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Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 10:15 pm
by Fatleaf
With a syringe filled with window cleaner!

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 10:28 pm
by Gimbal Locke
Fatleaf wrote:
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.

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 10:31 pm
by Fatleaf
I was thinking of the film 'The Man With Two Brains'.

Back to Google.

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 10:33 pm
by Gimbal Locke
Fatleaf wrote:
I was thinking of the film 'The Man With Two Brains'.
I had successfully suppressed the memory of ever having seen that movie.
Fatleaf wrote:
Back to Google.
That is a most excellent plan, the method I am looking for was originally found in a very similar way.

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 5:27 am
by Thargoid
Gimbal Locke wrote:
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.

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:38 am
by Gimbal Locke
Thargoid wrote:
Gimbal Locke wrote:
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.

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 12:01 am
by Gimbal Locke
Gimbal Locke wrote:
Fatleaf wrote:
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.

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 11:03 pm
by Gimbal Locke
New clue:

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Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 12:20 am
by Cody
Ahh... A Logic Named Joe by Murray Leinster?

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 12:40 am
by Gimbal Locke
El Viejo wrote:
Ahh... A Logic Named Joe by Murray Leinster?
Yes, that's the story indeed!

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

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 1:01 am
by Cody
Oh yes... hexymetacryloaminoacetine (or green shoe polish) in pea-soup, yes?

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 1:03 am
by Gimbal Locke
El Viejo wrote:
Oh yes... hexymetacryloaminoacetine (or green shoe polish) in pea-soup, yes?
:idea: Indeed, great job EV.

Over to you.

(For all others: A Logic Named Joe)

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 1:09 am
by 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.

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 11:57 pm
by Colonel Wasabi
El Viejo wrote:
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' :wink:

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 12:33 am
by Cody
Alastair Reynolds writes great stuff - but it ain't him.

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