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It isn't really 'spare' ribs...as in 'extra' rib.
Spare ribs is from an old German word...ribspare or ribsper or ribspeare or something close to that. It was basically the same thing we think of now...ribs roasted over an open fire, probably on a spit.
And I'm a vegetarian too...

mobrul

mobrul,
You are SO close! You are on the right track.

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~Binary is best~

Close?
Close!?
No way, 'close'. I'm right on.
I remember from HS german class.
The ONLY way I could be off is the spelling of the German word...but the basic idea is there. Do I need to go dig up old german text or notes and find the exact spelling?

mobrul

CPrompt decides who is correct or incorrect.

LOL! How close is close enough?

Jeez mobrul calm down dude. I'll give it to ya. I guess that was close enough.

Here is what I was looking for. The term "spare rib" was nothing more than a mispronunciation of the word. The cowboys of the west would roast the ribs on an open fire with the meat being pierced using a "SPUR". So when people would talk about doing this to people they came in contact with, the cowboy accent would get in the way and "Spur" came out sounding like "Spare". So the mispronunciation stuck.

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~Binary is best~

I really wasn't upset...that's why I said " " .
I apologize if my mock indignation didn't come out so 'mock'.

mobrul

I knew you were kidding. So was I. No big deal. Unless someone comes right out and blatantly bashes me (which has never happened here), I don't get upset. You're up. What trivia do you bring to us??

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~Binary is best~

You gotta be joking me! That's where we got spare rib from? From mispronunciation?
Wow, if those people had been at my birth I would have been called Shon instead of Jon, heh. I wonder what other names we got through a mispronunciation of a word or term.

Who is the mystery guest?

This one is probably pretty tough. If nobody minds, I will come back to this post and edit/append 1 hint/day.
mobrul

Seems like this one is a little tougher than maybe I thought it was...here are the hints.
HINTS:

#1 She was alive in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. Born in Russia, she immigrated to America at the age of 16. She moved back to Russia in 1919. In 1921 she moved to Great Britian. She travelled among the US, UK and France until she died in 1940. Today she is buried in Chicago.

#2 This lady left Russia following the assasination of Alexander II. It was a time of serious economic and political turmoil and oppression. It was there and then she developed her desire to fight social oppression. While in the U.S. she became relatively well known as a speaker and author. She wrote at least 4 major books and many many (almost uncountable) pamplets, articles and poems. She was an advocate of feminism, women's health, social justice, the working class/labor unions, and freedom. Her trip back to Russia was a result of her deportation after spending a few years in a prison in Jefferson City, Missouri for encouraging young men to not fight in WWI.

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hmm well she looks like the woman of the beverly hillbillies, but that can't be right.

not the beverly hillbilly lady

Ayn Rand???

Mary Poppins

did she live in tibet for a while?

Anything to do with ballet?

Not Ayn Rand...Ayn died in early 1980's (I think).
Bugs, in some ways you really couldn't be much further away...but in another sense you are "SO close". (damn it! gave away another hint, I did...)

Not Mary Poppins

As far as I know (and I've a few biographies on her) she never lived in Tibet...or even visited there.

She may have enjoyed watching ballet, but ballet has nothing at all to do with why she was well known.
(And what is this, huh? 20 questions?? )
mobrul

Yeah this is 200000 questions and we are going to figure this out by Golly!

Man I keep forgetting about this thread! Must be all those useless posts that I keep making. hehe

I know who this is but I don't want to say because I just had my turn.

~I will keep the secret~ shhhhh.

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~Binary is best~

My first guess would have been Madame Blavatsky but hint 2 blows that out of the water and a quick nose around shows her dates were 1831 - 1891:
www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/madame-blavatsky.htm

Next guess (using the Internet) Mollie Steimer but again the dates are wrong although the details are close:
www.spunk.org/texts/pubs/sekhmet/8/sp001228.txt

Which incindentally (as their paths crossed) gave me the right answer:

Emma Goldman:
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Politics/Anarchism/People/Goldman,_Emma

And buy some Emmerabalia:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Emmarabilia

Do I win?

I do feel like I've cheated though as it wasn't anything I 'knew'. So I might relinquish my go to someone more worthy!! [edit: I'm also stumped on a question!! The only reason I got interested was because it look like my grandmother]

Emps



You're my wife now Dave

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Ding Ding Ding Ding!

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a winner!!!
Emma Goldman it is (was?).

Emperor is the man in charge of this thread now...
I pass the honor to you, do with it as you wish.

mobrul

Right I have thought of one although it is rather unpleasant (I'm debating whether to use it) and I'd better do a little research to make sure its all true.

Back in a bit.

Emps


You're my wife now Dave

Oh what the Hell it was the first thing that came to mind (which possibly shows what kind of mind I have!!). I've tried a few ways to phrase this and this was the most obscure:

Q: Who was (allegedly) saved by their 'taint'?

Emps


You're my wife now Dave

Can I look up and see what the hell 'taint' is??

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~Binary is best~

CPrompt: That is the first part of the puzzle - how you solve it is your business (I have reference books at home that will do it for me but...).

Emps

Yeah, never mind. I think I just figured it out. :

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CPrompt: Does that mean you have the answer?

Emps

George Washington

Bugimus: Not the answer I was looking for but I'd be interested to know your reasoning (I have the horrible suspicion there may be more than one answer to this question).

Emps

Its gone awful quiet - I can provide clues if required (I thought this would be easy so I tried to make it difficult but may have gone too far).

Emps


You're my wife now Dave

Emps, my answer was a *long* shot. After thinking about it some more it doesn't even work at all. I just wanted to throw something out there to keep the dialogue moving.

What I had heard recently was related to how Washington had gotten small pox and survived it prior to the Revolutionary War. Historians have found evidence that the, um you guys , discussed the possibility of biological warfare by infecting the rebel troops with small pox. But they never did that so my answer was totally wrong.

I'm actually trying my best to answer these without search engines otherwise it would be way too easy. I couldn't help myself with the Emma Goldman, I had to look that one up.

I think I'm going to need a hint for your question.

Emps:
No that just means that I figured out what "taint" was.

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~Binary is best~

Bugimus: Well this was a deliberate attempt to make it difficult for search engines so you should feel free to use them if they help.

The first order of business is to find out what a taint is.

You then need to find a person whos life was saved by it (according quite a few sources this is true but it is usually classified as an urban myth - when I looked this up on the Internet things were split about 50:50 but that is the internet for you!!).

The tricky bit is the leap to the person and if we get that far and noone knows it then I'll give you a clue as to what they were saved from and it should be a race to see who posts first.

However, I suspect using the Internet was cheating on my behalf and I'm quite happy to hand this over to a more worthy question poser.

Emps


You're my wife now Dave

No worries about your question, this is cool. I'm off to discover the true meaning of taint!

I aplogise in advance for the etymology (esp. as being a bug you are more used to entymology!!).

Emps

To many big words, slow down, now what?
heh time to start a new thread. We really should after 50 or 60 so, but it's cool.

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