Guess Who Wrote This? - A PF Game

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The forum discussion revolves around a game titled "Guess Who Wrote This?" where participants provide quotes from posts on the Physics Forums (PF) and others guess the authors and the forums they originated from. The game emphasizes using quotes from well-known posters, specifically those within the top 100 contributors, to enhance engagement. Participants suggest rules to refine the game, such as ensuring quotes are original and not sourced from external materials. Notable contributors mentioned include FZ+, Iacchus32, and eNtRopY, with discussions spanning various forums including Philosophy and General Discussion.

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  • #61
Could people focus on 1 quote rather than several quotes.
 
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  • #62
BH: Sounds like Iaachus in Philosophy I think. Barring that, religion.

Right about LG of course. It is obviously from the start of LG's infamous "Proof for the existence of god..."

Maybe we are getting too many philosophy ones?
 
  • #63
FZ,
Yes, it was Iaachus in religion. :smile:
 
  • #64
Originally posted by Tsunami
Nope. It was in How Stuff Works. Here's another of my favorites:

Who said this?

"I once got drunk with some illegal aliens. Then I think I lost my car for about six hours."

I remember this one well. Ivan
Seeking in mystics & pseudo
 
  • #65
Originally posted by zoobyshoe
I remember this one well. Ivan
Seeking in mystics & pseudo

Ya that one was pretty trasparent- I could have easily made the same guess (so why didn't I?..grrrr)
 
  • #66
Uh... is it my go?

"That Crusader was a particular example that made me mention Runsfeld...when ever a raving, slobbering hawk like Rumsfeld sees a problem, it must be HUGE."
 
  • #67
Originally posted by BoulderHead
Here is another big, long, hint;

"As for the number 666, what it represents is two thirds, and hence the second of three degrees: the first being 0 to 333, the second being 334 to 666, and the third being 667 to 1000. Which would be about right, for if you portrayed a symmetrical cross, where the top, bottom, left and right (sections) were equal in length, then by adding "an extension" equal in length at the base, you would have these same three degrees portrayed by the height of the cross: where the first two degrees (666 and below) exist below the horizontal plane, or "cross beam," and the third degree (667 and above) exists above it. So in this respect the number 217 (as opposed to 216) would be similar to 667."

When I read this only one member comes to my mind. How about you?

It reminds me of one of our faviorite crackpots, he's been gone for a long time, Fellow called himself Donde, had his own definition of Pi.
 
  • #68
It reminds me of one of our faviorite crackpots, he's been gone for a long time, Fellow called himself Donde, had his own definition of Pi.
Did he insist that (Pi)(rround), not square?


Originally posted by FZ+
Uh... is it my go?

"That Crusader was a particular example that made me mention Runsfeld...when ever a raving, slobbering hawk like Rumsfeld sees a problem, it must be HUGE."
Was it Njorl?
(the word 'hawk' makes me think of him)
 
  • #69
Nope.
 
  • #70
Fz+

Was it that incendiary Danish guy
who had that long thread going
about how Americans are culturally
inferior?
 
  • #71
Close.. (only many thousands of miles) but no cigar.
 
  • #72
Right thread, wrong poster, I'm
guessing. Hmmm...if it only
weren't against the rules to look...
 
  • #73
Originally posted by FZ+
Uh... is it my go?

"That Crusader was a particular example that made me mention Runsfeld...when ever a raving, slobbering hawk like Rumsfeld sees a problem, it must be HUGE."

Since you mention Rumsfeld, I'd say it was in the P&WA Forum, and guess it was Zero (hey, if you're going to guess, you might as well guess the Mentor of the Forum :smile:).
 
  • #74
Correct, Mentat!
 

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