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PLUSH Points - vain attept to catch up.
14 0 1 0 0 Quizmaster : Oblique reference to GKs mathematical mind
14 0 1 0 0 Sharkshooter : Some others have tried even harder to lose
14 0 0 2 0 Caty the Southerner : An excellent link uniting two disparate themes
14 0 0 1 0 Jedijudy : Showing technical knowledge of baseball
14 0 0 1 0 Hart : That sort of thinking wins quizzes like the KOQ
14 0 1 0 0 Pure as Snow : You and me both Snow
14 0 0 0 1 Golden Key : Thanks for the response GK
14 0 1 0 0 Icklejen : We love you and we love Chelsea Ickle
14 0 1 -1 0 Chicklegirl : For not quite getting it
14 0 0 1 1 Pure as Snow : For getting it
14 0 0 1 0 Davelarge : You have no idea how difficult that can be
14 0 1 0 0 Jedijudy : Clearly an unbiased observer
14 1 0 1 0 Rugmaker : I do admire losers with strong principles
14 0 0 1 0 Davelarge : Pedantry still a strong point
14 0 1 1 0 Rugmaker : On another occasion, or in another quiz
14 1 0 0 0 Rugmaker : I don't know who my father was
14 -1 -1 -1 -1 Quizmaster : The first ever perfect negative - well done
14 1 1 1 0 Rugmaker : Sold!
14 1 1 0 0 Ann : Oh those great memories of school sports
14 0 0 1 0 Pure as Snow : Making the connection
14 0 1 0 0 Comet : Let us know the full story Comet
14 0 0 0 1 Hart : Me too! Me too!
14 0 0 0 1 Lady A : I agree, keep the encouragement going
14 0 0 -1 -1 Pure as Snow : I think you have broken your agreement
14 1 0 0 0 Icklejen : Offering the Feed
14 1 0 0 0 Davelarge : Giving us the punchline
14 0 2 -1 1 Pure as Snow : For that noble self sacrifice
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Originally posted by Quizmaster:
14 0 1 0 0 Comet : Let us know the full story Comet
you mean this?
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I have the greatest dodgy sports decision for my entry if we do that round.
think - unlikely sled dogs...
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PLUSH Points continue
15 0 1 0 0 Quizmaster : A Knockout Quiz film? Who would play whom?
15 0 0 -1 1 Pure as Snow : Honesty should be rewarded
15 1 1 1 1 Chicklegirl : The new boss has to take precedence
15 0 1 1 0 Hart : A future signature appears
15 0 1 0 0 Jedijudy : Sleep well Judy
15 0 0 1 1 Rugasaw : Good warning to our Alaskan friend
15 1 0 0 0 Icklejen : Keep pretending and you will start believing
15 0 1 0 0 Hart : And your boss said "What's new?" - right?
15 0 0 1 0 Jedijudy : I used several of the offers as you know
15 0 0 -1 -1 Quizmaster : For posting twice when once would do
15 1 1 1 1 Pure as Snow : I must get myself a three sided coin
15 0 0 0 1 Ann : Cruel quip - Does that make you safe Ann?
15 1 1 1 1 Comet : I get the picture and I am very nearly sorry
15 1 1 1 -1 Golden Key : Top Quality carefree Also-Ran post
15 0 0 0 1 Lady A : Support for quality
Yes,Comet - That was the story and we want it in full. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Quizmaster
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All the lists have now been published (apart from Golden Key's list which should appear in the next couple of days given past form).
I need your answers PM'd to me by 22:00 UK time tomorrow (Wednesday) by which time we should know the result of the Croatia v. England match.
Please PM me your own answers with reasons (if you posted a list) after your guesses of the names on other lists. That way I can avoid scrolling down until I have had a full go at guessing names.
We will then have a couple of days guessing and suggesting possible answers before the actual answers with reasons are published.
There are five sets of pictures to attempt.
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Chorister
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While you wait, here are some fun memories of previous knockout competitions (which I'm sure Quizmaster had something to do with - even if only as an armchair supporter in his knock-kneed youth.....)
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comet
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it's not a great "story" so much as a bonafide wierd guy.
When I was a kid we lived along the Iditarod trail in either Nikolai, Anvik or Shageluk. us kids were big race fans and kept track of all our favorite mushers and dogs, and even got break from school when the race came through.
during a few years in the 80s, an musher named John Suter put together a team of standard poodles.
they did... okay.
considering.
I can tell you, to a dogsled brat like me, nothing - nothing looked more bizarre.
I think he did it for three years or so, and then we had a really cold one and I remember his dogs curled up and slept in the snow, but their fur isn't good for insulation in nasty cold stuff, and they froze to the snow and had to have their fur cut in places to get them free. I think the trail committee disqualified him after that.
He has since run for office several times, has some great conspiracy theories going, is just this side of tinfoil hats, etc.
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Golden Key
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quote:
Originally posted by Quizmaster:
All the lists have now been published (apart from Golden Key's list which should appear in the next couple of days given past form).
Pssst...bottom of previous page!
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jedijudy
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quote:
Originally posted by comet:
Dear Quizmaster:
Message received. I'm sure the gossip clatch are busy trying to figure out who "Comet" is; therefore, your capacity to place a puzzle before eager minds has been widened by just a little bit.
I expected more, however: the message doesn't appear to be a code! ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
lots of love back,
Comet
Dear rest of you:
if you're wondering what the heck I'm talking about, perhaps this will help.
The Master of 5 Masters
the Quiz-king and potent8:
Spent 6 minutes this morning
2 seek one in coldest state.
northwest, in land of the 3
and home of brave; 3 times
always charm; 6 pleases me.
2 more and 5 and 4 rhymes,
and we're close! 3PO sings
2 the Master's 4 pupils,
6 times the chant of seven.
3 to 7 more scruples.
If you've gotten this far, child -
your grey cells are the strongest.
But to abuse the answer
would just be the most wrongest.
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
And what was that all about, anyway? ![[Confused]](confused.gif) My music key guess was wrong. Comet, were you just messing with us? ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Quizmaster
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Judy,
I got a message relayed to her via her local radio station, but I have still not worked out how this fits into THAT post.
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All the Semi-Finalists have let me have their votes so it is now OPEN SEASON on the following thread.
Who is represented by which picture?
You may also post your guesses here.
Take a break now.
The FINAL will start after the weekend.
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quote:
Originally posted by Quizmaster:
The FINAL will start after the weekend.
![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif) Excellent, as I have no internet access over the long weekend.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
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comet
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judy, it's in the numbers.
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jedijudy
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quote:
23And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
24Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
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Quizmaster
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The numbers if they need separating are:
5 8 6 2 - 3 3 6 2 5 4 - 3 2 4 6 3 7
I am sure that is the code to unlock a safe in the bank at Talkeetna.
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jedijudy
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Talkeetna has a bank?
Are we supposed to put some of our guesses and revised guesses here now? I had a few "epiphanies" since I hurriedly sent my PM to QM. There was a definite "aha" out of my mouth at one point.
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comet
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we have an ATM!
Judy, do you send text messages much?
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comet
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Originally posted by Pure as the Driven Yellow Snow:
Luna femali echoes?
echoes is correct!
and Quizmaster gave a big clue above. you could figure it out by going to the same website he did.
[ 23. November 2007, 05:44: Message edited by: comet ]
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yep, he got it.
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Chorister
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I'm sure if I looked hard enough, the last few posts would spell out the child benefit details of half the people in the UK, but I can't be bothered.
I'll assume that all the cryptic codes have good intent, and let you play on.....
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Quizmaster
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quote:
Originally posted by comet:
yep, he got it.
I tried, knowing the first acronym, but I still needed the website:
Comet Radio
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PLUSH Points continue:
16 0 1 0 0 Rugasaw : Talkeetna is obviously a dangerous place
16 0 0 0 1 Doublethink : Thanks for the list of entries
16 0 0 1 1 Jedijudy : Thanks for completing the list
16 0 0 -1 0 Doublethink : Double post with voting adjustment
16 0 0 0 1 Golden Key : Nice acknowledgement
16 0 1 0 0 Jedijudy : For that picturesque description
16 0 0 0 1 Caty the Southerner : For the link
16 0 1 1 0 Pure as Snow : Smart & Weird - This post is simply ….. YOU
16 0 1 0 0 Jedijudy : Nice Photo you secret cloudlover
16 0 1 0 0 Rugasaw : I am sure that is you in the distance
16 1 1 1 1 Lady A : What a brilliant way to say goodbye
16 0 2 0 0 Golden Key : For some reason I read all about that
16 0 1 1 0 Davelarge : A fairly comprehensive cloud choice there
16 0 0 1 1 Gwai : Forging friendships via the internet
16 0 1 0 0 Flags Fiend : There is a cloud appreciation society?
16 0 1 -1 0 Hart : Now we know what you do in your spare time
16 0 0 0 1 Quizmaster : I think I can use that picture you linked to
16 0 0 0 1 Chorister : Thankyou for those links
16 0 1 0 0 Gwai : Have you played Hart over the internet yet?
16 -1 -1 -1 -1 Pure as Snow : I think you deserve that score for that meal
16 1 1 1 -1 Davelarge : Great English Traditional Meal you provided
16 0 0 1 1 Icklejen : That's better, but what are Timmy's donuts?
16 0 0 -1 0 Hart : You should know that I have my methods
16 0 0 0 1 Flags Fiend : Nice vegetarian alternative
16 0 0 -1 0 Ann : Sorry, we all walked out before the meal arrived
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In a continuing effort to catch up
P L U S H Points for your perusal:
17 1 0 0 0 Ann : Say that again and we will burn you as a witch
17 0 0 -1 0 Doublethink : Think yourself lucky
17 0 0 0 1 Caty the Southerner : For the apology to the hosts
17 0 0 0 1 Caty the Southerner : For the link
17 0 0 1 -1 Flags Fiend : We have had far too few arguments this year
17 0 0 1 1 Caty the Southerner : Taking the lead in settling the argument
17 0 0 0 0 Jedijudy : FIAT Point
17 0 0 0 1 Davelarge : For the link
17 0 0 -1 -1 Caty the Southerner : We have a rule that your first answer counts
17 0 0 -1 -1 Caty the Southerner : See, you have gone and upset a host now
17 1 1 1 1 Pure as Snow : Always helpful when it suits him
17 0 0 -1 0 Hart : Why use one post when two will do
17 1 2 1 0 Pure as Snow : I love that link
17 0 -1 -1 1 Pure as Snow : Two much! Let us find the other ones
17 0 0 1 0 Quizmaster : Appropriate damage for this particular round
17 0 1 2 1 Flags Fiend : You ought to know that you won by a mile
17 2 1 2 -1 Pure as Snow : That takes me back to KOQ v.1 - We had fun!
17 -1 0 0 1 Wet Kipper : We now live in a controlled environment
17 1 1 1 -1 Doublethink : For the most disgusting game ever
17 1 1 1 1 Pure as Snow : Like it - appropriate apology
17 0 1 1 1 Comet : Well said
17 1 1 1 1 Mertseger : Brilliant choice and well observed
17 0 1 0 0 Hart : You are now a medal winner
17 1 1 1 0 Pure as Snow : It takes dedication to get the right image
17 0 1 0 0 Chorister : We changed! We need another Exeter meet!
17 0 1 0 0 Jedijudy : Can you go on to win the event?
17 1 2 1 -1 Doublethink : I love posts like these
17 0 0 0 1 Hart : Good thinking
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Caught up at last - just the current page to go
P L U S H Points for your delectation:
18 0 0 1 1 Jedijudy : A well presented summary of the round
18 0 0 0 0 Golden Key : Table for 1 please. Soup, Cheese & Melon. Ta!
18 0 0 1 0 Jedijudy : Good question
18 0 0 1 0 Hart : Taking pride in his position
18 0 0 1 0 Jedijudy : Equally proud of her achievement
18 0 0 1 1 Flags Fiend : Goodbye and thanks for the poetry
18 0 0 0 1 Caty the Southerner : A welcome parting greeting
18 2 1 1 1 Icklejen : You have still got it so don't lose it
18 1 -1 1 -1 Davelarge : Allocating the blame elsewhere
18 0 0 1 1 Hart : I apologise for not acknowledging your suggestion
18 0 0 1 1 Jedijudy : I loved that cartoon as well
18 0 0 0 0 Rugasaw : I am still waiting for your guesses
18 0 0 -1 0 Caty the Southerner : You should know the routine by now
18 0 0 -1 0 Caty the Southerner : We will only know once you have posted
18 0 0 0 1 Caty the Southerner : Thank you for the heads up on that one
18 0 0 0 1 Sharkshooter : Thanks for the confirmation
18 1 0 0 0 Comet : For spotting that brilliant piece of coding
18 0 0 0 -1 Pure as Snow : God does intervene to stop this sort of cheating
18 0 1 0 0 Caty the Southerner : I love it when I can induce paranoia
18 0 0 0 1 Jedijudy : That was the post I needed to 'make sure'
18 0 0 0 -1 Quizmaster : But it is not meant to be impossible
18 0 0 0 1 Wet Kipper : Thanks for pointing out the problems
18 1 1 1 0 Jedijudy : For that déjŕ vu all over again quip
18 0 0 0 1 Icklejen : You feature strongly in these images Icklejen
18 1 0 0 1 Pure as Snow : For being a great audience
18 0 1 0 0 Quizmaster : That old boot has a double identity doesn't it?
18 0 0 0 1 Caty the Southerner : For confirming the problem
18 1 1 1 -1 Doublethink : I love the completely selfish at times like these
18 0 0 0 1 Hart : Thanks for the facts
18 0 0 0 1 Hart : Additional dig at Doublethink
18 0 0 -1 1 Jedijudy : For keeping us all informed
18 0 1 0 -1 Gwai : Computers are weird are they not?
18 0 1 0 0 Jedijudy : I am checking all the links right now
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Originally posted by Quizmaster:
Rugasaw : I am still waiting for your guesses
Yeah, I should know better than to open my mouth. Same thing happened this fall that happens late every fall I run out of time and lose at the KOQ.
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Hart your number 4 is me???
Hmmmm,
If I knew what it was I'm sure I'd be a bandwidth thief. I AM a coward, I DON'T love my Mama (she IS the devil!) and I'm sure inadvertently I am a litterbug.
BUT in my defense I have loved the Chels since approximately 1905, and my first words on hearing we'd been bought were a cowardly "I don't want to be hated"
I'm hurt, deeply! ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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Originally posted by Quizmaster:
17 0 1 2 1 Flags Fiend : You ought to know that you won by a mile
I love puzzles , unfortunately they are not so good when you are trying to do a degree - saying that though this site is just as bad, as I'm now addicted to the scrabble game on it!
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Quizzie, if I tell you that davelarge makes me a hotwater bottle every night can he have more helpfulness points?*
ij x
*have realised I better suck up to dl: because we're in Canada on his work permit, he now has the power to have me deported.
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Originally posted by icklejen:
Hart your number 4 is me???
Hmmmm,
If I knew what it was I'm sure I'd be a bandwidth thief. I AM a coward, I DON'T love my Mama (she IS the devil!) and I'm sure inadvertently I am a litterbug.
BUT in my defense I have loved the Chels since approximately 1905, and my first words on hearing we'd been bought were a cowardly "I don't want to be hated"
I'm hurt, deeply!
ickle_jen... I don't know what to say: that wasn't the picture that that URL linked to when I posted it! It was genuinely just the Chelsea "flag", which is your avatar. It seems to have been changed in the intervening time; I don't know why.
A thousand apologies, I should have made sure to get the picture from a more trust-worthy (or, less hackable) site .
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No worries, I just assumed it was a joke - after all Chelsea fans *are* despised for being glory hunters who buy trophies! I deny this of course!
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Semi Final Result:
Five people attempted to identify the pictures.
code:
Competitor Caty Hart Judy Q.M. Snow
Pictures right 34 19 24 27 23
Penalty Points -2 0 -4 -1 0
FINAL SCORE 32 19 20 26 23
This means that the Bronze Medal goes to HART.
The final will be between Caty and Judy.
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THE FINAL : TIME TRAVELLER
Following the success of the PIRATES round you are now required to examine the world as it is today, decide how it could be better if it was not as it is then imagine yourself travelling back in time to alter the course of history (Thanks for the idea Comet). You should describe how the change you make would have impacted the world in the past to create a better world today.
The Also Rans are in control of this round as we will all vote on which change we would like to see implemented once the time machine has been invented.
Let your imaginations run free as they did in the Pirates round and give us some ideas to blow our minds.
You have until Friday 30th November to post your full and final analysis.
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Caty S.
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I got THIRTY-FOUR pictures right??!! How on God's green earth did I manage that?!
Well played, Hart.
[ 26. November 2007, 21:54: Message edited by: caty the southerner ]
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jedijudy
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*jj slaps Hart on the back and offers him a glass of freshly squeezed key lime-ade*
Good job! Haven't we had a great time?
Goodness! One of the remaining two contestants...I'm very honored!
Now to find that "thinking cap" again.
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Originally posted by Quizmaster:
This means that the Bronze Medal goes to HART.
It will be hung proudly from my wall!
Best of luck to our final two: may the best woman win!
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A helpful list of resources for Time-Travelers from an Also-Ran.
--"A Short History Of The World", by H.G. Wells.
--Flotte's Outline Of World History--with color illustrations.
--Time Traveler Convention At MIT.
--Coast To Coast AM radio show.
Home of much weirdness, including discussions of time travel. NOTE: due to general strangeness, might not want to open this at work, depending on your workplace.
--History To Herstory Archive.
--National Women's History Project.
--"Journeyman" TV series official site. NOTE: beware of possible spoilers!
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--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Golden Key
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quote:
Originally posted by jedijudy:
Now to find that "thinking cap" again.
{Echoing voice from far, far away.}
A cap to think a Jedi needs not!
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Also Ran Entry for the Knockout Quiz Final:
TIME MACHINE:
Set the date – Monday 9th October 1307
That gives me just under a week to warn those I need to warn about the dastardly events that should be prevented. I need to get messages between the South of France and Jerusalem and many places in between. I have always had a problem with the teachings of the church but at the end of this week the church elders have agreed to a plot of murder and torture to prevent another organisation from becoming more powerful than the church itself.
Times were tough in this era and travellers were regularly robbed, mugged, assaulted, abused and even killed simply for being in the wrong place on a road beset by highwaymen out for a quick profit. Church types had a penchant for pilgrimages which took them far and wide in search of spiritual fulfilment. Men usually had to choose between the church or the army. The choice was warfare or religion and those who did not want to fight found some way to develop religious leanings.
Just as in modern times, peace loving individuals are in the majority, but warmongers tend to be more powerful and able to impose their wills on the majority. There was some hope, however, as the church had a military branch known as the Knights Templar whose role was to protect pilgrims on their journey from the North of Scotland all the way to Jerusalem and back again. The Knights were strong and well trained in man to man combat, and the church paid handsomely for their services.
Pope Clement V came up with a very clever cost cutting exercise. He organised the mass round-up and murder of this military branch because attacks on pilgrims had become much less frequent. The bad guys knew that if they attacked pilgrims they were likely to be visited by the Knight Templar so this branch had completed its useful life and could now be dispensed with, particularly as they were so expensive, demanding good money for risking their lives on behalf of others.
I have to warn the Knights Templar of their impending doom so that they are ready on Friday 13th.
By making them ready, the world would be completely different today:
1. The Roman Catholic Church would have gone bankrupt in the 14th Century.
2. We would be united in wearing the Cross of St. George everywhere we walk.
3. The Holy Grail would be on display at The Louvre in Paris
4. We would know the names of the descendants of one Jesus from Nazareth.
5. Dan Brown would not have been able to entice us with his work of fiction.
6. Malta would not be the underdeveloped island it remains to this day.
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[from a lightning proof bunker]
Time Machine set for
6000 B.C. - Six billion years ago. (YMMV)
Genesis 1:26.
God, excuse me Sir, um, I think on reflection you might want to just stop at the dolphins. Seriously, they provide great companionship and it will save you an awful lot of grief...
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hey, you used my sig idea!
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QM and PATDYS:
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{Puttering around in the hanging gardens of the Also-Ran monastic resort on Mt. Everest.}
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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I've been frantically pondering ideas, and rejecting them almost as quickly. There are two that keep reappearing in my brain, though. May have to give them a bit more serious thought.
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Let me fire up my De Lorean and zoom back to an indeterminate day in 1870 when Thomas Adams met General Santa Anna, which unholy union led to a venture in how to develop and market chicle, and shortly thereafter chewing gum as we know it was invented.
If I were successful in stopping this business alliance, I would prevent the creation of Adams' highly successful product, Chiclets, which would in turn erase the identity of Chicklegirl, creating a vacuum in the space time continuum (for how could this post exist if Chicklegirl never existed?), thereby causing the universe to implode (which has been my evil plan all along).
<edited to cue diabolical laughter>
[ 28. November 2007, 07:42: Message edited by: chicklegirl ]
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Just over 24 hours left for our two finalists to post.
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jedijudy
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The year is 1999. Planet Earth, North America, the United States of America, the great state of Florida. Supervisors of elections are making the preparations necessary for the presidential elections next year.
Out of thin air, I appear with my credentials in hand: a voter registration card and valid Florida driver's license. After a heart-to-heart chat with Governor Bush, I convince him that the voting machines of the state are going to cause him no small amount of grief if he doesn't do something about the chad potential.
With a letter from the governor in my hand, I travel to all sixty-seven counties to inform the officials that they will not be using the voting machines which they have been testing and cleaning. No. In 2000 the citizens of the state will vote by paper ballot *gasp*, just like we did in the old days.
Many of the election supervisors are pretty peeved at me for my audacity and backward-thinking ways, but they must comply or risk JEB's wrath.
As a consequence of my actions:
- Florida isn't the laughing stock of the whole world.
- Hanging chads, dimpled chads and pregnant chads do not become part of everyone's vocabulary.
- As to the outcome of the election...
I should leave that last part to those who are more politically savvy than I am. Who knows, we might not be in a war at this time. Then again, we might not have been able to escape that fate. *sigh*
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Caty S.
I read, therefore I am.
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The Date: The second year of the reign of Gaius Julius Caesar, later to be known as 47BC.
The Place: The eastern fringes of the Roman Republic, somewhere near Antioch
The Mission: Persuade the local officials of the many benefits of making lots of small metallic pieces each bearing a single letter, a frame to put them in (including showing them a quick diagram scribbled on the back of some spare parchment), some paper/parchment/papyrus and lots of ink.
Yes, I am introducing moveable type printing into the Roman Empire.
Just think of the advantages, sir. It will be so much easier to govern. All your proclamations can be reproduced many times; no-one need be in ignorance. No more unruly centurions claiming they couldn’t read their orders. It will be very useful. Your superiors in Rome will be most impressed and create many presses for their own use – and give you a great big promotion. And just think how much cheaper it will be than feeding and housing all those scribes.
I see, sir that you own a book. Aristotle? That must have been terribly expensive. Really? Just think, sir. You could have Socrates and Plato too, if the works could be reproduced at less expense. In fact, I am sure that lots more people will start writing about all sort of interesting things, and soon you will have whole libraries. You have heard of the library at Alexandria? Imagine having such places all over the world!
What do you think?
This new technology will of course take a while to catch on and spread across the Empire. However, within a generation there will be printed material all across the Empire. Literature will flourish, and by 200AD large forests in the northern part of the Empire will be ruthlessly managed for maximum wood pulp production.
After the decline of the Roman Empire (brought about largely by the Roman civil service imploding due to all the paperwork), people will still have access to information about building and maintaining roads, sewers, and many other things – including how to print more stuff - in the many libraries scattered across the former Empire.
The 'dark ages' will be distinctly brighter, as old Roman technology makes lives more comfortable. In fact, they will be simply be called the post-Roman period, as historians of the future will be far better informed: not only will archaeologists be able to dig stuff up, but there will be hundreds of thousands of documents to study.
Biblical scholars will also have tens of thousands of early, printed copies of the Biblical texts to study. There will be a massive body of correspondence from – and to - St. Paul, preserved in several collections (the twenty-eighth letter to the Corinthians being of particular interest to those seeking to understand the correct liturgy for use in celebrating the resuscitation of those killed by falls from windows during long sermons). The ease with which documents can be copied and disseminated may even mean the preservation of letters from Jesus. ("Yes, mother, I will be at the wedding. Please make sure there is enough wine this time.")
What is more, all those books and Bibles circulating and being read in the first-millennium church will have a positive effect on the way the church as an institution develops. Many of the worst excesses of corruption will be prevented, and individuals will have greater access to and understanding of the Bible and liturgy. The reformation will not cause chaos all over Europe, but will instead happen gradually between 1100 and 1400 as scholars write and publish learned papers, and ordinary people carry on doing pretty much what they've always done.
Of course, there will still be many controversies. As the Church Times editorial commented in 1384, "Whyle wee recognyse and applaude the wishe of many to achieue greater understandynge of Holy Scripture, wee doe belyve that the varios Latin translacions so widely auailable todaye doe prouide an excellent resource. Wee cannot butte feele that Master John Wyclyffe’s Englyshe translacion runs agaynste the greate tradycyons of the Holy Church and that, since offycyal approual is lykely to be refusyd, a printe runne of 80,000 was mayhap a lyttle optimisticke."
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O.K. All you ex-contestants who are now Also Rans:
Can I have your votes please.
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