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There was a time this week when I thought I’d never play a game with you again.
We all know that it is a good thing to do for some of you. I was really sad about the passing of my friend Jack. His involvement here was something that kept me involved. The game is, after all, born out of Jack’s creative mind. A good guy.
These days, I am just trying to encompass whatever I can recall. I feel lucky to do it here in another manner than Jack’s. Occasionally, I notice that those that play are what I like to call “the intellectuals”. That would be, in regards to how you discover the answers with demonstrating to me that you are smarter than I thought.
You are making this Thanksgiving season so much better for me by playing.
And keeping the preservation of my enthusiasm continuing til next time.
Thanks!
UPDATED: ANSWERED!!!
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Added: 18th November 2011
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OK, I'm getting myself really inspired here before turkey time to try to get all of you to figure out the answer to this. There can only be one solution. The answer. It would be almost impossible to see the answer immediately, as I know that some of the time, it can get to be difficult. I am just trying to accompany you with something that was taken years ago, perhaps from your childhood or past. Remember sitting down and recognizing individuals that you often found you could relate towards. Was that in the 50s or 70s? Only a certain crowd may know it. Do you belong?
I am still looking for someone to take my place with trivia. Is it you? My time is running out.
I am getting less and less time - considerably less time to play games. Sorry. BUT! I can be coaxed into staying with turkey sandwiches.
As I see, my impending retirement has no real meaning here. It's not really staying with me.
I suppose, you could say, it was poorly executed by me. I just gotta listen to what is being said here offline. Scrutinizing it ... it's a little too much. The practice of that is over. Enjoy the games! That's more like it.
UPDATED: SOLVED
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Added: 18th November 2011
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Now, of course, as you may already know, I always got something planned with a special interest in it for you. We know, with life in general, sometimes we are lucky enough with some who can bring something impending cool into our life. I'm talking about a piece from '76 that ran into the next year and on. Remember William Royce Scaggs? Remember the slick hair and colored tux jacket? You do know the last name. A majority of you can recall all that with that sort of description. Well, the gent was born in 1944, over in northeastern Ohio, in a city called Canton. Best known these days as the birthplace of American professional football. I use to know next to nothing about the place until recently. With the Ohioian, he worked a long time in the business, starting out in 1965, trying hard to make a name for himself with his first effort. Speaking of first. He was first known as "Bosley" by pals in his younger days, until going with his now established name. There was something real special about him as others found out soon enough. But, he'd have to wait a while before things really took off for him, long before traveling over to European cities, which many of his kind did back then. Eventually with time, he had struck a deal with a good friend. In place was a strong working relationship with Steve Miller's The Marksmen. He had fit himself there with the mic for a short while. Soon after, both tried other possibilities together. In 1968, they worked on two neat collaborations. Do you know about "Children of the Future" or the "Sailor" releases? Time passed, as finally in the sixth year of the 1970s, Scaggs hooked himself up with a few guys that would go on to becoming the favored Toto. Together now, they really perked things up for the guy. It was his big break. It was huge around-the-world. No matter how many times he puts a hold on his long career, he always bounces back time and time again. These days, he can be found on the road with other gigs being checked out by the likes of you. For a time, he brought the right mix of cool without any comparison of the sort.
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Added: 20th November 2011
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Well, I thought I would add one more while I have a little time. Do you need an obscure clue to be told?
Why not just let it out?
Tell us all, you have the right answer to tell. It can't be that hard to resist - can it?
UPDATED: Solved!!
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Added: 18th November 2011
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Barbara Feldon and Don Adams of Get Smart grace this TV Guide cover from 1967. Get Smart was an extremely popular spy spoof that ran on NBC from 1965 to 1970 that pitted the counter-espionage activities of CONTROL versus the nefarious deeds of KAOS. The show introduced the phrase "would you believe..." into popular culture. The youthful looking Adams was ten years Feldon's senior. Adams won three consecutive Emmys playing Maxwell Smart (CONTROL agent 86). Feldon was nominated for two Emmys for her role as CONTROL agent 99. Adams was a WWII veteran who was the only survivor from a platoon that saw action on Guadalcanal. Feldon first gained fame by winning the jackpot on The $64,000 Question. Her subject was Shakespeare.
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Added: 22nd November 2011
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Frank Buckles was the last surviving American verteran of the First World War. This photo show him with President George W. Bush in 2007. He had volunteered at age 16 and drove ambulances and motorcycles in France. He died just after his 110th birthday in 2011. Because Buckles was not a combat soldier, he did not qualify for burial at Arlington National Cemetery. It took a special act of Congress for Buckles to be interred there. Buckles died a few months before Claude Choules, a British sailor living in Australia. Choules was the last accepted WWI combatant from any country.
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Added: 22nd November 2011
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Maudie Hopkins (December 7, 1914 – August 17, 2008) was an American woman believed to be the last known surviving widow of a Civil War veteran.
Born Maudie Cecilia Acklin in Baxter County, Arkansas, she married William M. Cantrell (aged 86) on February 2, 1934, when she was 19. Cantrell had enlisted in the Confederate States Army at age 16 in Pikeville, Kentucky, and served in General Samuel G. French's Battalion of the Virginia Infantry. He was captured in 1863 and was later part of a prisoner exchange. He had had a previous wife, who died in 1929.
Cantrell supported Maudie with a Confederate pension of $25 every two or three months. She inherited his home upon his death in 1937 but received no further pension benefits. She remarried later in 1937, and twice thereafter, and had three children.
It was not especially uncommon for young women in Arkansas to marry Confederate pensioners for purely financial reasons. In fact, it became something akin to a career choice. To curtail these sham marriages, in 1937 the state passed a law stating that women who married Civil War veterans would not be eligible for widows' pensions. (The law was later amended in 1939 to state that only widows born after 1870 were ineligible for pensions.) Hopkins generally kept her first marriage a secret, fearing the resulting gossip from marrying a much older man would damage her reputation.
After researching records from Arkansas and United States Census Bureau data, Hopkins was certified as the last Civil War widow by various historical organizations, most notably the United Daughters of the Confederacy. A spokeswoman for the UDC, Martha Boltz, said at the time that there may be two other unverified widows, one in Tennessee and another in North Carolina, but if they were still alive, they had chosen to remain in anonymity.
Hopkins, show here in a photo from 2004, died on August 17, 2008 in a nursing home in Lexa, Arkansas, aged 93.
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Added: 23rd November 2011
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Remember a storyline from December of that year? A woman of former films (Jane) finds herself with a massive amount of dollars from her demised, but powerful husband. With the terrible impact, she naturally becomes affected by it, and soon quickly busies herself, spending a serious time trying to figure out everything her husband would of did to cause this. Unable to avoid, she makes it her responsibility to take it to the next step, setting off on trying to come to a conclusion on reasons with great curiosity. With the resources she finds about her, the widow comes in contact with an open-minded banker associate (Kris), and both try to locate her husband's killer. As a result of teaming up, she blocks those who scoff at her questions; though she does not play it safe with being unnoticed. Eventually, both end-up becoming engaged with romance and go on a trip to the Middle East. This is when she borrows legal tender, representing her revered former husband; and to really put things back in order; using the kind of terminology that you'd hear from business experts. Unfortunately the sudden payoff comes with a price, as they come across somewhat a dirty revelation during their investigation. Based on evidence, there comes a strange connection that will bring more than ruin to the (then) Western economy. This was no small-scale matter. And so, I will leave you with that. Why ruin it for ya.
Duly noted, behind the scenes, the two spent time together in a gym - but of course. That was her lifestyle choice then. Remember then? Both did not like the fact, there were many made-up lies about the two being said by those that report in those tabloid papers. This could explain the reasons behind Miss Jane waiting 36 months until she did anything else after the mess. To cap this all off, both were nervous the entire time, as they felt the original material changed too much during their weeks in NYC.
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Added: 24th November 2011
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It has been reported that Vasili Alexeyev, the Soviet weightlifter who utterly dominated the super-heavyweight division of the sport during most of the 1970s, died in Germany on November 25, 2011 at the age of 69. He was at a clinic seeking treatment for a serious heart ailment. Alexeyev easily won gold medals at both the 1972 and 1976 Olympics and won eight straight world championships from 1970 to 1977. (The Olympics doubled as weightlifting's world championships in 1972 and 1976.) Alexeyev, who set 80 world records in his career, was listed as a "mining engineer" by Soviet sports authorities. Alexeyev was the first man to lift 500 pounds in competition. But his fans were fickle: When the 38-year-old Alexeyev failed to make any of his three lifts at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, he was jeered off the stage. In a 1971 interview, the affable Alexeyev said he liked to spend his spare time reading Agatha Christie mystery novels.
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Added: 28th November 2011
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