Real Life Quotes
Re: Real Life Quotes
by Lianachan » Thu Feb 05, 2015 9:39 am
Did the Dukes of Hazzard drive him around?
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Re: Real Life Quotes
by Lianachan » Thu Feb 05, 2015 9:54 am
That'll be General Robert E. Lee, then!
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Re: Real Life Quotes
by Lianachan » Thu Feb 05, 2015 11:06 am
Well, the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter — leaving, alas, everyone the poorer, many bereaved or maimed and millions dead, and only one thing triumphant: the Machines. As the servants of the Machine are becoming a privileged class, the Machines are going to be enormously more powerful. What's their next move?
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Re: Real Life Quotes
by Lance » Thu Feb 05, 2015 4:40 pm
H. G. Wells?
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Re: Real Life Quotes
by Lianachan » Thu Feb 05, 2015 4:55 pm
It's good but it's not right.
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Re: Real Life Quotes
by Arneb » Thu Feb 05, 2015 8:42 pm
This could be from the first treatment for Terminator. But I'll venture George Orwell.
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Re: Real Life Quotes
by Lianachan » Thu Feb 05, 2015 9:08 pm
George Orwell is also good, but not right. Everybody is definitely barking up the right tree.
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Re: Real Life Quotes
by Lianachan » Thu Feb 05, 2015 10:18 pm
Yes, who lived approximately at the same time as those two good but not right guesses.
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Re: Real Life Quotes
by Lance » Fri Feb 06, 2015 12:42 am
Oh Lord, nothing Rings a bell.
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Re: Real Life Quotes
by Lianachan » Fri Feb 06, 2015 7:28 am
Lance wrote:Oh Lord, nothing Rings a bell.
Well played. J.R.R. Tolkien it is.
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Re: Real Life Quotes
by Arneb » Fri Feb 06, 2015 10:50 am
BTW, did he say that about WW I or II?
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Re: Real Life Quotes
by Lianachan » Fri Feb 06, 2015 11:57 am
Arneb wrote:BTW, did he say that about WW I or II?
It was in a letter to his son Christopher (30 January 1945), published as number 96 in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. Good book that, offers loads of insights into the man himself and to Middle-Earth. Not the sort of thing Peter Jackson would ever have been interested in.
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Re: Real Life Quotes
by Lance » Fri Feb 06, 2015 5:37 pm
Lianachan wrote:Arneb wrote:BTW, did he say that about WW I or II?
It was in a letter to his son Christopher (30 January 1945), published as number 96 in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. Good book that, offers loads of insights into the man himself and to Middle-Earth. Not the sort of thing Peter Jackson would ever have been interested in.
Then I based my guesses on a completely incorrect premise. Wouldn't the first "war of machines" have been WWI? It sounded like it had to be from a Sci Fi/Fantasy writer but I'd have bet much earlier. There was line about war with machines in The Time Machine (which I just recently watched again) which is what made me thing H. G. Wells.
If it was said in '45, I'd change my guess to Asimov. Well, except for that "already got it" thing.
Give me a bit to find something...
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Re: Real Life Quotes
by Lance » Fri Feb 06, 2015 7:14 pm
Okay, here we go:
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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Re: Real Life Quotes
by Arneb » Fri Feb 06, 2015 7:21 pm
Except for "my lad", this could be the standard Phil Plait stump speech.
Let's arch higher: Richard Feynman
Let's arch higher: Richard Feynman
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Re: Real Life Quotes
by tubeswell » Fri Feb 06, 2015 11:12 pm
Could've been said by the guy who started the Bullshit Game.
But I'll vote for some scientist like Carl Sagan.
But I'll vote for some scientist like Carl Sagan.
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Re: Real Life Quotes
by Lance » Sat Feb 07, 2015 1:09 am
Not really a scientist. A few generations before Feynman or Sagan (or Plait).
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Re: Real Life Quotes
by Lance » Sat Feb 07, 2015 10:40 pm
So I haven't really played this game before. How does it work? Do I give more clues or just wait for you guys to keep guessing?
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Re: Real Life Quotes
by Lianachan » Sun Feb 08, 2015 12:09 am
Lance wrote:So I haven't really played this game before. How does it work? Do I give more clues or just wait for you guys to keep guessing?
Judgement call really, based on how we seem to be doing. Not really a scientist? Some kind of antiquarian?
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Re: Real Life Quotes
by Lance » Sun Feb 08, 2015 2:20 am
Okay, author and futurist.
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Re: Real Life Quotes
by tubeswell » Sun Feb 08, 2015 12:10 pm
Arthur C Clarke then
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.
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