Who am I: Number IV

[Mutawintji]

I am dead a long time.

I was an english explorer, anthropologist, writer, map maker, linguist and spy.

I married prudish Isabel, a big mistake as it turned out.

If you want to know more, just ask.

[Big Shed]

..........and I'm not the one that married Elizabeth

[FenceFurniture]

Sir Richard Burton?

[Chesand]

My answer also but I admit that I had to use Mr G.

[Mutawintji]

AaaaarrrrrgggghhhHH ...... !!!!

first 3 answers all correct. And I thought I had made it google proof !


OK ... Gloves off ... Number V iz on itz way ... Haaaa

greg

[FenceFurniture]

Google? Wot dat?

[Mutawintji]

Google? Wot dat?

Actually I have no doubt, none at all, that the knowledge base on this forum is immense, and mostly it don't need google.

greg

[FenceFurniture]

Well yeah, but you'd have to think that if someone knew of SRB off the top of their head, then they'd prolly also know what Google is....

[Mutawintji]

Yes ... But not necessarily needing to use it. I don't use google to 'make' these questions, because I may have to defend them. But a lot of my knowledge has been acquired from google, mainly wiki, over the last two decades. I do use google to 'test' my questions so that reference is not easy.

In Burtons case I own his biography, as well as the original 1001 nites and have owned them before the internet. I use the 'nites' as a sorta oral history of how people lived in those times.

But wiki is now a part of everyday life for me.

Greg

[FenceFurniture]

Errr, hits 2 to 6 from this cut & paste
"english explorer, anthropologist, writer, map maker, linguist, spy, married Isabel"
are SRB.....

Mind you, this thread is the first hit

In any case, it's exposing us to people we've they've never heard of. I, of course, only put the cut and paste in to see what other people were going to get.

[Mutawintji]

Haaa ... I really hesitated on putting in 'Isabel'.

Wuz going to leave her out ..... Without her Google could not find him ... Or at least I couldn't ... And I tried many combinations. But some clue less broad was needed. Otherwise too open.

i think he knew she would burn his books but he didn't care. He wasn't the most likable of characters, but more honest than her.

do you get a specific strike in google leaving her out ?

in any case number five (V) seems to have struck a halt to rapid answers ....


greg.

[Big Shed]

Google this (no Isabel)

english explorer anthropologist spy

Yes, I Googled, that's why I didn't put his name up

[Mutawintji]

Merde !!! Your right.

I changed ethnologist to anthropolgist, and cartographer to mapmaker ... And still it gets it !!

well .. Number V is up and google proof (I tink)

greg

[FenceFurniture]

Yes, without "married Isabel" didn't work so well, and I was hardly going to go to the trouble of clicking on to the second page, so I added it.

And my previous post is now the number one hit. Fame at last!

[Big Shed]

well .. Number V is up and google proof (I tink)

greg

well..........tink again