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Hmmm... I'll have to contemplate that one over a nice cup of coffee.

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With two cream and two sugar, eh?

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Why not downgrade Plutonium to a dwarf element?

How about this guess...?

It's used to warm up your car entry key, when the door lock is frozen shut, so it can melt its way in for you to be able to open the door.

(Damn, I think I've got it. The key ring on the device, and how cold it gets in Canada led me to this guess. It also looks like it has a button to turn in on.)

p.s. It also looks like it has some lips to kiss for good luck, when you dare to venture out on Canadian highways during blizzards.

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No, it's not a key warmer, or anything to do with automobiles, for that matter. The key ring simply provides a convenient storage location

However, when venturing out on Canadian highways in spring and making a pit stop at a particular place, that kiss of good luck you mention would come in handy as one uses this device

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I'm a solipsistic conspiracy theorist. I'm sure I must be up to something, and I won't stop until I find out what
Why not downgrade Plutonium to a dwarf element?

Hmm... I'm thinking that is a gadget to keep something. Whatever it is that it keeps will be small, or at least small enough for part of it to slip into the "lips". I think it has to do with something about driving.

Okay, here's my next guess. It is designed to conveniently hold a driver's highway ticket on roads that aren't free.

Am I getting close or am I going off on a dead end tangent...?

p.s. My initial wrong guess about it being a key warmer to get into cars, that have frozen doors, might be something that you or some other Canadian might want to think about inventing. It could make you a millionaire!

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Okay, fine, here's how I roll... I'll cut to the chase to reveal the answer...
Well, on second thought, maybe I'll have another cup of coffee & let you think aboot what I have said.

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I'm going to give it to THE ICEMAN, who obviously knows the answer, mainly because I don't want to have to remember to log in over the weekend to check further guesses

The device pictured is a Rimroller, and its sole practical purpose is to unroll the rim of paper coffee cups, namely Tim Hortons Rrroll-Up-the-Rim-to-Win game cups
You push it on, blades inside cut about an inch of rim, and you claim your free donut/coffee/Toyota -- if you're so lucky. Which I wasn't this year



ICEMAN and CLOUDY, next time you're in Calgary, I'll treat you to Timmy's as parting gifts for playing

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Why not downgrade Plutonium to a dwarf element?

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How about Dylan Dog...?

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The Exorcist guy...Blatty? Blaty?

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I'd like to see a valid reference to this please.

I don't have a valid source, other than hearing an interview with Friedkin about meeting Blatty & Blatty had gotten some of the money that enabled him to write the book from Groucho's game show.

Might have been on NPR when I was living near DC & had been into Georgetown area, so it kinda stuck.

Or I was looking for an exorcist to help with the second ex-wife and needed a funding source myself.

I wasn't really questioning the desired answer, I was questioning the question. I knew what the expected answer was, but also knew it made zero sense. Groucho's show ended in 1961, The Exorcist wasn't written until 1971 and he wrote many other things during this time.

Just saying I don't see how the show had anything to do with The Exorcist. But I could be mistaken.

I wish my memory was better, but I know it was in a Friedkin interview. I think interviewer brought up the Groucho incident & Friedkin said he'd heard that story from Blatty and laughed.

Anyway--

This Clarksburg, WV native resigned as Secretary of State over Operation Eagle Claw.

You just can't help yourself, can you?
From Wiki & others, take it as you will... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Bet_Your_Life

From Marx Brothers - Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo... http://marx-brothers-groucho-chico-harpo-zeppo.info/groucho-marx-you-bet-your-life-the-best-episodes/


From IMDB... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042171/trivia

I had already read the wiki and imdb stuff before posting in hopes of finding a valid answer to my thinking.

But you have to admit it makes zero sense. I have no doubt he said he planned to take time off to work on a novel, but considering he said that in 1961 at the absolute latest, and The Exorcist was written in 1971, plus the fact he wrote several novels and several screenplays in the interim, I don't see how that novel could have been The Exorcist.

And when you add the following quote for his above linked wiki page....

It was at this point that Blatty began a fruitful collaboration with director Blake Edwards, writing scripts for comedy films such as A Shot in the Dark (1964), What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966), Gunn (1967), and Darling Lili (1970), a musical starring Julie Andrews and Rock Hudson. Without Edwards, Blatty also worked on comedy screenplays as "Bill Blatty", two such credits being the Danny Kaye film The Man from the Diner's Club (1963) and the Warren Beatty-Leslie Caron film "Promise Her Anything" (1965). Others were the film adaptation of John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965), and The Great Bank Robbery (1969).

Later Blatty resumed novel writing. Allegedly retiring to a remote and rented chalet in woodland off Lake Tahoe, Blatty wrote The Exorcist

It looks as though he used the money made from the above endeavors to rent the chalet to write The Exorcist. Granted this is wikipedia and is certainly not gospel.

I was hoping you actually had some different info on this, perhaps him noting such in the acknowledgements of the book or the like.

It was Cyrus Vance.

Open to anyone

Just to keep this thread going, I throw out an easy one.

My Pa told me this one many moons ago. He passed away a while back, but I think I can verify the answer.

When a military base was established, every structure, regardless of it being able to house a person or not, received a number. If you go on a base/post/etc, as I did recently, every structure has a number somewhere on it. What is structure #1 ?

The privy?

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no.....they had to hold it until this structure was raised........

I hope it's the HEADquarters.