DaleCooper
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Why does Bilbo have a 705kg birthday?
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Why does Bilbo have a 705kg birthday?
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You need to take a long hard look at yourself...
(12 months normally does it)
Sorry, guys -- it marks his turning 111 years old. I was posting in haste -- should have put "111th". Though there's various by-play in the book about it being his eleventy-first birthday, on which he's eleventy-one years old (hobbits sometimes talk funny).
It's something much simpler -- people keep going up weird and wild blind alleys. @DaleCooper is closest yet, with "steam engine" -- one of those, but of what kind? -- and part of the performing of what function (enabling fast passenger travel). One of the top favourite things which are discussed on these forums...
It's something much simpler -- people keep going up weird and wild blind alleys. @DaleCooper is closest yet, with "steam engine" -- one of those, but of what kind? -- and part of the performing of what function (enabling fast passenger travel). One of the top favourite things which are discussed on these forums...
DaleCooper
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Traction engine?
As said -- my sentiments are, it's best to end everyone's pain.
The "bit from Chapter 1": Gandalf is doing fireworks for Bilbo's party. The spectacular end-piece is a firework-simulated red-golden fiery flying dragon, which "whizzes over the heads of the crowd"; then "The dragon passed by like an express train, turned a somersault, and burst over Bywater with a deafening explosion." As said upthread: @DaleCooper, you were closest with "steam engine": I was just hoping for slightly greater precision -- specifying steam railway locomotive -- better still, "[express] passenger train, steam-hauled". It seemed to me on the obvious side, once we'd got on to steam power; but what seems obvious to the setter, may well not be so to anyone else
.Here, near the start of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien is still writing somewhat in the talking-down-to-kids mode of The Hobbit; as LotR progresses, things become altogether more heroic / serious / archaic. Since JRRT disliked railways -- as he did the Industrial Revolution and everything that proceeded from it -- I still suspect that if in his editing he'd spotted this "express train" reference, he'd have "killed" it.
Dale, with you having got nearest the mark: the floor's yours.
DaleCooper
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Next question:
In which film did David Bowie play an FBI agent?
In which film did David Bowie play an FBI agent?
DaleCooper
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Hint:
It was the prequel to a cult TV series of the early 1990s.
It was the prequel to a cult TV series of the early 1990s.
DaleCooper
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Almost, that was the TV series. What was the film?
I can’t remember...
DaleCooper
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Don't worry I'm sure someone else will remember.
I’m not worried anymore as I’m in the pub.
DaleCooper
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Are you drinking Fire water? Did you Walk to the pub? If so who With? It certainly wasn't Me.
Clang!
(I still ended up Googling it...)
Wuffle
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Dale Cooper
Are you drinking Fire water? Did you Walk to the pub? If so who With? It certainly wasn't Me.
Or Dorothy Vallens ?
Firewalk with me ?
Are you drinking Fire water? Did you Walk to the pub? If so who With? It certainly wasn't Me.
Or Dorothy Vallens ?
Firewalk with me ?
DaleCooper
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Full title is "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" but you're near enough therefore - your turn...
...and welcome to the forum (it's a bit like "Another Place").
Wuffle
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Thanks both - would you believe I only joined to find out about seat layouts and suddenly found so much more - but that's another story
Q - Wet planet, dry planet and the girl power was his sister
Q - Wet planet, dry planet and the girl power was his sister
Marton
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Mars
was wet now dry. Sisters include Diana
was wet now dry. Sisters include Diana
Wuffle
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Sorry not Mars
DerekC
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Jupiter? (sister was Juno, protector of women - also his wife, apparently! Of course if you are a god all sorts of things are Ok …. )
DaleCooper
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Is it an Anime character?
Wuffle
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No - but the answer has a relationship with your previous question
DaleCooper
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Is it something to do with Dune?
Wuffle
Member
Indeed it is
krus_aragon
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(Dredges memory of reading Dune a little over a decade ago...)
Are you after one of Clan Atreides(sp)? The son, who is the main protagonist?
Are you after one of Clan Atreides(sp)? The son, who is the main protagonist?
Wuffle
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Paul Atreides