Silliness Quiz - Page 1020

poohbear_nc · 03-08-2016, 03:13 PM

6. Douglas Adams - for some reason the 'chicken shed cleaner' in his bio stayed with me long after I read it

orlok · 03-08-2016, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

6. Douglas Adams - for some reason the 'chicken shed cleaner' in his bio stayed with me long after I read it

Indeed!

drjd - 2 points
poohbear - 2 points

issybird · 03-08-2016, 05:35 PM

4. Alice Munro?

orlok · 03-08-2016, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by issybird

4. Alice Munro?

Not Alice Munro. Think Canadian poet and novelist.

issybird · 03-08-2016, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by orlok

Not Alice Munro. Think Canadian poet and novelist.

LOL, I was working the Canadian angle. Margaret Atwood?

(I can keep going. I'll probably skip L.M. Montgomery, though.)

orlok · 03-08-2016, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by issybird

LOL, I was working the Canadian angle. Margaret Atwood?

(I can keep going. I'll probably skip L.M. Montgomery, though.)

Margaret Atwood it is indeed.

drjd - 2 points
poohbear - 2 points
issybird - 1 point

orlok · 03-08-2016, 06:09 PM

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LOL, I was working the Canadian angle.

Didn't realise until you sad that that Alice Munro was Canadian. Shows what I know...

issybird · 03-08-2016, 07:48 PM

1. Stephen King?

issybird · 03-08-2016, 08:01 PM

9. John Steinbeck?

drjd · 03-09-2016, 01:05 AM

11. I wonder if he is Harlan Ellison, author of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.

orlok · 03-09-2016, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by issybird

1. Stephen King?

Correct!

orlok · 03-09-2016, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by issybird

9. John Steinbeck?

Again, correct.

orlok · 03-09-2016, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by drjd

11. I wonder if he is Harlan Ellison, author of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.

And so are you!

Been away for work all day, sorry for taking time to reply. I'll sort out a summary, and maybe a few clues to the remaining ones, hopefully before I hit the sack tonight.

orlok · 03-09-2016, 03:46 PM

Here's where we are so far, with a few additional hints:

1. A janitor and teacher. His first independently published work was entitled "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber." - Stephen King (issybird)

2. An exterminator. He liked the job so much he published a collection of short stories called Exterminator! Clue: A primary figure of the Beat Generation.

3. He sang and played piano while struggling to publish his first major work (it was rejected 22 times, so he sang a lot.) - James Joyce (drjd)

4. She first worked as a counter girl in a coffee shop in Toronto, serving coffee and operating a cash register, which was a source of serious frustration for her. She details the experience in her essay, “Ka-Ching!” - Margaret Attwood (issybird)

5. He was an entomologist of underappreciated greatness. His theory of butterfly evolution was proven to be true in early 2011 using DNA analysis. Clue: one of MR's resident curmudgeons refuses to read his best know work.

6. When his comedy writing career stalled in the mid-70s, he worked as a hospital porter, barn builder, chicken shed cleaner, a hotel security guard and a bodyguard for an entire family of oil tycoons from Qatar. - Douglas Adams (poohbear_nc)

7. He was the entertainment director on a Swedish luxury liner. Clue: his seminal work is often referenced as a method of triggering sleeper agents in popular film and novels.

8. She had worked as a reservation clerk at Eastern Airlines for years when she received a note from friends: “You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas.” By the next year, she’d penned her most famous work. - Harper Lee (poohbear_nc)

9. He worked as a tour guide at a fish hatchery, and then later he would work long hours at a grueling warehouse job until his father began supplying him with writing materials and lodging to enable him to focus on his literary career. - John Steinbeck (issybird)

10. He was the manager one of the first Saab dealerships in the United States. He also worked in public relations for General Electric, and was a volunteer firefighter for the Alplaus Volunteer Fire Department. Clue: The main character in his best known work, Billy Pilgrim, survives the bombing of Dresden

11. He claims that by the age of 18, he’d been a "tuna fisherman off the coast of Galveston, itinerant crop-picker down in New Orleans, hired gun for a wealthy neurotic, nitroglycerine truck driver in North Carolina, short order cook, cab driver, lithographer, book salesman, floorwalker in a department store, door-to-door brush salesman, and as a youngster, an actor in several productions at the Cleveland Play House." It should be noted that he's also a guy who makes stuff up for a living, too. - Harlan Ellison (drjd)

12. He was a voluntary participant in CIA psych tests. Mostly these involved being unwittingly dosed with LSD. - Ken Kesey (drjd)

drjd - 3 points
issbird - 3 points
poohbear_nc - 2 points

It's still all to play for!

poohbear_nc · 03-09-2016, 03:56 PM

10. Vonnegut

03-09-2016, 03:46 PM	#15299
orlok Close to the Edit! Posts: 9,797 Karma: 267994408 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis, Amazon Fire 8", Kindle 6"	Here's where we are so far, with a few additional hints: 1. A janitor and teacher. His first independently published work was entitled "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber." - Stephen King (issybird) 2. An exterminator. He liked the job so much he published a collection of short stories called Exterminator! Clue: A primary figure of the Beat Generation. 3. He sang and played piano while struggling to publish his first major work (it was rejected 22 times, so he sang a lot.) - James Joyce (drjd) 4. She first worked as a counter girl in a coffee shop in Toronto, serving coffee and operating a cash register, which was a source of serious frustration for her. She details the experience in her essay, “Ka-Ching!” - Margaret Attwood (issybird) 5. He was an entomologist of underappreciated greatness. His theory of butterfly evolution was proven to be true in early 2011 using DNA analysis. Clue: one of MR's resident curmudgeons refuses to read his best know work. 6. When his comedy writing career stalled in the mid-70s, he worked as a hospital porter, barn builder, chicken shed cleaner, a hotel security guard and a bodyguard for an entire family of oil tycoons from Qatar. - Douglas Adams (poohbear_nc) 7. He was the entertainment director on a Swedish luxury liner. Clue: his seminal work is often referenced as a method of triggering sleeper agents in popular film and novels. 8. She had worked as a reservation clerk at Eastern Airlines for years when she received a note from friends: “You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas.” By the next year, she’d penned her most famous work. - Harper Lee (poohbear_nc) 9. He worked as a tour guide at a fish hatchery, and then later he would work long hours at a grueling warehouse job until his father began supplying him with writing materials and lodging to enable him to focus on his literary career. - John Steinbeck (issybird) 10. He was the manager one of the first Saab dealerships in the United States. He also worked in public relations for General Electric, and was a volunteer firefighter for the Alplaus Volunteer Fire Department. Clue: The main character in his best known work, Billy Pilgrim, survives the bombing of Dresden 11. He claims that by the age of 18, he’d been a "tuna fisherman off the coast of Galveston, itinerant crop-picker down in New Orleans, hired gun for a wealthy neurotic, nitroglycerine truck driver in North Carolina, short order cook, cab driver, lithographer, book salesman, floorwalker in a department store, door-to-door brush salesman, and as a youngster, an actor in several productions at the Cleveland Play House." It should be noted that he's also a guy who makes stuff up for a living, too. - Harlan Ellison (drjd) 12. He was a voluntary participant in CIA psych tests. Mostly these involved being unwittingly dosed with LSD. - Ken Kesey (drjd) drjd - 3 points issbird - 3 points poohbear_nc - 2 points It's still all to play for! Last edited by orlok; 03-09-2016 at 03:49 PM.

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03-08-2016, 03:13 PM	#15286
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,601 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	6. Douglas Adams - for some reason the 'chicken shed cleaner' in his bio stayed with me long after I read it

03-08-2016, 05:35 PM	#15288
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,330 Karma: 234636059 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	4. Alice Munro?

03-08-2016, 07:48 PM	#15293
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,330 Karma: 234636059 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	1. Stephen King?

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issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,330 Karma: 234636059 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	9. John Steinbeck?

03-09-2016, 01:05 AM	#15295
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03-09-2016, 03:56 PM	#15300
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,601 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	10. Vonnegut

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