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dargorygel wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 25, 2023 8:18 pm

Octavious wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 25, 2023 8:08 pm

JECE, what is it that you think trolling is?

They think it has something to do with spiders...

What lives under a bridge and has eight legs? The Octa-man does!

DougJoe wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 25, 2023 8:40 pm

Not Neil Gaiman, Oct?

He'd have likely made the top 20. I did enjoy Neverwhere, and Good Omens is a favourite (although it's hard to say how much of it was him). He'd be in good company, with Peake, Mantel, Dahl, Herbert et al. But not quite top 10

Is it Fitzgerald?

Scrap that... Died too young

Is it the world's worst author, Jerome David Salinger?

Octavious wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:23 pm

Is it the world's worst author, Jerome David Salinger?

No.

Is he on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authors_in_war

Foxcastle wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 25, 2023 10:07 pm

Is he on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authors_in_war

No.

Combatant in WWI?

han-shahanshah wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 25, 2023 11:52 pm

Combatant in WWI?

No.

1. Real
2. Not Female
3. Not alive
4. Native English Speaker
5. North-American
6. Lived during 20th Century
7. Lived to 70+ years old.
8. Not associated with the movie/music industry.
9. Not born in or after 1925.
10. Not known for being in the military or law enforcement [they did serve].
11. Not known for politics or activism.
12. Not an inventor or businessman.
13. Not a criminal.
14. Not a sportsperson.
15. Not an artist. [Technically, they are, just not in the sense of painting, sculpting..]
16. Writer.
17. Not on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authors_in_war
18. Not a combatant in WW1.

NOT: Hemingway (Foxcastle), Kurt Vonnegut (han-shahanshah), Jerome David Salinger (Octavious).

2 questions left. I think narrowing down birth/death would be helpful. What do people think are good guesses for that?

Mark Twain

Foxcastle wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 26, 2023 11:41 am

2 questions left. I think narrowing down birth/death would be helpful. What do people think are good guesses for that?

Other things we have not established, but may wish to consider:

- Ethnicity / race (we may assume it's a white guy, but not necessarily).
- Were they famous for one great novel, or something else.
- Were they even a writer of fiction.

(I am NOT asking any of these questions at this stage, QM)

My mind, perhaps expecting odd things from sweetandcool... keeps pushing down unusual 'writers.' I think, question wise, that Jamie and fox have suggested some good guidelines... but we only have two questions.

Should we use up some of those free guesses before we narrow?

Stan Lee

damo666 wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:23 pm

Mark Twain

Never served

e. e. cummings

scratch that he served in WW1

dargorygel wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:40 pm

My mind, perhaps expecting odd things from sweetandcool... keeps pushing down unusual 'writers.' I think, question wise, that Jamie and fox have suggested some good guidelines... but we only have two questions.

Should we use up some of those free guesses before we narrow?

Stan Lee

No, but epic guess.

damo666 wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:23 pm

Mark Twain

No.

Ambrose Bierce fits.