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#1 Post by littlebeast13 » Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:56 am

1,000,000 bogus points to the first one to explain why that was significant 8 years ago today....

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#2 Post by MarleysGh0st » Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:59 am

Just guessing that this is the anniversary of your visit to Seat #9? And that poem was involved in one of your FF questions?



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#3 Post by MarleysGh0st » Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:57 am

Am I right?



All mimsy were the borogroves
And the mome raths outgrabe

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#4 Post by littlebeast13 » Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:01 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:Am I right?



All mimsy were the borogroves
And the mome raths outgrabe

No...

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#5 Post by MarleysGh0st » Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:05 am

Darn!




Beware the Jabberwock, my son
The jaws that bite, the claws that snatch.
Beware the Jubjub Bird and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!

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#6 Post by andrewjackson » Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:09 am

Lewis Carroll finally passed away after a long, long, long illness?
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#7 Post by littlebeast13 » Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:10 am

MarleysGh0st wrote: Beware the Jabberwock, my son
The jaws that bite, the claws that snatch.

So close, yet so far away...... :P


Where are our Bored History experts this morning....?

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#8 Post by MarleysGh0st » Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:15 am

littlebeast13 wrote: Where are our Bored History experts this morning....?
Try looking in a mirror!

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#9 Post by littlebeast13 » Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:20 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote: Where are our Bored History experts this morning....?
Try looking in a mirror!
I'm going to wait a while and see if someone comes by and nabs it....

It has to do with a rather major event in Bored history.... one whose legacy is still with us today, as can be plainly seen on the front page....

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#10 Post by ne1410s » Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:20 am

E Z

This is the image of the M-80 explosion that went off very near MBFFB. Since that time he has had incredible powers of insight and knowledge. It was all just a bizarre accident...
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#11 Post by gsabc » Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:34 am

littlebeast13 wrote:I'm going to wait a while and see if someone comes by and nabs it....

It has to do with a rather major event in Bored history.... one whose legacy is still with us today, as can be plainly seen on the front page....

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Well, with that clue, I'll guess it was the date of the first FNGD. Either that or the first posted transcript.
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#12 Post by ulysses5019 » Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:25 am

littlebeast13 wrote:1,000,000 bogus points to the first one to explain why that was significant 8 years ago today....

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Maybe board was misspelled as bored?
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#13 Post by SportsFan68 » Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:28 am

Marley must be kidding. It's the answer to Pamjb's first QoD.
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#14 Post by SportsFan68 » Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:30 am

I thought it was in August. That must have been something else.
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#15 Post by MarleysGh0st » Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:33 am

SportsFan68 wrote:Marley must be kidding. It's the answer to Pamjb's first QoD.
Not kidding. I wasn't posting on the Bored eight years ago.

Just lurking, from time to time... 8)

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#16 Post by SportsFan68 » Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:35 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
SportsFan68 wrote:Marley must be kidding. It's the answer to Pamjb's first QoD.
Not kidding. I wasn't posting on the Bored eight years ago.

Just lurking, from time to time... 8)
How times change ...

I thought that you would remember it from subsequent Bored Quizzes.
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#17 Post by MarleysGh0st » Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:38 am

SportsFan68 wrote:I thought that you would remember it from subsequent Bored Quizzes.
Why should I work at remembering that when the Bored Historian is around? :)

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#18 Post by gsabc » Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:03 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
SportsFan68 wrote:I thought that you would remember it from subsequent Bored Quizzes.
Why should I work at remembering that when the Bored Historian is around? :)
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#19 Post by kayrharris » Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:13 am

Thanks for reminding us. :)
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#20 Post by littlebeast13 » Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:12 pm

SportsFan68 wrote:I thought it was in August. That must have been something else.
I did the August QoD that year.... although it wasn't called the "August QoD", as there was no QoD tradition set up at that point.

I still have all my answers and points to that QoD, but not the questions....

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#21 Post by littlebeast13 » Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:14 pm

SportsFan68 wrote:Marley must be kidding. It's the answer to Pamjb's first QoD.
And of course, Sprots is correct. This is the 8th anniversary of the first QoD question being posted, which asked, in some form or another, for the creature with "jaws that bite and claws that snatch"..... thus why I teased Marley when he posted that portion of the poem...

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#22 Post by MarleysGh0st » Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:26 pm

littlebeast13 wrote:
SportsFan68 wrote:Marley must be kidding. It's the answer to Pamjb's first QoD.
And of course, Sprots is correct. This is the 8th anniversary of the first QoD question being posted, which asked, in some form or another, for the creature with "jaws that bite and claws that snatch"..... thus why I teased Marley when he posted that portion of the poem...

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Hey, it may be the only poem I can recite from memory! 8)

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#23 Post by mrkelley23 » Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:36 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
SportsFan68 wrote:Marley must be kidding. It's the answer to Pamjb's first QoD.
And of course, Sprots is correct. This is the 8th anniversary of the first QoD question being posted, which asked, in some form or another, for the creature with "jaws that bite and claws that snatch"..... thus why I teased Marley when he posted that portion of the poem...

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Hey, it may be the only poem I can recite from memory! 8)
You mean, you don't know "There once was a man from Nantucket...?"

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