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I liked Pirates of the Carribean better. Body? How about Nucleus or Genome? Of course, I still haven't seen Pirates of the Carribean. If this doesn't utterly expose me, I don't know what else can. I never meant to be a mystery, but everyone kept saying I was T...
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I suspected T at first, but then I realize that T can't spell or punctuate as well as you can. Also, he probably doesn't know what a dialectician is.
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Ah, well sorry about that Jon. That my have seemed like a deliberate clue to some. But I've been at it longer.
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I didn't think you were T because you were posting when he was in class. I knew you had to be a lunatic to have gone to the trouble of 2 different email addresses in your profile (neither of which I recognized). I didn't connect the instant dislike until this thread.
Are you going to leave the rest of them guessing or just come out with it, mischievous spirit?
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12 J. on the S. C. 88 K. on a P. 32 T. in an A. M. 76 T. in the B.P. 1001 T. in the A.K. 4 Q. in a G. 9 C. in the F. of the R. 40 D. of the G. F.
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My picture is on Foobonic, for this ID and my main ID. Though they are different pictures. I know there are a lot of Asians on Hatrack, but come on. It's apparent no one else remembers the time I whistled your Pirate ID. I really am sorry. (Edit to take out qualification on apology)
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12 Judges on the Supreme Court 88 Keys on a Piano 32 Teeth in an Adault Mouth 76 Trombones in the Big Parade 4 Quarters in a Game 9 Charatcter in the Fellowship of the Rring 40 Day of the Great Flood
24 Hours in a Day 26 Letters of the Alphabet 7 Days of the Week 7 Wonders of the World 12 Signs of the Zodiac 5 Toes on a Foot 90 Degrees in a Right Angle 3 Wheels on a Tricycle 12 Months in a Year 29 Days in February in a Leap Year 365 Days in a Year 13 Loaves in a Baker's Dozen 52 Weeks in a Year 9 Lives of a Cat 60 Minutes in a Hour 1000 Years in a Millenium
EDIT: I guessed that 9 P in SA was South Africa or Saudi Arabia but didn't have a clue what nine things there were!
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Yeah, and this is 2. Want I should send you a list of things I want so you can keep them all from me in a more organized fashion than your current random one?
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Like 90% of your posts, I failed to comprehend that one completely. But thanks, I've gone out of my way to not name you, so thanks for naming me.
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I only have 26! 4 would be wisdom teeth I guess (which I haven't gotten and hope I won't), but I am still 2 short.
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Oh... :light slowly flickers on: now I remember the second thing. But I wasn't sorry about that. I mean, the one thing was just a kneejerk reaction. I stayed up until 2:30 doing the other thing.
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Yeah, I knew it was the day, but some of us sleep. So it was intentional? Did you know I wanted it?
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not consciously, though I had seen an exchange on the Jatraquero thread where someone wrote something and then deleted it later. Edit: based on that exchange, I would have thought you didn't want it but I guess it could be interpreted as a desire for secrecy. But really I wasn't thinking about anything but having an even number myself.
I've wanted it ever since Jon aced me out on #5000. I have to say, it wasn't nearly as fun sneaking in and doing it at night versus a straight race.
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I always thought peter was Belle. For some reason, I was thinking she must have given it to Ruth.
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I have 12 teeth on the top and 14 on the bottom. Also, as of my last dentist visit (which would have been when I was about 21 or 22) I had no wisdom teeth showing up on X-Rays. I was told that it is rare, but possible, to not have wisdom teeth.
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I don't have any room on my gums for more teeth on either the top or the bottom so if wisdom teeth are coming they are going to be very painful and will most likely need to be pulled.
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quote: I suspected T at first, but then I realize that T can't spell or punctuate as well as you can. Also, he probably doesn't know what a dialectician is.
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Actually, I'm fairly sure it's Arabian Nights. "Nights" is referring to the nights Scherezade(sp?) spent entertaining the high muckety muck so he wouldn't kill her, thus stalling until such time that some hero-like dude could come rescue her. Or something.
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We did one of these in 7th grade and were surprised when our answer was supposed to be Arabian Knights. But it could have been something else.
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Maybe whoever made up the test made a mistake. Or got the title from something other than the story about Scherezade...
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quote: Oh dear. Now zgator is going to eat me for lunch.
this is Hottiespeak for "you're right, it should be an N and not a K". I guess peter was right about my posts being 90% incomprehensible.
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I'm sorry, but what did you just post? I saw only "blah blah blah blahblah peter blablahblabblah incomprehensible."
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She's saying that after accusing zgator of having some mis-spelled clues, she had a mis-spelled clue in her contribution. So the answer is 1001 Tales in the Arabian Nights. The Arabic "Alf Leila wa Leil" means "A thousand nights and a night".
Though that's not entirely accurate either. Scherazade's strategy was to bridge each night with a really long story. Some of the Tales went on for weeks. As long as she didn't finish a story, her husband would commute her execution.
By the end of the 1001 nights, they had three children anyway and he decided maybe women weren't all bad after all. I forget the story when he decided he would marry a different woman every day and then kill her in the morning.
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Yeah! I think Scherezade was the first inventor of the cliffhanger! And her husband (a sultan or an emperor or an Ayatollah or somebody) would delay killing her because he wanted to hear how the cliffhanger ended...
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The way I recall it, the husband goes on journey with a buddy of his. They meet a Genie who keeps a lady hostage. The lady plays some music to put the Genie to sleep, then "converses" with the men. They are so disgusted with her duplicity, one swears off women altogether, the other merely decides on the plan of marrying a new woman everyday, then having her executed. Pretty creepy. Though I think there is more to it than that.
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Nah, the sultan's first wife was an adulteress, so he stopped trusting women. From here:
quote: Now the Sultan Schahriar had a wife whom he loved more than all the world, and his greatest happiness was to surround her with splendour, and to give her the finest dresses and the most beautiful jewels. It was therefore with the deepest shame and sorrow that he accidentally discovered, after several years, that she had deceived him completely, and her whole conduct turned out to have been so bad, that he felt himself obliged to carry out the law of the land, and order the grand-vizir to put her to death. The blow was so heavy that his mind almost gave way, and he declared that he was quite sure that at bottom all women were as wicked as the sultana, if you could only find them out, and that the fewer the world contained the better. So every evening he married a fresh wife and had her strangled the following morning before the grand-vizir, whose duty it was to provide these unhappy brides for the Sultan. The poor man fulfilled his task with reluctance, but there was no escape, and every day saw a girl married and a wife dead.
Hmm, I remember a far more specific version, where he finds her with another man. Ah, the older translation has it:
quote: But when the night was half-spent he bethought him that he had forgotten in his palace somewhat which he should have brought with him, so he returned privily and entered his apartments, where he found the Queen, his wife, asleep on his own carpet bed embracing with both arms a black cook of loathsome aspect and foul with kitchen grease and grime. When he saw this the world waxed black before his sight and he said: "If such case happen while I am yet within sight of the city, what will be the doings of this damned whore during my long absence at my brother's court?" So he drew his scimitar, and cutting the two in four pieces with a single blow, left them on the carpet and returned presently to his camp without letting anyone know of what had happened. Then he gave orders for immediate departure and set out at once and began his travel; but he could not help thinking over his wife's treason, and he kept ever saying to himself: "How could she do this deed by me? How could she work her own death?" till excessive grief seized him, his color changed to yellow, his body waxed weak, and he was threatened with a dangerous malady, such a one as bringeth men to die.
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