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I'm losing my touch...

I'm feeling like my smart-ass responses just haven't been very sharp lately.

So appropos of nothing, I'm taking a poll.

If you've got a few minutes, go through the smart-ass response archive and copy and paste your favorite one.

Maybe if you guys point out the "classics" to me, it'll help me redefine my mission on this score.


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I'M TRYING!

Hey guys,

For the last couple hours, I've been trying a new system wherein in addition to my responses/answers/rambles/rants being placed in there appropriate subject-based archives, I'm also supposed to automatically add them to a chronological archive. In this case "RESPONSES 2001 - 2 (Feb)"

Unfortunately, I didn't start this first thing this morning. It was a good idea that came later in the day from one of your fellow fans. So some early-in-the-day responses won't make it into this new archive.

And, unfortunately again, I'm trying to learn a new habit here. It isn't literally automatic. I have to remember to do it. And I've forgotten to click that button on a couple of messages. Sorry.

I'll try to do better.


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Ed writes...

Just a request, something I've been meaning to ask about for ages.

Since the answers shown are only for what you've said in the last few replies, it means that if anybody misses more than a week or so then they have to trawl through all the individual archives. You mentioned that you decide what archives posts go in, so would it be possible to run separate archives just for the last, say, month or so. You know, so you click on "February 2001" for all the posts that month?

I don't suppose it's possible with existing archives, but if it's possible with the ones in future, could you please do something like this? :)

Greg responds...

Yes. It's possible and a good idea.

It's too late for the questions I've already answered today. But it'll work starting now.

The only problem is that the archives are alphabetized.

So I'll start with the year, than the month, numerically.

Response recorded on February 01, 2001

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Adam writes...

2198 CONTEST

518: operating

Greg responds...

YES!

WAY TO GO ADAM! 1 point!!!!

Just three blanks left: 74, 517, 519.

Remember, I'm giving out TWO prizes. One to the person who got the MOST correct answers, and one to the person who gets the LAST correct answer. So anyone can still win!

Response recorded on February 01, 2001

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Adam writes...

2198 CONTEST

517: obtained

Greg responds...

nope

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Adam writes...

2198 CONTEST

517: targeted
519: heavenward

Greg responds...

nope

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Adam writes...

2198 CONTEST

74: protected
517: retained
518: abilities
519: challenges

Greg responds...

nope. Sorry. But keep trying.

Response recorded on February 01, 2001

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Sapphire writes...

I know you said you won't be answering any questions on Gargoyles 2198 until the contest is over but the question I am going to ask is this. In the future would any gargoyles go to university or collage? I just wanted to ask because here in the Yukon the local collage offers night courses and in the gargoyles universe gargoyles are nocturnal and I bet they might attend school at night in the future with humans who also attend night classes?

Greg responds...

Sure.

College, though. Not Collage.

Response recorded on February 01, 2001

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Jim R. writes...

Greg,
I'm no physicist but your theories of time-travel are different than others that i've heard. I bet you've seen the "Back to the Future" trilogy, so why is it, that things Marty and the Doc did back in the past change the outcome of the future for them, because it was obvious that the past couldn't be altered until the Doc invented the time machine in the present so they could go back to the past. So the future they were familiar with when they were in the past was different when they finally came back into the future (present). (Say that ten times over...)

So, my point is, in Gargoyles, Goliath says "Time is like a river, unchanging in its course." Basically that says anything they did in the past using the Phoenix Gate did not effect the future at all? Which is confusing, because if I were to go back and save JFK, that would certainly alter the future for me and anyone else that came back with me...

On Star Trek they believe in infinite possibilies for every outcome and decision.
I know, I know...Just answer my question about the Gargoyles part. We would need Einstein to explain this quantum stuff. Hey, maybe I'll jump in my time machine and go get him. :)

Greg responds...

<Sigh> I thought the first Back to the Future movie was very entertaining. I thought the second was masturbatory (excuse my language) and I thought the third was mildly amusing.

But I thought the time travel logic was fairly loose (at best). Look, I'm no physicist either. This is all make-believe. But I wanted STRICT, STRICT rules in the garg universe to eliminate the kinds of abuses that Star Trek writers (for example) are prone to doing. Cheats that start as time-travel cheats, but wind up being story cheats, character cheats, etc.

And in the garg universe, if you went back in time to save JFK, you'd fail. Or you'd succeed. But he'd decide to go into deep hiding or travel to Avalon or to the year 2002 or something, so that history as we know it would still be exactly the same.

Response recorded on February 01, 2001

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Aaron writes...

Hope this gets through in time. The annual ritual of consulting Greg's Oscar picks.

So, who do you like for Best Picture? Actor? Actress?

Greg responds...

1. What are my options?

The truth is, I've seen so FEW movies this year, I'd be a lousy judge. Why don't we wait until the nominees come out, then ask me again.

(And did we do this last year? I have no memory.)

Response recorded on February 01, 2001


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