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It keeps changing, and keeps getting longer, and is used for human entertainment all around the world. What is it? :-p
 
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Danger said:
A model aeroplane?

Right track, wrong scale
 
SOS2008 said:
It keeps changing, and keeps getting longer, and is used for human entertainment all around the world. What is it? :-p
It's either the 'Thread Killer Thread' or that thing you keep in the closet.

Argentum Vulpes said:
Right track, wrong scale
I am becoming perplexed. :confused:
I also have to get my ass in gear or I'll be late for my pool match. I'll check back in when I get home (about 3-5 hours).
 
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Out of the mist... The second and third clues.

The Second clue (even it has been rendered somewhat moot I'm not wasting it)

Phil Hartman cut a commerical for what my skin was essentially, the solid version of course, DAMM!

Drum roll please

The third clue is,

I was going to float on but went down in a blaze of glory.

I'll check tomorrow to see if there is any right answers, I've got an early day at the desk tomorrow :cry:
 
dose dope damm semiconductors Phil Hartman. I have no idea.
 
hypatia said:
The Hindenburg?

Yep you are right.

Since there is some confusion about my clues let me explain them

Argentum Vulpes said:
I was painted with a dope.

This was just a broad question to get people thinking about things that are doped, like semiconductors, plane skins, ect.

Argentum Vulpes said:
It dose fall inbetween the discovery of the semiconductor and it's mass production.

For this my research the semiconductor was discovered in the lab the 1830's ( http://www.micron.com/k12/semiconductors/history.html ) and went into mass production in the 1950's, the Hindenburg went down in 1937.

Argentum Vulpes said:
Phil Hartman cut a commerical for what my skin was essentially, the solid version of course, DAMM!

This was referring to Phil's character on News radio (Bill McNeal) and in a commerical he got all uppity about was For Rocket Fuel malt liquor (went something like "rocket fuel malt liquor DAMM!"). The doping on the skin of the Hindenburg was cotton base fabric painted with a mixture of cellulose nitrate, and aluminum powder. Bamm basic solid rocket fuel.

Argentum Vulpes said:
I was going to float on but went down in a blaze of glory.

The Hindenburg was just going to make a stop in Lakehurst NJ but during the docking procedure caught fire and was no more.

Hope that clears up some missunderstanding.
 
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Argentum Vulpes said:
For this my research the semiconductor was discovered in the lab the 1830's ( http://www.micron.com/k12/semiconductors/history.html ) and went into mass production in the 1950's, the Hindenburg went down in 1937.

I read this to mean the discovery and mass production of the transistor, when I knew better!
 
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My name consists of baby goats and what volcanos make. What's the name I was born under?
 
SOS2008 said:
It keeps changing, and keeps getting longer, and is used for human entertainment all around the world. What is it? :-p
I don't know if this is a serious one or not... but I know the answer:

FRANZBEAR!
 
Mk said:
My name consists of baby goats and what volcanos make. What's the name I was born under?
Val kidman
 
hypatia means Robert James Ritchie.

Time for the next question! :biggrin:

Ooh, or maybe Billy Idol. If they were baby boy goats... and people have worshipped volcanoes... In that case, William Broad.
 
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point to Henry Faulds not this way.
 
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SOS2008 said:
It keeps changing, and keeps getting longer, and is used for human entertainment all around the world. What is it? :-p
matthyaioyuaieuoaaouw's name.
 
wolram said:
point to Henry Faulds not this way.
Is this a clue? Fingerprint?
 
honestrosewater said:
Is this a clue? Fingerprint?
A clue yes, finger print no.
 
Point to him not with your finger? :smile:
 
BTW, a fingerprint is usually a clue. :-p
 
Hint, blood.
 
Point to him not with a bloody finger? :rolleyes: Yeah, I've got nothing.
 
Another unique feature.
 
honestrosewater said:
DNA...

nope

thats two out of three?
 
Flower? maybe
 
two out of three- RNA...
flower- you are mean.
I will think.

toe, nose, petal, root, stem, leaf, pollen, stamen, filament, anther, a kind of flower?
 
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A way i input a picture to PC
 
scan... okay... thinking.
 
But how does that work with the first clue or flowers or blood? I really don't get the first clue if it isn't something to do with fingers or prints...
Or maybe with him not getting credit? I don't get the clues together. :confused:

Oh, flower could be iris...
 
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