Notwithstanding that your father was not the man to whom you mother was married when she got pregnant and gave birth to you, is your mother greatly admired for being your mother and for her relationship with your father.
Does your boss frequently yell your last name after a mishap?
Have you created two or more cartoon shows?
Does Wolfson think you were the less attractive of the two actresses in Ghost World?
Is Big Block of Cheese Day on a fictional television show named after something you supposedly did?
Are you more loyal to your family than to your king?
Was your haunting, moaning take on a hymn sent into space as an artifact of human culture?
Are you known for singing along to your soporific piano playing?
Did your experience recording an album with John Fahey lead to an epiphany?
Were you an avant-garde vocalist married to Tom Cora?
Were you one of the guitarists and singers in Pentangle?
Are you a west-coast maximalist?
Did you ever wish you had possession over judgment day?
Did you shock the world by performing your work before a live audience in Glasgow?
39: Hrm. I don't know if I can win this one by saying 'Josef', given that I'm pretty sure there was an Austrian Emperor of that name, probably at least a few, but I couldn't tell you a blessed thing about any of them. Take a question or not if you think you deserve it.
40: No, nor was my wife an actress/prostitute excoriated in the Secret History.
Second order: Did you work primarily work in government?
Are you a current musical artist who is purported to play surf music but sounds nothing like Dick Dale?
Was there a PBS documentary within the last two years focused on your boxing career?
[The following is cheating, because I didn't know the first name of this person a minute ago, and it is worthless cheating because you'll get it anyway] Did you lend your name to a Catholic sect formed a little after mid-millenium?
Oh, I thought you were talking about the emperor. Yeah, 'Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio' doesn't work for a J. Question disqualified. And I thought you just got the policeman mixed up with the thief on the Les Mis question; again, Javert is a J, but Valjean isn't.
Have you at any time had between $10,000 and $10,000,000 in cash in your freezer?
Did you play a major role in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"?
Were you the first black heavyweight boxing champion, or the artist who recorded the "Curious George" soundtrack, or both?
Has there been any thought to tag team Botticelli? The Internet might make it overwhelming for one answerer. Does adding another just make it more complicated?
101 -- Well I was thinking Judge Judy, but then I went over to Wikipaedia and discovered she does actually have a last name, and it starts with S. So 72's disqualified.
Oh wait, am I supposed to say who the answers to mine were? (Blind Willie Johnson, Keith Jarrett, Glenn Jones, Catherine Jauniaux, Bert Jansch, Arthur Jarvinen, Robert Johnson, Jandek, Janis Joplin).
2nd order: Does the political unit where you worked in government currently exist as a sovereign nation with more or less the same borders it had when you worked there, ignoring any potential loss of sovereignty due to the existence of the EU?
111 -- Yeah I don't think Jarndyce really works -- paternity was not in disupute. (Well I am only halfway through the book but I'm not seeing any disputed paternity, except for Miss Summerson, and her parents are not dead more than a century.) Note also that I said "dispute", not "suit". I was thinking of Thomas Jefferson. Do I get a second-order?
Okay, second orders:
85: No, not post 1800.
87: Yes, a monarch.
88: No, not 20C.
98: No, not known as a military leader, rather the reverse, although I wouldn't swear to never having led troops (in fact I'm pretty sure he must have. But it isn't his claim to fame.)
110: No, not a judge.
112: Tricky. If I answer that the borders of the country have remained the same, but the borders of the nation have changed, I'm probably technically wrong in my usage of the words, but it may convey the idea.
117: Oh, good, at least I was thinking of the right guy. I was thinking of trying to finesse it with 'the leader of Poland during the rise of Solidarity', but figured that was cheating if I didn't remember the name.
Given that John's name was neither 'Great' or 'Charter', probably not. Fun fact about King John: Lost the crown jewels in the Wash, which always sounded more like a laundry accident than a flood to me.
No one wants to argue that King John I is properly a Plantagenet, to be guessed under the letter P? I don't think he should be, but don't think the answer is particularly clear either.
I've actually been to the tomb of the Plantagenets (it was kewl) but I think John got left out. Possibly because he was back home sifting through the Wash.
Actually it was a "-" with RU as numerator and 18 as denominator. But I don't know how to type that kind of fraction notation; the guy handwrote it as a joke.
Did you take a spill in the '88 Olympics?
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 9:57 AM
[forgetting the exact format for first order questions] Is your person a disc jockey on WFMU with his own "Radio Hour"?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 9:58 AM
No idea.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 9:58 AM
That covers 1 and 2.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 9:59 AM
[oh yeah] "Is your person" s/b "Are you"
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 9:59 AM
You're not Dan Jansen.
Are you a woman?
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:00 AM
Then I guess you're not Glen "Jonesy" Jones. Are you currently alive?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:01 AM
6: No.
7. No.
In short, I'm a dead man.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:02 AM
Are you the Editor in Chief of a (fictional) major metropolitan newspaper?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:02 AM
9: No, nor do I bear a grudge against that crazy webslinger.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:04 AM
The person I'm thinking of in 9 is probably the publisher, not the EIC, if that makes a difference.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:04 AM
Did you ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:04 AM
Do you work in a lumber mill in Wisconsin?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:05 AM
must...resist...game...middle..of...night..
Posted by Anthony | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:09 AM
Notwithstanding that your father was not the man to whom you mother was married when she got pregnant and gave birth to you, is your mother greatly admired for being your mother and for her relationship with your father.
Posted by Idealist | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:09 AM
Were you ever banned for life from Major League Baseball?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:09 AM
Do you maquerade as an aging pop star to conceal your secret life as an accountant?
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:09 AM
Did you fight the battle of Jericho?
Posted by mcmc | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:09 AM
15 -- yikes! I was trying to figure out how to ask that question -- I bow to your superior Botticelli-question-formatting abilities.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:12 AM
Were you the sonar operator on the USS Dallas when it hunted the Red October?
Posted by Idealist | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:18 AM
12: No, nor have I ever fallen into a vat of txic waste.
15: No, nor am I consubstantial with my Father.
16: No, I can truthfully say it ain't so.
18: No, nor did I stop the sun in the sky (that's Joshua too, right?)
13, 17: You got me.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:19 AM
Are you a sometime cat juggler?
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:20 AM
And 20. The character had a name?
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:20 AM
Does your boss frequently yell your last name after a mishap?
Have you created two or more cartoon shows?
Does Wolfson think you were the less attractive of the two actresses in Ghost World?
Is Big Block of Cheese Day on a fictional television show named after something you supposedly did?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:21 AM
have you a recipe for and excellent pick-me-up?
Posted by mcmc | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:22 AM
22: Dunno.
25: No, nor am I a darkish sort of a chappie who shimmers into rooms in much the manner that a genie might.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:24 AM
You're not Billy Joel.
Not asking a second order, because I treasure my life.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:24 AM
24.1: No, nor do I regularly ask 'Jane' to 'Stop this crazy thing!' (Okay, not dead sure that this is who you meant).
24.2: Dunno
24.3: No, nor do I share a first name with the heiress of Tara.
24.4: No, nor did I defy the Supreme Court by sending the Cherokee off on the Trail of Tears.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:28 AM
Okay, so you're not Navin Johnson. All we know is you're a dead man, so: are you an American?
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:28 AM
Someone ask a second order, though, I'm getting dizzy here.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:28 AM
Then I guess you're not John Johnson. Did you live in North America?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:30 AM
29, 31: No, I'm not a North American.
I'm a dead man, not from any part of America.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:31 AM
Oops, 31 was cross posted with 29. I retract it.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:31 AM
Damn!
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:32 AM
W/d's got a second order question, and I suppose TMK should get his back, given that it was wasted in light of slol's.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:32 AM
Waah! I wanted to do it.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:34 AM
Yay! Are you from Europe?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:34 AM
36: Snooze, lose.
37: Yes. I'm a dead European man.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:35 AM
Were you an emperor of Austria?
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:37 AM
Did you write a code of law from your Eastern seat?
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:38 AM
Are you a Marshal of France who helped condemn Michel Ney?
Posted by benton | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:40 AM
Did a folkie duo express concern about your whereabouts?
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:40 AM
Hm. There's an obvious first name J for Slol's 42.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:42 AM
Did you steal a loaf of bread?
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:42 AM
slol, it has to be the last name!
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:42 AM
I'm sorry I had to do this, LB.
Are you more loyal to your family than to your king?
Was your haunting, moaning take on a hymn sent into space as an artifact of human culture?
Are you known for singing along to your soporific piano playing?
Did your experience recording an album with John Fahey lead to an epiphany?
Were you an avant-garde vocalist married to Tom Cora?
Were you one of the guitarists and singers in Pentangle?
Are you a west-coast maximalist?
Did you ever wish you had possession over judgment day?
Did you shock the world by performing your work before a live audience in Glasgow?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:42 AM
There's an obvious first name J for Slol's 42.
Well, don't give it away, now. At least I'm not claiming he's a scientist.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:43 AM
But you're not following the rules!
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:44 AM
slol, it has to be the last name!
I didn't know that. Jesus, referred to above, doesn't have a last name beginning with J, so far as I know.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:44 AM
39: Hrm. I don't know if I can win this one by saying 'Josef', given that I'm pretty sure there was an Austrian Emperor of that name, probably at least a few, but I couldn't tell you a blessed thing about any of them. Take a question or not if you think you deserve it.
40: No, nor was my wife an actress/prostitute excoriated in the Secret History.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:44 AM
If someone can fairly be characterized as having one name, then you can do that name. But Jean Valjean and Joe Dimaggio are a V and a D, respectively.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:45 AM
Do I know you from of old? Do you hurt me and desert me?
Posted by mcmc | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:45 AM
It's fair to use first names when the entity in question has no last name.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:45 AM
45, 49: I've always played that it's last or primary name, so as to allow for one-named possibilities like Jesus, or Aquaman.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:46 AM
Pwned.
Posted by Anonymous | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:46 AM
I stand corrected, and withdraw my inappropriate questions.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:46 AM
I didn't know that about Justinian's wife.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:47 AM
Were you caricatured by R. Crumb on the cover of your first album?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:47 AM
The one you didn't get was Mike Judge.
Second order: Did you work primarily work in government?
Are you a current musical artist who is purported to play surf music but sounds nothing like Dick Dale?
Was there a PBS documentary within the last two years focused on your boxing career?
[The following is cheating, because I didn't know the first name of this person a minute ago, and it is worthless cheating because you'll get it anyway] Did you lend your name to a Catholic sect formed a little after mid-millenium?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:48 AM
Did you write an essay strongly critical of Althusser?
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:49 AM
Did you make a passing reference to Our Lord and Savior in a historical account considered to be fabricated by several nutty Russians?
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:49 AM
Oh, I thought you were talking about the emperor. Yeah, 'Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio' doesn't work for a J. Question disqualified. And I thought you just got the policeman mixed up with the thief on the Les Mis question; again, Javert is a J, but Valjean isn't.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:50 AM
workPosted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:50 AM
Has Bill Murray appeared in more than one film that you directed?
Posted by jason | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:51 AM
Have you at any time had between $10,000 and $10,000,000 in cash in your freezer?
Did you play a major role in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"?
Were you the first black heavyweight boxing champion, or the artist who recorded the "Curious George" soundtrack, or both?
Posted by Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:51 AM
Okay, everyone hold off for a bit while I figure out what's still extant.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:51 AM
That's a big first order queue, even for the mineshaft.
Posted by benton | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:52 AM
41: Dunno, 2d order for benton.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:53 AM
65.3, see 59.1, 59.2.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:53 AM
I was talking about Emperor Justinian.
Can I suggest a rule of one query per comment? Otherwise LB gets too far behind, and the game stops making sense.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:53 AM
Do you claim to be an erotic explosive?
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:53 AM
Do you preside over a court ehose rulings are not enforced by the executive branch?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:54 AM
Where you a teacher, friend and colleague of Hannah Arendt's
Posted by I don't pay | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:54 AM
46: Wolfson has nine 2d order questions.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:54 AM
You're not Jean Baptiste Jourdain.
2nd order. Are you French?
Posted by benton | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:55 AM
52: mcmc gets a 2d order.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:56 AM
58: Ten for Wolfson.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:56 AM
Re 71 -- Doesn't everyone?
Posted by benton | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:57 AM
Doesn't everyone?
Maybe not quite so vigorously.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:58 AM
59: Yes.
I'm a dead European man who primarily worked in government.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:58 AM
Were you the discoverer and promoter of a significant Triestian novelist whom you tutored in English?
Posted by mcmc | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:58 AM
60: 2d order for eb.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 10:58 AM
59: Two more 2d order for w/d; on the third: I'm still not Jesus?
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:01 AM
Are you a former Pontiff?
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:01 AM
58: Ten for Wolfson.
Actually I have nine, because I confused Antigone and Jocasta. Drat!
2nd order one: Did any part of your life take place after 1800?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:02 AM
64: I'm not Jim Jarmusch (sp?)
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:03 AM
So you're not Tony Judt.
2nd order: Were you a monarch?
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:03 AM
actually, I'm not sure my question is fair: you are not Jack o' diamonds. In case it is:
Did your career mainly take place in the twentieth century?
Posted by Anonymous | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:03 AM
Actually I have nine, because I confused Antigone and Jocasta. Drat!
Damn you, I puzzled over that one, because it was the only one I felt as if I should know.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:04 AM
In 59.3 I meant the Jansenists, but I didn't include anything in the question to rule out the Jesuits.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:04 AM
Q: Now that 80 has been posted, are our first order questions limited to people within that category?
(I found Tia's original rules for the game but they don't address this)
Posted by Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:04 AM
Jim Jarmusch
So, I always want to pronounce this Yim Yarmusch. How do you really say it?
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:04 AM
91: no, they aren't.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:05 AM
And 20. The character had a name?
Yes, Jones.
Posted by Idealist | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:06 AM
65.1: Not Rep. Jefferson.
65.2: Not Jack Johnson.
65.3: Dunno, take a 2d order.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:06 AM
Were you the leader of a military involved in crushing the 1968 "Prague Spring"?
Posted by Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:07 AM
91: No, see my post. Anything with a J is fine.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:07 AM
Apparently you're not Jeffrey Jones, who chased Bueller around.
2nd order: were you also a military leader?
Posted by Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:08 AM
Were you involved in posthumous paternity disputes continuing for more than a century after your death?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:09 AM
Has there been any thought to tag team Botticelli? The Internet might make it overwhelming for one answerer. Does adding another just make it more complicated?
Posted by benton | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:09 AM
71, 72, 73, 81: 2d Orders for all, although I'd like to hear TMKs.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:09 AM
Were you a General who was accidentially shot by one of your own soldiers?
Posted by Idealist | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:09 AM
The Kitten is starting to feel His power.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:10 AM
99: Awesome, TMK.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:10 AM
84: I am none of the Popes John (nor am I Pope Joan).
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:11 AM
Okay, so you're not Tom Jones (71). But I'm holding my second-order till you answer B-Wo's on post-1800.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:11 AM
101 -- Well I was thinking Judge Judy, but then I went over to Wikipaedia and discovered she does actually have a last name, and it starts with S. So 72's disqualified.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:11 AM
Oh wait, am I supposed to say who the answers to mine were? (Blind Willie Johnson, Keith Jarrett, Glenn Jones, Catherine Jauniaux, Bert Jansch, Arthur Jarvinen, Robert Johnson, Jandek, Janis Joplin).
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:12 AM
104 -- thanxx
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:13 AM
Claiming my 2nd from 73, were you a judge?
Posted by I don't pay | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:14 AM
96: Dunno (that is, I have a vague memory, but nothing that's going to get me even close to the name).
99: I'm not Jarndyce? (Although that was inheritance, not paternity. Did you mean someone different?)
No more first orders, please, until I clean up the extant second orders.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:14 AM
2nd order: Does the political unit where you worked in government currently exist as a sovereign nation with more or less the same borders it had when you worked there, ignoring any potential loss of sovereignty due to the existence of the EU?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:15 AM
102: Dunno.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:15 AM
LB is apparently not big on the Civil War.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:17 AM
Are you a male playwright who was less than 5 feet tall?
Posted by Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:17 AM
re: 102/113--Stonewall Jackson Do I get a question for Jones the sonar operator as well?
Posted by Idealist | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:17 AM
Sorry, I didn't see 111 before posting 115.
96, apparently you weren't Poland's leader in the 1980s, Jaruzelski.
Posted by Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:18 AM
111 -- Yeah I don't think Jarndyce really works -- paternity was not in disupute. (Well I am only halfway through the book but I'm not seeing any disputed paternity, except for Miss Summerson, and her parents are not dead more than a century.) Note also that I said "dispute", not "suit". I was thinking of Thomas Jefferson. Do I get a second-order?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:19 AM
Okay, second orders:
85: No, not post 1800.
87: Yes, a monarch.
88: No, not 20C.
98: No, not known as a military leader, rather the reverse, although I wouldn't swear to never having led troops (in fact I'm pretty sure he must have. But it isn't his claim to fame.)
110: No, not a judge.
112: Tricky. If I answer that the borders of the country have remained the same, but the borders of the nation have changed, I'm probably technically wrong in my usage of the words, but it may convey the idea.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:21 AM
114: I actually didn't know Stonewall Jackson was killed by friendly fire.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:22 AM
Were you the first person who considered yourself monarch of your entire unified nation?
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:23 AM
First-order: did you have a bottle named after you?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:23 AM
116: Certainly, my 'he had a name?' wasn't intended to indicate incredulity, just that I didn't remember it.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:23 AM
Is a monument of English Literature named after you, even though you didn't write it?
Posted by I don't pay | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:24 AM
Did your brother have the heart of a lion?
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:24 AM
Need a response on 75 -- Are you french?
Posted by benton | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:25 AM
With my Jaruzelski second order...were you the subject of a Shakespeare play?
Posted by Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:25 AM
115: Dunno, take a question.
117: Oh, good, at least I was thinking of the right guy. I was thinking of trying to finesse it with 'the leader of Poland during the rise of Solidarity', but figured that was cheating if I didn't remember the name.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:26 AM
Were you a bullfrog?
Posted by Idealist | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:26 AM
Hey shouldn't 119 be in bold face?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:26 AM
If you're only looking for second order answers in bold read 119.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:26 AM
121: No.
125, 127: Yes, and I think you've both got him.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:27 AM
115 was Alfred Jarry.
127 = 125 I suppose.
Posted by Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:27 AM
120: It's just that the manner of his death is pretty well known and I was surprised you didn't get it. That's all.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:27 AM
Damn, 125 was my other guess.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:28 AM
I think IDP knows it too, although "named after him" would not be so good as "signed by him"
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:29 AM
A yes to 125 is, I think, unambiguous, meaning that I'm King John.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:30 AM
He's got my name, which of course, begins with "I".
I'm out.
Posted by I don't pay | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:30 AM
136, I think IDP wanted King James.
I was 1 minute late, consarn it.
Posted by Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:31 AM
IDP was referring to who I was referring to, I think: King James I.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:31 AM
hooray! do I get a fruit basket?
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:32 AM
if the magna charta were a "work of literature" he might be able to claim otherwise.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:33 AM
text -- just for you.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:34 AM
charta?
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:35 AM
Given that John's name was neither 'Great' or 'Charter', probably not. Fun fact about King John: Lost the crown jewels in the Wash, which always sounded more like a laundry accident than a flood to me.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:35 AM
124 seemed a little strange to me, since works of litterature are infrequently named after their authors.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:36 AM
145, see 136. 144, see my fruit basket. My favorite King John is the cartoony version from Disney's Robin Hood. Ohdelally!
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:40 AM
Oh, jeezis. Now I have that damn Allan a Dale rooster song in my head.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:43 AM
No one wants to argue that King John I is properly a Plantagenet, to be guessed under the letter P? I don't think he should be, but don't think the answer is particularly clear either.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:45 AM
Or an L.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:47 AM
I've actually been to the tomb of the Plantagenets (it was kewl) but I think John got left out. Possibly because he was back home sifting through the Wash.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:48 AM
It's not the last name, it's the name by which they're know, which is almost always the last name nowadays.
Posted by Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:48 AM
Or an L.
I think you mean a C.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:49 AM
Or an R. (In which case I suppose the first initial would be 'I'.)
The number of possible 'last names' are why I went with the first name.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:52 AM
I'm not coming up with the C -- what's it for?
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:52 AM
I went with the first name
K?
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:53 AM
First name K
Last name I (or maybe the initial for roman number "I" would be an O)
Posted by Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:54 AM
Speaking of catchy songs, and letters, this.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:56 AM
Or one of my father's favorite dialogues (someone ordering breakfast in a diner:
FUNEM?
S,IFM.
FUNEX?
S,IFX?
OK,MNX.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 11:59 AM
Then there's this.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 12:02 PM
3rd ? s/b .
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 12:02 PM
But who pronounces "yes" that way anyhow?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 12:04 PM
161: Whoops.
162: But it's comprehensible, isn't it?
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 12:07 PM
Sure.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 12:09 PM
163: S.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 12:12 PM
Did you intend that as a response to 162?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 12:14 PM
No.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 12:19 PM
159 looks like a list of mutual funds.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 12:20 PM
Or 3 mutual funds and 2 NASDAQ securities.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 12:22 PM
167 -- Oh! I see now. I was trying sillily to parse 165 as a response to the first part of 163.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 12:25 PM
Someone I knew in high school came up with:
B4I4Q, RU/18 QTπ
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 12:25 PM
"Fork," eh? That's a new one.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 12:27 PM
Shouldn't that / be a >?
Posted by Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 12:38 PM
"/" == "over".
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 12:40 PM
Actually it was a "-" with RU as numerator and 18 as denominator. But I don't know how to type that kind of fraction notation; the guy handwrote it as a joke.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 12:41 PM
Campaign posters for prop. 86 could say, RU486?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 12:44 PM
This one only works for Irish people:
ACD birds?
OMRN birds!
OBJDR birds RI.
Posted by Kieran | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 1:13 PM
Think I've puzzled it out except for "BJ." (You aren't by any chance in Australia now?)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 1:15 PM
(If you are, you're up early.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 1:25 PM
The J in question figured earlier in this thread.
Not in Australia till September this year. First I have to go to Palo Alto and stalk Wolfson. You're in Canberra at the moment?
Posted by Kieran | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 1:29 PM
Happy stalking!
I'm going to Canberra tomorrow, arriving Monday (there), and I'll be there three weeks. So I'll be gone when you arrive, alas.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-16-06 1:34 PM