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    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 .

    Yeah, yeah I know it's unfair, but the odds are always stacked in favour of the house . 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.

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    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 ??

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mutawintji View Post
    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 .

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

    Einstein and Bobby Fischer ?

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    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).

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    (A. Two wives . It's my favourite. I may have mentioned it before .)
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    Opinhimer (Spelling?) & Edison
    The fact remains, that 97% of all statistics are made up, yet 87% of the population think they are real.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ticky View Post
    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.

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

    i need ta thunk.

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


    Quote Originally Posted by Bushmiller View Post
    "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 ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mutawintji View Post
    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 ?

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    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.

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mutawintji View Post
    And I'm not renowned for being very good at answering these.

    greg

    Your not bad at thinking them up!!!
    The fact remains, that 97% of all statistics are made up, yet 87% of the population think they are real.

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    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!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bushmiller View Post
    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!

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    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).
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    Did one of them die in 1980?
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