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Talk:616: Lease

2013-05-21T22:03:30Z

178.99.247.73: Created page with "I'm coming up on a landmark decade, probably somewhere near the half-way mark of my future-projected life expectency, and I can ''totally'' relate to that feeling of being a c..."

I'm coming up on a landmark decade, probably somewhere near the half-way mark of my future-projected life expectency, and I can ''totally'' relate to that feeling of being a child in an adult world... And did I ''really'' just use the word 'totally' in that manner? [[Special:Contributions/178.99.247.73|178.99.247.73]] 22:03, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Talk:625: Collections

2013-05-21T21:26:24Z

178.99.247.73: Created page with "I can probably help Cueball (or whoever it is) out in his title-text musings, with an entire bookshelf (floor to ceiling) dedicated to Pratchett books in both Hardback and Pap..."

I can probably help Cueball (or whoever it is) out in his title-text musings, with an entire bookshelf (floor to ceiling) dedicated to Pratchett books in both Hardback and Paperback versions and related works by him and his collaborators. Apart, that is, from the totally separate bookshelf space reserved for the unabridged audio books of same - these mostly in cassette format, with just a couple of Audio CDs (a purchase error, at the time) and a couple of the newest in MP3-on-CD format (my reluctant nod towards progress). Now talk to me about how long magnetic and optical media can last, in relation to paper. Assuming I don't get hit by a house-fire, flooding, supervolcano, coronal mass ejection, etc. Hmmm... I wonder if I can get them carved onto stone tablets in a reinforced vault? [[Special:Contributions/178.99.247.73|178.99.247.73]] 21:26, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Talk:638: The Search

2013-05-21T18:49:24Z

178.99.247.73:

And in the title-text we see that the search for sustanence still has a priority over more intellectual queries. (Well, it's ''one'' interpretation... ;) [[Special:Contributions/178.99.247.73|178.99.247.73]] 18:49, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Talk:647: Scary

2013-05-21T17:22:59Z

178.99.247.73: Created page with "Not wishing to detract from the gravity of the 9/11 events (expounded at very great length), but the first thing we read, "...never found the ghosts head", is perhaps a lighte..."

Not wishing to detract from the gravity of the 9/11 events (expounded at very great length), but the first thing we read, "...never found the ghosts head", is perhaps a lighter parody of the kind of endings that accompany "It was a dark and stormy night..." at the start. Usually in a ghost and/or a horror story (headless ghosts aside) it's usually a newly-found ''corpse'' whose head is missing. Hence there's strange imagery involved in the concept of a decapitated ghost (as opposed to a ghost of a decapitee). It ''could'' have been an interestingly compounded set of tropes, of course, but given its apparent lameness it probably wasn't. [[Special:Contributions/178.99.247.73|178.99.247.73]] 17:22, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Talk:673: The Sun

2013-05-20T21:07:22Z

178.99.247.73: Created page with "Interesting (or deliberate?) that there's no reference at all in the explanation to Sunshine, released two years previously. ~~~~"

Interesting (or deliberate?) that there's no reference at all in the explanation to [[wikipedia:Sunshine_(2007_film)|Sunshine]], released two years previously. [[Special:Contributions/178.99.247.73|178.99.247.73]] 21:07, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Talk:1214: Geoguessr

2013-05-20T20:41:42Z

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Not only have Statue of liberty lots of replicas, also the original is in Paris. On the other hand, I don't suppose you can mistake the original with New York replica give the size difference. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 08:17, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

So by being in the same country you get a few thousand points. But, then I got an easy one because the street view showed a restaurant called Vila Cha, and sure enough TripAdvisor took me to Vila Cha in Campos Do Jordao in Sao Paolo, Brazil. I double checked in a separate tab the street view of the area, and I hit the point 0.023km off, and got "only" 6477 points. For the difficulty of the game, I'd think you'd get 5 digit scores for that at least. [[User:Uctriton00|Uctriton00]] ([[User talk:Uctriton00|talk]]) 15:59, 20 May 2013 (UTC) uctriton00

"if you recognize Japanese characters on a sign, the nation of Japan actually encompasses an enormous area, so unless you can recognize a specific region, there's no obvious place to guess where you can hope to get high points. (Unlike somewhere like England, where guessing London is guaranteed to put you within reasonable distance from a global perspective.)" -- Japan is about three times as big as England, so I wouldn't say that Japan is "enormous" in comparison. Furthermore, since the part about Japan refers to recognition of Japanese characters, this would be equivalent to connecting signs in English to England, which apparently is not the most obvious conclusion. [[User:Jolindbe|Jolindbe]] ([[User talk:Jolindbe|talk]]) 19:26, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

"For every famous object, there are countless replicas, and the vast majority of famous objects (...) exist in only one place in the world". ??? Someone might need to clarify the meaning here, as this reads as self-contradictory to me. Also, can I guess Legoland Windsor as being (very inaccurately) half way between Billund and wherever the California one is? ;) [[Special:Contributions/178.99.247.73|178.99.247.73]] 20:41, 20 May 2013 (UTC)