The Hall of Fire

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Sadly, I didn't solve Waffle today.

So here's me trying to use chatGPT to find out which version of the letter thorn is used in Æþelwulf/Æðelwulf's name: Me: What is the old english spelling of King Alfred's father? ChatGPT: The Old English spelling of King Alfred's father's name is "Æthelwulf." He was the King of Wessex fro...

That’s the one!

If nobody has solved it by the next time you check in - you were on the right track.

Yes!

Yes to your first sentence. They've left Crickhollow by now.

That is correct.

Well, so far you've narrowed it down to the Third Age, before the Scouring of the Shire.

I'll narrow it down further: Gandalf the Grey was still alive. Not that he was involved with this quote, though.

Need to narrow it down further?

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Well, that was unexpected.

... and then it rose to above that level by the time he left office.

Not defending Trump, just pointing out that you can make graphs back up any claim you like if you choose where to start and end them.

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A happy result on an auspicious day!

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Tomorrow is the 1000th wordle!

Sunset in Ottawa:

I've just begun reading, 'The Real Middle Earth: A History of the Dark Ages that Inspired Tolkien' by Brian Bates and, from what I can tell so far, the full title describes it quite well. I like history, but I'm no historian so I can't speak from a scholarly point of view, but it is interesting. Di...

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No, earlier than that.

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Oh! Even now you are hard to beat!

N.E. Brigand wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 8:25 pm (I also know Kim Campbell's husband.)

Any chance you could persuade her to come out of retirement? Our next government will almost certainly be a Conservative one, and it would be nice to have a prime minister that doesn't suck.