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How's your knowledge of GURPS books? - robkelk - 08-03-2008
Okay, I'll admit I'm cheating here.
There's a http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=42750]friendly trivia contest about GURPS books (not the game, the printed or e23 products) going on over on the SJGames forums. http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.php? ... tcount=138]One question has us stumped:
Quote:There is a certain GURPS book with a Pink Floyd pullquote. That book includes another, unattributed Pink Floyd quote as an Easter egg in the main text. What is the book and what is the quote?
Anybody know the answer to this one?
(All of my questions have been answered already. Even the one that required having read GURPS Robin Hood...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Bob Schroeck - 08-03-2008
Gah. It must be a book I've never seen, otherwise I'm sure I would have noticed and remembered.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- robkelk - 08-04-2008
Drat. I was half-expecting that it was one of your books, Bob...
Ah, well. We just got a hint:
Quote:So, a very BIG hint: the pullquote is from "Astronomy Domine," and it is VERY appropriate to the page it's on.Ring any bells with anyone?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- M Fnord - 08-04-2008
Found it! THS: Deep Beyond, p. 64 is the pullquote:
Quote:"Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania, Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten..."
dunno about the one in the text though.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
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- Wiregeek - 08-04-2008
Quote:Pink Floyd Astronomy Domine lyrics"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
Lime and limpid green the second scene
the fights between the bleu you once knew
floating down the sound resounds
around the icy waters underground
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon,Miranda and
Titanian, Neptune, Titan, stars can frighten
Winding signs flap
flicker flicker flicker flam pow pow
stairway scare Dan dare who's there?
blindman limpid green the sound
surrounds the icy waters on the
lime and limpid green the sound
surrounds the icy waters underground
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
- Bob Schroeck - 08-04-2008
That's not even a title I recognize. I think maybe I've drifted a bit far from SJG in the last couple years...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- robkelk - 08-04-2008
Quote: Found it! THS: Deep Beyond, p. 64 is the pullquoteThanks! That's half the battle.
(Alas, I don't own a copy of that one...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- robkelk - 08-04-2008
Quote:Hmmm. In that case, it may be REALLY unfair trivia, because I'm quite certain the Easter egg quote is not in that book. (And my books, unfortunately, are boxed up in Austin, so I can't confirm for sure.)Back to square one...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012