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Known to happen but never observed, it seems that like water, the wind can move rocks.
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Danger
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That really doesn't rhyme very well.Ivan Seeking said:
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Oh man... I got to go check out some other stuff. Maybe it'll come to me when I'm not paying attention to it.
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Got it!
Death Valley Moving Rocks
Address:http://www.billandcori.com/deathvalley/dv_moving_rocks.htm
I should have been able to put it together from the psalm clue, because "Death Valley" was one of the things that occurred to me, but I didn't. I had read about the moving rocks a long time ago and forgotten about them.
Death Valley Moving Rocks
Address:http://www.billandcori.com/deathvalley/dv_moving_rocks.htm
I should have been able to put it together from the psalm clue, because "Death Valley" was one of the things that occurred to me, but I didn't. I had read about the moving rocks a long time ago and forgotten about them.
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It's a good thing I checked back when I saw your post show up, rather than waste any more time on it. I've never heard of those things, so I certainly never would have gotten it.zoobyshoe said:
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The lake bed is called "Racetrack Playa".
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This one should be easy:
Though Edison and Bell thought they had it covered, the only versions that ever thrived were based on this third person's efforts.
Though Edison and Bell thought they had it covered, the only versions that ever thrived were based on this third person's efforts.
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Record player? Joe Victrola?
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Not "Joe Victrola", no.
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Ralph Carmichael Alphonso Victor, and his little dog?zoobyshoe said:
Sorry, man... I have no idea who followed up on that. (How old is Phil Specter again?)
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Johnson?
Berliner?
Berliner?
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One of these is correct, yes.Ivan Seeking said:
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Okay, Berliner.
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Well, you could post a link to google and say "It's somebody in here, right?"Ivan Seeking said:
Yes, Emile Berliner
Your turn.
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It seemed that what hit the market was a merger of both technologies, so I really couldn't be sure. Okay, next question:
Since there was a place with none, the librarian knew that this was the key.
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Errmm... sure...
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high noon.
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I'm guessing that was a hint?
Danger
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Correct! Your turn.Mk said:
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That's an interesting clue. 
I'll just throw out some free-association and see if I hit on something
Librarian: books, card catalogs, shelves, quiet
Key: clock, lock, door, solution to puzzle, skeleton, tumblers
High noon: clock, grandfather clock, Westerns, cowboy, shoot out, hands, time, chime
Maybe this will help someone else. I can't solve a clue yet because I haven't had time to think up a new one of my own. (At least with Ivan's clue, there's no risk of that happening anytime soon anyway.)
I'll just throw out some free-association and see if I hit on something
Librarian: books, card catalogs, shelves, quiet
Key: clock, lock, door, solution to puzzle, skeleton, tumblers
High noon: clock, grandfather clock, Westerns, cowboy, shoot out, hands, time, chime
Maybe this will help someone else. I can't solve a clue yet because I haven't had time to think up a new one of my own.
(At least with Ivan's clue, there's no risk of that happening anytime soon anyway.)
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Eratosthenes measurement of the circumfrence of the earth!
Danger
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Man, to show you how screwed up I am over this, the only thing that I can think of at all is Franklin running that lightning bolt to an empty Leyden jar. I know that ain't right. First thought was something about a sundial, and that makes no sense at all.
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Shadows, light, dark. Lots of stuff comes to mind, none of it pointing toward a possible solution.
Zooby, please tell me that's a wild guess there and you didn't figure out that cryptic clue already!
Zooby, please tell me that's a wild guess there and you didn't figure out that cryptic clue already!
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It's absolutely the right answer. I'm just waiting for confirmation.
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zoobyshoe said:
Care to explain it while we're waiting?
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I know what he's talking about, and I'm afraid that he's probably right.Moonbear said:
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You throw a librarian down a well at high noon in a certain city in Egypt or something, and if he sees his shadow then the Earth is such and such a diameter.
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zoobyshoe said:
I'm going to have to google more about that one! (This has been a highly educational thread so far; I've learned about lots of obscure trivia I never knew I was missing before. )
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Well, Ivan has been distracted, so, in the faith I'm right here my clue:
a slippery mishap
a slippery mishap