| Author | Message | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 961 Registered: 6-2008 |
When I was a little kid, at one time I had a scrund about history. I don't know when I was cured of it, but certainly before the relevant subject was even briefly discussed in school. What was it? May go quickly, but an additional challenge is to guess why I chose the title I did. | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 962 Registered: 6-2008 |
Oh, and I'm curious how many people remember ever having this scrund. I'd think it has to be quite common. | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1256 Registered: 11-2003 |
History in general? A spesific era? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4292 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is this about a specific country? Are wars relevant? Politics? | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 231 Registered: 8-2010 |
9/11 relevant? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 963 Registered: 6-2008 |
History in general?No A spesific era?Yes Is this about a specific country?No Are wars relevant?No Politics?Noish 9/11 relevant?No | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4308 Registered: 4-2010 |
Politics-ish...is a king relevant? The era - prehistoric? Is a system of government relevant? Does the era cover one century? More? Less? Is the era in [LTPF list of centuries]? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 964 Registered: 6-2008 |
Politics-ish...is a king relevant? No--the "ish" is because the period is primarily defined by what was occurring politically, as opposed to (for example) a period of art The era - prehistoric? No Is a system of government relevant? No Does the era cover one century? More? This Less? Is the era in [LTPF list of centuries]? 5th through 15th | ||
| Rbruma (Rbruma)
New member Username: Rbruma Post Number: 202 Registered: 9-2009 |
5th to 15th century relevant ... fall of Rome to fall of Constantinople? 476 to 1453 ... worth exploring or am I very much OTWT? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 3590 Registered: 5-2003 |
Anything to do with Presidents or elections? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 965 Registered: 6-2008 |
5th to 15th century relevant ... fall of Rome to fall of Constantinople? 476 to 1453 ... worth exploring or am I very much OTWT? You're OTRT in that these are probably the most commonly cited start and end dates for the period in question. You may be OTWT in that by the time I actually had learned the dates for the period (or of the former existence of Constantinople), I would have surely lost the scrund. Anything to do with Presidents or elections? Not the scrund (It's not like they were electing Presidents back in the 5th century!). It does have relevance to the title, but you're very unlikely to guess it off of that. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4332 Registered: 4-2010 |
Crusades relevant? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 966 Registered: 6-2008 |
Crusades relevant? No | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 967 Registered: 6-2008 |
(but as a sidenote, knowing about the Crusades would have probably reinforced my scrund) | ||
| Lordofthegeeks1000 (Lordofthegeeks1000)
New member Username: Lordofthegeeks1000 Post Number: 32 Registered: 1-2010 |
Related to vassalage? Feudalism? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 968 Registered: 6-2008 |
Related to vassalage? Feudalism? Not to either, aside from the fact that they took place during this time period | ||
| Rbruma (Rbruma)
New member Username: Rbruma Post Number: 204 Registered: 9-2009 |
Did you think that something specific happened during this period? That something specific didn't happen? That the history of that period was purely fictional? The '2004' in the title refers to the year 2004? If so, is something relevant that happened in 2004? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 969 Registered: 6-2008 |
Did you think that something specific happened during this period? Not specific, no That something specific didn't happen? No That the history of that period was purely fictional? No, though I could see a kid thinking this too The '2004' in the title refers to the year 2004? Yes If so, is something relevant that happened in 2004? Yes, though I will say that the title is only relevant as part of a possible joke someone could make in response to hearing about my scrund. There is no real analogy between what happened in 2004 and what I thought about the relevant historical period. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4337 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is religion relevant? The Catholic church? How much political power they had? | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 252 Registered: 8-2010 |
Did you wrongly estimate the date of a certain event(s)? If so, were you too early? Too late? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 970 Registered: 6-2008 |
Is religion relevant? The Catholic church? How much political power they had? No to all Did you wrongly estimate the date of a certain event(s)? No If so, were you too early? Too late? | ||
| Rbruma (Rbruma)
New member Username: Rbruma Post Number: 206 Registered: 9-2009 |
Did you think the people in that period had some sort of ability that you later discovered to be incorrect (along the lines of, say, using electricity or being able to fly)? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 971 Registered: 6-2008 |
Did you think the people in that period had some sort of ability that you later discovered to be incorrect (along the lines of, say, using electricity or being able to fly)? No | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4352 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is war relevant? A specific war? A series of wars? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 972 Registered: 6-2008 |
Is war relevant? A specific war? A series of wars? No to all | ||
| Rbruma (Rbruma)
New member Username: Rbruma Post Number: 210 Registered: 9-2009 |
You said that you were cured even before discussing the subject in school. If so, were you cured because: somebody told you something relevant? you read something? heard on the radio? seen on TV? Is it worh exploring how you were cured? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 973 Registered: 6-2008 |
You said that you were cured even before discussing the subject in school. Actually, I kind of take that back. I'm not sure I was cured before the first time it was discussed in school. But certainly by the end of the first lesson in the topic, at the latest If so, were you cured because: somebody told you something relevant? you read something? This, almost definitely heard on the radio? seen on TV? Is it worh exploring how you were cured? I don't remember exactly where I first read the relevant thing. But the fact that reading was involved is worth noting | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4379 Registered: 4-2010 |
Was the thing you read directly related to your scrund? Did the reading address the scrund? Was the scrund related to reading? | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1274 Registered: 11-2003 |
Any famous comic books relevant? | ||
| Rbruma (Rbruma)
New member Username: Rbruma Post Number: 218 Registered: 9-2009 |
Did you think that people of that time lacked some sort of ability while in fact they had it (like that they were unable to read or to write for example)? Was the scrund applied also to Antiquity? To post medieval times? Could it be applied? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4430 Registered: 4-2010 |
Indoor plumbing relevant? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 974 Registered: 6-2008 |
Was the thing you read directly related to your scrund? Yes, but beware FA Did the reading address the scrund? Purely by accident, in other words the scrund was not directly mentioned Was the scrund related to reading? Yesish, for svv. of "related to reading" Any famous comic books relevant? No Did you think that people of that time lacked some sort of ability while in fact they had it (like that they were unable to read or to write for example)? No Was the scrund applied also to Antiquity? To post medieval times? No to both, except as contrasted with the period in between Could it be applied? Don't quite know what you're asking. The scrund may have led me to believe other things, but that's rather irrelevant I think you are all being way too specific, when my scrund was very general about the time period as a whole. Think along the lines of Nimue's "coma" puzzle (though like with that one, I'd HOPE college students would be way past this one!) | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 975 Registered: 6-2008 |
Indoor plumbing relevant? No | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4447 Registered: 4-2010 |
Did you think a certain country existed at that time? Didn't exist? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 976 Registered: 6-2008 |
Did you think a certain country existed at that time? Didn't exist? No to both | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4467 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is technology relevant? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4468 Registered: 4-2010 |
...is medicine relevant? Disease? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 977 Registered: 6-2008 |
Is technology relevant? No ...is medicine relevant? Disease? No to both | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4478 Registered: 4-2010 |
Did you think they did not have paper in those days? Is paper relevant? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 978 Registered: 6-2008 |
Did you think they did not have paper in those days? Is paper relevant? No to both | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4528 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is literacy relevant? Did you think that most people in those days could read? Couldn't read? But it was really the opposite? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 980 Registered: 6-2008 |
Is literacy relevant? No, therefore no to rest as well Did you think that most people in those days could read? Couldn't read? But it was really the opposite? Hint: The real relevance of reading is that while I very probably lost the scrund by reading something, I could not have acquired it while reading something. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4545 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is your scrund about the spelling of something? That most word back then were spelled in "fancy" ways? Ended in e's? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 981 Registered: 6-2008 |
Is your scrund about the spelling of something? Yes, that's most of it That most word back then were spelled in "fancy" ways? No Ended in e's? No | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4582 Registered: 4-2010 |
The spelling of: people's names? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 982 Registered: 6-2008 |
The spelling of: people's names? No | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4600 Registered: 4-2010 |
The spelling of certain words? Place names? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 984 Registered: 6-2008 |
The spelling of certain words? A word, yes. What else? Place names? No | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4610 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is the word a [LTPF list of parts of speech]? A title? Is the word still in common use today? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 986 Registered: 6-2008 |
Is the word a [LTPF list of parts of speech]? Adjective A title? No Is the word still in common use today? Yes, and almost definite FA | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4624 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is the word in English? Another language? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 988 Registered: 6-2008 |
Is the word in English? This Another language? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4636 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is the word a color? | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 2905 Registered: 1-2007 |
Is it something misheard like you thought there was a period of history called the Dar Cages? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 991 Registered: 6-2008 |
Is the word a color? No Is it something misheard like you thought there was a period of history called the Dar Cages? Not exactly this one but VERY OTRT | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4717 Registered: 4-2010 |
Did you mishear something? Misread something? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 998 Registered: 6-2008 |
Did you mishear something? This. And in the same sort of way as Peter365's example, just not that precise one. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4723 Registered: 4-2010 |
Did you mishear the name of a place? A city? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1000 Registered: 6-2008 |
Did you mishear the name of a place? A city? Neither | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4732 Registered: 4-2010 |
The name of a person? An era? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1002 Registered: 6-2008 |
The name of a person? An era? THIS | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4739 Registered: 4-2010 |
Did you mishear "Middle Ages"? As "Metal Ages"? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1003 Registered: 6-2008 |
Did you mishear "Middle Ages"? No As "Metal Ages"? So no (but OTRT) | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4762 Registered: 4-2010 |
Did what you misheard include the word "ages"? "Era"? Did you mishear "Era" as "Error"? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1006 Registered: 6-2008 |
Did what you misheard include the word "ages"? No "Era"? It would have contained a synonym for "era", but whether or not this exact word was used is irr. It wasn't the misheard bit. Did you mishear "Era" as "Error"? So no | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4794 Registered: 4-2010 |
"Medieval times"? As "Mid Evil times" or something? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1011 Registered: 6-2008 |
"Medieval times"? As "Mid Evil times" or something? Exactly! I though that the "Medieval period" was the "mid-Evil Period", presumably preceded by something like the "early Evil Period" and followed by something like the "late Evil Period". After all, why did everyone live in castles and fight each other all the time? (or so I thought, from the popular culture image of the period!). I gave no thought to why people suddenly became good and friendly again at the end of the Evil Period, which I guess is unsurprising given that many kids don't question why the "Indians" (who are not from India of course) were just automatically assumed to be the bad guys in certain movies. Now why did I think someone might jokingly say "more like 2004?" if I told them about this? Should be easy now. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4806 Registered: 4-2010 |
2004 was right in the middle of the Bush years, and the whole bin Laden/Saddam/etc thing was in full swing - this it? Maybe the political debates over the Bush/Kerry election? Or the fact that the Red Sox won the World Series for the first time in 86 years? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1013 Registered: 6-2008 |
2004 was right in the middle of the Bush years Yes. I was envisioning a particularly annoyed American calling Bush's *****************SPOILER************************** | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 4861 Registered: 4-2010 |
Nice one! I'm sure bumper sticker manufacturers (and a whole lot of other people) agree with your assessment. |
