The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
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Re: The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
Planes were first used in WWI. All you need to know. Get out of your own way.
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Which I didn't. And the clue didn't say that PLANES were first used, just that the corps was.seaborgium wrote:Planes were first used in WWI. All you need to know.
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Get out of your own way.TenPoundHammer wrote:Which I didn't. And the clue didn't say that PLANES were first used, just that the corps was.seaborgium wrote:Planes were first used in WWI. All you need to know.
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"In 'Khaki Wings' a young British man courts danger by joining the fledgling Royal Flying Corps during this war."seaborgium wrote:Get out of your own way.TenPoundHammer wrote:Which I didn't. And the clue didn't say that PLANES were first used, just that the corps was.seaborgium wrote:Planes were first used in WWI. All you need to know.
That only says that the Royal Flying Corps was new. It does not say that using airplanes in war was!
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The British flew in WWI, the first major war after the birth of aviation. If you knew it, you got it. If you didn't, now you know.
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Get out of your own way.TenPoundHammer wrote:"In 'Khaki Wings' a young British man courts danger by joining the fledgling Royal Flying Corps during this war."seaborgium wrote:Get out of your own way.TenPoundHammer wrote:Which I didn't. And the clue didn't say that PLANES were first used, just that the corps was.seaborgium wrote:Planes were first used in WWI. All you need to know.
That only says that the Royal Flying Corps was new. It does not say that using airplanes in war was!
You're really making this way more complicated than it needs to be.
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, of course.TenPoundHammer wrote:Still unanswered from Monday:
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Re: The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
Everyone else here thinks the inference was trivial (edit: no pun intended). You are the only one who disagrees...TenPoundHammer wrote:"In 'Khaki Wings' a young British man courts danger by joining the fledgling Royal Flying Corps during this war."seaborgium wrote:Get out of your own way.TenPoundHammer wrote:Which I didn't. And the clue didn't say that PLANES were first used, just that the corps was.seaborgium wrote:Planes were first used in WWI. All you need to know.
That only says that the Royal Flying Corps was new. It does not say that using airplanes in war was!
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Ding ding! We have a winner! (Also, glad to see that someone can maintain his sense of humor here.)BobF wrote:The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, of course.TenPoundHammer wrote:Still unanswered from Monday:
TenPoundHammer wrote:WLT World War I?
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I still don't think it's as cut and dried as everyone else says it is. The clue only said that the Royal Flying Corps was new. For all I know, it could've been new in any war, and some other flying corps was used in WWI.snowdenscold wrote:Everyone else here thinks the inference was trivial (edit: no pun intended). You are the only one who disagrees...TenPoundHammer wrote:"In 'Khaki Wings' a young British man courts danger by joining the fledgling Royal Flying Corps during this war."seaborgium wrote:Get out of your own way.TenPoundHammer wrote:Which I didn't. And the clue didn't say that PLANES were first used, just that the corps was.seaborgium wrote:Planes were first used in WWI. All you need to know.
That only says that the Royal Flying Corps was new. It does not say that using airplanes in war was!
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Watch It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown when it comes on for Halloween. (Although they keep trimming it for more and more ads and pretty soon, the whole subplot with Snoopy and his Sopwith Camel could be a distant memory.)TenPoundHammer wrote:"In 'Khaki Wings' a young British man courts danger by joining the fledgling Royal Flying Corps during this war."seaborgium wrote:Get out of your own way.TenPoundHammer wrote:Which I didn't. And the clue didn't say that PLANES were first used, just that the corps was.seaborgium wrote:Planes were first used in WWI. All you need to know.
That only says that the Royal Flying Corps was new. It does not say that using airplanes in war was!
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Have you ever heard of Occam's Razor? If not, now would be a good time to look it up.TenPoundHammer wrote:
I still don't think it's as cut and dried as everyone else says it is. The clue only said that the Royal Flying Corps was new. For all I know, it could've been new in any war, and some other flying corps was used in WWI.
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"For all I know"? Refresh my memory on why this thread exists.TenPoundHammer wrote: I still don't think it's as cut and dried as everyone else says it is. The clue only said that the Royal Flying Corps was new. For all I know, it could've been new in any war, and some other flying corps was used in WWI.
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He's a member of the dollar shave club, he doesn't need to look it up, dammit!1stlvlthinker wrote:Have you ever heard of Occam's Razor? If not, now would be a good time to look it up.TenPoundHammer wrote:
I still don't think it's as cut and dried as everyone else says it is. The clue only said that the Royal Flying Corps was new. For all I know, it could've been new in any war, and some other flying corps was used in WWI.
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And he stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!BobF wrote:He's a member of the dollar shave club, he doesn't need to look it up, dammit!1stlvlthinker wrote:Have you ever heard of Occam's Razor? If not, now would be a good time to look it up.TenPoundHammer wrote:
I still don't think it's as cut and dried as everyone else says it is. The clue only said that the Royal Flying Corps was new. For all I know, it could've been new in any war, and some other flying corps was used in WWI.
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I have. And the simplest interpretation I had of that clue was "first war in which the Flying Corps was used." Which simplifies to "any war in the 20th or possibly 21st century" and no further.1stlvlthinker wrote:Have you ever heard of Occam's Razor? If not, now would be a good time to look it up.TenPoundHammer wrote:
I still don't think it's as cut and dried as everyone else says it is. The clue only said that the Royal Flying Corps was new. For all I know, it could've been new in any war, and some other flying corps was used in WWI.
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Not sure if this is going to help or hurt, but after WW1, the RFC was turned into the Royal Air Force so the only war the RFC was ever involved in was WW1.TenPoundHammer wrote:I have. And the simplest interpretation I had of that clue was "first war in which the Flying Corps was used." Which simplifies to "any war in the 20th or possibly 21st century" and no further.1stlvlthinker wrote:Have you ever heard of Occam's Razor? If not, now would be a good time to look it up.TenPoundHammer wrote:
I still don't think it's as cut and dried as everyone else says it is. The clue only said that the Royal Flying Corps was new. For all I know, it could've been new in any war, and some other flying corps was used in WWI.
And yes, we know what the RAF is. They played a small role in WW2.
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How about maybe "when were planes first used in a war?" That's as simple as it gets, absent other information.TenPoundHammer wrote:I have. And the simplest interpretation I had of that clue was "first war in which the Flying Corps was used." Which simplifies to "any war in the 20th or possibly 21st century" and no further.1stlvlthinker wrote:Have you ever heard of Occam's Razor? If not, now would be a good time to look it up.TenPoundHammer wrote:
I still don't think it's as cut and dried as everyone else says it is. The clue only said that the Royal Flying Corps was new. For all I know, it could've been new in any war, and some other flying corps was used in WWI.
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The biggest leap that TPH still needs to make is when we give responses, we're not actually responding to the clue as given.1stlvlthinker wrote:How about maybe "when were planes first used in a war?" That's as simple as it gets, absent other information.TenPoundHammer wrote:I have. And the simplest interpretation I had of that clue was "first war in which the Flying Corps was used." Which simplifies to "any war in the 20th or possibly 21st century" and no further.1stlvlthinker wrote:Have you ever heard of Occam's Razor? If not, now would be a good time to look it up.TenPoundHammer wrote:
I still don't think it's as cut and dried as everyone else says it is. The clue only said that the Royal Flying Corps was new. For all I know, it could've been new in any war, and some other flying corps was used in WWI.
"In 'Khaki Wings' a young British man courts danger by joining the fledgling Royal Flying Corps during this war."
I didn't answer "WW1" knowing the plot or even a summary of 'Khaki Wings' nor did I know it based on knowledge of the RFC, and it was only after this thread started I even realized they used RFC and not the RAF (it was "Royal flyers blah" in my head.)
Instead, I pick "planes, British, fledgling, war," turn it into "First war in which the British fought with planes," roll the dice with WW1 and figure the writers wouldn't trick me with the Bambatha Rebellion. Is there a slim chance the answer -is- Bambatha Rebellion? Yes (...well, no, the RFC didn't start until 1912 and Bambatha was in 1906...but for the sake of argument let's overlook that). I accept those odds as does every other player deciding on WW1 (without, again, explicit knowledge of Khaki Wings' plot or the origin of the RFC).
As an aside, I do like this thread because now I know a new word. Bambatha. Bam. Batha. Let's kick this Rebellion up a notch! BAM!batha.
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Re: The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
Hey's it's your old buddy the South Island again.
OCEANIA $400: Mount Cook, not Mont Blanc, is the highest of the Southern these on New Zealand’s South Island
Mont Blanc like the Matterhorn is a famous peak in the Alps. In Europe. Yes, Zealand has Alps also. Who knew? Some yes, some no. No matter. You like help for the first box clues and the writers accommodated with the "Mont Blanc" portion of the clue.
A J! player will take the hint (if they don't already know the NZ geography well enough anyway) and collect the money.
It's not fun and no longer first box if the clue is:
Mount Cook is the highest of the Southern these on New Zealand’s South Island
OCEANIA $400: Mount Cook, not Mont Blanc, is the highest of the Southern these on New Zealand’s South Island
Mont Blanc like the Matterhorn is a famous peak in the Alps. In Europe. Yes, Zealand has Alps also. Who knew? Some yes, some no. No matter. You like help for the first box clues and the writers accommodated with the "Mont Blanc" portion of the clue.
A J! player will take the hint (if they don't already know the NZ geography well enough anyway) and collect the money.
It's not fun and no longer first box if the clue is:
Mount Cook is the highest of the Southern these on New Zealand’s South Island