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| 1 FEB 2003 at 10:21pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | X starts with the letter M and ends with the letter K... The authors initials are: DA - He is 1 year older than I...
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| 1 FEB 2003 at 10:30pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By InlandAZ (1 FEB 2003 10:20pm)
X starts with the letter M and ends with the letter K... The authors initials are: DA - He is 1 year older than I...
But a lot deader.
I think we'll have to ban you from the trivia forum, you're too good
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| 1 FEB 2003 at 10:43pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | OK, let's try something slightly harder:
"Immediately to the east of X is a high grey rock wall. This wall is old, built of rough, square lumps of hewn granite, and it comes from the woods and goes back to the woods once more. There is only one break in the wall; an opening about six feet in width, a little to the north of the village."
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| 1 FEB 2003 at 10:50pm |
CarlaJourneyman
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Status : Online | Just one question: it's not the same author (this D. A. guy, why can't we say his name??), is it?
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| 1 FEB 2003 at 10:50pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Capitol W little l ???
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| 1 FEB 2003 at 10:56pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By InlandAZ (1 FEB 2003 10:50pm)
Capitol W little l ???
Could be NG - I may be wrong you never know...
Oops - I'll edit this a bit.... NG may be the authors initials...
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| 1 FEB 2003 at 11:03pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Malia G (1 FEB 2003 10:50pm)
Just one question: it's not the same author (this D. A. guy, why can't we say his name??), is it?
No, not the same author. You can say the author's name alright (in fact please do if you know), I suppose InlandAZ just wanted to give others some chance
And yes, the other author's initials are NG.
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| 1 FEB 2003 at 11:09pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Here's a tough one. If someone knew the answer off the top of their head, I'd be shocked.
"X is destined to be a very important piece of software. During the next 10 years, millions of programmers and users will utilize this system. From time to time they will come across a feature or limitation and wonder why it's there. The best way for them to understand the overall philosophy of the system will be to read this book".
You know the drill. Except this time, X is obviously not a place but a product.
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| 1 FEB 2003 at 11:16pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | You're referring to OS/2?
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| 1 FEB 2003 at 11:23pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | And further more - the Issue is: linear addressing. (maybe??)
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| 1 FEB 2003 at 11:32pm |
CarlaJourneyman
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Status : Online | Douglas Adams, Neil Gayman (?), were you the author of the third excerpt, Michal??
I'll be back in an hour, and I want to see an Inland's trivia...
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| 1 FEB 2003 at 11:38pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I'll be back in an hour, and I want to see an Inland's trivia...
Alright then... I'll post one just for you...
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| 1 FEB 2003 at 11:57pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By InlandAZ (1 FEB 2003 11:15pm)
You're referring to OS/2?
X is an operating system, I'll grant you as much. But you also need the author and the book.
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| 1 FEB 2003 at 11:59pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Malia G (1 FEB 2003 11:31pm)
Douglas Adams, Neil Gayman (?),
Douglas Adams and Neil Gaiman is correct! Now we just need the places and titles...
were you the author of the third excerpt, Michal??
No. Excerpts from my works will come when I run out of ideas The author of the third quote is a very famous person.
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| 2 FEB 2003 at 12:16am |
CarlaJourneyman
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By MichalN (1 FEB 2003 11:59pm)
The author of the third quote is a very famous person.
Your italicize makes me think in Bill Gates...but no, it can't be him...
Inland: I'm waiting for your post :
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| 2 FEB 2003 at 12:31am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Malia G (2 FEB 2003 12:16am)
Your italicize makes me think in Bill Gates...but no, it can't be him...
Maybe I should have said "very famous (or infamous) and very, very rich" - what do you think now
Inland: I'm waiting for your post :
But it's there already... waiting for you in its virgin beauty, with no replies so far...
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| 2 FEB 2003 at 12:36am |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Well, the quote is from Bill (you know who)... If I can take from your response that OS/2 is incorrect... Then I'll go out on a limb and say: X/Windows.
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| 2 FEB 2003 at 12:44am |
CarlaJourneyman
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By MichalN (2 FEB 2003 12:30am)
Maybe I should have said "very famous (or infamous) and very, very rich" - what do you think now
Still Bill Gates for me...???
But it's there already... waiting for you in its virgin beauty, with no replies so far...
If you put it that way, I'm going there right now...
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| 2 FEB 2003 at 12:47am |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Inland: I'm waiting for your post
Got disconnected - had to get some dinner going... Ahh Celery, Carrots and Onion - the holly trinity, and the the beef... Sorry, off track a bit... It was a toss up between Roast and Stew... But, there I go - wandering again...
I did indeed get a thread going - and just for you... It's a new thread, entitled 64 Bit Processors and Such.
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| 2 FEB 2003 at 12:59am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By InlandAZ (2 FEB 2003 12:36am)
Well, the quote is from Bill (you know who)... If I can take from your response that OS/2 is incorrect...
No, I did not say OS/2 was incorrect answer (I was just being deliberately vague) And yes, it was Bill Gates who wrote that. Now we just need the title of the book... published by Microsoft Press (who else) back in 1988.
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| 2 FEB 2003 at 6:25am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Still waiting for the complete answers.
In the meantime here's another quote, which I suspect might prove quite tough. To make it easier again, the quote is fairly long.
"It was Heroes Day in X and as usual the little capital of Zululand was quite unwarrantably gay. Along the streets the jacarandas bloomed unconscionably beside gardens flamboyant with azaleas while from a hundred flagpoles Britons and Boers proclaimed their mutual enmity by flying the Union Jack or the Vierkleur, those emblems of the Boer War which neither side could ever forget. In separate ceremonies across the city the two white communities commemorated ancient victories. At the Anglican Cathedral the Bishop of X reminded his unusually large congregation that their ancestors had preserved freedom from such assorted enemies as Napoleon, President Kruger, the Kaiser and Adolf Hitler. At the Verwoerd Street Dutch Reformed Church the Reverend Schlachbals urged his flock never to forget that the British had invented concentration camps and that twenty-five thousand Boer women and children had been murdered in them. In short Heroes Day provided everyone with an opportunity to forget the present and revive old hatreds. Only the Zulus were forbidden to commemorate the occasion, partly on the grounds that they had no reputable heroes to honour but for the most part because it was felt that their participation would only lead to an increase in racial tension."
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| 2 FEB 2003 at 1:06pm |
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By MichalN (1 FEB 2003 11:59pm)
Neil Gaiman is correct! Now we just need the places and titles...
Don't know the new quote but I can answer this old one Neil Gaiman one. Wall is the place and Stardust is the title.
And the Douglas Adams book is The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, I think but I can't remember the airport.
Some people are like a slinky. They might not be good for anything, but its fun to watch them tumble down stairs. &&
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| 2 FEB 2003 at 5:10pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Ravensbreed (2 FEB 2003 1:06pm)
Don't know the new quote but I can answer this old one Neil Gaiman one. Wall is the place and Stardust is the title.
Correct!
And the Douglas Adams book is The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, I think but I can't remember the airport.
The title is also right.
A hint about the last author - he is British but spent some time in South Africa (that's kinda obvious).
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| 2 FEB 2003 at 5:21pm |
ElfstoneGuild Master
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Status : Online | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien?
[b]playing[/b]: Destination Treasure Island (done in two sittings, but it's nice), Syberia (ho-hum), Dracula: Last Sanctuary (on hold)&&[b]reading[/b]: even more study papers&&[b]listening to[/b]: [url=http://www.last.fm/user/Brax82/]this and that[/url], plus [url=http://www.musicovery.com/]Musicovery[/url]&&[b]TV favorites[/b]: (currently) Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Journeyman (cancelled! grrr...), Heroes&& all-time) 24, Stargate SG1, X-Files, Lost, House
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