Chris's Goo

Samir Mehta | March 15, 2009
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Vicki Moore | March 16, 2009
To me chris's goo made no sense on the explanation. I was lost. If someone is charged with animal cruelty how can they love animals??? How is someone strangling a cat have to do with love?

Samir Mehta | March 16, 2009
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Steve West | March 16, 2009
That took obscurity to a new level. Entering his name in Google Image yields nothing. Even if I had seen his name (I did not), I wouldn't have found the source image or any other picture of this knucklehead. Perhaps one should consider that the more obscure the celebrity, the more detailed the clue should be. This one ranked on a level of "Crime Goo, he did something bad." I also appreciated the stuff I did find while looking for it, though. I had no idea there was a market for illegal animal parts.

Sarah Kyle | March 16, 2009
I was on a wild goose chase and could not even find it.. The goo should have been more detailed

Tony Peters | March 16, 2009
wow....I have kind of given up on this round but damn that goo is beyond a lori goo

Vicki Moore | March 16, 2009
I have tried typing this name in and can not find it anywhere at all. It even shows that it has been taken off wikipedia as well

Scott Hardie | March 16, 2009
Chris requested this goo right after the local headlines, but the game couldn't accommodate it then, not that it would have been any easier to solve at the time. Later, I almost put it up during "2008 in the News Week" because it would have been a good fit, but I had seven better goos. Finally the goo made its way online now, irrelevant and nearly impossible to solve.

As I said in the "Naked Controversy" discussion, I believe that goos are not fun when you have no reasonable chance of having heard of the person – but that's only my belief, and other people seem to like learning about obscure figures (although maybe not this scumbag). Plus, there's vocal support for Golden Imelda goos once in a while, when you have a real shot at being the only player to solve it. I think the fun of the many shouldn't be sacrificed for the fun of these few Imelda seekers, but I'm still willing to give them one every once in a while.

I plan to add some advice to the "request a goo" page, but avoiding criticism is pretty simple: Only request celebrities that we have a reasonable chance of having heard of, and write a clue that can be deciphered. The latter part is trickier, since what gives it away to one player can stump another player, but the former is easier. I don't think any of us could have heard of this person, even people who lived in the area, and it would have taken a wild guess that Chris was referring to someone in his local news to even begin to find the answer. I guess there's now another avenue of investigation for future requests.

Chris, I'm glad that you enjoy requesting goos that amuse or interest you, and I hope you keep them coming. Do be prepared to accept criticism of the goos when they're too hard, though. It's a very disappointing feeling to spend hours looking for the answer, finally give up in frustration, and then learn that you never had a chance in the first place.

Samir Mehta | March 16, 2009
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Chris Lemler | March 22, 2009
Thanks for your comments on my goo. If I have anymore regional goo's I will try my best to make them more solvable. I figure Scott had the final decision to post it and he did, so I am assuming that it was solvable.