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Is there no limit to your knowledge, oh wise one of clattering bones? Next time it's my turn I'll go with some obscure finnish person, of whom you've never heard of!

But now, the name of this person would be..? Not Hendrik, but...

edit: or should I just pass this on to DarkStrider already? (not being quite sure about the right procedure, since I'm still wet behind the ears in here...)

[ December 17, 2005, 18:15: Message edited by: Ichor ]

 

It's really getting annoying with you people who post things like "I know but I'm not saying" or "He was in the same school as so-and-so". Either say who it is or stop with the obscureness. It makes dummies like me even more dummies.

Newton?

 

Nope, more recent, even if he's quite as dead in his physical form, but I'm sure his work still goes on...in some form or another...

 

Last guess as I only know 4 physicists: Robert Oppenheimer?

 

I'm out of time here, so Arahar, you probably should go on, if you really know this on that is...

 

No don't pass it to me although I know who it is

 

So wtf is it?!? Tell me!

 

I'm sorry, but that is NOT HOW THIS GAME IS PLAYED. Without confirmation or denial, we have to wait 24h from the last guess before going on, and then it's first come-first serve. If your statement implies you won't be online in the next 24h, so be it, but see below...


However, I really couldn't care less who goes next, and I certainly don't want the honours myself, but I *DO* want, by all that is holy, to KNOW THE ANSWER.

I'm sorry, but IT'S THE **** TITLE OF THE **** THREAD!!! who said that To put this up here and NOT tell us <thread title> is just frickin RUDE.


EDIT: okay, if Ichor doesn't come back in time, could someone who "knows but doesn't want to say" please TELL ME when you IJA?

 

Peace all.

Konrad Lorenz.

Now let's move along.

edit: He was the grey goose man by the way. Rather important guy.

 

i'm the most well-read guy i know, by far. but during this game, i feel like a real fricking moron :/

 

Thank you, Nakia. Still don't have a clue who he is though. Me's dumb.

 

@kuemper and those interested: http://www.psy.pdx.edu/PsiCafe/KeyTheorists/Lorenz.htm
He was a zoologist and ethologist not a physicist, at least not what I think of when I think of physicists which is rarely.

@Enagonios don't feel bad it is a matter of luck. There are 2 or 3 people here who seem to have eclectic memories.

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Softball for true SciFi Fans: Bonus character who said and book it is from.

Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time.
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My favorite.

[ December 18, 2005, 00:04: Message edited by: Nakia ]

 

Robert Heinlein

Take Back Your Government

Can't remember which character said it but my favorite quote of his is:

"Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost."

 

Right, Arahar, Your turn.

To be fair he used this or a similar quote frequently I was thinking of:

Jubal E. Harshaw in Stranger in a Strange Land

Lazarus Long also used a similar quote.

Heinlein has a lot of quotes I concsider great but many would be a little too controversal.

 

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?

 

Since no one has even tried to guess I'll stick my two cents in.

Oprah Winfrey?

 

nope

 

Roger Ebert?

 

nope

hint: He's an author

 

Jeffrey Archer?