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Fail or Pass
What expression is represented in the scenario below?
1 o'clock = FAIL
2 o'clock = PASS
3 o'clock = PASS
4 o'clock = FAIL
5 o'clock = PASS
1 o'clock = FAIL
2 o'clock = PASS
3 o'clock = PASS
4 o'clock = FAIL
5 o'clock = PASS
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Testing times.All of the times have been given a result implying they have been tested. Therefore someone has been 'testing times'.
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I figured that you were shamelessly ripping off the "Ribs" teaser and the solution to this was "Prime Time" or "Past your prime" or something like that.
...hey! That gives me a great idea for a new teaser!
Heh heh, funnily enough the fails and passes were placed randomly when I wrote it. I only just checked now and realised what you mean. Heh, well that should throw some people off ;).
Seeing as all of the times have already been graded, wouldn't they have been tested, so to be really picky shouldn't the answer be "tested times"? Again, I see the reasoning behind this rebus (cf. our discussion on "you take my breath away") but I don't think it quite produces the answer you suggest. That's just my opinion anyway.
I guess that opinion is fair enough, if you want to get picky! ;). The fact that you have these results though means that you have to have been 'testing times' at some point or you wouldn't have the results so the saying 'testing times' sums up the situation of what you have been doing which is what I was driving at.
Yeah, I also thought it had something to do with prime
I thought it was something like :
prime time (passing?)
because the prime hours passed.
prime time (passing?)
because the prime hours passed.
spinnercat, see Bobbrt's comment, yours is pretty much in line with his and the prime part of things was completely accidental.
To those prime commenters; one is not a prime number so that won't work. As for me, I was sure it had to to with passing the time outside the square? ( 1 and 4 are square numbers whereas the others aren't).
Sorry, I must have mis-read the question as 1 o'clock is a fail so ignore my prime comment!
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