Quailcelli again

[Quailman]

From the Al Gore wiki page:

[lexprod]

Are you a musician and comic who had a supporting role in Hot Fuzz and Spaced?

[Quailman]

Stumpers:

raekuul: Were you a member of a generic trio of people named in Star Wars?
3ifff: Were you killed by a shark owned by Kim Yong Il ??
Scurra: Are you an author who uses a middle initial to distinguish his different styles?
PuzzleScot: Did you invent the automatic pistol? Beretta?
Cordelia: Did you play a Cosby other than the very pointless and irritating Denise? Barbara Billingsly?
lexprod: Are you a musician and comic who had a supporting role in Hot Fuzz and Spaced? Steve Bartin?

Let me know if I missed any

Generals:

Undercover Monk, 3iff, Scurra 2, DP, DPW, maybe others- you know if you have one.

General 1: Are you alive? NO
General 2: Were you best known for contributions to entertainment? NO
General 3: were you female? NO
General 4: Were you known for holding political office? NO
General 5: Were you alive for any portion of the 20th century? YES
General 6: Are you known for a single contribution to history? YES (pretty much)
General 7: Were you aged 60 or more when you died? YES
General 8: Is your middle name(s) normally mentioned when discussing you? NO
General 9: Were you considered to be European? NO
General 10: Was your career associated with the arts? NO
General 11: Did you conduct the first human heart transplant? NO
General 12: Are you best known for contributions in the fields of engineering, technology, or science? YES
General 13: Did you win the Nobel Prize? NO
General 14: Are you best known for the invention or creation of a device or technology that at least 1% of Americans see or use directly every day? YES
General 15: Can I buy something you invented (either completely or in part) at Wal-Mart? YES
General *: Is the device you created entirely electronic in operation?Not sure how to answer this.
General 16: Is the device/product implied in Generals 14/15 powered by batteries enabling it to be carried around (in the manner of a mobile phone/mp3 player etc)? NO
General 17: Does the aforementioned device require connection to mains electricity? YES *

[PuzzleScot]

Not Beretta..

[Lepton*]

If it's okay, I'll ask another while I wait for someone who has seen October Skies...

Stumper: Did your name to the B in the UNIX bash shell?

[Quailman]

Did your name to the B in the UNIX bash shell? WTF?

[Lepton*]

hmm, dropped a couple words, sorry.

Stumper: Did you give your name to the B in the UNIX bash shell?

[3iff]

Re: post 120, I'd like to borrow the general as offered by PuzzleScot. I'm happy for him(?) to have my next general if/when I get one and there's a question he'd like to ask.

I have it narrowed down to 2 people, one of whom does not meet all the general conditions as specified, so...

General (via Puzzlescot): Does your device/process have anything to do with food?

Quailman: I don't think I have a general of my own as my latest stumper hasn't been answered as yet...I think it's too clever for it's own good!

[Cordelia]

I'm thinking 3iff's last stumper hand something to do with an imaginary shark owned by Kim, but I haven't seen the correct episode of South Park/Family Guy/Simpsons/etc. But maybe me mentioning that will spark the memory of someone else?

No one knows any of the Cosby actors outside the ones that Quailman...ahem...failed with?

[PuzzleScot]

Ah, South Park, now that does ring a bell... Is that Tony Blair then?
[edit: I've looked it up now - it isn't South Park. It was Team America: World Police, if that helps anyone (doubtful)]

As for Al Gore (sigh)...
He was indeed the first senior US politician to recognise the usefulness of nationally networked computer system, so penned "The Gore Bill" in 1991. This bill authorised funding for a web browser (Mosaic), and enable the "Information Superhighway".

Quite how that authorises him to say "I took the initiative in creating the Internet." is an overstatement of the order normally reserved for overreaching CVs (resumés) !! I'd call it 'jumping on the bandwagon'.

Especially when you consider that I graduated 3 years before that in computational science, that hey guess what, used the internet quite a lot! Before it had been invented by Al Gore!!! I was going to say there were no graphical interfaces or images, but there were of sorts.

That'll be why wiki says: "Gore's reference to his role in "creating the Internet", however, was ridiculed in his presidential election campaign.". Quite right.

[Quailman]

General (via Puzzlescot): Does your device/process have anything to do with food? YES

[3iff]

Ok, I'm pretty sure I know the answer...just need someone to answer my previous stumper.

[PuzzleScot]

Ditto!

[3iff]

Automatic pistol: Browning??

[PuzzleScot]

Yes! Browning is the answer I was looking for. How do I about this now...?

General: Are you Clarence Birdseye, inventor of the fast-freezing process?

[Quailman]

Yes! Good job. I realized that my answer on the Wal-Mart question could be misleading since not all stores are supercenters that have a grocery section, so I clarified it.

Everyone who's had a vasectomy has used his product.

[3iff]

Congrats PuzzleScot. It was your general (the one I borrowed!) that gave us the final clue so you deserved it. That was going to be my guess too.

Congrats also to Quailman for a tricky game.

The shark victim was Hans Blix, from Team America...obviously a bit too obscure for the assembled players.

[ralphmerridew]

Lepton: Isn't the title October Sky, an anagram of the book's title (Rocket Boys)?

It doesn't matter now, but bash is the "Bourne" again shell.

[PuzzleScot]

Woohoo! Nice game, with quick responses. Much fun. Thanks Quailman!

[jesternl]

Thanks, Mr. Q

[Zag]

Grats, PuzzleScot!

Excellent game, Q!

[Quailman]

I wondered if anyone would see my percentage on the Wal-Mart stores and go to the wiki site and back into the numbers to see that the discount centers (not superstores or grocery outlets) might not have this, and make the connection to food.

I don't know how I would have answered "Is this invention used in a medical procedure?", since the flexible nature of a frozen bag of peas makes it a perfect ice pack to use after a vasectomy or in other situations.

The hardest part is coming up with an original person that doesn't use a letter we've seen in the last few -cellis.

[ralphmerridew]

Battle of the Crater involved Ambrose Burnside.

[Cordelia]

nicely done, team, and a fun person you picked, Quailman! :D

[Quailman]

[Cordelia]

Heh, just razzing you :D