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Zippy replied

16 May 2011, 16:40
Originally posted by thunderlizard View Post

I knew there was something I'd been meaning to check on this board over the weekend.

On the shelf behind me are ten individually purchased Beverly Hillbillies DVD's. They make me happy, especially in times of stress. Normally I am rubbish at guessing these, but Jed Clampett is never far from my thoughts.

Would you be from Norfolk by any chance?
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thunderlizard replied

16 May 2011, 16:37
Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post

This fellow went from rags to riches, making his fortune in the oil business

More like "went to riches, but still remained in rags".
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thunderlizard replied

16 May 2011, 16:34
A Man Named Jed

I knew there was something I'd been meaning to check on this board over the weekend.

On the shelf behind me are ten individually purchased Beverly Hillbillies DVD's. They make me happy, especially in times of stress. Normally I am rubbish at guessing these, but Jed Clampett is never far from my thoughts.
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PRC1964 replied

11 May 2011, 13:09
JR Ewing

Edit: obviously not.

Last edited by PRC1964; 11 May 2011, 13:11.
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EternalOptimist replied

11 May 2011, 13:09
Originally posted by thunderlizard View Post

Jed Clampett?

Youse guys are getting too good at this
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ThomasSoerensen replied

11 May 2011, 12:57
Donald Trump
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Moose423956 replied

11 May 2011, 12:55
Originally posted by thunderlizard View Post

Jed Clampett?

Clever!
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thunderlizard replied

11 May 2011, 12:45
Jed Clampett?
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Churchill replied

11 May 2011, 12:44
Red Adair?
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EternalOptimist replied

11 May 2011, 11:51
Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post

Hmm, well Virginia Apgar was a well-known anaesthesia specialist. But that Wikipedia article says she never married. So back to square one.

Zell Miller?

not Zell.

This fellow went from rags to riches, making his fortune in the oil business
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OwlHoot replied

11 May 2011, 11:49
Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post

Not mark Twain, and not mf

this guys grandmother was almost as famous as he was, as a practitioner of alternative medicine. She invented (discovered?) a powerful anaethestic

Hmm, well Virginia Apgar was a well-known anaesthesia specialist. But that Wikipedia article says she never married. So back to square one.

Zell Miller?
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EternalOptimist replied

11 May 2011, 11:42
Not mark Twain, and not mf

this guys grandmother was almost as famous as he was, as a practitioner of alternative medicine. She invented (discovered?) a powerful anaethestic
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MarillionFan replied

11 May 2011, 11:39
Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post

He is an American, the type of guy commonly known as a 'cracker barrel philosopher'
or a homespun philospher

most here will have heard about him

It's me isn't it?
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Spacecadet replied

11 May 2011, 11:39
Mark Twain?
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Moose423956 replied

11 May 2011, 11:36
Any one of these people?

Linky
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