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Grex Enigma Item 100: Do You Remember? (The Nostalgia Item)
Entered by remmers on Fri Feb 19 13:43:30 UTC 1993:

In the year 1000 AD, the Pope crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor.
You might say that it was the crowning achievement for both of them.
Several centuries later, The Pope changed his name to Alexander Pope
and invented the couplet.  Not to be outdone, Charlemagne changed his
name to Charles Eric Maine and wrote several science fiction novels as
well as being drunken husband to Judy Garland for the space of one
movie.

10 responses total.

#1 of 10 by chaz on Sat Feb 20 00:19:28 1993:

Huh?

#2 of 10 by carl on Sat Feb 20 11:54:30 1993:

Nah, that was back before I was interested in current events.

#3 of 10 by lee on Thu May 22 19:12:00 1997:

<lee frowns> there was a 1000 year?  I thought the years started with 1900
<lee ducks>

#4 of 10 by i on Sun Jan 24 04:03:20 1999:

Did Charles drink because of Judy, in spite of Judy, or without reference
to Judy?  If one of the latter two, did he share his booze with her?

Geeze!  Everybody knows that years started with 4004 BC.  (The BC is a
latin abbreviation meaning "count backwards".)  Kinda like the year 2000
thing, they got to year 0 before they'd invented negative numbers, so they
had to start going the other way and use a bigger number for each year. 
The "goes back up" years were called AD (short for "add").  When the new
math came in, some people started calling the new years CE (short for
"computational enhancement") because it helped high school graduates feel
better about the fact they could add one to a number and sometimes get
the right answer.

#5 of 10 by snowth on Fri Jan 29 02:02:36 1999:

speaking of useless trivia:

Did you know that if you stand on your head, you're the same hight, just On
Your Head?

#6 of 10 by orinoco on Sun Jan 31 18:29:26 1999:

Is this a Tricia I see before me?
Lo, has the transdimensional prison which hertofore kept you confined 
freed you at last?
Would you like fries with your Gnostic paranoia?

#7 of 10 by snowth on Sun Apr 25 00:08:26 1999:

You see no tricia, for there is no me, nor do I exist. I have no doors, and
I climb in and out through my noexistanial windows. Next question?

#8 of 10 by i on Sun Apr 25 02:13:23 1999:

Ah!  So you're like Frosty the Snowman!  

How can one train a teenage male to like changing diapers?

#9 of 10 by orinoco on Wed Apr 28 21:52:37 1999:

Does Frosty the Snowman climb in through your window often?
Maybe you should get your locks changed.

#10 of 10 by i on Sat May 1 10:45:24 1999:

Second panes and weatherstripping would probably work better if i cared
more about keeping Frosty out but my heating bills are so low and i sort
of like it cold and the landlord won't install such things or pay for them
and why should i do it when it's his place and heating is cheap and Frosty
doesn't cause any problems but a few wet spots on the floor which are okay
in winter because the humidity needs all the boost it can get as long as i
keep a good supply of ice cubes in the fridge for Frosty to snack on and
don't try to grab his magic hat that makes him alive which i don't have
any use for anyway since it doesn't work on silicon and i don't need it
and if he couldn't move it would be a lot of work to haul him outside so
he wouldn't melt and make a big soggy mess in here because it's too warm
in here for him to stay very long even when he's munching on really cold
ice cubes though he would like dry ice better and he could stick around 
longer with that i wouldn't like it because it's much more expensive and
all the CO2 would have to be vented or the buildup would goof up my
breathing reflexes and i'd have to leave and couldn't talk with Frosty
so why not just go outside and talk with him out there if i want to have
a really long conversation?

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