Science Fiction Trivia

[Fatleaf]

With a syringe filled with window cleaner!

[Gimbal Locke]

With a syringe filled with window cleaner!

That would have the same effect on blond males or brunette women I guess, I'm looking for a solution which only targets blond females.

Also, my question is about science fiction, it is not related to the many jokes on the presumed intellect of blondes in any way.

[Fatleaf]

I was thinking of the film 'The Man With Two Brains'.

Back to Google.

[Gimbal Locke]

I was thinking of the film 'The Man With Two Brains'.

I had successfully suppressed the memory of ever having seen that movie.

Back to Google.

That is a most excellent plan, the method I am looking for was originally found in a very similar way.

[Thargoid]

There are still some weird temporal effects: I did see Thargoid answering this question too, but I am not sure if it was in the past or in the future.

New question: What is the perfect way to murder a blond woman and get away with it?

I did, with the same (but less detailed) answer. But as yours was first and already posted by a couple of minutes, I withdrew mine.

[Gimbal Locke]

There are still some weird temporal effects: I did see Thargoid answering this question too, but I am not sure if it was in the past or in the future.

New question: What is the perfect way to murder a blond woman and get away with it?

I did, with the same (but less detailed) answer. But as yours was first and already posted by a couple of minutes, I withdrew mine.

In that case we can safely state that we did truly get out of the chronic hysteresis.

A new clue about my question: we are looking for a green substance of which the taste can be masked by peas.

[Gimbal Locke]

Back to Google.

That is a most excellent plan, the method I am looking for was originally found in a very similar way.

Allow me to elaborate a bit on this clue: the method was described in a famous "Golden Age of SF" short story which was quite visionary in how it presented home computers (without using the word "computer") which were connected to a server (called a "tank" in the story) by a network and which were used for communications, trade & looking up information.

The method to kill blond women was "perfect" because humans had not yet found out about it, but computers (using data mining) had and were willing to share that information when their censoring circuits were disabled.

[Gimbal Locke]

New clue:

[Cody]

Ahh... A Logic Named Joe by Murray Leinster?

[Gimbal Locke]

Ahh... A Logic Named Joe by Murray Leinster?

Yes, that's the story indeed!

Now, what is the method to kill fair-haired ladies?

[Cody]

Oh yes... hexymetacryloaminoacetine (or green shoe polish) in pea-soup, yes?

[Gimbal Locke]

Oh yes... hexymetacryloaminoacetine (or green shoe polish) in pea-soup, yes?

Indeed, great job EV.

Over to you.

(For all others: A Logic Named Joe)

[Cody]

Yeah, a good tale - I found that Baen page a while ago and read it right through.

Onward: a hard-bitten outlaw and smuggler rescues a young girl from a lynch-mob on Mars. Author and title of this short story, please.

[Colonel Wasabi]

Yeah, a good tale - I found that Baen page a while ago and read it right through.

Onward: a hard-bitten outlaw and smuggler rescues a young girl from a lynch-mob on Mars. Author and title of this short story, please.

I really wanted this to be "Great Wall of Mars" by Alastair Reynolds....but he wasn't a hard-bitten outlaw & smuggler...
Blinking great story though...and he does rescue a young girl from a kind of lynch-mob.....
Worth a read - if not worth a 'correct answer'

[Cody]

Alastair Reynolds writes great stuff - but it ain't him.

Clue the first – cryptic hints: three hundred and fifteen forge spurious strike.