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Re: New: What In The World Happened <In> Here? CXV (115)
wagga #23824 05/09/12 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted By: wagga
Not connected to any one puzzle, here is a special treat for the WITWHH PhDs in General Knowledge. (GkD)

xkcd, or http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/every_majors_terrible.png

And then, as a G&S guy,

I'm guessing that this guy listened to Tom Lehrer who listened to G&S. Or maybe his dad was a major general.

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wagga #23832 05/10/12 05:03 AM
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Wagga: thanks for the musical interlude. Meant a lot to Anna (you remember Anna), who is not only an a capella performer but in the middle of the with the "major" issue, including physics math and music


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New: What In The World Happened Here? CXVI (116)
saltydog #23871 05/10/12 07:06 PM
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What In The World Happened Here? CXVI (116):


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Re: New: What In The World Happened Here? CXVI (116)
wagga #23872 05/10/12 07:55 PM
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This one should be painless, but its not a hospital: its an insane asylum!

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Re: New: What In The World Happened Here? CXVI (116)
saltydog #23873 05/10/12 08:22 PM
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This one should be painless, but its not a hospital: its an insane asylum!

Y'know salty, I had heard that the game of life was hard to play, but the card you just dealt was not the losing one.

Re: New: What In The World Happened Here? CXVI (116)
AlanK #23878 05/11/12 06:29 AM
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For those looking for the science clues, NASA (sort of), time travel, post nuclear apocalypse and evolution theory are heavily implicated.

For the more sociopolitically oriented, in addition to the suicide pact, the president of a powerful Washington lobby was once filmed cavorting naked with two other men.

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Re: New: What In The World Happened Here? CXVI (116)
saltydog #23882 05/11/12 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted By: saltydog
For those looking for the science clues, NASA (sort of), time travel, post nuclear apocalypse and evolution theory are heavily implicated.

For the more sociopolitically oriented, in addition to the suicide pact, the president of a powerful Washington lobby was once filmed cavorting naked with two other men.

I'm looking for rules in a knife fight.

Re: New: What In The World Happened Here? (113-116)
AlanK #23883 05/11/12 08:56 AM
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wagga -- do you agree that:

113 is about a DC2 and city lights

114 is about a big light in the sky and a zeppelin

115 is about a cat, a mouse, and James Joyce

116 is about next time I say "let's go to Bolivia", let's go to Bolivia

???

Re: New: What In The World Happened Here? (113-116)
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3 out of 4 is not bad.

Will post answers this evening.

In the meantime, feel free to post a new puzzle - maybe SaltyDog can convince SaltyAnna to try her hand.


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Re: New: What In The World Happened Here? CXVI (116)
AlanK #23885 05/11/12 10:30 AM
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I'm looking for rules in a knife fight.

I thought we did that a long time ago, and before Bolivia
Sorry, not much time to put on my thinking cap

Re: New: What In The World Happened Here? (113-116)
AlanK #23887 05/11/12 12:39 PM
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Alan: pay no attention to the man behind the swaggies: I make it 4 and O for you

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Re: New: What In The World Happened Here? (113-116)
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Nope. Someone has the answer, but not AlanK.


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Re: New: What In The World Happened Here? (113-116)
wagga #23890 05/11/12 12:54 PM
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Really? Which one did he miss?

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Re: New: What In The World Happened Here? (113-116)
wagga #23892 05/11/12 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted By: wagga
Nope. Someone has the answer, but not AlanK.

wagga -- I'll bite (again) -- do you agree that:

113 is about a DC2 and city lights

114 is about a big light in the sky and a zeppelin (or do you want to leave the zeppelin out of it?)

115 is about a cat, a mouse, and James Joyce

116 is about I can take or leave it if I please.

???

Re: New: What In The World Happened Here? (113-116)
AlanK #23893 05/11/12 02:12 PM
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Now you have them all - will post answers later...

But Salty beat you to 116 by half an hour (I think).


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Re: New: What In The World Happened Here? (113-116)
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Alan had 116 right the first time. The stunt for the scene with the line "Next time ... let's go to someplace like Bolivia" was shot within the frame of the picture.


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Re: New: What In The World Happened Here? CXVI (116)
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Originally Posted By: saltydog
This one should be painless, but its not a hospital: its an insane asylum!

So you didn't have 4077 in mind?


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Re: New: What In The World Happened Here? CXVI (116)
wagga #23898 05/11/12 04:13 PM
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OF course I did: "painless"; "insane asylum". So Did Alan in his first response, painless and losing card. I added the monkeys and then Alan added Bolivia, both of which are accurately identified with M Canyon.


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Answer: What In The World Happened Here? CXIII (113)
saltydog #23899 05/11/12 04:50 PM
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Answer: What In The World Happened Here? CXIII: (113)

Here is the site of a ripping yarn, close to home.



"Lost in a thunderstorm over southeastern Australia, Captain R.D. Parmentier and his crew were desperately trying to find a place to land the big DC2 airliner. They were just a few hundred miles from the finish of an epic 11,300-mile race from London to Melbourne and the storm had rendered their communications equipment useless.

While radio operators on the ground tried in vain to reach the aircraft, a mayor in a small town had an idea as bright as the lightning flashing in the sky. He dialed up the city's engineer and asked him to toggle the city's lights in morse code to spell out a message: A-L-B-U-R-Y. The town's name.
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Found on Jalopnik.

From the Jalopnik Comments (Click on All):

"And that is still the biggest thing that has ever happened to Albury. God that place is boring."

Albury is around 80 miles south of Wagga & was viewed as the competition. All this though, happened well before my time.

The racecourse (a feature of even the smallest Australian towns) is near the bottom, slightly left of center. The bigger picture was to show the Murray River and it's billabongs as a helpful clue. And North, of course.


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