 'Wai Lin' do not appear in the rebus.

  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    Simon wrote: »

    While we are back on track, the third image is not 'Wai Lin'. I mean, it is, its clearly her character, but the words 'Wai Lin' do not appear in the rebus.

    Understood, and I didn't mean it like that either. It could of course be Michelle or Yeoh or both or something sounding like either or something like "Chinese agent" or whatever. Just referring to the image.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    For what it's worth I think after a short dwell time for the initial post, it's reasonable to revert to some tools to investigate image unknowns. Hopefully some original thought was committed to start.

    Earlier I was confident the first two Sherwood books would be recognized, but not so much the Double Oh Trilogy which relates to its marketing. So I had this additional image ready as well.
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    Still considering #4.

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  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    This one finally came to me, I was thinking about it at work today.

    #4 = Benicio del Toro

    Benic - Bennys ("Screw you, Bennyyy!") the mutant from Total Recall who has x kids to feed
    io - Yeoh, Michelle
    del - Del Boy from British show 'Only Fools and Horses'
    Toro - Spanish for bull
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    Oh, he's a toro too!
  • Reflsin2bourbonsReflsin2bourbons
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    QBranch wrote: »
    This one finally came to me, I was thinking about it at work today.

    #4 = Benicio del Toro

    Benic - Bennys ("Screw you, Bennyyy!") the mutant from Total Recall who has x kids to feed
    io - Yeoh, Michelle
    del - Del Boy from British show 'Only Fools and Horses'
    Toro - Spanish for bull

    I was stuck on Moore's identity in Octopussy. Thought it was Luis del Toro for some reason.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    edited August 12 Posts: 14,582
    Reflsin2bourbons wrote: »
    I was stuck on Moore's identity in Octopussy. Thought it was Luis del Toro for some reason.
    Maybe you were just Star-struck?

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  • SimonSimon Keeping The British End Up...
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    QBranch wrote: »
    This one finally came to me, I was thinking about it at work today.

    #4 = Benicio del Toro

    Benic - Bennys ("Screw you, Bennyyy!") the mutant from Total Recall who has x kids to feed
    io - Yeoh, Michelle
    del - Del Boy from British show 'Only Fools and Horses'
    Toro - Spanish for bull

    Benny's-Yeoh Del Toro / Benicio Del Toro it is! Would love to say that Octopussy/Toro thing was a fiendish ploy on my part, but I forgot it existed :D

    That's 2 correct answers from @QBranch and 2 from @j_w_pepper - I'll let you settle it with a rap battle or whatever it is people do here to decide these things as to who goes next.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    I'll pass this gladly to @QBranch, as I'm not overly knowledgeable about putting those graphics together, plus also have a surprising lack of time right now to come up with something substantial.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Sensing a pause I'm going to slip one in. But onus remains on @QBranch for another.

    On a simpler vein.


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  • SimonSimon Keeping The British End Up...
    edited August 13 Posts: 154
    RichardTheBruce wrote: »


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    One Moore - Once more
    2 N's - in to - unto
    Breach loader - the breach


    "Once more unto the breach"?
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    You're on it @Simon, what I was looking for.

  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    I'm happy to pass the game over, cheers all.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Ah, I know this one. "For a minute there, I thought Harry was laying down on the job."
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    edited August 14 Posts: 9,041
    I just thought of a banal and simple one without artwork:

    UABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTVWXYZ

    EDIT: Sorry if I intervened with this one, I though that the "mattress tester" was already solved.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    QBranch wrote: »
    Ah, I know this one. "For a minute there, I thought Harry was laying down on the job."

    I was thinking something simpler. Character name.
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