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Angiomorphism
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Mother Teresa -> Poverty -> War -> Military technology and equipment -> List of shells and explosives -> C-4

booya!

lets try
Intelligent Design > Ptolemaic System [Wink]

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Intelligent Design > Pseudoscience > Karl Popper > Philosophy > Aristotle > Astronomy > Solar System > Geocentric Model

How bout...

Upright Citizens Brigade > Zombie

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Upright Citizens Brigade > 1999 > Stephen King > Zombie

Hmm...

Sanshin > Aristotle

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Sanshin -> Snake -> Greek Mythology -> Plato -> Aristotle

Let's see...

Wayne Gretzky -> Fundamentalism

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Wayne Gretzky > United States > St. Augustine, FL > Florida > Pensacola, FL > Pensacola Christian College > Fundamentalist Christianity > Fundamentalsim.

That was kinda long, I'll try to get a shorter one.

Alright, how about...

Drywall > Couscous

Edit: This is shorter: Wayne Gretzky > United States > Christian > Fundamentalism

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Drywall > Fire > Cooking > Baking > Flour > Wheat> Couscous

Here's a tough one (I think)

Copper > The Beatles

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Copper > Metal > Gold > Radio > Music Radio > Top 40 > UK Single Chart > Guinness Book of British Hit Single > The Beatles

I can probably make it shorter though.

How about...

Andrew Dice Clay > Radiometric Dating

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Andrew Dice Clay > HBO > Microwave > Radiation > Radioactive Decay > Radiometric Dating

Punahou School > Ozone Depletion

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Punahou School > Pacific Ocean > Great Barrier Reef > Global Warming > Ozone Depletion

Hot Air Balloon > A Boy and His Dog

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Hot Air Balloon > Airships > Airships in Culture > Science Fiction > Harlan Ellison > A Boy and his Dog

Try

The Divine Comedy > US Environmental Protection Agency

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The Divine Comedy > Samuel Beckett > Pimp > United States > Endangered Species Act > US Environmental Protection Agency

Really, I just wanted to use "pimp".

This one is just cause it's fun, probably not terribly hard:

Vagueness > Specificity

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Vagueness > Fuzzy Logic > Statisticians > Statistical Hypothesis Testing > Type I and Type II Errors > Specificity

Linguistics > Cricket

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I hope I'm doing this right, it's any link within the article, correct?
Linguistics > Sanskrit > India > Cricket

Samuel Beckett > Robert Byrd

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Samuel Beckett > United States > Senate > Robert Byrd

Apocalypse > Dick Cheney

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Perfectly done, blacwolve.

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Apocalypse > Christianity > Mortality Rate > Afghanistan > United States War in Afghanistan > George W. Bush > Dick Cheney

Harder than I thought, but shouldn't it have been the other way around?

Watchmen > Electricity

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Touché, my friend.

Watchmen > Nuclear Warfare > Nuclear Power > Electricity

How about...
Leetspeak > Death Penalty

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quote:
Originally posted by Juxtapose:
Apocalypse > Christianity > Mortality Rate > Afghanistan > United States War in Afghanistan > George W. Bush > Dick Cheney

I bet that's good conversation/fodder material for several other threads around here.
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Leetspeak > Extreme> Extremism > Ethics is Politics and Economics > Declaration of Universal Human Rights > Right to life > Capitol Punishment Aka Death Penalty

Lets go with:

Euthenasia > Vaginal Bleeding.

Have fun. [Smile]

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Yep, nothing like Vaginal Bleeding to kill a game.
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ha HA!

Euthanasia > Pain > Organ > Uterus > Vagina > Menstrual Cycle > Dysfunctual Uterine Bleeding > Vaginal Bleeding

Try....

Stem Cells > Sandwich

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Stem cells > Plant > Wheat > Bread > Sandwich

Try Kashrut > Meme

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Kashrut > Judiasm > Christianity > Evolution > Gene > Meme

Hmm...

Gnome > New World Order

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Gnome>Gnomes of Zurich>Illuminati: New World Order

Brat>Orson Scott Card

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Celaeno
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This is one of those times when links would've been good.

I decided to go with "Spoiled Brat."

Spoiled Brat > English Language > English Literature > Science Fiction > Science Fiction Authors > Orson Scott Card


Dialectic > Salvation

This one shouldn't be too difficult.

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dialectic>world history>christianity>salvation

FpgaC >Oak Creek, Wisconsin

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This one is kinda long...

FpgaC > Computing > History of Computing Hardware > Census > US Census, 2000 > Midwest > Wisconsin > List of Cities in Wisconsin > Oak Creek, Wisconsin

How about...

Micro > Macro

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Micro-Microcomputer-Computer-Malware-Computer Virus-Macro Virus-Macro.

I'm not very good at this.

[ August 07, 2006, 11:59 PM: Message edited by: Flaming Toad on a Stick ]

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Since FToaS didn't post a new one:

Micro-->Microcomputer-->UNIX-->Assembly Language-->Macro

Juxtaposition --> Rivka

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Juxtaposition > Literature > Bible > Isaac > Rebekah/Rebeccah/Rivka

That's right, first you have to find the man, then you can find his wife. [Wink]

Try:

Snot > Kleenex

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quote:
Originally posted by Baron Samedi:
If you want a real challenge, go from Caesar to OSC.

Those who enjoyed this game might find this interesting.
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Snot>Nasal mucus >Mucus >Hanky>Kleenex


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Milton Friedman > The "Siege of Tenochtitlan"

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quote:
Originally posted by SenojRetep:
Juxtaposition --> Rivka

quote:
Originally posted by vonk:
Juxtaposition > Literature > Bible > Isaac > Rebekah/Rebeccah/Rivka

That's right, first you have to find the man, then you can find his wife. [Wink]

Totally missed this last time! [ROFL]

quote:
Originally posted by SenojRetep:
Those who enjoyed this game might find this interesting.

Using that, it takes an extra step:
Juxtaposition > Adolf Hitler (?!?) > Evil > Glenn Danzig > Astro Boy > Rivka

However, I think that's because vonk cheated. The wikiarticle on Isaac never says Rivka; it says Rebekah. [Wink]

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Milton Friedman --> Newsweek --> Camp X-ray --> Haiti --> Mexico --> Tenochtitlan --> Siege of Tenochtitlan

Try:
University of Cambridge --> Halloween

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University of Cambridge --> United States --> Public Holidays of the United States --> Halloween

News media > Proverb

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News media--> New African --> Africa(n) --> Arabic language --> Proverb


Try:

Thomas Pynchon --> Trogdor

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Thomas Pynchon -> Fiction -> Archive of Fictional Things -> List of Dragons -> Trogdor

Sweet.

How about Potatoes -> Universal Turing Machine?

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quote:
Originally posted by aragorn64:
Thomas Pynchon -> Fiction -> Archive of Fictional Things -> List of Dragons -> Trogdor

Sweet.

But Trogdor was a Dragon-man...
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Hey, blame Wikipedia, not me.
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quote:
Originally posted by aragorn64:
Hey, blame Wikipedia, not me.

Well, now he's under a new heading, "Dragon-Men".
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Has anyone thought of just editing Wikipedia to put links in directly? That would be one (cheating) strategy for winning this game. [Big Grin]
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Potatoes > Potato > Carbohydrate > DNA > Abstract Machine > Random access stored program machine > Universal Turing Machine


Songebob to Joan of Arc

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