But there really is a quiz. I want to know if anyone can tell me what the following have in common:
President John F. Kennedy Doctor Who Man of La Mancha Jack Kevorkian
Lastly, what one thing do they all have in common with me ?
Couple of hints - the common element isn't subjective (e.g. "my favorite president," "least favorite pathologist," etc.). It's objective and not dependent on knowing anything about me - except for the last bit, of course.
Now you might get lucky and figure out one or two and guess - so no one wins this quiz unless they can be specific about the how and why of the commonality.
Except for the last one - me. That might be very hard to get at, unless you're good at searching google newsgroup records and know an email address I haven't used in years.
Is Kayla always the first one to win in these kinds of things?
Please - have fun. Feed my ego by playing or crush it by ignoring the thread.
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No, same middle name is what Winnie the Pooh and Jack the Ripper have in common. My wild guess? Both assassinated? And they were all your idol at one time or another?
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nice try - but we don't even know "the Doctor's" real name. This is solveable, but it will take some digging.
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Research, I might as well do my homework. Or study for that quiz I have tomorrow. Or clean my room. Research it is. Posts: 981 | Registered: Aug 2003
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that's technically correct - if you count waiting for a few years for the Man of La Mancha motion picture to make it to the small screen. That alone could disqualify it since it wasn't filmed as television - it was filmed as a motion picture.
I limited my list for a reason...
I admit to it being incomplete, though. I could have thrown in one dead ex French president in the list...
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since you're actually trying to look, I'll throw you a bone. The relevant information relating to "Man of La Mancha" is on the page you put a link to. Once you figure out which piece of information is relevant, the rest should be easy. Posts: 4344 | Registered: Mar 2003
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You are deeply weird. I mean that in a good way. (Trying to avoid the existential trauma of seriously considering being a creation of a dead Spaniard's mind.) Posts: 4344 | Registered: Mar 2003
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Wait, wait... The main character of Man of La Mancha is Don Quixote, but his sidekick's name is Sancho. And Sancho is MyrddinFyre, right? Let's see, what else? Kennedy was from the East Coast, and Myr is from the East Coast (I think...). I know there's a connection here somewhere...
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well, kennedy was assassinated on november 22, jack kevorkian assisting a suicide was aired on 60 minutes on november 22, man of la mancha opened on november 22, and according to findagrave.com, paul erickson, who wrote a doctor who episode died on november 22.
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The reason for the confusion there is that Doctor Who's premiere was delayed by one day. It's scheduled premiere was different than the day it actually ended up airing.
Rappin Ronnie - you're almost there. Can you figure out why the broadcast was delayed?
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to Rappin Ronnie and to Kayla for finishing the job!
Rivka, yes - this was an absolutely nonsensical shameless attention-seeking way of saying my birthday is Saturday! And I am going to take the whole weekend off from work - the first time in months!
I'll be on Hatrack, though - count on it.
One more bit of November 22 trivia - it falls on Thanksgiving when November begins on a Thursday.
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that's true of JFK It's true of Doctor Who - some definitely platonic with others open to question. Kevorkian - basic loner - most of his relationships with women ended up with them being dead. Man of La Mancha is a play, dagnabit.
Me - quite a few platonic relationships with women. Very few of the other kind with women.
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To be honest, there are personal connections/associations with everything on the list as well.
JFK was assassinated on my eighth birthday. I remember it as the day the world changed. There was blood all over the TV that day and it never seemed to stop after that.
My mom and dad took me to see Man of La Mancha when it was touring as a birthday present when I was ten. It made a big impression.
I discovered Doctor Who in the late 1970s. I was an avid fan - to the point of being a self-avowed Whovian in Denver. My house was the meeting place for over a year when Doctor Who aired every Sunday morning - Coffee, Doughnuts and the Doctor.
Thanks to the nature of my work, and the ratings greed of 60 Minutes producers, I didn't get much of a birthday when they aired the death of Thomas Youk at Kevorkian's hands.
But I was sitting in the second row in the courtroom the day the judge sentenced him and they carted him off to jail. That made up for the missed birthday.
Not a good day. Not a bad day. Just my birthday.
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One of the great things about my decade was being old enough to watch the Watergate hearings and then throw a humungous party when a certain president resigned, saying as he did so, that he apologized for having to resign, and that, BTW, he was not a crook. OK - I didn't actually throw a party, but I went to somebody else's. Those really were the days.
(I really do belong in the geriatric thread, don't I?)
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Hell, I was eight when those happened. Just because you are slow, doesn't mean all of us were. I enjoyed the hearings immensely, thank you very much. Posts: 9871 | Registered: Aug 2001
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I tried to just let this go, but I couldn't.
Slow???!!!!!
Unless you were really precocious, you missed out on the short-lived, but wonderful, indoctrination into satire, irreverence, and politics called That Was the Week that Was (TW3). (My parents believed in subverting me at an early age.)
The show was devoted to topical political satire. Some of Tom Lehrer's songs were heard on this show first.
Unfortunately, few of the original shows were preserved, but I ran across this fascinating tidbit from a transcript on the website from one of the shows that aired in January, 1964:
quote:In his State of the Union address this week, President Johnson gave an impressive performance. In persuasive Texas tones he promised to buy more security and fight more poverty with less money than ever before. Well, it’s no wonder the LJB [sic] is so popular with everybody.
Had to. The coincidence is too good to pass up. The number of the post in this thread is the number of years old I turned today.
I'm devoting the day to total nonproductivity. The powers that be made it easier for me to do this by depriving Diane and I of our vehicle for the weekend. Sometime yesterday it developed a small leak in one of the gas tanks (we have two on the van.)
So, after getting Diane home (it's lift-equipped vehicle), I got the vehicle to our mechanic and took a cab home. But not before I snagged some movies for the weekend. We've alread seen and enjoyed "A Mighty Wind" and have a few others to plow through today. We're also enjoying the bounty of home-delivered Chinese food.
Got a couple of neat gifts too - one's gotta be returned - it's not quite right. The other one was a very middle-aged guy kind of gift.
Hope everyone is enjoying this day - I'm having a good time. And am studiously avoiding JFK documentaries. After 40 years, I know them all be heart.
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