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OK, so we can assume that RH is NOT the answer to #2 then? He posted his cryptic tweet about an hour ago, and RH has been floating around out there all day....
Post by monkeymonkeyjoyjoy on Jan 20, 2009 16:09:39 GMT -5
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The Afrikaans-language Sunday newspaper "Rapport" writes this week that the province of Gauteng (Transvaal) suffers from unusually high levels of rat infestations by three varieties of rats - the black roof-rat, the brown rat and a mysterious black/white species which an animal expert believes could be a new hybrid.
Ronald Springfield, owner of one of Johannesburg's many vermin- control companies, has been doing this job for 34 years. He has never seen so many huge rat infestations before in his life as he does now.The black roof-rat (rattus-rattus) is a known bubonic plague carrier; the brown rat (Rattus Norwegicum) is a carrier of Weil's disease, viral haemorrhagic fever, and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. Nothing is yet known about the disease-carrying abilities of the mysterious black-and-white rat.
Last bubonic plague death in SA in 1981: What makes the health dangers of such rat infestations even more dreary in South Africa however is the fact that the country also has millions of highly vulnerable, immune-deficient people: with at least 6-million infected with the Aids virus, of whom 60% also are co-infected with TB+HIV. This population group is now also rapidly growing very resistant to antibiotics and dying of Extremely-Drug- Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR-TB).
Baragwanath Hospital: rats munched on the corpses:
K there - I am obviously bored at the job! Hehehe~!
Post by viciouscircle on Jan 20, 2009 16:10:08 GMT -5
Reposting my guess from the clue two thread, in the hopes DJJD wasn't looking there - he hasn't posted there, so maybe...
OK. Here's a guess. George Bailey leads to Jimmy Stewart leads to Alfred Hitchcock - Stewart was in at least three Hitchcock movies. I'm too tired to look it up, but at least three - Vertigo, Rear Window and Rope. So from that we get Hitchcock. Bettie Serveert, the Europop tart on the Dutch band list, has an album called Venus in Furs. So from that we get the fraction of the universe, Venus. Robyn Hitchcock has a new album coming out and will be touring with his latest band, the Venus 3. He's been around forever but flies under the radar. So for tonight, I'm going with Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3.
I put together the "clue relief" and "fun drink" and searched for something on the dutch musician list. While Mai Tai stands out initially, so did VSOP which is a type of Hennessy. Once I clicked on "VSOP" it lead me to several disambiguation's, one being the title of Herbie Hancock's 1976 and 1977 live albums, VSOP and VSOP: The Quintet.
Post by monkeymonkeyjoyjoy on Jan 20, 2009 16:40:19 GMT -5
Hey y'all...just thought of something else...great huh? Hehe... *Scarlett Johannsen is part Danish...Denmark is in Europe... *She did that Tom Waits thing *Tom Waits is Dark..... TOM WAITS!!! HEhe.....just another possiblility, sure I'll get crap for it! Hehe!
Post by plasticpepper on Jan 20, 2009 17:09:04 GMT -5
I'm glad I didn't miss too much today. One of the tweets came while I was in the class I'm TAing and I started jumping up and down in excitement and basically now everybody thinks I'm weird.
(Nah, that's not true - they already knew I was.)
Exciting that we know we have #1 and #3 right. I'm really surprised about #3 because I really didn't think we had anything that seemed right.
Reposting my guess from the clue two thread, in the hopes DJJD wasn't looking there - he hasn't posted there, so maybe...
OK. Here's a guess. George Bailey leads to Jimmy Stewart leads to Alfred Hitchcock - Stewart was in at least three Hitchcock movies. I'm too tired to look it up, but at least three - Vertigo, Rear Window and Rope. So from that we get Hitchcock. Bettie Serveert, the Europop tart on the Dutch band list, has an album called Venus in Furs. So from that we get the fraction of the universe, Venus. Robyn Hitchcock has a new album coming out and will be touring with his latest band, the Venus 3. He's been around forever but flies under the radar. So for tonight, I'm going with Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3.
Alright I gotta say I think the George Bailey reference refers to Jimmy Stewart which to me is an obvious reference to Umphreys Mcgee. As most of you know, Umphrey's calls their improvs "Jimmy Stewarts"...this is just a guess but it makes sense to me...
Post by plasticpepper on Jan 20, 2009 19:48:48 GMT -5
I agree, jakeroy - I just mentioned this again in the thread for the clue a little while ago. Seems to me like the best connection we've come up with for George > Jimmy > ?
I don't think that Twitter message said it was necessarily the artists we agreed upon... just that he saw the answers mentioned. So I dunno if we can definitely say it's Peter Bjorn and John and Deadmau5 yet.
Post by plasticpepper on Jan 21, 2009 0:05:22 GMT -5
I think PB&J is probably right - and I was one of the ones who wasn't convinced for a long time. But since we've pretty much accepted that and moved on, I don't think DJ JD would have told us we had it right if it was another guess. It's possible, but it seems like now that he said we had it everybody is pretty much going to give up on that clue, and I don't know why he would want us to quit, thinking we had the answer, if we didn't have it.
Post by plasticpepper on Jan 21, 2009 1:17:35 GMT -5
According to my notes we knew about the red herrings early on last year (after three clues) but of course we had no idea which clues might be red herrings.