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Kings and Pawns is closing the gap for the top spot on RHP!

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Originally posted by thaughbaer
I'm wasted in IT. I should have been a spy or something. But thanks SmittyTime.. it's the thirst of Joe Public like you that keeps me going. Now I just need to work out how to hack phones....

There's a PayPal coffee in it for the first Italian ( not Amercican!!! Italian ) to friend this guy and find out who he is. See Alice.. I'm no "big man".. I haven't the guts to do it myself.
Hi all,

thaughbaer has since changed it, but at one point his location was the very witty 223B Baker Street.

The Sherlock Holmes 221B Baker Street reference was obvious, but I was too slow to pick up on the 1b vs 3b distinction at the time.

That's too good to go unnoticed!

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Originally posted by Paul Leggett
Hi all,

thaughbaer has since changed it, but at one point his location was the very witty 223B Baker Street.

The Sherlock Holmes 221B Baker Street reference was obvious, but I was too slow to pick up on the 1b vs 3b distinction at the time.

That's too good to go unnoticed!
Thanks for noticing Paul. It's these little touches that often go unheralded. You could almost think we'd arranged this via PM. There's 3 of us live in a little terrace on Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes lives at 1b. Next door is Shakespare Holmes at 2b. When he goes out it's not 2b. I'm Mallard Holmes and live at 3b. However this week the builders are in so I've moved into the flat upstairs which is 3a.

Edit: Yes.. I did spend all day working on that.

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Originally posted by thaughbaer
Thanks for noticing Paul. It's these little touches that often go unheralded. You could almost think we'd arranged this via PM. There's 3 of us live in a little terrace on Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes lives at 1b. Next door is Shakespare Holmes at 2b. When he goes out it's not 2b. I'm Mallard Holmes and live at 3b. However this week the builders are in s ...[text shortened]... ed into the flat upstairs which is 3a.

Edit: Yes.. I did spend all day working on that.
Now that's entertainment!


Originally posted by greenpawn34

Anybody know what is the best defence is against the Colle?
Turn your cell phone off, don't be hungover and make sure to hit your clock.

That is the best defense against the Colle.

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Fat Lady too did a bit of sluething. He too should get an 'I Spy' badge.

thaughbaer on the 5th October asked if the picture was really him.

K & P replied in the next post.

"Yes it is."

Fat Lady contacted the lad who took the picture and confirmed it was not.
This is what we all suspected.

A wee fib from K & P tripped up by Fat Lady.
Means nothing really but when it was back up with Lex Rex saying:

"The photos you saw or see, I guess he took it down, are him."

Then one can understand why the villagers stormed the castle.

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Originally posted by greenpawn34

Means nothing really but when it was back up with Lex Rex saying:

"The photos you saw or see, I guess he took it down, are him."

Then one can understand why the villagers stormed the castle.
Exactly. As a result K&P and LexRex seem to have been untruthful and lost basically their credibility.

Because the natural question is now: why do they claim this picture was indeed k&p when he certainly was not it? What was the motive?

Whatever the reasons might have been - the picture itself I always considered entertaining, the same for anyones profile (in particluar mine, super entertaining). But the false defense of it later is the sad thing... it is sad, that other clan members get the stain of 'weird behavior' now, too...

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That's what makes this so hilarious. I'll admit my first post on the matter was a little melodromatic. The guy was having fun with his profile. That doesn't exclude me from having some fun back. All I had was the google images picture. He must have thought I'd got some kind of dossier of information I was about to reveal. There was nothing else. If he'd sat tight that would have been the end of it. For some reason he panicked and took up GPs challenge to play three moves in a minute. They were all bad ones. Two were howlers. Who'd have thought that people would check things like joining dates ? I was nothing but super polite to him when he turned up. Clan Amercia!!! were anything but yet tried to take the moral high ground. Fun's over for another week... who's next ?

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was trying to find out the three moves you mentioned, am not able to.

but there is cute game to follow with interest: lexrex against k&p. now, as long as no ip gets mixed up, it will be a joyful game to see the outcome ...

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Originally posted by tharkesh
was trying to find out the three moves you mentioned, am not able to.
Not chess moves

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Originally posted by tharkesh

but there is cute game to follow with interest: lexrex against k&p. now, as long as no ip gets mixed up, it will be a joyful game to see the outcome ...
Bless.. teacher and pupil reunited.. I wonder if there were tears.

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oh, this reminds me on something, almost too good to be true...



is actually an old guy playing chess. i think he is about 79 years old... but he has no hat!

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"Not chess moves."

Both profiles (and pic) vanished within minutes of each other.
Then were updated and K&P's vanished again.

I too am glad RHP got the pupil and teacher back together again after all these years.
They were in same clan and never recognised each other, then one day...

It reads like a Mills & Boom novel. (not Mills & Boon) Mills and KABOOM!.

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This is a better picture

http://images.travelpod.com/users/kmnoble/1.1306413415.old-man-looking-for-a-chess-partner.jpg

The caption reads:

"When is Lex getting back from Africa." 🙂

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Originally posted by tharkesh
oh, this reminds me on something, almost too good to be true...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m7dcbIKvlw

is actually an old guy playing chess. i think he is about 79 years old... but he has no hat!
That final position doesn't look legal. What were Pixar thinking ?

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Originally posted by thaughbaer
That final position doesn't look legal. What were Pixar thinking ?
even though it doesn't look legal, it doesn't mean it is not legal... sometimes you just need to turn the board around, see it with the eyes of your opponent...