How far *did* the Dodo walk into the forest of Dean?????


- Emma

The first place you can look is in the (now read-only) Thursday Next Forum, where there is a thread titled "Ok, let me be the first to ask the Dodo question" which contains a number of hints on this puzzle.

You can't post there, but you can read it.

Haven't seen many of those for a while... Maybe they've started walking out?



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Which, the dodos or the people?



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

I got past the dodo, but can't seem to get the next puzzle right it just sends me back to the dodo repeatedly. Do the blue asterisks mean the answer is wrong? Help!

Erm, sorry Lauren, I don't think any of us understood that either... Just keep trying options, although I seem to remember the first couple making sense.



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Someone explained it to me and they do all make sense, in a nextian kind of way...

Good. Kindly explain it to the rest of us, because we haven't got a clue.



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It'd spoil it for everyone...

I'll mail you direct if you like...

me me!!! *waves hand*

*waves back*

How do they make sense ??

They don't make sense. They're totally inconsistent.
The first two are the obvious ones.
The second two are literary and kind of Nextian and not
consistent with the first two.

Lauren: The asterisks only mean you've made a choice for that answer.
Not indication of whether they're correct.

Oddly enough, I got them all on the first try, and they made perfect sense to me, so apparently I think in the appropriately warped manner for the puzzle.
(Which would be why I was the one who sent the explaination to dave.)

It does help if you look at what the pics are titled (holdinig your mouse over them until the name pops up should work, at least in IE), particularly on the third one.

I have now had them explained to me and there is a Nextian connection to the first two (as well as them being logically obvious).

I'm much happier.

I knew the first two made sense, unfortunately the second two didn't. There are two hypotheses:

1: My mind is insufficiently twisted to complete the puzzle

2: My mind is so incredibly twisted that the only thing I could think my way through is a strand of DNA wrapped round a corkscrew



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My mind is also insuffiently twisted. Anyone feel like mailing me their reasoning?



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

one email winging it's electronic way to you now, Sarah...

Since we've stayed on topic for far too long...

Yesterday (28th Feb) was the 50th anniversary of the discovery
of DNA by Watson and Crick (and Rosalind Franklin who did the
experiments but died before the Nobel prize was awarded so
didn't get one as they aren't awarded posthumously).

And also because she was a woman whose photos of DNA they used in their research without
(a) telling her or
(b) crediting her. According to the newspapers, one of them has since defended himself by claiming she was ugly and rude and mad. (Possibly I exaggerate) But not by much.



My reality check has just bounced again.......

Erm, not entirely the original quote...

The controversy kind of grew a long time after her death, mostly as she was adopted by feminists as an example of 'male science' trying to keep women out. And Rob's absolutely right - Nobels weren't, and quite possibly aren't, given posthumously (http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/oct/darklady/)

One essential fact about Watson and Crick - a large part of their time was spent across the road in a pub (The Eagle, I believe) thus offering hope for my academic career...



Post Edited (03-03-03 15:55)

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