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#26 Post by SportsFan68 » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:48 pm

Odyssey wrote:Darn--so close. Aren't Odysseus and Ulysses the same person?
Yes.
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#27 Post by hermillion » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:48 pm

OK - you've reached the limits of my mythology knowledge.
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#28 Post by kayrharris » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:48 pm

They're just spelled differently.... :D
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#29 Post by SportsFan68 » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:49 pm

OK, Clue 6 dint help.

1. Fictional character
2. Was created BCE
3. Mythical
4. Indirectly responsible for Prometheus’ release
5. A seer had determined that Troy could not be taken without him
6. Father was Peleus, mother was Thetis
7. An important and injury-prone body part is named after this mythical character
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#30 Post by silvercamaro » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:49 pm

Odyssey wrote:Darn--so close. Aren't Odysseus and Ulysses the same person?
I don't think that's the answer sprots is lookinf for.

Unless I misunderstood. As I sometimes do.
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#31 Post by kayrharris » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:49 pm

I'm very weak in mythology....

I give up!
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#32 Post by silvercamaro » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:49 pm

Achilles
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#33 Post by Odyssey » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:50 pm

I am off and not following things at all today--I'm blaming it on tiredness from last night.
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#34 Post by kayrharris » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:50 pm

We haven't guessed the answer yet, Oydssey
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#35 Post by SportsFan68 » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:50 pm

hermillion wrote:OK - you've reached the limits of my mythology knowledge.
I bet alll the money I have on me right now that I'm not even close. OK, that's $12, but still . . .

Seeing Hermillion makes me want to write a game about Bounce!
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#36 Post by hermillion » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:51 pm

Well, duh! Achilles.

I guess I'd better get out my mythological genealogy charts!
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#37 Post by SportsFan68 » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:51 pm

silvercamaro wrote:Achilles
SC wins!!!

Well done. :D
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#38 Post by kayrharris » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:52 pm

Gotta be achilles- SC WTG!
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#39 Post by hermillion » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:52 pm

Seeing Hermillion makes me want to write a game about Bounce!

Coincidentally, I'm doing laundry right now!
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#40 Post by kayrharris » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:52 pm

Thanks Sprots! Missed you in chat last night!
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#41 Post by silvercamaro » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:53 pm

Whoohoo! I've never once in my life, not even for a fleeting moment, associated Achilles with Prometheus. Thank heavens for the last clue.


Now, do we really have to be so politically correct that we can no longer say AD or BC?

I'm not buying that.
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#42 Post by Odyssey » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:54 pm

SC you are a star
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#43 Post by SportsFan68 » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:55 pm

silvercamaro wrote:Whoohoo! I've never once in my life, not even for a fleeting moment, associated Achilles with Prometheus. Thank heavens for the last clue.


Now, do we really have to be so politically correct that we can no longer say AD or BC?

I'm not buying that.
I never for one second made the association either until I researched this game.

No, I think that most regular people still use BC and AD, but BCE and CE seem to have caught on with journal editors and some newspapers.
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#44 Post by SportsFan68 » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:56 pm

Not that I'm irregular. :wink:

OK, maybe a little . . .
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#45 Post by silvercamaro » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:57 pm

Odyssey wrote:SC you are a star
I used to say that if I ever got a personalized license plate, it would read SIRIUS, because that's "the dog's car."

Then the satellite radio thing came along and ruined that idea.
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#46 Post by Odyssey » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:59 pm

Thank you, SportsFan, it was fun.

Not that I'm greedy or anything, but when can we have another?
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#47 Post by Odyssey » Sat Nov 03, 2007 1:01 pm

Thank you, SportsFan, it was fun.

Not that I'm greedy or anything, but when can we have another?
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#48 Post by SportsFan68 » Sat Nov 03, 2007 1:58 pm

Odyssey wrote:Thank you, SportsFan, it was fun.

Not that I'm greedy or anything, but when can we have another?

Thanks, Odyssey -- I think it's great fun too.

As to when we'll do it again, I don't know -- I found three games I wrote but never played just about the time interest was dwindling last time, but unfortunately one of the others had the answer of Galileo, which I've already mentioned. Anybody can host at any time, although when I say that, I should mention that back in the day, Bored consensus was to play it only on Saturday and Sunday nights.

If we're going to play oftener than once a week or so, it should probably have its own section, the way FNGD is set up, but I admit that putting the whole game in one thread worked much better than I thought it would, so maybe it would work in with the regular posts. Also, TubaDave was never a fan of Seven Clues, so maybe thinking about a separate section would be too much.

I have to go for now -- I'll post that last game the next time I'm on and I see that you're around. As for anything else, let's see how it goes.
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#49 Post by cindy.wellman » Sat Nov 03, 2007 2:11 pm

SportsFan68 wrote:
silvercamaro wrote:Whoohoo! I've never once in my life, not even for a fleeting moment, associated Achilles with Prometheus. Thank heavens for the last clue.


Now, do we really have to be so politically correct that we can no longer say AD or BC?

I'm not buying that.
I never for one second made the association either until I researched this game.

No, I think that most regular people still use BC and AD, but BCE and CE seem to have caught on with journal editors and some newspapers.

What a fun, informative game!

We had the Achilles answer in Junior Trivial Pursuit last night. I kicked arse! Though, I'm not sure that bragging about kicking an 11 year old's butt in JUNIOR TP is anything to be proud of! hahahaha Besides, she was only behind me by one pie. :shock:

What is the defining point that separates BCE and CE?
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#50 Post by takinover » Sat Nov 03, 2007 2:16 pm

Just missed this one. Maybe next game...
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