I highly doubt you're familiar with Pud Galvin. (I know I'm not.)
*glare hotly throughout icy blinking* Thank you for that, David. Do you have any IDEA how close I came to finding out... *flap hands emphatically whilst searching for appropriate word* STUFF about baseball?!
I will consider that to be good enough.
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*smooth bristling eyebrows with one big toe* I was expecting *blink* some kind of dessert at least... you know... something a bit chocolatey or even fruity :) which reminds me... I still have some berk reporting to do...
Then please do.
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I'm going to try either Clara Barton or Anwar Sadat.
Good tries :) I see you're getting the hang of it now - them being dead I mean :) and I'm enjoying your stumbling about backwards and forwards in time immensely too :) but no... neither have been dead long enough or... in the right place either.
Longer dead that Clara Barton. That lets out the rest of the list I had written down: Robert Ripley, Louis Chevrolet, Conrad Hilton, and Mabel King.
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Alvin the Chipmunk.
Phil
Not Theodore?
Theodore is a putz.
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They're all putzes, but Theodore's pudgy.
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If either of them squeak... then no...
Oh... and too many legs as well... :)
Then that also lets out Simon, on both counts.
Back to the Christmas baby. I don't know that she was short or pudgy (great warriors of that era tended not to be), but Joan of Arc was (supposedly) born on January 6, which is Orthodox Christmas Eve. She's certainly been dead longer than Clara.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
NO you are not. I am also not joining the hunt about some long dead person. May they rest in peace.
Which means neither you, TimeLord04 nor I can win this thread as the winner will ONLY come from someone guessing the identity of "some long dead person". Unfortunately for us this game is no longer about the "last post wins", but instead about guessing who the "long dead person" is. Since I have no clue, and probably never will, I will move on to simpler games as my input could/would be nothing more than a distraction.
:(( I'm so sorry you feel excluded, and I'm really sorry if my posts have come across as lacking respect for those who have died :( It really wasn't my intention - but this person did live some considerable time ago and in many ways was forgotten by history until the 1970's I believe (but I will have to check that)
I did say I would try to be kind :) (and haven't quite seemed to pull that off - apologies) but taking inspiration from David's last TLPT thread where two games played in one I thought it would be nice to try - so I do have an alternative lined up and whichever is reached first - will make the winning event, as per this...
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An event I have chosen occurs (doesn't occur)
Person is guessed (not guessed by the time the alternative event occurs)
@David
No not Joan of Arc. The person I have in mind was fortunate to have lived a considerably longer life and some three centuries after her. And was born on the 25th of December - though the orthodox Christmas eve would have been a clever twist :)
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You don't need to move whole countries across to get daylight savings ! DownUnda we just change the clock settings instead, as the continent is too big to shift. We tried that once and Tasmania sheared off.
Now we're after dead, but relatively recently, short/pudgy, Xmas baby ....
[ I had to look up what a Karl Rove was .... whoa ! In no time I was tripping over Plames, Libbys, Cheneys, Limbaughs .... plus ca change, plus ..... ]
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Now we're after dead, but relatively recently, short/pudgy, Xmas baby ....
[ I had to look up what a Karl Rove was .... whoa ! In no time I was tripping over Plames, Libbys, Cheneys, Limbaughs .... plus ca change, plus ..... ]
Cheers, Mike.
Well ... I'm not so sure ...
The actual words used were
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A Monday's child... so... fair of face :) and also short and fat and a Christmas baby too! Awwwww :) Very dead though... y-e-e-s... *mournful sigh* but only in the sense that their demise was quite some time ago so we shouldn't need too many tissues. Not like when I was *sob* considering Laika... *weeeeep* I know... *sniff* poor love *VERY loud wail* :(
*dab* Where was I? Oh yes... Even the place of their birth seems to have forgotten about them... in favour of banging on about the National Grid and secret oil wells and stuff and some bloke or other who did things in the open air a lot.
Of course, maybe the plural was used to avoid having to say 'his' or 'her' or 'him', or maybe you should be looking for one sibling in a multiple birth event that occurred in a place that bangs on about (or used to) certain stuff (rather than said multiple birthees) and was in a year such as .... 1808, 1815, 1820, 1826, 1832, 1837, 1843, 1848, ..... This range has probably been even further foreshortened to more recent years by subsequent clues but, before said clues, I decided to find the years from 1800 onwards ....
Stuff this, I've got a farm that needs some tending to .... :-).
With those provisos I'll chance my arm with Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus whom I'd never heard of until now. Discovered Vitamin D and other stuff, got a Nobel and all. Good lad. As for the other stuff ...
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Remember, I got David's person with two guesses... If it wasn't Majel Barrett Roddenberry, I knew it had to be Denise Okuda. ;-)
Annie's person... I don't have a clue, yet... If I can think of someone, I'll post. Otherwise, I'm holding to the true and original title of the thread; LPTPHW... ;-)
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I will consider that to be good enough.
Then please do.
Longer dead that Clara Barton. That lets out the rest of the list I had written down: Robert Ripley, Louis Chevrolet, Conrad Hilton, and Mabel King.
They're all putzes, but Theodore's pudgy.
Then that also lets out Simon, on both counts.
Back to the Christmas baby. I don't know that she was short or pudgy (great warriors of that era tended not to be), but Joan of Arc was (supposedly) born on January 6, which is Orthodox Christmas Eve. She's certainly been dead longer than Clara.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: RE: NO you are not. I
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:(( I'm so sorry you feel excluded, and I'm really sorry if my posts have come across as lacking respect for those who have died :( It really wasn't my intention - but this person did live some considerable time ago and in many ways was forgotten by history until the 1970's I believe (but I will have to check that)
I did say I would try to be kind :) (and haven't quite seemed to pull that off - apologies) but taking inspiration from David's last TLPT thread where two games played in one I thought it would be nice to try - so I do have an alternative lined up and whichever is reached first - will make the winning event, as per this...
Person is guessed (not guessed by the time the alternative event occurs)
@David
No not Joan of Arc. The person I have in mind was fortunate to have lived a considerably longer life and some three centuries after her. And was born on the 25th of December - though the orthodox Christmas eve would have been a clever twist :)
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Don't forget to spring
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Don't forget to spring forward this weekend.
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I think that's specific to the United States. Most of Europe springs forward over the weekend 28/29 March.
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http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html
But then my computers and satellite dishes do that by themselves.
You don't need to move whole
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You don't need to move whole countries across to get daylight savings ! DownUnda we just change the clock settings instead, as the continent is too big to shift. We tried that once and Tasmania sheared off.
Now we're after dead, but relatively recently, short/pudgy, Xmas baby ....
[ I had to look up what a Karl Rove was .... whoa ! In no time I was tripping over Plames, Libbys, Cheneys, Limbaughs .... plus ca change, plus ..... ]
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: Now we're after dead,
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Well ... I'm not so sure ...
The actual words used were
Of course, maybe the plural was used to avoid having to say 'his' or 'her' or 'him', or maybe you should be looking for one sibling in a multiple birth event that occurred in a place that bangs on about (or used to) certain stuff (rather than said multiple birthees) and was in a year such as .... 1808, 1815, 1820, 1826, 1832, 1837, 1843, 1848, ..... This range has probably been even further foreshortened to more recent years by subsequent clues but, before said clues, I decided to find the years from 1800 onwards ....
Stuff this, I've got a farm that needs some tending to .... :-).
Cheers,
Gary.
Thanks Gary ! :-) With
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Thanks Gary ! :-)
With those provisos I'll chance my arm with Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus whom I'd never heard of until now. Discovered Vitamin D and other stuff, got a Nobel and all. Good lad. As for the other stuff ...
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Goodnight everyone.
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Goodnight everyone. :-)
Remember, I got David's person with two guesses... If it wasn't Majel Barrett Roddenberry, I knew it had to be Denise Okuda. ;-)
Annie's person... I don't have a clue, yet... If I can think of someone, I'll post. Otherwise, I'm holding to the true and original title of the thread; LPTPHW... ;-)
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
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I ran through some
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I ran through some possibilities I thought of, but they weren't Christmas babies.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.