Join us at the
Oolite Anniversary Party -- London, 7th July 2024, 1pm
More details in
this thread .
Off topic discussion zone.
Moderators: winston , another_commander , Cody
Disembodied
Jedi Spam Assassin
Posts: 6884 Joined: Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:54 pmLocation: Carter's Snort
Post
by Disembodied Wed Feb 10, 2010 2:49 pm
Dang! I thought my clue was more subtle than that.
However, it's not strictly speaking from Marvelman ... although that was his name when he first appeared in the 1950s, legal snarlups with Marvel comics following his 1980s revival (and total re-imagining) resulted in a name-change to Miracleman.
Can anyone get the evil genius without using Google?
Cody
Sharp Shooter Spam Assassin
Posts: 16073 Joined: Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:31 pmLocation: The Lizard's Claw
Contact:
Post
by Cody Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:04 pm
Disembodied wrote:
Can anyone get the evil genius without using Google?
Only if I were to travel forty odd miles and visit a friend who still has all the old comics.
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
Disembodied
Jedi Spam Assassin
Posts: 6884 Joined: Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:54 pmLocation: Carter's Snort
Post
by Disembodied Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:25 pm
El Viejo wrote: Only if I were to travel forty odd miles and visit a friend who still has all the old comics.
What, he doesn't have a phone?
Cody
Sharp Shooter Spam Assassin
Posts: 16073 Joined: Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:31 pmLocation: The Lizard's Claw
Contact:
Post
by Cody Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:38 pm
Disembodied wrote:
What, he doesn't have a phone?
Imaginary phone conversation:
Me:
“Hi… could you struggle up to your loft, fight your way through a lifetimes junk, find those boxes with the old superhero comics in,
dig out the Marvelman comics and tell me the name of the evil genius, please.”
Reply:
“Why don’t you Google it?”
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
Disembodied
Jedi Spam Assassin
Posts: 6884 Joined: Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:54 pmLocation: Carter's Snort
Post
by Disembodied Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:16 pm
Hmm, yes, it would sound a little insane. But you never know, he might know it without having to look in the loft.
Disembodied
Jedi Spam Assassin
Posts: 6884 Joined: Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:54 pmLocation: Carter's Snort
Post
by Disembodied Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:10 am
OK, expecting people to remember villains from comic books from the 1980s is obviously a bit much. Google if you want to! (Of course, you could always use Wikipedia instead.)
Cody
Sharp Shooter Spam Assassin
Posts: 16073 Joined: Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:31 pmLocation: The Lizard's Claw
Contact:
Post
by Cody Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:18 am
Is it Dr. Gargunza?
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
Disembodied
Jedi Spam Assassin
Posts: 6884 Joined: Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:54 pmLocation: Carter's Snort
Post
by Disembodied Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:45 pm
Yup! El Viejo scores (as in only right and proper, since he was the first to crack the Blondie clue).
Cody
Sharp Shooter Spam Assassin
Posts: 16073 Joined: Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:31 pmLocation: The Lizard's Claw
Contact:
Post
by Cody Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:53 am
To continue with the musical theme:
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
Commander McLane
---- E L I T E ----
Posts: 9520 Joined: Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:08 amLocation: a Hacker Outpost in a moderately remote area
Contact:
Post
by Commander McLane Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:35 pm
Hmmm. Arthur C. Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise (sort of) features Sri Lanka, but I don't remember Papua New Guinea, nor Pink Floyd, for that matter...
Cody
Sharp Shooter Spam Assassin
Posts: 16073 Joined: Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:31 pmLocation: The Lizard's Claw
Contact:
Post
by Cody Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:58 pm
Ah… ‘The Fountains of Paradise’… a really good book.
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
snork
---- E L I T E ----
Posts: 551 Joined: Sat Jan 30, 2010 4:21 amLocation: northern Germany
Post
by snork Fri Feb 12, 2010 2:24 pm
I tried, but all I could come up with is a non-SF novel linking a Pink Floyd song to
Equatorial Guinea.
(The Dogs of War)
Commander McLane
---- E L I T E ----
Posts: 9520 Joined: Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:08 amLocation: a Hacker Outpost in a moderately remote area
Contact:
Post
by Commander McLane Fri Feb 12, 2010 3:29 pm
snork wrote: I tried, but all I could come up with is a non-SF novel linking a Pink Floyd song to
Equatorial Guinea.
(The Dogs of War)
Oh, there's more...
Look
here for a debate about whether it was
Pink Floyd or a single by
FSOL named
Papua New Guinea accidentally invented Techno.
And then there is the track
Mudmen on
Obscured By Clouds , which
seems to have something to do with Papua New Guinea.
Unfortunately none of this so far has anything to do with a classic SF-novel.
Cody
Sharp Shooter Spam Assassin
Posts: 16073 Joined: Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:31 pmLocation: The Lizard's Claw
Contact:
Post
by Cody Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:53 am
Another musical clue:
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
Disembodied
Jedi Spam Assassin
Posts: 6884 Joined: Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:54 pmLocation: Carter's Snort
Post
by Disembodied Sat Feb 13, 2010 11:34 am
Ah! Could it be Arthur C Clark's Childhood's End ?
However, it's not strictly speaking from Marvelman ... although that was his name when he first appeared in the 1950s, legal snarlups with Marvel comics following his 1980s revival (and total re-imagining) resulted in a name-change to Miracleman.
(The Dogs of War)
