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Nay Spike, twas Jen with the correct answer again: Magic The Gathering. Proof that a good knowledge of mathematics and large selection of bowties can make you rich, just ask Richard Garfield. Grats Jen [Image Can Not Be Found] take it away!
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. – The Teachings of Don Juan
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Thanks, Jarrod 🙂 My boys have a whole pile of Magic cards. Some of the artwork on them is beautiful.
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This is not Patrick Stewart, it's the reconstructed face of a skull found in 1996. Who is it?
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Wow! It really does look like Stewart. When you ask "who" do you mean specifically? Or would something like Great Britain Bog Man suffice?
"…you just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake."
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Something like Great Britain Bog Man would suffice, but not quite...
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Mediocre Britain Bog Man?
Life is the misery we endure between disappointments.
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I can't see any picture, but I'm going to go with Y-chromosomal Adam? Or my father, who also looks a little like Patrick Stewart.
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. – The Teachings of Don Juan
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You can't see the picture? It's hosted here on Tap. I'd give you a link to the original, but that would also give you the answer, and we can't have that now, can we?
Anyway, it's neither Adam nor your dad.
A hint: The skull was found on the bank of the Columbia River by two guys who were watching a hydroplane race.
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Might he have been a member of the Lewis and Clark party?
"…you just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake."
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No. I believe it was found in a more northerly location than Lewis and Clark ever traveled.
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Geez, Jen. I got no clue. Maybe he walked over the land bridge from Russia during the last ice age. His plan was to hit Seattle and environs for a good cup of coffee and some music, neither of which was then to be found in his homeland. Unfortunately he enjoyed his vacation too much. He drank lots of coffee, did a bit of sightseeing, and listened to many great bands, but his over-imbibing caught up with him (his body was just not used to that much caffeine) before he could get home and he died of an irregular heart beat. I suspect that his collection of souvenir paper coasters degraded millennia ago along with his Mariner's cap and miniature Space Needle model - not to mention his "I [Image Can Not Be Found] Seattle" t-shirt.
"…you just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake."
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The Kennewick Man – possibly the oldest man of European descent in that area? Not that I can see the damned head.
But I like Spike's version more!
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. – The Teachings of Don Juan
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Kennewick Man is correct [Image Can Not Be Found] Here's a link to the Wikipedia page if anyone's interested: Kennewick Man
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Good work Jarrod. Of course your correct answer does nothing to rule out my answer. Were remnants of the t-shirt or hat found with the other remains? [Image Can Not Be Found]
Good question Jen. I did not know about Kennewick Man, but now I do. Stories like this make me wonder how much of us, alive now, will be found someday, and what will be hypothesized about what is found.
Someday, far, far into the future, someone will find Patrick Stewart's remains and say "Danged if he doesn't look just like Kennewick Man."
"…you just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake."
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What was the name of Microsoft's original spreadsheet program?
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. – The Teachings of Don Juan
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Not Lotus 1-2-3? That was by someone else, I believe.
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Where did my reply go? I'm sure I posted it here...
I think Lotus Software made that one, which became more popular than Microsoft's first bash at it.
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. – The Teachings of Don Juan
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Wow - I must have asked a pretty shitty trivia question - I don't even know how to give a hint to this one. Or if it's even worth a hunt. For what it's worth, the program was created back in 1982, but that's all I've got.
Should we kill this question, and raffle off the askin' to someone else?
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. – The Teachings of Don Juan
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I'm perfectly fine guessing 'til the cows come home. I've just been offline for the past few days.
I'll start with the crapshoot now, with something I just made up but sounds logical: Abacus?
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Well, I'll bite. Was it Quicken? I know that Quicken showed up on Apple Computers way back when, but at that time there was a bit of Apple/Microsoft cooperation, too, so maybe....
"…you just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake."
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