History Trivia Thread Reducks

[Liep]

What is the Yi rule?

[Caliga]

What is the Yi rule?

No questions are to be asked about your own country.

[Viking]

"Who's question is it?"


that is unless we want Preston Brooks to render another debate moot

[crazy canuck]

These are dangerous times for the Languish History Thread.  The floor belongs to BB and he has 24 hours to think of the best question he can to demonstrate the need for the Yi Rule.

I expect that if you have no knowledge of Canada's north, BB's question will be impossible to answer.

[Viking]

These are dangerous times for the Languish History Thread.  The floor belongs to BB and he has 24 hours to think of the best question he can to demonstrate the need for the Yi Rule.

I expect that if you have no knowledge of Canada's north, BB's question will be impossible to answer.

I'm sure the question will involve mounties and ukrainian tractors. Or red coated cossacks at least....

[Barrister]

These are dangerous times for the Languish History Thread.  The floor belongs to BB and he has 24 hours to think of the best question he can to demonstrate the need for the Yi Rule.

I expect that if you have no knowledge of Canada's north, BB's question will be impossible to answer.

[jimmy olsen]

I think there was some merit to the Yi rule.

I'm sorry the question I asked that was answered 7 minutes later was too obscure for you.

...by a fellow sourthern American.

I knew the answer immediately and would have posted it if Habbaku hadn't already.

[Barrister]

During the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898, one prospector, Charles Anderson, became famous as the "Lucky Swede".

What did he do to earn that nickname?

[jimmy olsen]

Six months without a question?

Does it necessarily follow that that rule was the cause?

Yes, without question it killed the thread.

[Eddie Teach]

During the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898, one prospector, Charles Anderson, became famous as the "Lucky Swede".

What did he do to earn that nickname?

He made abridged homemade versions of famous movies starring himself and his negro friend.

[Viking]

During the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898, one prospector, Charles Anderson, became famous as the "Lucky Swede".

What did he do to earn that nickname?

He got into selling whiskey or mining supplies?

Edit: ehh.. that might have made him "the smart swede"

[crazy canuck]

During the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898, one prospector, Charles Anderson, became famous as the "Lucky Swede".

What did he do to earn that nickname?

He got into selling whiskey or mining supplies?

Edit: ehh.. that might have made him "the smart swede"

So I am guessing he was lucky because he found a gold strike, sold it and was one of the few propectors to actually make money.

[Barrister]

During the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898, one prospector, Charles Anderson, became famous as the "Lucky Swede".

What did he do to earn that nickname?

He got into selling whiskey or mining supplies?

Edit: ehh.. that might have made him "the smart swede"

So I am guessing he was lucky because he found a gold strike, sold it and was one of the few propectors to actually make money.

He did strike gold, but that wasn't all that unusual.  It was a gold rush after all.  Thats not what made him the Lucky Swede.

[Barrister]

During the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898, one prospector, Charles Anderson, became famous as the "Lucky Swede".

What did he do to earn that nickname?

He got into selling whiskey or mining supplies?

Edit: ehh.. that might have made him "the smart swede"

Indeed.  It is often said that more gold was made by prospecting the miner's pockets than was made in the hills of the Klondike.

But no.  As mentioned, the Lucky Swede was a miner.

[Viking]

I wikipedia'ed it, and it's funny