We are?

[Bushmiller]

You may have guessed it already. You have to decide who both these people are. You can contact me to see if you have them right, but if you only have one right the answer will be no and there is no acknowledgement of the correct one. Consequently sly comments such as "would one of them be..." will get an automatic "no!" I'm starting to warm to this game :D .

Yeah, yeah I know it's unfair, but the odds are always stacked in favour of the house :cool: . The frequenters of gaming houses will already know this.

'Cos you are such an all too smart bunch of people the clues are sketchy for the moment.

Here goes:

We are both dead.
We were not in the same field or even era, but we were both at the top of our chosen fields.
We were both snubbed by our country's leaders.
We share an ethnicity.
We were both controversial, one of us a little more than the other, although the less controversial of us is probably better know in today's world.

Regards
Paul

[Mutawintji]

Whew ... Ok ... Thats how to write them ..

many pairs sprung to mind, but your clues are clever and each was ruled out.

I am left with the strangest of bedfellows. But they sorta meet all your conditional clues (wow.. This is a great way to phrase the question by conditions)

Einstein and Dreyfuss ??

greg

[Bushmiller]

Whew ... Ok ... Thats how to write them ..

many pairs sprung to mind, but your clues are clever and each was ruled out.

I am left with the strangest of bedfellows. But they sorta meet all your conditional clues (wow.. This is a great way to phrase the question by conditions)

Einstein and Dreyfuss ??

greg

Nope. But you get the prize for a speedy response. Too quick to have even used Mr. G :wink: .

Regards
Paul

[Mutawintji]

I am placing a great deal of weight on the condition that they were in different fields.

Einstein and Bobby Fischer ?

greg

[Bushmiller]

Greg

I have a small confession that I have, quite unintentionally I might add, misled you a teeny weeny bit. It is probably true that they are not in the same field, but that they could be in adjacent paddocks :- .

Just to encourage a bit of interest:

"While not being known to be dumb, neither of us are renowned for being academics."

also

"The older of us was a renowned ladies man while the younger remained married to one woman until he died."

Just as an aside and nothing whatsoever to do with the question. What is the penalty for bigamy? (Answer below).

Regards
Paul


(A. Two wives :) . It's my favourite. I may have mentioned it before :- .)

[Ticky]

Opinhimer (Spelling?) & Edison

[Bushmiller]

Opinhimer (Spelling?) & Edison

Thanks Ticky for your guess, but no. We probably posted over the top of each other so your efforts may now be redirected in the light of that information.

Regards
Paul

[Mutawintji]

And I'm not renowned for being very good at answering these. But I love the joke haaaaaaaaa.

i need ta thunk.

greg

[Mutawintji]

Hey ... Just noticed ... Your just a roll down the hill from me. My uncle was parish priest there for years. Milmerran, Father Tom.




"The older of us was a renowned ladies man while the younger remained married to one woman until he died."


h mmmm ... This sentence iz a bit tricky. If they lived in entirely different eras then how can one be older than the other. Do you mean one lived longer, or that they overlapped in generation ?

greg

[Bushmiller]

Hey ... Just noticed ... Your just a roll down the hill from me. My uncle was parish priest there for years. Milmerran, Father Tom.




h mmmm ... This sentence iz a bit tricky. If they lived in entirely different eras then how can one be older than the other. Do you mean one lived longer, or that they overlapped in generation ?

greg

I may have known him if he was the last priest in Millmerran, but only casually (I'm an irreverent heathen) but we did used to live opposite the nunnery. Now we live a few doors further away and the nunnery is no more.

Back to the quiz.

Their ages overlapped. The older one died ten years after, arguably, the most memorable event in the younger one's career.

Regards
Paul

[Mutawintji]

I'm a heathen too ... I'm thunkin on your 'we are'. Will chk bak in the morn.

Greg

[Ticky]

And I'm not renowned for being very good at answering these.

greg


Your not bad at thinking them up!!! :?:?

[Bushmiller]

The early morning teasers :) :

We could both be described as physical people.

I, as the older person flaunted the social mores of the era in that all my three wives were of a particular colour.

As the younger person I fell from grace when I accepted some sponsorship. I needed to eat!

Regards
Paul

[FenceFurniture]

The early morning teasers :) :

We could both be described as physical people.

I, as the older person flaunted the social mores of the era in that all my three wives were of a particular colour.

As the younger person I fell from grace when I accepted some sponsorship. I needed to eat!

Regards
Paul

Chaps, you've got to watch this fella - it's quite likely that he'll try to throw us off with the clues.

With that in mind "all my three wives were of a particular colour" could all too easily mean an Afro-American male with three white wives, rather than the more obvious opposite (remembering that the two we are trying to determine are from the same ethnicity).

[FenceFurniture]

Did one of them die in 1980?

[FenceFurniture]

Jack Johnson amd Jesse Owens.:hpydans:

[Bushmiller]

Did one of them die in 1980?

It pains me to have to repeat this from post #1 :rolleyes: .

"You can contact me to see if you have them right, but if you only have one right the answer will be no and there is no acknowledgement of the correct one. Consequently sly comments such as "would one of them be..." will get an automatic "no!" I'm starting to warm to this game :D ."

However I can see that you are trying. Very trying :D.

To reward you for effort though my name and my nickname both had an alliterative bent to them. I am the older one.

Regards
Paul

[Mutawintji]

I've googled every sportsperson that fell from grace ... with or without wives ..... no go. (my knowledge of cheating in sports has increased 2000%)

This is the hardest one. Artme, hopefully, will hook in here soon and then we will see .... Haa

Greg

[FenceFurniture]

Jack Johnson, aka the Galveston Giant died in 1946....10 years after the 36 Olympics.

[Mutawintji]

I've tried to fit Malcolm X and Martin Luther ... no go ... and still no match for the second

Greg

[FenceFurniture]

Waiting, waiting, waiting.

JJ had 3 white wives and spent time in prison. JO accepted sponsorship and was stripped of amateur status. He was married to one woman, and at first refused to support the Black Power closed fist salute.

Waiting, waiting. Yes, yes, I know it'll gut yer to have to give it to me......:D

[Bushmiller]

Waiting, waiting, waiting.

JJ had 3 white wives and spent time in prison. JO accepted sponsorship and was stripped of amateur status. He was married to one woman, and at first refused to support the Black Power closed fist salute.

Waiting, waiting. Yes, yes, I know it'll gut yer to have to give it to me......:D

Oh awright! You win and the prize is when we finally meet up at the BM GTG, you will have the pleasure of saying,

"Good to meet you, what will you have?" :D

Regards
Paul

[FenceFurniture]

:fireworks:

[Mutawintji]

Whooo the P******** are JJ & JO ?

Greg

PS: Just got it .... cool .... but beyond me.

[artme]

Jack Johnson, Heavyweight Champion and>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>???

[FenceFurniture]

Jack Johnson, Heavyweight Champion and>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>???

Ahem....

Jack Johnson amd Jesse Owens.:hpydans:

Prize already claimed Art. :D

[artme]

FF, this forum has me jinxed!! Fair dinkum!!

When I brought it up this morning it only gave me the first page.

Knew it was Jack Johnson and was thinking about the other.!!!

All i can say is not for printing!! Ah well you can't win ém all!!

[FenceFurniture]

FF, this forum has me jinxed!! Fair dinkum!!

When I brought it up this morning it only gave me the first page.

Knew it was Jack Johnson and was thinking about the other.!!!

All i can say is not for printing!! Ah well you can't win ém all!!

Now that is definitely the best I've heard! :roflmao2:

[Bushmiller]

FF, this forum has me jinxed!! Fair dinkum!!

When I brought it up this morning it only gave me the first page.

Knew it was Jack Johnson and was thinking about the other.!!!

All i can say is not for printing!! Ah well you can't win ém all!!

Art

Might have to send a PM to give you a heads up next time. I thought Jack Johnson was the more difficult of the two and I had to be careful what information I gave about Jessie Owens.

The links were they were both black and suffered under the racial laws of the day and both were leaders in their fields. Jessie Owens' record of four gold medals was not equalled until the 1984 olympics (Carl Lewis).

Regards
Paul

[FenceFurniture]

Might have to send a PM to give you a heads up next time.

Boooooo! Booooooooo! Unfair advantage!:U

[Mutawintji]

But you won ..... So handicapping the thoroughbred is par for the course ..... Haa Haaaaaa

Greg

[FenceFurniture]

In a 3 horse race, with a late starter?

[Mutawintji]

In a 3 horse race, with a late starter?

Experience tells me if Artme is in the race, no matter how late the start don't be surprised if we are all overtaken on the outside as we stretch into the home turn .... Haaaaa.

Our best chance is to answer, and answer it right before he has time to log on ..... (so funny)

cool bananas ... Greg

[FenceFurniture]

Just as well he started after the race was already run then.

[artme]

All right you lot!!! You'll keep!!:D:D:D