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decibel
Sep20-04, 10:00 PM
who is Uri Geller?
Isn't he the guy who claims he can bend spoons by the power of his mind while rubbing then?
Gokul43201
Sep20-04, 10:24 PM
Check, it's now your turn to ask a "who is ..." question :smile:
Oh is that how this works?
Ok... HMMM....
Who is...
Bronson Pinchot?
No googling!
Why'd I have to pick such a lame person? lol
Gokul43201
Sep20-04, 10:37 PM
Bronson Pinchot is an actor. Are you looking for something more specific...I really don't know anything more than that.
Math Is Hard
Sep20-04, 10:53 PM
OK, Gokul, you started it. Now you have to ask a "who is" question! :biggrin:
Gokul43201
Sep20-04, 11:10 PM
Who is a famous mystical seer named after the Virgin Mary ?
Pinchot played Balki on Perfect Strangers. Wasn't that the best show ever? lol
Math Is Hard
Sep20-04, 11:16 PM
Would this be Maria Esperanza (from South America, I think?)
Who is the host of the TV show "Crossing Over"?
Who the the bassist for Green Day?
Gokul43201
Sep20-04, 11:44 PM
Who the the bassist for Green Day?
No idea about this (don't even know the names of the vocalist and lead player), but I had Nostradamus in mind, for my question.
MiH, are you losing touch with your Latin ??? :eek:
(Nevertheless, Maria Esperanza works too)
ok, It's Mike Dirnt. That was a tough one.
I'll pick an easier one for us science folks:
Who was Charles Lyell?
Wasn't he a friend of Darwin?
selfAdjoint
Sep21-04, 07:46 PM
Geologist.
jeebus, close, he is definitely tied to Darwin.
selfAdjoint, I guess that's correct. He's generally regarded as the father of geology.
When Darwin first set sail on his now famous voyage on the Beagle, he got sea sick fairly quickly. The only thing he could do to feel better was to lay down. Since he spend so much time in bed, all he could do was read. He read 'The Principles of Geology' by Lyell during this time, which sparked his interest in the dynamics of the earth and living things on it.
ok self, u go.
Janitor
Sep21-04, 11:01 PM
Who is John Gault?
Math Is Hard
Sep22-04, 11:09 PM
MiH, are you losing touch with your Latin ??? :eek:
.....Ut si!
Math Is Hard
Sep23-04, 12:04 AM
Oh, and John Gault was in Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand). I think that's the right novel. Been awhile.
Who is Romeo Blue?
jimmy p
Sep23-04, 07:04 AM
Who is Romeo Blue?
A French Band.
Where's Waldo?... wait... who is David Blunkett?
Math Is Hard
Sep23-04, 12:31 PM
Sorry, Jimmy - but Romeo Blue is the former stage name of singer, Lenny Kravitz.
Who is Wilford Brimley?
wilford brimley used to be the pitchman for quaker oatmeal, but he's done various things like life insurance... Done secondary parts in films like "the firm". Big movies were cocoon and cocoon 2. And I think he had a tv show called "our house" way back when. That's as far as I recall...if he did more it was before my time...
Gokul43201
Sep23-04, 04:13 PM
Zantra, your question....
Math Is Hard
Sep23-04, 04:16 PM
Perfect! Wasn't he great in The Firm?! So weird to see the oatmeal man being a SINISTER character!!
OK, Zantra, your turn to ask a "Who Is?" question.
She was a child star, she was "punky brewster".
(can't believe I remember this) :blushing:
Janitor
Sep23-04, 11:00 PM
Who is Moon Unit Zappa?
She's the sister of Dweezil and daughter of Frank.
Who is Archibald Leach?
decibel
Sep24-04, 12:27 AM
Archibald Leach was an actor also known as Cary Grant.
Who was Karl Marx?
Gokul43201
Sep24-04, 01:02 AM
Is this a trick question ?? Karl Marx was a 19th century German philosopher and social scientist (does that noun exist ?) who is considered the father of Marxist Socialism.
Who is Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ?
poolwin2001
Sep24-04, 11:19 AM
Is that the mathematician who wrote the horrible classic alice in wonderland?
Gokul43201
Sep24-04, 07:58 PM
Since you're not asking, I will :
Who is Ehrich Weiss ?
poolwin2001
Sep27-04, 07:44 AM
I used to be crazy about magic(still am) :biggrin:
Harry houdini
Who is Dr.Emmett Brown?
Gokul43201
Sep27-04, 08:57 AM
That's Doc, of course .... "Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads" - Back to the Future.
Who is Sir John Ryan ?
poolwin2001
Sep28-04, 10:19 AM
Hero of the movie 'patriot games'?
Obviously,we have similiar tastes Gokul43201
You going to ask a 'who is?' poolwin2001?
poolwin2001
Sep28-04, 01:32 PM
Who is Mohandas Karam Chand?(hint:Gokul is absolutely forbidden to answer) :wink:
Gokul43201
Sep28-04, 01:35 PM
Yes Sir John Ryan is Tom Clancy's protagonist, and he gets knighted (yeah, okay :rolleyes:) in Patriot Games for saving the Royal family from a breakaway wing of the IRA.
Poolwin, I saw BttF again only a couple of days ago...so I kinda got lucky there.
Who is the Celtic God of War worshipped in France about 2 millennia ago ?
Oops : This question goes into storage for now.
PS : I shall defer on Poolwin's question.
AKA Ghandi- known for his pacifism.. I'll spare the long winded biography.
who is roland fairchild ?
poolwin2001
Sep29-04, 08:11 AM
TOUTATIS(speel cheek :biggrin: )
(or do my memory betray me about asterix ) :biggrin:
Gokul43201
Sep29-04, 11:01 AM
who is roland fairchild ?
I thought this name sounded familiar, but I may be getting confused with the Rothschilds...
poolwin2001
Oct2-04, 10:20 AM
Roland fairchild ?I give up who is..?
It's not the Roland in "Chanson de Roland" is it??
(Can't be..:confused:)
Interviewers: Who is Motifs ?
Motifs: Thanks, that is what I guess a lot of people are wondering. Anyway, I think I should have an self-introduction first so as not to be any impolite to all of you, my fans! I am a real fan of TV games, I spend at least 6 hours a day for games only because I try to conquer all of them but unfortunately have never made any success.
I love mathematics and coding theory. Here is an evidence I thought up just a few minutes ago about how to prove number 7 is really sick.
Lets call Motifs ME and call Steve 7.
In a trivial counting problem for kids under 7, which i am sure all of you have experienced and finished, we all know that when we count upwards or downwards, 7 is also standing before or after 6.
It is a fact that even a kid realize: ...5.6.7.8...
I am really passive and Steve is an active person. So, he is always trying to do lots of things to make things move on....
Now let him(STEVE) put ME in any position in the above number series.
Case 1: ...ME.5.6.7.8...
You see that ME five SIX SEVEN eight..
Case 2:...5.ME.6.7.8...
Again Five is before ME, after ME is SIX SEVEN
Case 3:...5.6.ME.7.8...
In this special case, do you think it is what I said or Steven did ? It is him who always tries to gain an active position (a real multiple active user-sometimes Uniform sometimes Multiforms). Correct ?
Case 4: ...5.6.7.ME.8...
One more time, it is SEVEN who is actually after SIKS
The last case is meaningless to me because 6 is before 7....
Hmmm, is there any correction you think I should make in the above proof ?
By the way, anyone DARES not CARES to give me some information about WHO THE FOOK is this 6 Seven ?
As far as I can see, not only CANADIAN but AUTRALIAN is also really AFRAID to handle THIS THING, even though it was/is completely WRONG. and Actually THIS FOOKING THING HAS ALWAYS BEEN WRONG UP TO NOW.
So, DARE to tell me who the FUUK that topper is?
Er, Motifs, it would seem that your post is way OT. What do other 'regulars' to this thread think?
Gokul43201
Oct5-04, 09:19 PM
Motifs seems to have a thing for the number 7. I won't even attempt to penetrate the fog here...
Math Is Hard
Oct6-04, 12:50 AM
Gosh, I thought I was getting better at math, but I sure didn't understand what Motifs posted. :uhh: *sigh* :frown:
Can we play the "who is" game some more, though, please? huh? huh? That was fun. :biggrin: :smile: :biggrin:
Ivan Seeking
Oct6-04, 01:03 AM
Who was
Marion Morrison
Math Is Hard
Oct6-04, 01:06 AM
Can we rule out any relation to The Lizard King?
Gokul43201
Oct6-04, 01:17 AM
Marion Morrison is some famous dude's real name. I'm sure of this...it was like Buddy Holly or some pretty well known dude like that.
Dude, I know I've heard this before...I bet I'd get it if you gave me 5 choices. But for now, I'll go with Buddy Holly....dude ! :wink:
Ivan Seeking
Oct6-04, 01:30 AM
No lizard king. No Holly, duke.
poolwin2001
Oct6-04, 06:29 AM
Am i right about the gauls Gokul?
Am I, Am I????
Gokul43201
Oct6-04, 09:40 AM
:bugeye: duke!!!:bugeye: Of course, that's who :biggrin: .... but you're not supposed to answer your own question until other folks have given up. :confused:
Okay Ivan, since you answered, you ask again... :grumpy:
(poolwin : toutatis is correct :smile:)
Ivan Seeking
Oct6-04, 03:19 PM
:surprised :surprised :surprised
I didn't expect many people to recognize the reference. I guess the "Duke" has more lasting power than I realized. I would expect everyone here to remember Gigantor, but the Duke...who knew?
Okay I'll ask that: Who is Gigantor? Can you still sing the song? :biggrin:
Gokul43201
Oct6-04, 04:22 PM
:surprised :surprised :surprised
I didn't expect many people to recognize the reference. I guess the "Duke" has more lasting power than I realized. I would expect everyone here to remember Gigantor, but the Duke...who knew?
Okay I'll ask that: Who is Gigantor? Can you still sing the song? :biggrin:
Everyone knows the Duke !
Gigantor...I've got no freakin' idea who that is. :confused:
Ivan Seeking
Oct6-04, 05:56 PM
Wow, it seems that you can't even google my hero. That is obscure!
Math Is Hard
Oct6-04, 06:23 PM
Wow, it seems that you can't even google my hero. That is obscure!
Yahoo found him. I'm surprised - I thought it was the same search engine.
Ivan Seeking
Oct6-04, 06:32 PM
Well, considering that MIH just hooked me up with my old buddy,
www.gigantor.org
I will yield the floor to Math so that I may go listen to my Gigantor music.
btw, I had a Gigantor that my dad made from Brew102 beer cans. It stood about four feet high. I was so spoiled :biggrin:
Gigannnnntorrrrrr...Gigannnnntorrrrr...
Math Is Hard
Oct6-04, 06:43 PM
Yay!! I get to ask one!!
Who is Marvin Lee Aday?
I would stick around to hear your answer, but I have class soon, so I gotta fly outta here like a ...
selfAdjoint
Oct6-04, 07:35 PM
Major food group.
Gokul43201
Oct6-04, 08:17 PM
I've got no idea what that means (food group - is marvin a protein ?? :confused:). But if you know you're right, it's your turn to ask (...and please explain the cryptic reply).
This dude's different from Lee Marvin, I imagine...'cause I can't see how Lee Marvin would be a food group !
Math Is Hard
Oct7-04, 12:51 AM
Major food group.
well, certainly two parts of his nickname could fall into major food group categories and two outta three ain't bad! :biggrin:
Math Is Hard
Oct7-04, 01:04 AM
I think SA's got this one. Next question?
Marvin is a folded protein... did you see his last movie?
Math Is Hard
Oct7-04, 01:43 AM
p.s. Goke, if you haven't figured it out yet...
I'll let you sleep on it
baby, baby, let you sleep on it..
I'll let you sleep on it,
I'll give you an answer in the mornin'!
Is Marvin a paranoid android??
Gokul43201
Oct7-04, 10:35 AM
I got it with two outta three (but I was asleep, when you said that)....I didn't need to sleep on it...but yeah, I'll give you the answer in the morning. Or did you need to know right now ?
arildno, I'm sure that marvin had only a single name...and I'd bet that upset him no end !! :rolleyes:
Since SA is MIA, I'll take it : Marvin Lee Aday must be Meatloaf (the bat outta hell)
In William Blake's poem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell are found the powerful words :
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is: Infinite."
Aldous Huxley was inspired by this line to write a book titled Doors of Perception.
But who is the person that truly immortalized the line ?
(Hint : something in this thread reminded me of this...)
Math Is Hard
Oct7-04, 11:22 PM
I'll take a stab.
Speaking of Doors... Jim Morrison?
Gokul43201
Oct7-04, 11:42 PM
Yup, your turn ...
Math Is Hard
Oct8-04, 12:41 AM
Yay! :biggrin:
Here is my question:
Who mused in his "love song"
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question?
Math Is Hard
Oct8-04, 12:55 AM
** hint** it doesn't take an Alfred Einstein to figure this one out...
Who mused in his "love song"
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question?
Do I dare to answer?
'Tis not Prince Hamlet, nay —
Nor Lazarus, though he may
Wish to be — or not.
His measured afternoon
In crustacean shell, or cloth cocoon
Is caught in shadow — and will never show
Those riders on the waves: the dancers,
As they come and go.
Who is Clara Reisenberg? (No googling! But you may wave your hands in the air. "Think of your fingers as delicate butterfly wings ...")
This one is actually tough as stated, I'll post the easier version later if no one gets it.
Gokul43201
Oct8-04, 09:17 AM
I'm still clueless on the Love Song thingy :confused: First I thought it was a song...now it's clearly a poem...and quite a curious one, at that ! Not anyone contemporary, I presume, from the language ?? Hmm...must be someone famous...I wonder who...
Clara Reisenberg - I'm waving, but so far, it hasn't helped. :grumpy:
Math Is Hard
Oct8-04, 11:17 AM
I'm still clueless on the Love Song
That love song would belong to one J. Alfred Prufrock :smile:
(that's the answer I was seeking, even though he is not the author of the work)
plover, c'mon, drop some hints, would ya? :grumpy:
But the part about waving your hands is a hint, just ask Brian Wilson... :redface:
Gokul43201
Oct8-04, 08:03 PM
That love song would belong to one J. Alfred Prufrock :smile:
(that's the answer I was seeking, even though he is not the author of the work)
plover, c'mon, drop some hints, would ya? :grumpy:
I still had no idea, so I googled it :cry: Kinda ironic that I've never come across the Love song of J. Alfred Prufock, when I'm currently reading a 600-odd paged book titled The Letters of T.S.Eliot. In retrospect, Eliot's style is just barely discernible from the quoted lines (only if you include plover's). Honestly, though, I would have guessed at least 5 other names before guessing Eliot :uhh:
Now about this butterfly lady...and this Brian Wilson thingy...is that the composer (or somesuch) guy from way long ago. I don't think I know a thing about him...just that he was long before I came around. Now, there are probably more Brian Wilsons walking around, feeling neglected...sorry, you guys :redface:
Clara Reisenberg was much better known by her stage name: Clara Rockmore. (And if you wave your hands right, you end up with Good Vibrations, though I don't know if Ms. Reisenberg ever tried this.)
Kinda ironic that I've never come across the Love song of J. Alfred Prufock, when I'm currently reading a 600-odd paged book titled The Letters of T.S.Eliot. In retrospect, Eliot's style is just barely discernible from the quoted lines (only if you include plover's).
Hmm... I 've always thought of Prufrock as Eliot's best known poem (well, after the ones in Cats...), maybe that's just because my father liked it and we read it in one of my high school English classes. And I'm flattered you think I got the style close enough to be recognizable.
There's a good essay by Cynthia Ozick on Eliot. It talks about the slow restoration of sanity among literature scholars from the time in the mid-twentieth century when Eliot was more or less deified.
Gokul43201
Oct8-04, 10:54 PM
Darn...it takes an essay by Cynthia Ozick to finally convince me that I am insane !! :eek:
Whose "who's" question is it ?
Another clue:
Clara Rockmore was a protegé of Lev Sergeyevich Termen, but they were separated for more than 60 years after the KGB kidnapped Termen (no, I'm not kidding here...)
Darn...it takes an essay by Cynthia Ozick to finally convince me that I am insane !! :eek:
Unfortunately, my own comment, as I now realize, is very ambiguously worded—so I'm not sure what yours means... :redface:
What I meant was that scholars in the 50's and 60's had a tendency to treat Eliot as some sort of exalted being, which some of them (including Ozick) feel a bit embarrassed about at this point. In recent years, he's been assessed much more objectively.
So if that is indeed what you heard me saying, does that mean that you deify Eliot? :wink:
Math Is Hard
Oct9-04, 12:34 AM
Hmm... I 've always thought of Prufrock as Eliot's best known poem (well, after the ones in Cats...), maybe that's just because my father liked it and we read it in one of my high school English classes.
You know, I believe I pondered more about Prufrock in Calculus class than English- the part where he talks about measuring his life in coffee spoons. Made me think of Riemann sums in a way. :biggrin:
And I'm flattered you think I got the style close enough to be recognizable.
Very beautiful language, plover. I admired it, also.
Gokul43201
Oct9-04, 12:49 AM
Unfortunately, my own comment, as I now realize, is very ambiguously worded—so I'm not sure what yours means... :redface:
What I meant was that scholars in the 50's and 60's had a tendency to treat Eliot as some sort of exalted being, which some of them (including Ozick) feel a bit embarrassed about at this point. In recent years, he's been assessed much more objectively.
So if that is indeed what you heard me saying, does that mean that you deify Eliot? :wink:
That is how I interpreted your words - I guess the ambiguity was lost on me.
Deify....mmmm...wouldn't go that far, but I do think he's something of a genius ! But that comes out of random readings - as does most of my knowledge, which is very unstructured - and that's how I can be a bit of an Eliot fan without having read Alfred Prufrock. You're not the first person I've shocked with my random ignorance. :eek:
Well, I should at least provide an answer at this point. :redface:
Lev Sergeyevich Termen is better known in America as Leon Theremin, the inventor of the electric musical instrument called the theremin. Clara Reisenberg/Rockmore was the foremost virtuoso of the theremin. There was a documentary about the theremin that came out in the 90s, it's very much worth seeing. Up until the film-maker Steven Martin (no, not that Steve Martin) was working on this documentary in the early 90s, nobody really knew what had become of Leon Theremin, but Martin found him in Russia where he had been returned by the KGB back in the 30s, and where he had spent his life working as an engineer for the Soviet government. (He even developed the original "bugs" used by the KGB!) Martin reintroduced Termen and Reisenberg after about 60 years of separation—and apparently they had been in love at the time of his disappearance.
Lots of theremin info (http://www.theremin.info)
To explain the rest of my clues: the theremin is played by causing shifts in the electromagnetic fields generated by the instrument literally by waving one's hands in the air. The quote about butterflies is from Clara Rockmore's discussion of theremin technique. Brian Wilson was the leader of the Beach Boys, and used a theremin in their song "Good Vibrations" (actually at the theremin site, it says that it wasn't an actual theremin that was used, just something similar).
Of course now everyone thinks I'm hopelessly obscurantist and will probably never try to answer my questions again... :cry: :cry: :cry:
Very beautiful language, plover. I admired it, also.
Thanks. :blushing:
That is how I interpreted your words - I guess the ambiguity was lost on me.
Looking at it again, the second reading I was seeing now seems a bit strained. I'm not sure why I thought it more reasonable when I made my comment... :confused: :rofl:
Deify....mmmm...wouldn't go that far, but I do think he's something of a genius !
I don't think many people are trying to deny his excellence as a poet. It's more that now that the tenets of modernism under which he was enthroned have become (so to speak) untenable, he can be assessed in the same fashion as other poets rather than as some kind of monolithic presence. In order to have a full understanding of his accomplishments it's also best to view them in relation to other aspects of his life, e.g. his fairly awful quasi-fascist politics, and the dreadful way he dealt with his wife's mental illness. Some do see these circumstances as reason enough to reject Eliot's achievement—and some Eliot admirers seem to see Ozick's essay as making such a rejection. As for myself, I don't accept either thesis: it's not necessary to approve of someone as a person in order to find valuable things in their art (and I doubt Ozick thinks so either).
But that comes out of random readings - as does most of my knowledge, which is very unstructured - and that's how I can be a bit of an Eliot fan without having read Alfred Prufrock. You're not the first person I've shocked with my random ignorance.
I would describe myself as bemused rather than shocked. It is always the curse of the autodidact to have those who came to their knowledge through more well-worn paths view their collection of knowledge as strangely shaped and organized. I suffer from this myself. :wink:
Gokul43201
Oct11-04, 05:59 AM
Bravo plover - obscurantist extraordinaire ! That was beautiful...brought tears to my eyes. :cry:
Gokul43201
Oct11-04, 10:09 PM
plover, you ask again...
Who's last seven initials are P.I.N.H.E.A.D. ?
(That's seven of nine total initials — the answer is not Star Trek related though. Again, no googling.)
Hint: He doesn't like curtain calls. Those first two initials are far better known than the names they stand for. In fact, in the most common context where this person is encountered, I believe the fact that they are initials (and the fact that there are seven more) is never mentioned.
It would be quite surprising if you had never heard of this person.
Urg, I know this...but I can't...quite...think...of...it....URG!!!
More hints:
While the character I'm referring to first appeared in a series of books, he is best known from the movie made from the first of these books. Both the movie and this inital book are named for this character.
Quite a few authors have written books featuring characters and settings from the original series. The most prolific of these being Ruth Plumly Thompson.
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